For the proud Fox fans:

Walker, with the help of Thomas Sowell, continues to cherry-pick the New York Times record. Yes, the Times has had lapses in judgment (though in all fairness they weren't the only organizations to report on the Brawley and Duke Lacrosse cases.) I've acknowledged that repeatedly. But where is the acknowledgment of Fox's problems? You honestly think everything their talking heads say is true, or fair?

And what about the constant sleaze? Where is the accountability? I have to make a correction to my earlier post. Jenny reminded me that it wasn't Carmen Electra washing a car, it was Jessica Simpson. My bad. And I apologize to my readers who struggle with porn addiction - unlike Fox News I actually feel a bit bad for perpetuating meaningless, empty sexuality - but I have to post this to make my point: THIS is the video Fox needed to share with the world, because the Dukes of Hazzard movie release is just such an important current event.



I was conflating this with another Fox News Report that Jenny and I were outraged about - a Carmen Electra photo shoot for Maxim magazine. I kid you not. The whole piece was a video of her getting photographed, and then an interview with the Maxim editor, about how awesome it was to shoot her. Thanks Fox! That really takes the sting out of genocide in Darfur!

So give the NY Times credit for at least keeping its work on a much higher ground, even if they screw up sometimes. And here is another reason to give the NY Times credit. Fox News has sad-sack, failed lefties on its payroll, while the NY Times actually employs conservatives with some intellectual heft:

William Kristol David Brooks


There are 10 columnists at the NY Times. 2 of them are liberal idiots, (Dowd and Krugman) the rest are less political, mostly center-left, and 2 of them are really smart, accomplished conservative thinkers. Overall leftward bias? Absolutely. But you could add up the brain cells of every conservative at Fox, and the sum of that brain matter would fill one of those little plastic pails kids take to the beach. These NY Times columnists are brilliant, which shows that the Times is not afraid of hosting a strong debate. Unlike Fox.

It would all be different if conservativism were synonomous with the Wall Street Journal, another fine newspaper. But instead the republican base has its opinions and attitudes shaped on a daily basis by Fox. If I have to be associated with a high-brow newspaper full of original, quality writing, or a cable channel that is sleazy and shallow, with nothing but shrill commentary, I know which way to go.