Last night, Fox's commentators, including the network's designated liberal Alan Colmes, decided that there was no point in our actually listening to the Democratic Convention's keynote address, so they talked over almost all of it. The keynote address, for God's sake. A twenty-minute address, and we got maybe two minutes of it. Instead, we are treated to a bunch of commercials and an interview with Rudy Giuliani. That's right, they used the Republican keynote speaker to talk over the Democratic keynote address. Couldn't have waited just a bit, guys? I'll be most interested to see if they jabber over the Republican keynote address next week.
Update: They didn't. No jabber. Broadcast the whole thing. Surprise!
But that is as nothing compared to the utterly bizarre commentary by Megyn Kelly just the previous night. It turns out, according to Megyn, that if you change the words someone says, they sound different. Megyn can prove it, too. Here is Megyn entering an alternate universe while yakking about Michelle Obama's address at the convention:[W]hat [Michelle] said was, and I wrote it down, was, "The world as it is just won't do." If you replace "world" with "country," you're back to the same debate, arguably, that you have been having about Michelle Obama's feelings about this country.Seriously. That is what Megyn said. Replace what Michelle did say with what Michelle didn't say, and it doesn't sound so good.
OK, let's see how this works. Here is what Megyn said when asked who her favorite active "journalist" is:
Brit Hume. The man truly knows everything about everything.Now, if I replace the first "everything" with "nothing", and the second one with "anything", here's what I get:
Brit Hume. The man truly knows nothing about anything.So, it turns out that Megyn thinks Brit Hume is an idiot. Hey, it does work!
At this point, Fox really has no option other than to remove the word "News" from its name.
