Good Analysis by Newshounds About Hannity's Show Last Night

For those of you who were wise enough not to watch on other channels of the teeve, I decided to watch Hannity for a little while to see if he would fess up to his misguided attacks on the DHS. I thought, well Shepard Smith could own up to it, maybe there's a chance for Hannity.

Well, Hannity didn't take that opportunity. Instead, he had the hero of Freeperville on, Newt Gingrich. But I think I'll link to Newshounds instead to give you the skinny on why any progressive with a half brain would be outraged at these two. Hannity ensured too that it was fair and balanced by having the most vicious GOP hack, Ann Coulter, on the show to attack other folks.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Newshounds, they watch Fox News so you don't have to. I think I will go back to my old practice of reading their site, Daily Kos, Eschaton, or Media Matters to get the news about the loons.

Faux News Humor

The last time this happened on "that one" was when FN labeled Mark Foley, D-Fl in 2006.

(h/t Pam Spaulding and Jed Lewison)

What About John Edwards?

Great video in which all of the M$$M is trying to ignore John Edwards, except oddly enough, Frank Luntz at Fixed Noise, who asked at a focus group after the NV debate for a show of hands as to who won?

You guessed it.

You decide.

Edwards Chooses not to Hunt in the Foxhole

Edwards to skip Fox News debate

by kos
Tue Mar 06, 2007 at 07:15:30 PM PST

As I mentioned earlier today, I've been asking campaigns whether they plan on attending the Fox News debate.

Several of the campaigns I contacted are still trying to make a final determination, but the first to definitely say "no" is John Edwards. Deputy Campaign Manager Jonathan Prince emailed me the great news:

We will not be participating in the Fox debate. We're going to make lots of appearances in Nevada, including debates. By the end of March, we will have attended three presidential forums in Nevada - and there are already at least three proposed Nevada debates. We're definitely going to debate in Nevada, but we don't see why this needs to be one of them.

Great job by the Edwards campaign on this, showing real leadership on this issue. Hopefully others will soon follow.

I'm happy about this. I think it's a trap otherwise. Why would Edwards choose to attend a debate by a network who's darling smears Dem candidates and makes homophobic comments for cheap laughs? And worse, it's condoned by her ilk on that network. But as this article points out, some were critical of her comments too. They should be.

Link to Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/6/22951/88088

Update: Newshounds Site (We Watch Fox so You Don't Have to, lol) lauds Edwards' decision not to take the bait.

Edwards' withdrawal is the first in what we hope will be many
defections.

We News Hounds know that FOX News cannot be trusted to act in an
honorable way towards Democratic candidates.

Witness their overblown, inaccurate reports about Obama's childhood, Al Gore's energy use and John Edwards liberal bloggers. And who can forget the Chris Wallace ambush of former President Bill Clinton? Thankfully, it backfired. Clinton made mincemeat out of Mr. Wallace!

However, we all know that FOX News Channel's anchors, reporters and pundits will smirk, smear and slime their way through every word uttered at any Democratic debate, whether they sponsor it or not.

So the q's are: will Obama and Clinton accept? Stay tuned.