Saturday, March 22, 2008

"We've actually read the complete sound bite"

Fox News reporter Chris Wallace looks like an adult amongst children in this clip, where he criticizes the smiley-faced pundits of Fox and Friends for willfully misinterpreting recent comments made by Obama on race:



I especially like the blond guy's whining about how he read the whole sound bite. What does he want, a cookie? How about reacting to whole interviews instead of sound bites, so that you can say something interesting instead of being an unthinking wall in the Fox echo chamber?

I was surprised at just how scandalized the Fox and Friends gang looked as "one of their own" dared to take them to task on live television (the quick triple reaction shot of the gang at 0:25 is priceless). Their reaction also seemed very unprofessional to me--from the one pundit's passive-aggressive thanking of Chris Wallace for raising the objection on the air instead of via private email, to their childish pouting at the end of the interview and repeated compliment-baiting (does this mean you--*sniff*--don't like us anymore, Mr. Wallace?).

Ugh. Get better pundits, Fox--these people are clearly ninnies, and they're not doing the conservative cause any good.

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