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January 20, 2008
Quote of the day, yesterday
"[I]t’s starting to look like Fox News has a political agenda."
-- Stephen Gordon, Ron Paul supporter, writing at Third Party Watch on the fact that the cable news outlet displayed a trio of photos: of the first-, third-, and fourth-place finishers in the Nevada GOP caucus, obviously skipping over (however distant) runner-up Ron Paul. (Emphasis added.)
In the graphic (available at the above link), the lower-right corner does show the candidates' last names in order (at the time), but Mike Huckabee's appearance in the pictorial lineup is puzzling, to say the least.
I'm glad people like Stephen are starting to notice. The network will never change its ways if the only people calling them out are doing so from the left.
On the other hand, the display was put up when fewer than one percent of precinct results were in. I'm skeptically willing to give producers the benefit of the doubt and hypothesize that when the top display was assembled, it's possible that the order of candidates was correct, and that Paul's 48 delegates showed up after Huckabee's 26, and the lower-right ranking was assembled later. But that's a stretch, you have to admit.
Humour , News | By joe lance | 12:41 PM
Comments
Thanks for the link. To be clear, I was being very sarcastic when I made that statement about Fox News.
Posted by: Stephen Gordon at January 20, 2008 05:55 PM
i like what you wrote and tell me the truth because i am only twelve
Posted by: cesar at January 20, 2008 07:54 PM
i like what you wrote and tell me the truth because i am only twelve
Posted by: cesar at January 20, 2008 07:54 PM