The Foxified debate over whether the White House is being mean to a certain network is morphing into a broader argument about the politics of negativity.
The question, which is being pushed on the right, is whether the Obama team is using its muscle to demonize its opponents.
The president bears a special burden in this regard. He ran as a post-partisan guy who would reach out to the other side. (Of course, Bush also ran as a ...
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There are a few gems buried in this haystack, namely the quotes from David Corn and Thomas Frank. But much of it is unfocused and just gossip. Mr. Frank calls a piece by Glenn Back "almost entirely incorrect." That is the point. Not just that they are biased, but that they are lying to the public. Corn shows how they slant everything, even an appearance by a liberal. That's also the point. The frame matters. And Fox knows it. That's why they do it.
