Choosing the Right Friends

The jig has been up at Fox News for a while now. As Ron Reagan said today on the "Hardball" program, Fox makes things up. Pictured here is a lynchpin in the Fox delivery of false information, the crew of "FOX & Friends." They are Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Brian Kilmeade. Kilmeade is the one who once opined "not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim." For some reason Fox decided Kilmeade went too far and had to take back the statement. Then he went back to only telling falsehoods as written by the producers, kind of like what the gang is doing below: 


 Media Matters has debunked this nonsense, but the damage is done.  The unquestioning viewers of F&F will go about their day calling into Rush Limbaugh with this lie or just go repeating it to equally unquestioning friends. 


Well, here are my questions. If what they are saying is true, shouldn't Doocy, Carlson, or Eric Bolling (in for Kilmeade) be demanding an investigation? Shouldn't they at least be interviewing someone from the Congressional Tea Party Caucus to get to the bottom of this? Shouldn't they be using the word illegal? It would seem so, yet after bloviating about what should be considered highly fraudulent activity, Gretchen Carlson just let's us go away to "ruminate on that story."


I call bullshit. If a friend told you your nearest downtown was on fire, but there were no calls made to the police or the fire department, not even from the friend that's telling you the news, that friend is lying. Your friend is a liar. And is a friend who lies really a friend? Yes, if you choose your friends poorly.