Foxy Lady

From this morning's NY Times -yet another lurid tale of the palace intrigue that is the Republican Party and it's extended family.

After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation, had encouraged her to lie two years earlier to federal investigators who were vetting Bernard B. Kerik for the job of homeland security secretary.
s. Regan had once been involved in an affair with Mr. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner whose mentor and supporter, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, was in the nascent stages of a presidential campaign. The News Corporation executive, whom she did not name, wanted to protect Mr. Giuliani and conceal the affair, she said.
Now, court documents filed in a lawsuit make clear whom Ms. Regan was accusing of urging her to lie: Roger E. Ailes, the powerful chairman of Fox News and a longtime friend of Mr. Giuliani. What is more, the documents say that Ms. Regan taped the telephone call from Mr. Ailes in which Mr. Ailes discussed her relationship with Mr. Kerik

Now, if I were a conservative, I'd turn right around and say "So what, Keith Olbermann donated to Democratic candidates and MSNBC hated Bush and you hate America. Ronald Reagan is awesome." All fine and dandy, but that's beyond the point. There is an obvious and indisputable difference between MSNBC and FOX: 

• MSNBC has liberal leaning personalities in prime time on opinion based shows. It does not shy away from taking Democrats to task, and it's daytime news broadcasts are apolitical, and they rarely, if ever, give any credence to any left-leaning conspiracy theories. 
• FOX News is a genuine mouthpiece for the Republican Party, run by former GOP Executives and donors, and they routinely give credence to society's lowest common denominator with features on tripe like Acorn and birth certificates. 

All of this is fine by me. FOX has the right to broadcast GOP Talking Points and Teabagger Propoganda just as much as the Discovery Channel has the right to broadcast a reenactment of a raptor fighting a triceratops, or MTV has the right to deify douchebags. It's a free country.

Just don't tell me it's "news".