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Krauthammer Hails Fox News as 'Alternate Reality'

Krauthammer calls network an American treasure

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 10, 2009 9:41 AM CDT
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(Newser) – The New York Post awarded Charles Krauthammer a prize yesterday, and the veteran neocon columnist used his acceptance speech to praise "the genius of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes" for the miracle of Fox News. The network "created an alternate reality," he said, offering an alternative to "news delivered beneath layer after layer of often undisguised liberalism."

For Krauthammer, Fox News is so resented because "it altered the intellectual and ideological landscape of America," legitimizing viewpoints that the mainstream media thought discredited. The columnist wasn't just praising the Post's News Corp. stablemate. As he pointed out, he himself appears on the network's 6 o'clock newscast—which he didn't hesitate to call "the single best news program on American television."

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., the Senate's second-ranking Republican, right, listens to Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., as they appear on Fox News Sunday in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008.
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., the Senate's second-ranking Republican, right, listens to Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., as they appear on "Fox News Sunday" in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008.   (AP Photo/FOX News Sunday, Freddie Lee)
Hip-hop artist Nas delivers a speech to supporters protesting Fox News coverage of Barack Obama in front of News Corp. headquarters, Wednesday, July 23, 2008 in New York.
Hip-hop artist Nas delivers a speech to supporters protesting Fox News coverage of Barack Obama in front of News Corp. headquarters, Wednesday, July 23, 2008 in New York.   (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly appears on the Fox News show, The O'Reilly Factor, on Jan. 18, 2007 in New York.
Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly appears on the Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor," on Jan. 18, 2007 in New York.   (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
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foodchain11
Jun 12, 2009 11:14 AM CDT
And the saddest thing is that the most angry are poor white men and women, disenfranchised because they didn't believe education was important. The RICH WHITE used them to get votes due to their fear of blacks.
drlarrymitchell
Jun 11, 2009 12:21 PM CDT
For Krauthammer, Fox News is so resented because "it molested the intellectual and ideological landscape of America by dumbing down even the simplest of points with obfuscation and disinformation and made even the most politically apathetic moron feel like a political junkie," legitimizing viewpoints that even morons like the mainstream media had thoroughly discredited.
brawne
Jun 11, 2009 2:42 AM CDT
Citrix has a point in that it was the rise of radial Liberalism that initially forced people to leave the Democratic party and become the "new' conservatives. My point is that none of this is relevant as long as we are the 'we' to their they. And I don't even care who they is; I just want it to be us.

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