Neil Cavuto: Monkey Business
Your World with Neil Cavuto started off today with three minutes and four seconds of balance. I’m spit-balling this. My video editor suggests it might have lasted another 20 milliseconds. That’s how long the news update ran before Neil took over. Later there was another news break - I didn’t time this one - and Neil spent approximately 90 seconds recapping the business news with breath-taking speed that would have impressed Joe Isuzu. The only solid business story was a brief interview of BP’s chairman, Bob Malone. The rest was wall-to-wall politics.
The political stuff was pretty dull. Let the conservatives get their talking points out. Pin down the liberals. Liberals like Democratic fundraiser Leo Hindery. It seemed just about every question asked was about this or that pulling the Democratic party to the left. A theme I noticed parroted extensively by archtypical neo-conservative Sean Hannity tonight on his show.
Naturally, much of the coverage was the current Middle East situation. If you’re an ace “fair and balanced” anchor at Fox News who do you call to analyze the situation? Why Pat Robertson, of course.
“That’s what Islam means: submission. Submission to their religion. On the other hand, we have the Judeo-Christian tradition.” - Pat Roberson, Your World 8-9-2006
“You shall have no other gods before me.” - Exodus 20:3
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Congratulations on your new site. I’ll be checking it out regularly.
I’m not sure, however, what you mean by a “fair and balanced anchor at Fox” would turn to Robertson for this sort of interview. He was on all kinds of media that day, including an interview on CNN.
Could I put up a video of Robertson on CNN? Yes. Would it prove anything? No. And neither does the fact that he appeared on Fox in addition to appearing on CNN.
Good (but not great) luck with your site.
Oh noes, looks like first comments get posted by newshounds troll .
Johnny, thanks for stopping by. I left a comment on your site last night and need to get around to seeing the ‘fireworks’ it caused.
Obviously, there’s only so much media I can absorb. I missed him on CNN so I don’t know the context or the content.
But you’ve got to love the blockquote at the top of my piece and the fact Neil let it pass right on by. Puff journalism at its finest.