The whole "The White House is elevating Fox News" and "this is bad for Obama" line is just more FOX spin, and it's now picked up by the rest of the basically conservative media (check out Kathleen Parker today in the Washington Post, parroting exactly the same line while pretending to be superior to Glenn Beck at the same time).

Fox basically sets the agenda that almost all other media outlets pick up and run with, and almost no one questions it.

In the meantime anyone who points this out is labeled "liberal media". Yes, liberal media like the famously liberal Washington Post whose columnists include the most astonishing lineup of Neocons and extreme right wingers imaginable: William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Charles Krauthammer, George Will, Michael Gerson, and the list goes on and on and on. That's not even to mention the supposedly "moderate" right wingers like Parker who regurgitate FOX news talking points (Beck was actually "getting it right" in obsessing about ACORN 24/7, she claims in her column today, while pretending superiority to him at the same time).

MSNBC, in the meantime, dares to put on one or two personalities who go against the conservative stranglehold on the media, and the whole network gets labeled as the same as FOX, but on the left. This is completely ignoring the fact that MSNBC has as many hours of right wing conservative programming (Joe Scarborough, three hours, every day) as it does "liberal" (Maddow and Olbermann and one other, one hour each) plus the fact that Olbermann and Maddow take on Obama and the White House all the time. This is nothing like FOX, which hews to the Republican extremist line without fail.

The days of FOX being able to spew this nonsense without being called a ridiculous GOP party propaganda outlet are over.

And my oh my, aren't the right wingers screaming about it.