If there was any lingering doubt that Evan Bayh is a whore...

[Napoleon]

Apparently there isn't a market for objective news sources in America, which is really quite sad. Even as a fairly liberal Democrat I would admit the New York Times is an off-putting publication filled with fluff. FOX goes to new levels by mislabeling Republicans in scandals as Democrats. There's no way that can be considered anything other than blatant partisan hackery.

[Brittain33]

Fox doesn't have a slant. It's an unofficial wing of the Republican Party, sponsoring future Republican candidates with hefty contracts, and generating and amplifying false news stories to support Republican initiatives. MSNBC (which I don't watch, although Hardball is on my TiVo) is a network which had, until recently, at least two high-profile left-wing opinion shows.

[Insula Dei]

CNN most certainly does not have a "liberal" bias from what I've seen, they seem pretty neutral. MSNBC is liberal, but Fox basically just is a propaganda-machine.

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The idea of CNN being non right-wing is just laughable. Of the networks, MSNBC is obviously the closest to balanced since they have Maddow, but they obviously canned Olbermann because of his views, and they have Scarborough, Buchanan, and the like.

[tpfkaw]

I must say I enjoy watching Pat Buchanan on his hour-long primetime show.

[phk]

Short mix.

Fox is in your face conservative and is the only major station with a conservative slant.
CNN, ABC, MSNBC are more subtlely liberal, though MSNBC less so.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Short mix.

Fox is in your face conservative and is the only major station with a conservative slant.
CNN, ABC, MSNBC are more subtlely liberal, though MSNBC less so.

Crazy suggestion: How about we focus more on how to make the news networks more accurate and informative instead of focusing on what the right "balance" is between them ideologically? Regular MSNBC viewers are far more accurately informed than Fox News viewers are, according to at least two different surveys.

[Landslide Lyndon]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the_sad_hypocritical_retirement_of_evan_bayh/2011/03/10/AB4MZzY_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein

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But Bayh did not return to Indiana to teach. He did not, as he said he was thinking of doing, join a foundation. Rather, he went to the massive law firm McGuire Woods. And who does McGuire Woods work for? “Principal clients served from our Washington office include national energy companies, foreign countries, international manufacturing companies, trade associations and local and national businesses,” reads the company’s Web site. He followed that up by signing on as a senior adviser to Apollo Management Group, a giant public-equity firm. And, finally, this week, he joined Fox News as a contributor. It’s as if he’s systematically ticking off every poison he identified in the body politic and rushing to dump more of it into the water supply.

The “corrosive system of campaign financing” that Bayh considered such a threat? He’s being paid by both McGuire Woods and Apollo Global Management to act as a corroding agent on their behalf. The “strident partisanship” and “unyielding ideology” he complained was ruining the Senate? At Fox News, he’ll be right there on set while it gets cooked up. His warning that “what is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest” sounds, in retrospect, like a joke. Evan Bayh doing performance art as Evan Bayh. Exactly which of these new positions would Bayh say is against his self-interest, or in promotion of the general welfare?

I should say, for the record, that I got in touch with McGuire Woods to give Bayh an opportunity to comment, or offer an alternative interpretation of his career decisions. I didn’t hear from them, but I got a call back from a PR person at Fox News. “I’m going to decline the interview for Mr. Bayh,” the flack said. And I guess I’m not surprised: It’s one thing to take the positions Bayh took without much of a record on them. It’s a whole other to try to sustain them when his paychecks are being signed by people who profit from the very forces he lamented.

In our last interview, Bayh complained of the poor opinion the public had of him and his colleagues. “They look at us like we’re worse than used-car salesmen.” Yes. They do. And this is why.