Has The Conservative Infighting Now Spread To Fox News?

1:59 pm EST November 3rd, 2008 | Media | 2 Comments

This just keeps getting juicier.

Fox News correspondent Major Garrett shot back in defense of Barack Obama against the network’s morning show’s effort to suggest that he has ignored Fox News throughout the campaign. In an internal email obtained by the Huffington Post, Garrett — who has been Fox News’ correspondent following the Obama campaign — took issue with a planned ‘Fox & Friends’ segment about whether Obama will try to control the media, using ‘KICKED REPORTERS OFF PLANE, IGNORE FNC, BIDEN FL AV INTVIEW’ as ‘examples he’s already done.’

‘May I point out Obama has done 5 interviews with me and one with Chris Wallace, one with Brit Hume and one with Bill O’Reilly,’ Garrett replied-all to a ‘Fox & Friends’ producer’s email. ‘That’s 8 interviews. Would I like more? Yes. Would Chris Wallace? Yes. Would Brit and O’Reilly like more? Of course.’

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2 Responses to “Has The Conservative Infighting Now Spread To Fox News?”

  1. Duros Hussein 62 says:
    November 3, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    You don’t expect them to be honest about things they report on, do you?

  2. Balakirev says:
    November 3, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    Nah. That’s not infighting. Major has been just as much a Fox lackey as any of them in bending, twisting, and raping the facts in favor of their corporate owner’s political views. He’s just correcting them on their own inside history. That’s all.

    It will be very, very interesting to see whom Obama appoints to the FCC, and whether they target restoring the Fairness Doctrine. But I honestly don’t see that happening, because getting the conservatives to let go of the media they have in a stranglehold would be the biggest pitched battle he might ever face. Too bad; I’d love to see it happen.