Wow, I made the mistake of watching Fox News Sunday this morning, which was an absolute tour de force of wingnut lunacy. The first fair and balanced segment of the show, dealing with the Sotomayor nomination, consisted of Chris Wallace asking ridiculously loaded questions to Republican Lindsay Graham and recent-Republican Arlen Specter. Wallace repeatedly took Sotomayor's 2001 quote completely out of context--as did Graham--and Specter made no effort to correct the record.
Later, in the panel discussion, Brit Hume led off by implying that Sotomayor was an unqualified product of affirmative action. Then Hume, Mara Liasson, Bill Kristol, and Juan Williams all criticized Sotomayor for the 2001 quote while making no attempt to put it in context. Kristol even stated that the rest of the 2001 speech was even worse than the quote everyone was discussing (which is a flat out lie). Kristol then explained that Sotomayor's biggest problem is that her record demonstrates that she has doesn't understand that the judge's role is to be impartial. The only example he cited was the Ricci case, which of course proves the exact opposite, that she's capable of applying the law despite the existence of sympathetic plaintiffs.
As bad as Fox News has always been, it has really fallen off a cliff since the beginning of the Obama presidency. There is really very little daylight at this point between the kind of stuff you get from Rush Limbaugh and the kind of stuff you get on Fox News. And I'm not just talking about the Beck and Hannity clown shows. I'm talking about the shows like Fox News Sunday that, once upon a time, at least pretended to be straight news shows.
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