http://mediamatters.org/items/200710170004Alan himself insists that the attacks on Fox News are absurd (Red, White and Liberal, pp. 109-113). He notes that although only 18% of Fox News viewers consider themselves liberal, that's still more than the 16% of CNN viewers, and CNN has often been accused of having a liberal bias. As Alan humorously observes, "Maybe all the liberals are watching QVC because of their patriotic desire to turn around a failing economy" (Ibid, pg. 111).
Allen Colmes also said that Al Franken has no credibility
Al Franken on Allen Colmes.
TERENCE SMITH: So that seems to work.
The controversy over fair and balanced news
AL FRANKEN: Well, that's not a radio show, that's a TV show. And that's their sorry excuse for a fair and balanced left-right show.
You have a conservative right-wing propagandist in Sean Hannity, and you have a moderate mild-mannered, I'll call him, liberal on the other side. But Colmes isn't allowed to argue with Hannity.
I had this discussion with Alan (Colmes) at the White House Correspondents Dinner, where Hannity, during the war in Iraq, during the first -- you know, during the part that President Bush said the war was over, on the carrier -- during that, he was saying that Democrats were criticizing the president -- that was very, very mild criticism, like of his diplomatic efforts -- and that he couldn't believe they were undermining the commander-in-chief while our men and women were in harm's way.
Well, I (Lexus) Nexused what Hannity was saying during the war in Kosovo. And he was saying far worse, a hundred times worse stuff about Clinton. He was saying Clinton didn't have the moral authority for this war, that he wasn't following the generals' orders. He at one point said we were running out of ammunition. Now, how much is that undermining the commander-in-chief while our men and women are in harm's way?
So I went to Alan (Colmes) and I said, you know, I told him this and he said, Oh, that's interesting. And I said, Interesting? You know, Nexis it. And he said, Oh, yeah, I could. You can Nexis your own show, can't you? And he said, Yeah. I said, Well, you're going to use it, right? And he said, No, well, that's not our format. I said, Not your format? He said, Yeah, um, we, ah, we don't argue with each other, we just argue with the guest. And I said, Oh, come on; Hannity lies on your show all the time, like, he'll say 90 million Americans are getting an $1,100 tax cut. And they just aren't. And Alan said, Oh, I've responded to that. And I said, Yeah, I've seen it; five minutes later you say, actually that's an average and not the typical family. But then the next day, he'll say it again. And can't you at least (Nexus it)? Well, that's not our format, you know, he said. And I said, Can't you at least talk to him after the show and say don't say that anymore? He said, Well, that's not really -- and I said, The format of your relationship? Yeah, I get it.
So, this is Fox. That's fair and balanced, which is put on this right-wing thug and this milquetoast moderate, and don't let the moderate, who doesn't lie -- I mean, Alan tries to make good arguments, but to me, it's laying down, it's being used. He's their -- I don't know, I've never heard this word on The NewsHour -- but he is their bitch.
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