Monday, June 18, 2007

Tonight’s “Mondays with Michelle & Kirsten” segment tackled two topics: Why liberals hate Fox News so much, and the politics behind illegal immigration.

The answer to the first is easy: Fox is a right-wing mouthpiece for the Bush administration, even though it criticizes Bush as often as anyone and routinely gives air time to Bob Beckel, Pat Caddell, Ellis Henniken, Laura Schwartz and Kirsten Powers, among other notable Democrat strategists.

Right-wing pundits appear on Al Jazeera only because they're paid to do it. When Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute showed up for an interview, she told Rushing, "You're paying me. There is no way I would set foot here if you weren't." Blogger Debbie Schlussel is another pundit for hire. "So both Schlussel and Pletka believe Al Jazeera is a terrorist organization that should be treated as an enemy of the United States; they would never lower their good names by appearing on such a dangerous network, unless of course they were paid $300."