An interesting Freudian slip in the article?
Actually, he meant Gary Condit all along...very confused....Kasich? Condit? Minor details?
Posted on 11/25/2002 7:02:37 AM PST by KLT
Another low moment for Fox News
By DOUG THOMPSON
Nov 25, 2002, 09:14
Fox News, the upstart conservative news channel that has been kicking butt in the ratings lately, is so determined to prove itself that it has to constantly remind viewers it is “fair and balanced.”
Which, of course, is a crock. All the news channels have a political bent. CNN is the long established home for liberal slant. Fox comes the right side of the spectrum and MSNBC reinvents itself so often that no one is quite sure what philosophy, if any, it has lately.
I find it hard to take any news organization that hires Geraldo Rivera seriously. Rivera has been a joke in the news business ever since he built a TV news special around opening Al Capone’s supposed vault and finding nothing. At NBC and MSNBC he became the lead apologist for Bill Clinton’s lechery, then claimed he had “seen the light” and landed at Fox, a political conversion akin to Madonna taking a vow of chastity.
So I don’t waste a lot of time watching Fox. I’ve usually got better things to do (rearrange my sock drawer, get a root canal or scratch my ass), but I stumbled across the channel on a hotel room TV recently and almost lost my lunch. Fox has given a show to John Kasich.
Some of you may remember John Kasich. He was a little-known Ohio Congressman whose self-importance led o a laughable Presidential run in 2000, even though most people in the country didn’t have the foggiest idea who he was and no one could think of a single piece of memorable legislation that bore his name during his time on the Hill. His only claim to fame before running for President was an aborted attempt to crash the backstage area of a Grateful Dead Concert in Washington after a long night of partying.
Yet here he was, Fox’s latest golden boy, expounding on morality and the state of the Union in something called “From the Heartland.” I suppose the “From the Heartland” title comes from his onetime residence in Ohio, although like most ex-members of Congress he spends most of his time in Washington trying to peddle his former status as an elected official to the highest special interest bidder.
I first ran into John Kasich in 1983, during his first term. He liked to hang out at Bullfeathers, a popular Capitol Hill watering hole, drinking with other members of Congress and chasing any sweet young thing that came into his field of vision.
He ended up at a large table of Congressmen and women, along with some Capitol Hill staffers who spent their evenings at Bullfeathers drowning their guilt over their shameless waste of taxpayer dollars and voter trust.
No matter what story or joke someone at the table would tell, Kasich would have to top it with a tale that usually bragged about his exploits in either politics or the bedroom. As the evening drew to a close, he downed his last drink, got up from the table and announced: “Well, I guess it’s time to see which deserving young lady gets to go home with me tonight.”
I should have let it pass but I looked at him and said: “You know, Kasich, you’ve set a record in just how short a time it takes to come to Washington and turn into an arrogant a**hole.”
“You can’t say that to me,” Kasich boomed back. “I’m a United States Congressman!”
“Yeah, I know,” I responded. “That’s your problem.”
He lurched over to the bar, struck up a conversation with a cute young thing and left with her shortly afterwards.
“Nicely put,” said another freshman Congressman, Arizona’s John McCain, who was also at the table. “Rude, but nicely put.”
A few nights later, I ran into the woman who left the bar with McCain that night. She was a lobbyist who liked to sleep with Congressmen.
“So,” I asked, “how was your night with the boy wonder?”
“Oh, you mean Kasich? Typical. He was so wasted he fell asleep. Normal politician. All talk, no action.”
© Copyright 2002 by Capitol Hill Blue
An interesting Freudian slip in the article?
Actually, he meant Gary Condit all along...very confused....Kasich? Condit? Minor details?
The Grand PooBah has spoken. LOL He is master of his little "fifedom" ~ such as it is. I'm sure Fox News is revamping their entire format to try and entice his viewership. {barf gag}
I'll tell you what MSNBC is. It's the network version of Al Gore. Sure it runs around reinventing itself, but it's running around all over the LIBERAL-SOCIALIST part of the map, constantly trying to cloak itself in whatever new wrapper it can find. Under the wrapper, it's the same stinking fish.
I remember there was a lot of talk about Kasich and Condit and their relationship. There were also questions about why Kasich decided to leave congress. Maybe his wild ways catching up with him?
Richard W.
Hardly. There's hardly a dime's worth of difference between this garbage and what Garrison Keillor said about Norm Coleman -- except that Keillor's veiled accusations about Coleman are probably more relevant, seeing that they weren't eighteen years old.
So I don’t waste a lot of time watching Fox. I’ve usually got better things to do (rearrange my sock drawer, get a root canal or scratch my ass),
This is good news for Thompson's manicurist. She's going to get a lot more work now that Doug will be scratching his butt more instead of watching Fox. However, it is bad news for people who meet Thompson and are obligated to shake his hand.
Having said that Fox has been, along w/ talk radio, the reason for high Republican turnout this Nov. . Also CNN is mimicking Time magazine in helping the Dems with their Osama watch. MSNBC/ National Geopgraphic channel is hosting War Games- as if they can even approximate the deliberations that are really going on.
Its all getting weirder and weirder, what with all recent Saudi revelations. Rather scary. Meanwhile, the degenerates sit is Rihad and the Miss World contest is moved because these Muslims cannot handle women showing leg.
Fundamental Islam makes a mockery of humanity- as Fallwell and Robertson do with Christianity. No wonder the media bring them on TV as regular foils.
As though the world is losing its mind.
As I recall, Kasich spend a lot of time working on the balanced budget legislation.
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