Media Bias
By Gary Bauer, President of American Values
There is a reason Fox News has been so successful. After decades of domination by left-wing networks, Fox burst onto the scene offering viewers something very different — fair and balanced coverage of the news and current events.
Yet I must confess that, in spite of everything Fox News has done for the conservative movement, I was deeply disappointed by some of last night’s questioning. For example, let’s examine the way the moderators approached two of the most important issues in this campaign: Terrorism and immigration.
These issues top the list of voter concerns and intersected in the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks. After the attacks, the candidates reacted in varying ways — from bans on all Muslim immigration to restrictions on immigration from countries where there is significant support for militant Islam. Other candidates aggressively objected to such proposals.
You know my view — terrorism aside, anti-Semitism is rampant in the Muslim world. That is reason enough for not bringing in 250,000 Muslims a year, especially when no effort is made to ascertain what they believe.
What Fox News did last night with the question from Nabela Noor was to pick the “Muslim success story” — the child of an immigrant family, living the American Dream as an up and coming entrepreneur — to shame the candidates who favor limiting Muslim immigration.
It would make just as much sense, if not more, to have someone ask this question:
“I lost my son, not in Afghanistan, but at Fort Hood, Texas. He was killed by a Muslim doctor serving in our military. There were warning signs, but we did nothing because of political correctness. What would you do to prevent Islamists from acting on their radicalism? Why should I vote for a candidate who wants to bring more Muslims into the country, especially when the FBI Director admits they cannot be fully vetted?”
Or they could have had a rabbi ask, “German Chancellor Angela Merkel is warning about a surge in anti-Semitism driven by the massive influx of Muslim immigration.Would you support efforts to prevent importing more hate against Christians and Jews?”
Why didn’t Fox News ask those questions? Perhaps Fox has its own agenda.
@ oldjerry:
Thank you. Trump is a transparently dishonest demagogue whose sole allegiance is to the malicious narcissist who stares back at him from the mirror.
Alas, even FNC is PC.
only those wh ignore facts and listen to rhetoric should be surprised by fox news behavior. they asked exactly the questions, and exhibited exactly the behavior that they should be expected to do.
Murdoch the owner of fox news is pro open borders… there is no daylight between murdoch and soros. Murdoch is a corporatist who supports the HB1 visa scam which is throwing americans out of jobs and then rubbing salt in their wounds by forcing them to train their foreign replacements.
Murdoch sold shares in fox as a share swap for arab media to the saudi prince who has already publicly interfered with fox news on muslim issues to tone down any anti muslim exposure. Murdoch complied.
Therefore muslim immigration and muslim terrorism and immigration control are all anti Trump which is why a mole news org purporting to be conservative is actually corporatist. What a surprise…. only to fools who beleive that owners do not manipulate the media they own for their interests. conservatism is the public fig leaf for corporate agenda like TPP and open borders. Megyn hobnobbing with michael moore and fox bringing the muslim sanders supporter to ask questions is the most transparent insult of fox towards its viewers. the good thing is that Trump has drawn the real fox out into the open… exposing the Murdoch Soros congruent open borders alliance.
Every thing fox did is completely rational and predictable when these relevant facts are taken into account rather than ignored by the starry eyed.
The right questions are no questions – Fox is supposed to report the news not make it. By asking questions they control the narrative.
Perhaps questions should somehow be voted on by the public or some other system found. – and no Fox employees as “moderators/propagandists.
@ babushka:
Call Trump whatever you want but so far he is the only candidate who has clearly pointed out America’s most pressing problems: unlimited irrigation, thousands of jobs outsourced, unfair trade practices,the threat of Muslim terrorism. And he has offered common sense approaches to these problems.And as far as Cruz closing the border,if our Constitution is still relevant, Cruz does not meet the NBC (national born citizen) requirement for POTUS.
@ oldjerry:
Yes. I support the wall. Enthusiastically.
Less than four years ago, Trump castigated Romney for being “cruel” because Mittens suggested self-deportation. Until his presidential candidacy announcement on June 16, 2015, he was a Democrat with predominantly left wing views. Given that Trump now routinely alters his positions 180 degrees and is constantly contradicting himself, the question becomes whether it is rational to take seriously anything he says.
@ babushka:
Wouldn’t the erection of a wall as proposed by Trump be the most efficient way of closing the border?
Rupert Murdoch is an enthusiast of promiscuous immigration for the purpose of reducing corporate labor costs. The objective of FOX was to take out Ted Cruz, the only candidate who will close the border. Viewed from that perspective, the questions were functional.
The number two owner of Fox News is Prince Alwaledbin Talal. Nuff aid.