Ten Points to Alan Colmes
Reported by Ellen - August 19, 2004 -
Last night's Fox News Live with Alan Colmes radio show began inauspiciously with an extended campaign report, complete with additional Kerry-bashing, from Bush fan Carl Cameron. That was followed by a lengthy interview with a Conservative party candidate for US Senate who urged a boycott of Bruce Springsteen for not supporting Bush in a time of war.
"Yuck," I thought glumly, not looking forward to the next two hours. But I was very pleasantly surprised when the guest for the second hour was a woman named Barbara Miller who had been thrown out of a Bush rally for the offense of wearing a NARAL (pro-choice organization) tee shirt.
A typical Fox balancing tactic is to showcase an anti-Bush person who might also detract from Kerry (such as Ralph Nader) or one who is not terribly appealling (like Larry Flynt) but Barbara Miller was neither. She's a self-proclaimed swing voter who brought her daughter to hear the President in order, as Miller put it, "to celebrate" her daughter's first time voting.
The shabby treatment Miller and her family received at the hands of the Bush campaign was nothing short of damning. And the fact that Colmes stressed how hard he had tried, but failed, to get a campaign spokesperson to also appear on the show was even more damning. Miller said she had voted for Bush 41 and had been undecided before this happened but no longer.
It was enough to make me forget how much more time was spent with callers attacking her story than supporting it. My amnesia increased during the next segment in which some breaking news about the Swift Boat Vets was discussed. It seems that the Washington Post obtained some documents showing that Swift Boat Vet Larry Thurlow, who claimed he "never heard a shot" when Kerry rescued Lt. James Rassmann was, in fact, under fire. In other words, Kerry's story is true.
HA!
