Nick Di Paolo work for Hot Air?

I think he must. He knows how to blow it.

I watch Fox, and Shepard Smith is about the dumbest newshost they have. He's Lou Dobbs, without the combover. He's Bill O'Reilly without the toughness and the glossy production. Shepard Smith couldn't carry the jockstraps of Brit Hume, Chris Wallace, Major Garrett, Bill Kristol or Fred Barnes.

"The mainstream media has been liberal since its inception" - Nick Di Paolo

How's that for a simplistic, overreaching claim? Being reality-based is not the same as being liberal. Extremists on all sides should stop portraying the moderation of national media as bias - it just looks that way from the perspective of the fringe.

Good for Smith; but a dose of truth only shuts up these robotic hacks for a split second. How about the misanthropic rantings coming out against Obama? Racist and fear-mongering directed to the uninformed who only repeat the parroted, incendiary sentence or two that also highlight (Yes! FOX included.) the scrolls on the bottom of their TV's. The re-play from Rep. Paul Broun, (R) Athens, GA, "warning" Obama is a "Marxist" is a travesty and an affront to responsible journalism. The hate-spouting needs to be confronted for what it is; racism.

Never liked the dude.

My question is why were they talking to that D-list "comedian" about this stuff anyway? I thought he crawled back into the dumpster when Colin Quinn's show was mercifully axed.

Nick di Paola (never heard of him) is obviously a racist and/or Bill O'Reily's next door neighbor. What a tool.

"I watch Fox"

Tell us something we don't know.

"Shepard Smith couldn't carry the jockstraps of Brit Hume, Chris Wallace, Major Garrett, Bill Kristol or Fred Barnes."

And why, pray tell, would anyone want to carry anything even related to this list of total scumbags?

This endorsement of Elephantman's settles the matter for me: Shep Smith is now my favorite talking head on Fox.

It's great to hear a viewpoint that reflects reality coming from Fox News (all well known liberal biases that reality has aside). Shep definitely belongs in the list of winners from this past election cycle. His take down of 'Joe' the 'Plumber' was delicious.

How many more conservatives can you throw out of your pitiful little band known as the GOP, labeling them RINOs and traitors? How many more do you think you can spare? You're already crowding together like a bunch of meerkats on a tiny island in a stream. Smith is just asking completely valid questions that didn't get answered, by the way. And 'Karl Rove is a genius, I guess' is not an answer.

Not a very good one though. Not as very bright one either, apparently.

I did like Pachyderm's list of good journalists though, explains quite a bit...including his misunderstanding of the word "journalist".

That's probably the first time I've ever laughed at anything coming out of Di Paolo's mouth. Now I know the underlying reason I never thought he was funny.

Conservatives make lousy comedians. Being a funny comedian requires at least some degree of subversiveness, social critique and honesty.

Smith is right. It's a total copout, the whole whining about the media. I thought Republicans were so much more manly than the sissified Democrats. I look around and I see a lot of rightwingers crying into their aprons instead of taking like men.

"I watch Fox"

Really? The drool cup you carry sort of gave me a clue. But thanks for letting us know.

"Shepard Smith couldn't carry the jockstraps of Brit Hume, Chris Wallace, Major Garrett, Bill Kristol or Fred Barnes."

Why carry something that could probably fit in a wallet? And what is with you wingnuts focusing on that part of the body all the time? Envy? Curiosity? Homosexual panic?

Two things you should know - Ailes wants more Shep and less of the goon squad you listed. And Fox is really in trouble if all they can muster is some D-list comedian to comment on politics.

What it comes down to for the GOP and conservatism:

Purity.

If you're not pure, you're out.

"The whole world is mad, save for thee and me....and I have my doubts about thee."

True conservatives:

- Think Africa is a country

- Can't name the countries in North America

- Don't know what the Bush doctrine is

Shep Smith doesn't meet any of these criteria.

The media did report more positively on Obama's campaign than on McCain's, but not because of the so-called "liberal bias." The reported more positively because there was more positive to report. As someone said, they report the facts, and the facts are not always equally positive (or negative). Should they have been making up positive things about the horrible campaign McCain was running just to be "fair"?

There's been a major attempt by people trying to control the political discourse to create false equivalencies and then complain when they aren't treated as equal by the media. They aren't treated as equal because they aren't equal! The real unfairness and distortion by the media is when they bend over backwards to report some fringe story or ideology as if it were just as valid as every other in the interests of being "fair."

I, for one, am tired of hearing this excuse from Conservatives every time they screw up. While it is too much to expect Conservatives ever to hold themselves accountable, it is good to hear someone, anyone, tell them the facts.

That clip is pretty funny, that rogues gallery, all peeved, with the political equivalent of hangovers, wondering how it all went wrong. Funny. I wish they were wearing dented party hats and had faded confetti on their lapels, just to make it even more a collection of sad sacks.

Murdoch knows he went overboard before the election. Now he's just performing political fellatio.

According to Huffington Post, Michael Wolfe's book on Rupert Murdoch (excepted in VF) suggests that

Mr. Murdoch is at times embarrassed by Fox News, which he owns, and its chief executive, Roger Ailes, and that he often shares "the general liberal apoplexy,"

Mr. Murdoch, his children, and even the suits running news operations at Fox can't be so blind to see that a lower income, poorly educated, geographically concentrated viewership can't bode well for the future of the business. And imagine trying to sell Fox News programming to English-speakers outside of the US.

All the same, kudos to Shep Smith for having the guts to speak his mind.