Received this from an Marine brother, Ed “Mac” McCloskey , an 8th & I Alum a few years before me. He got it from a retired US Army LTC. I am in total agreement with Mac and his LTC friend on their assessments of the current state of FOX News. Personally, I gave up FOX earlier this year when it was apparent the Murdoch kids were going to the left. No more “Fair and Balanced – You Decide,” that’s all gone except for Tucker Carlson, who I still watch. And who knows, they may drop him soon?
What a shame, the last of the holdouts finally gives it. Change the channel, or best just shut the damn TV off, there are none left worth watching.
I’m going to use his letter as a basis and send one myself, how about you? Or better yet, see who sponsors FOX News, that may be the best approach — money talks.
Dear Fox and Friends and Fox News:
Please pass this to your corporate bosses.
Like many of your viewers, I think, it is my perception, especially this year, that your news organization has been drifting to the left on the political spectrum.
When Fox News started reporting the news and with evening commentary shows, your motto was Fair and Balanced … We Report, You Decide.”
You have moved from that mission statement. In particular, your polling, your reporting during the 2020 election campaign has been anything but “Fair And Balanced.”
I did not become a regular viewer and then become a conservative; I became a regular viewer because I am a conservative. Likewise, I have written to the Republican party over the years that I support the party because, as a conservative, I have nowhere else to go and to have my views respected on the nature of our political system, the role of government at all levels, the importance, in particular, of the Bill of Rights, to the preservation of individual liberties in the face of an ever-expanding Federal Government.
This year, especially, you have participated in and reported on polls that were clearly out of line with the general mood of the Republic. Your polling, like in 2016, was wildly inaccurate. Rush Limbaugh informed us on his Friday radio show that he had had a communication from Brett Bair that Mr Bair had been told that Rush said that President Trump had lost the election. Rush addressed this immediately at the beginning of the next segment of the show. He said that he had told Brett that that was untrue and warned Brett against joining the other main stream media outlets in calling the race for Biden. Rush stated on the show that the reason that CNN and MSNBC were begging Fox to call the race was to complete the humiliation of the President and of Fox News for supporting Conservatives all these years.
About 24 hours later, Fox News did exactly what Rush warned you not to do.
A Roger Ailes-led version of Fox News, with so many eye witness allegations of potential voter fraud, would never have done what you did on Saturday, November 7th. That Fox News would have been pursuing those stories to determine the truth of the situation. The Sons-of-Rupert-Murdoch-version of Fox News happily jumped on the “steal the vote” bandwagon and called the race for Biden.
Specifically,
- You called the state races for Biden using apparently entirely different standards that for Trump.
- When it became readily apparent and easily proven that there were many ballot issues in the battleground states, you called AZ for Biden and left that call in place even in the face of knowledge that there were many ballots to be counted from areas of the state where the President is wildly popular.
- You left in place your decision to call MI and PA for Biden when it is clear that there were “shenanigans” underway, including, but not limited to, legally certified Republican poll watchers being denied access to precinct counting areas, the counties in battleground states using a particular counting software were reporting “glitches” involving thousands of ballots in each county, that had been marked for Trump and down-ballot Republicans, were switched to Biden and down-ballot Democrats.
- In Democrat controlled county after county, counting of ballots received in early voting and on election day, counting was mysteriously stopped for hours at a time, at the same time that Republican poll watchers were being denied their legally certified opportunity to observe the counting. Magically, in those jurisdictions, previously unknown ballots were found that, unlike the rest of the state, broke along the same percentages as the previous Trump vs Biden votes, were entirely marked only for Biden.
I could cite many other instances. However, my deepest disappointment is the general arrogance of the main stream media, which you have joined, to believe that it is your duty to determine who wins and loses these elections.
I am, therefore, declaring my independence from you for the foreseeable future. I will get my news and commentary from other, less biased sources. I may be the only viewer you lose because of your conduct this year but I doubt it. I have already seen on line that there is a growing backlash against Fox for how you have done your job in the run up to this election. If and when someone advised me that you have returned to your previous standard of “Fair and Balanced … We Report, You Decide,” I may return.
Sincerely,
Ron Kohl
LTC, US Army (Ret)
Former Fox News Viewer
Originally posted 2020-11-09 14:47:23.
