Fox News Host Refuses To Talk About Russia-Georgia War, Insists On Covering Edwards? Affair
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 10th, 2008 4:33 am by HL
Fox News Host Refuses To Talk About Russia-Georgia War, Insists On Covering Edwards? Affair
Yesterday, Russia launched a major military offensive against Georgia, which Georgia has called “a state of war.” Nearly two thousand people have died and the conflict risks sparking a wider war. Also yesterday, former senator John Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair in 2006. Fox News has decided which story is worthy of more coverage. […]
Yesterday, Russia launched a major military offensive against Georgia, which Georgia has called “a state of war.” Nearly two thousand people have died and the conflict risks sparking a wider war. Also yesterday, former senator John Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair in 2006.
Fox News has decided which story is worthy of more coverage. Today, host Gregg Jarrett interviewed PBS’s Bonnie Erbe. “We have these huge stories going on like the one you’re reporting in Georgia,” Erbe noted when asked about Edwards. Jarrett, however, completely ignored Erbe’s comment on Georgia and continued to talk about Edwards, offering praise for the National Enquirer:
JARRETT: You know, his excuse for lying is absolutely stunning. He claims he denied the affair because the reporting by the National Enquirer was “99 percent wrong.” Well, so far, they’ve been about 100 percent right.
Throughout the segment, Jarrett refused to talk about anything except for Edwards’s affair:
ERBE: The American public have told pollsters, this political season they want substance. Both these candidates have expressed support for allowing Georgia into NATO. … We could have been on the verge of nuclear war. Those are the kinds of the things that the American public wants to see discussed.
JARRETT: Right. You know, but getting back to Edwards, during the Monica Lewinsky affair, Edwards absolutely ripped into Bill Clinton.
Erbe called the Edwards story “water cooler talk,” noting again that Edwards’s affair is “not the stuff the American public wants to hear about in this election cycle.” Again, Jarrett wholly ignored her, responding with more Edwards talk:
JARRETT: Well it’s amazing, he thought could get away with it, and if he had become the Democratic nominee, my goodness.
Watch it:
Of course, this is nothing new for Fox, which has a history of covering tabloid issues more than wars.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Funny thing, though – they don’t even seem to notice all of those stories in the tabloids about the Illegally Installed Drunken Cokeheaded Deserter starting drinking again. I wonder why the tabloids have complete credibility in one situation, but not the other?
August 13th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
rassia plans on attacking usa they want alaska and wants to be dominating force us not to be able to defend ourselves they stole our stealth technolegy and thrust tech they alson found ufo tech for plasma 20 or 25 years ago now they put it in thier secret weapons they wont use intell they are at war with usa.——————- russia china iran are better alies then usa and britain