THE AILES MEMO

Mr Raines had a heyday. Two full stories about a Washington Post scoop? Well, it’s forgivable. I’ll say it here loud and proud: Fox News is obviously biased toward the right. It’s simply loopy to pretend otherwise. Ailes’ attempt to deny the bleeding obvious is just pathetic. It’s like listening to O’Reilly pretend he’s in a no-spin zone. It’s embarrassing, and undermines their credibility on everything else. But I see no difference between Fox’s bias and, say, the New York Times’. And if you want evidence for that, then today’s two-story gloat is Exhibit A. (Good Raines suck-up, by the way, Alessandra. But to get MoDo’s op-ed space, we need more conspiracy theories.) In fact, I think the Times is marginally more skewed toward the left – to the extent of literally censoring the news, ignoring or rigging polls, making errors based on ideological bias, and generally turning the paper into a crib-sheet for Democratic activists – than Fox is to the right. But it’s a close call. Why doesn’t Fox just admit this and make a virtue out of it? “The Antidote to Liberal Bias” would be a good slogan. Then we’d all be able to stop laughing when the Foxies pretend to be neutral.