Impugning the Integrity of Fox News

Now this is just silly. Two of the men that helped Bush write his Inaugural speech went on TV and talked about what a great speech it was, without ever mentioning that they helped write it.

Weekly Standard editor William Kristol lauded President George W. Bush's inauguration speech as "powerful," "impressive," and "historic," both in an article for the January 31 print edition of The Weekly Standard and as a FOX News political contributor during FOX's live coverage of Inauguration Day. Washington Post columnist and FOX News contributor Charles Krauthammer, also during FOX News' live Inauguration Day coverage, called Bush's speech "revolutionary" and compared it to fomer President John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address. But Kristol and Krauthammer were consultants for Bush's speech -- a fact that neither disclosed.

I mean what do you expect them to say? Of course they want people to believe that "experts" think the speech they wrote was great. Is that why Fox News claims to be fair and balanced?

It's a good thing we have Media Matters to help us know this stuff. Otherwise, people actually might think that Bush's speech was "powerful," "impressive," and "historic," or even "revolutionary."