Unbalanced

I got my oil changed today, and that meant sitting in the dealership lounge thingy watching Fox News. I don’t do that near enough.

First, I saw a bit where the host was quoting a criticism of Obama’s fact-finding trip to Iraq, from the McCain camp, saying that it was just a political ploy. Which I thought was hilarious, because weren’t they just criticizing him for never having been, and formulating policy statements without having been there? They had some nice lady on there defending Obama, though, and the host didn’t seem to be attacking her too much.

Then I saw a commercial for the Pickens Plan, prominently featuring a self-proclaimed Texas Oil Man, promoting a big clean energy plan. And I thought, “Huh. FoxNews, not as crazy as I’d been led to believe?”

And then they had a couple of people on to discuss San Francisco’s rather public status as a sanctuary city (that is, one where illegal aliens cannot be turned over to the Feds by city employees). And the dude on the left side of the screen (doncha know) was trying to say how it’s cool and okay that illegals are here, and it seemed like the host was trying to score more points against his argument than the dude on the right. I swear that dude on the right didn’t have to say anything for the latter half of the bit.

So it occurred to me that there’s balance, and then there’s calling it balanced when you spend equal time tipped wildly in either direction. Not that they seem to be balanced even in that respect, but it’s an amusing image.

Crossposted with klech.net