Laura Ingraham, Unfooled and Uncowed. NOT Fox News
History shows that Democrats reflexively blame Republicans without proof, pretend that supporting the Tea Party is fomenting violence and prescribe rhetorical double standards to promote the radical agenda.
Compared to ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, Fox News is conservative. But that's because they are on the left. Fox is to their right, but in the middle, from an objective perspective.
The tragic Arizona shootings are being used to boost President Obama's re-election prospects and to soften criticism of Obama and his administration and agenda.
CBS News happily reported that Fox News was succumbing to the pressure.
"In the wake of the tragic shooting in Tuscon, Ariz. that left six dead and 14 injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Fox News President Roger Ailes is saying that his network and others in politics and the media need to 'tone it down.'"
Condon further reported that Ailes deemed the post-shooting attacks on Sarah Palin as partisan, but proclaimed maps of targeted districts such as one used by Palin common, but "wrong."
Condon:
"Ailes to some extent defended Sarah Palin's use of crosshairs imagery during the 2010 campaign, arguing that such rhetoric was not uncommon in politics. Palin has come under criticism in the wake of the shooting for having created a 'target list' of lawmakers she hoped to unseat, including Giffords. Palin released a map featuring the 20 targeted House Democrats that used crosshairs to show their districts.
"'They're using this thing... apparently there was a map from one of Palin's things that had [Giffords] targeted district,' Ailes said. 'So, we looked at the Internet and the first thing we found in 2007, the Democrat Party had a targeted map with targets on it for the Palin district. These maps have been used for for years that I know of.'
"But Ailes called the use of such imagery 'bulls**t' and said 'both sides are wrong, but they both do it.'
"'I told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually,' the Fox News president said. 'You don't have to do it with bombast. I hope the other side does that.'"
Last night "Ingraham Angle" segment on "The O'Reilly Factor" showed Ingraham at her best and O'Reilly exposed.
Ingraham on Obama's speech on what was billed as a memorial service: "Nobody on Fox will say it, but I'll say it: it was a campaign event."
O'Reilly: "I don't think Obama and his folks had anything to do with that."
Ingraham: "I know you are about to interview him, but I don't buy it."
O'Reilly: "My interview with President Obama has nothing to do with my commentary, zero, so get off that."
Ingraham proceeded to opine that "Obama knew there was a political element to the speech" and "it's not the rhetoric that's the problem, it's the policies."
Game, set, match to Ingraham.
The shooter was NOT a Tea Partier, or a talk radio fan, and it was the Left that rushed to judgment, believed what it wanted to believe and vilified its political opponents starting with Sarah Palin.
I have not noticed it reported currently, but after Congresswoman Giffords voted for Obamacare, there was a report that her Tucson office was vandalized and the local Democrat Party chairman immediately blamed "Republicans".
Marlene H. Phillips: Democratic Congresswoman's Office Vandalized After Health Care Vote (www.huffingtonpost.com/marlene-h-phillips/democratic-congresswomans_b_508913.html):
"According to eyewitnesses, the front door and the glass beside the front door of the Congresswoman's office were smashed. As reported by the Arizona Daily Star, staffers said the office alarm went off at 2:40 a.m., not long after her staff had vacated the building after watching the House vote in favor of Health Care Reform. Since the front door to Gifford's office is not visible from the street it would seem the act was not random. Congresswoman Gifford's spokesperson, C.J. Karamargin, noted that phone calls received at the office during the debate leading up to last night's historic vote were 'more nasty and rude' then previous calls, with more profanity.
"While no arrests have been made in the attack, one person in Congresswoman Gifford's district was quick to assign at least partial blame for the violence. 'The Republicans are responsible for this anger,' said Jeff Rogers, Chair of the Pima County Democratic Party. 'You saw them cheerleading the tea partiers yesterday. They're fomenting this anger and violence.'"
History shows that Democrats reflexively blame Republicans without proof, pretend that supporting the Tea Party is fomenting violence and prescribe rhetorical double standards to promote the radical agenda.
Sadly, not really conservative Fox News is "toning down."
Michael J. Gaynor has been practicing law in New York since 1973. A former partner at Fulton, Duncombe & Rowe and Gaynor & Bass, he is a solo practitioner admitted to practice in New York state and federal courts and an Association of the Bar of the City of New York member.
Gaynor graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Social Science, from Hofstra University's New College, and received his J.D. degree from St. John's Law School, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence and served as an editor of the Law Review and the St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research. He wrote on the Pentagon Papers case for the Review and obscenity law for The Catholic Lawyer and edited the Law Review's commentary on significant developments in New York law.
The day after graduating, Gaynor joined the Fulton firm, where he focused on litigation and corporate law. In 1997 Gaynor and Emily Bass formed Gaynor & Bass and then conducted a general legal practice, emphasizing litigation, and represented corporations, individuals and a New York City labor union. Notably, Gaynor & Bass prevailed in the Second Circuit in a seminal copyright infringement case, Tasini v. New York Times, against newspaper and magazine publishers and Lexis-Nexis. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without permission or compensation.
Gaynor currently contributes regularly to www.MichNews.com, www.RenewAmerica.com, www.WebCommentary.com, www.PostChronicle.com and www.therealitycheck.org and has contributed to many other websites. He has written extensively on political and religious issues, notably the Terry Schiavo case, the Duke "no rape" case, ACORN and canon law, and appeared as a guest on television and radio. He was acknowledged in Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, and Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin. He appeared on "Your World With Cavuto" to promote an eBay boycott that he initiated and "The World Over With Raymond Arroyo" (EWTN) to discuss the legal implications of the Schiavo case. On October 22, 2008, Gaynor was the first to report that The New York Times had killed an Obama/ACORN expose on which a Times reporter had been working with ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief.
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