Tuesday, September 09, 2003

So the Democratic candidates' debate on Fox News ends, and is immediately followed by the following "fair and balanced" panel, moderated by Tony Snow: Fred Barnes, editor of the Weekly Standard; Mort Kondrake, opinion columnist for Roll Call; and Ceci Connelly. Now, I'm not sayin' that the panel had a distinct rightward tilt, but I did an extremely unscientific poll (I googled the names) to figure out where on the political spectrum each of the panelists fell.

Barnes was easy -- just read any issue of the Weekly Standard, and you'll see that he's right wing. [link]

Kondrake wasn't much harder -- here's a link to one site that describes Kondrake as a "pundit with something worthwhile to say"; the others in that category include Rush Limbaugh, Chris Matthews, William F. Buckley and George Will. [link] Right wing.

And then there was Ceci Connelly. She was harder to pin down, but again, here's a left-wing website that calls her "mentally unstable"; if the left doesn't recognize her, she obviously can't be representing the left on the panel. [link]

So there you have it -- a "fair and balanced" panel consisting of two hardcore and one softcore right wingers.

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