In a 2003 interview for Broadcasting & Cable magazine, Roger Ailes, president of FOX News, said this:
Bias has to do with the elimination of points of view, not presenting a point of view.Ailes said this in regards to the mythical specter of the “liberal” media, but nothing could be a better description of FOX, particularly as they exclude Ron Paul from the Jan. 6 presidential debate in New Hampshire.
In a response to Paul’s snubbing, Richard A. Viguerie, the author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause, said:
I am dismayed that the Fox News Channel apparently plans to bar Ron Paul from its January 6 presidential debate. I have not yet declared my support for any candidate, but I find this action inexcusable. –snip-FOX has abandoned its slogan “Fair and Balanced”, probably because the phrase has become a joke — now when someone claims something is “Fair and Balanced”, it means watch your ass for unfairness and no balance. However, FOX still uses the catch phrase “We Report. You Decide.” This is technically correct, except for one thing — FOX’s reporting is so outrageously biased that it only allows its viewers to make one decision: either support good, virtuous, strong, freedom-loving republicans or hate godless, amoral, terrorism-supporting, money-stealing democrats, all while fearing brown people and non-christians. They hold a gun to the heads of their viewers and say, "Support pro-war republicans or die. But, you know, it's your decision."
Ron Paul is a traditional limited-government conservative in the grand tradition of Robert A. Taft, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan. He has astounded the political world by raising almost $20 million in campaign funds during the last quarter of 2007. In the latest Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, he is ahead of Fred Thompson in New Hampshire. Yet Fox News is inviting Thompson and barring Ron Paul. –snip-
A Republican presidential debate without Ron Paul is a ‘debate’ between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. All the other Republican candidates would continue the Big Government policies of President George W. Bush, and the differences between them are mostly minor and cosmetic.
Fox News itself apparently wants to limit the GOP discussion to variations on a Neocon theme of perpetual war for perpetual big government.
In a 2004 poll taken by Media Vote using Nielson diaries, it was revealed that FOX viewers supported GW Bush over John Kerry by an 88 percent to 7 percent margin. The right can keep railing at the perniciousness of the “liberal” media, but I can guarantee you that CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, and ABC viewers did not vote against Bush in anything approaching those margins. This show's that FOX's bias works in influencing its viewers — no legitimately unbiased source could ever produce such an outrageous discrepancy. The Paul candidacy shows that FOX doesn’t just favor republicans, but a certain type of republican — the George W Bush neocon republican — and they’ll use all the dirty, powerful tricks they use against democrats to ensure that Bush republicans remain in power.
I don’t have much affection for Ron Paul aside from his anti-Iraq/Iran war stance, but for better and mostly worse, he is a real conservative. FOX claims to be conservative, yet would rather put Grandpa Fred on the stage — a candidate with no momentum, practically no support, and who doesn’t even want to be president — then Paul, who is electrifying a very enthusiastic, vocal, and active wing of the republican party, is the only republican candidate opposing an extremely unpopular war and president, and who actually wants to be president.
Why would FOX not want its viewers to hear the thoughts of the only anti-war, Bush-critical, true conservative candidate right before the influential New Hampshire caucus?
You decide.
Like I said before Fixed Noise would like nothing more than to see the half weasel half gerbel with a lisp burrow his way into the whitehouse - if this was halloween I would be Ghouliani - I mean serious it makes me vomit everytime I see him kiss his 20 year looking wife - can you imagine making love to a man who has the appeal of a hunched over desert rodent.
Republicans "Do as i say. Period!"