Worthy of note

Something's been bothering me a little bit lately with all the talk about how Fox "News" leans to the right and is not really a news organization. There seems to be this compulsive, knee-jerk need to then add something like: "But of course, the left has MSNBC."

Even people I like and respect have done this, like Jon Stewart on last night's Daily Show. But I don't think it's right to cast the two organizations as any kind of true equivalent of each other, and not just because I'm a Democrat.

Greg Sargent agrees:

Sure, MSNBC has Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Ed Schultz. But it’s debatable, to begin with, that they are polar opposites — in terms of their ideology or their relationship to reality — of Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.

Debatable to say the least. I don't watch Schultz's show, but Maddow and Olbermann I do. They are smart people, and their shows promote smarts. From everything that I have seen, read, and heard of Fox "News," their people are dumb (or cynically pretending to be so) and their shows promote dumbness.

What political party they support has less to do with it than some people think.