You Should Be Used To That By Now, Chris

How do you show people that you are a legitimate show on a legitimate network? You don't do it this way as demonstrated by Chris Wallace in the video below.

I'm sure the great numbers of people who watch Chris Wallace frame his plaintiff wail as a victory: "They refused to show up! We win by default!" Meanwhile the normal world goes on for the people making the hard decisions and the hard cases. They will opt to appear on networks where Sarah Palin's opinion is not so readily accepted as "analysis." They will speak their mind where they will be confronted by people who want to ask tough questions but don't necessarily want to see them fail. 


I actually watched part of Chris Wallace today and I enjoyed watching Juan Williams commandingly shake his head in disbelief at his colleagues' appetite for the Kool-Aid. Wallace brought up the health care bill on the occasion of its first birthday and the entire gaggle-on-the-right took us back to the summer of '09 with the same predictions of how health care was going to be the downfall of Obama. Williams reminded the group that Obama's job approval is currently around 50 percent, hardly a number of impending doom. 


Obama's message of hope really resonated with some Republicans in a perverse way as in they hope he fails. Naturally they hope that the health care bill somehow fails too. That is expected, but Juan Williams' Foxmates, as smart as they are can not seem to pick up on how their bias differs greatly from reality. It's that cognitive dissonance that is so at home at Fox News. Williams then drove his point home by reminding the panel of the initial hysterics that drove the Republican argument against health care reform including cries of death panels and socialized medicine. None of these rank as concerns among the majority of people because these were and still are lies. 


This is why Chris Wallace does not get first pick at administration officials at times of high demand. Fox appeals to a market that most often does not like the truth so Fox makes up the truth its market likes to hear. What they like to hear is how Obama is failing. Fox leads with this any way it can. This is also a group who feels sore about how the latest Iraq mission went down, not for the destruction and loss of life, but for the failure of the agenda they had bet on. For Obama to have his own Iraq would be the land of Milk and Honey for the fixated Foxified. Watching Fox gives them hope.