Two Laughers

Through clever use of the Fox News Channel and its cadre of raucous commentators, Ailes has overturned standards of fairness and objectivity that have guided American print and broadcast journalists since World War II. (Howell Raines, Washington Post, 3/14/2010)

Something about this piece in the Washington Post critical of Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes just did not sit right with RedStateVT. We thought and thought and thought and then it hit us! Howell Raines was the executive editor at the New York Times who promoted the career of plagiarist Jayson Blair! So, of course, Raines has enormous credibility when it comes to matters of journalistic integrity…….not.


But he (Obama) is still the most realistic and reasonable major player in Washington. (David Brooks, New York Times, 3/12/10)

Are there two Barack Obamas? One who wants to “fundamentally transform” America and appoints radical “9/11 truthers” to key government posts and another who liberal journalists see as "moderate, centrist and realistic?”