FOX "News" Afraid of Ron Paul?

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There are a few choice nuggets of comedy to be had in this Presidential campaign. Not gut-busters (at least not yet), but a few chuckles.

I watch a bit of FOX "News" as "homework" for this site. It can be painful, brain-numbing, and utterly confounding. Occasionally, it unfolds like ironic comedy--unintentional to be sure.

Some of that comedy is coming from FOX's long-held (and transparent) conceit that they are "fair and balanced." Every program I've watched on FOX "News" has displayed obvious, blatant right-wing bias. From the hosts, to the choice of guests to the topics discussed, the aim is to please the "core FOX audience," as I just heard Greg Gutfeld of Red Eye describe it.

And out of that angling to please the hardcore righties, they're producing fringe comedy, trying to talk down Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee almost as much as they attack Hillary Clinton. They talk up Rudy, Mitt and now John McCain, but they don't want the crazy guy or the religious nut! And ironically, their "core FOX audience" is crazy and religious! Heh.

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Paul: Fox News is 'scared of me'

Ron Paul said the decision to exclude him from a debate on Fox News Sunday the weekend before the New Hampshire Primary is proof that the network "is scared" of him.

"They are scared of me and don't want my message to get out, but it will," Paul said in an interview at a diner here. "They are propagandists for this war and I challenge them on the notion that they are conservative."

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