Okay, I'll make this real short. FoxSmear is not a news organization. It does not enhance the field of journalism, their research is spotty if extant, and they are not above making up facts. In the real world, we call that lying, but with FoxSmear, it's fair and balanced.
Last week, Obama went on a whirlwind tour of the major news networks (of which I think it is vain of FoxSmear to count itself in the same league as ABC, CBS, NBC, and Univision) but did not go onto Chris Wallace's show, which is the morning Sunday show on FoxSmear. This upset many people at FoxSmear, not the least of which was Bill O'Reilly. Bill O'Reilly had Chris Wallace on his show to talk about how Wallace's feelings were hurt at not being included in the cameraderie. Nowhere in this exchance do they discuss the possibility that Wallace's show may not have the proper viewing audience, that the President was already committed to five stations making an appearance on Wallace's show that morning impossible, or any other plausible scenario other than Obama has it in for FoxSmear.
Or maybe there's another reason:
That's right. Chris Wallace, broadcast journalist extraordaire, calls the Obama Administration the "biggest bunch of crybabies" he has ever dealt with. Besides the name-calling, is it hypocritical of Wallace to call the Obama Administration "crybabies" while he himself is crying over the fact that Obama won't appear on his show.
Perhaps it was just a slow news day because these two are essentially discussing how they are unable to generate any news by Obama not appearing on "Fox News [sic] Sunday" by not generating any news in a segment on the fact that Obama is not appearing on "Fox News [sic] Sunday." Circular news generation logic, to be sure.
In the interest of being fair and balanced, it is possible that what Wallace says is true: that the Obama Administration calls him daily to complain about the types of stories being levied against them. If this is the case, I would welcome Chris Wallace to appear on this Blog and provide some documentation (e-mails, phone conversations with dates and subject, etc.) that corroborates this fact.
Otherwise, I'm forced to conclude (though this has been a running standard in my mind for some time now) that FoxSmear is NOT a reputable news organization and that Obama not appearing on FoxSmear is tantamount to Obama NOT appearing on the Playboy network. No news is going to be generated either way.
Though, I get the feeling that if Obama did appear on the Playboy network, FoxSmear would have a field day even if what Obama was doing on Playboy was reputable.
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