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babylonsister

(171,096 posts) Wed Apr 18, 2012, 01:35 PM Apr 2012

Mitt Romney Praises Fox News For Giving Him ‘Good, Fair Play’

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/04/18/466721/mitt-romney-fox-news-good-play/

Mitt Romney Praises Fox News For Giving Him ‘Good, Fair Play’

By Alex Seitz-Wald on Apr 18, 2012 at 12:15 pm

In an interview with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham this morning, presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney praised Fox News, saying it gives him better “play” than other networks:

ROMNEY: In a network that is fair and balanced, our network gets a good, fair play. But there are some networks that do not give us the fair play. We’ve gotta put some of our people there.

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“Fair and balanced” is, of course, Fox’s slogan, but most watchers would likely agree that the network — the least trusted on TV — is anything but.

Even fellow Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has charged that the conservative network is in the tank for Romney. “I assume it’s because Murdoch at some point said, ‘I want Romney,’ and so ‘fair and balanced’ became ‘Romney,’” Gingrich said last week. “Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year,” Gingrich said of he and his wife.

Rick Santorum agreed, saying of Romney earlier this year, “He has Fox News shilling for him every day.”

As an analysis conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review before Santorum dropped out noted that the non-Romney candidates were “hard to find” on Fox. “Judging from the lopsided tenor of most of the coverage during the broadcast day on Fox News…Mitt Romney already had been anointed as the GOP nominee,” CJR noted.

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Mitt Romney Praises Fox News For Giving Him ‘Good, Fair Play’ (Original Post) babylonsister Apr 2012 OP

Just means they pander to his campaign and go negative on the President. liberal N proud Apr 2012 #1

Except for the hissy fit Romney threw when that guy asked an actual question. catbyte Apr 2012 #2

"Some of our people"? Arkana Apr 2012 #3

liberal N proud

(60,346 posts)

1. Just means they pander to his campaign and go negative on the President.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Apr 18, 2012, 01:51 PM

Apr 2012

Which is what is expected from FOX!

catbyte

(34,458 posts)

2. Except for the hissy fit Romney threw when that guy asked an actual question.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Apr 18, 2012, 01:54 PM

Apr 2012

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Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Leo, Sophie, Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
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Arkana

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3. "Some of our people"?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Apr 18, 2012, 04:57 PM

Apr 2012

Does that sound sinister to anyone else? Like if Romney becomes President he's going to try and install loyalists in key positions at CNN and MSNBC so that if Rachel Maddow or Anderson Cooper go off the reservation they'll get shitcanned?

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