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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Monday, August 08, 2005

Fox News: 'Liberals Are Wrecking America, But You Decide.'

Give an example of a story that Fox News ran on purpose to show "Liberals are wrecking America..."

That being said, on the news channels, you have "hard news", and then you have punditry... That's been commonplace for ages... The issue comes when editorials become "hard news." For example, on Fox News, they run the Fox News Report hosted by Sheppard Smith from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM... That's a hard news show because Shep just reports the news without offering any commentary. However, Bill O'Reilly and Hannity & Colmes are news analysts... They are like the editorial board of the local paper... They don't report "hard news," they analyze it. That's what we do here...

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