>David,
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>Thank you for providing such objective commentary. I lean a bit to the left, and you a bit to the right probably, but in all this partisan bickering, it is good to hear an objective voice.
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>What are your thoughts on Bill O'Reilly and the Hannity and Colmes shows on Fox News? I just started watching them, and althoug I don't agree, they seem to be objective. However, I am not sure that Colmes knows which way is up :).

I saw part of it last night. FWIW, the FoxNews channel is now higher rated than CNN and MSNBC because they are being perceeved as more objective [which I think is a correct perception]. I also saw O'Reilly do an interview of a Republican and Democrat the night before and he grilled both equally well and followed up ridiculous answers with hard questions that demonstrated the lunacy of what they had just said. We need more of that.

On another station [Today show?], someone [sorry, but I can't keep up with all these names] asked Gore about only recounting 3 heavily Democrat counties. He replied he thought Bush did not want to accept the offer to recount the whole State because Bush was afraid the Gore margin of victory would be even greater. Of course the interviewer did not follow up this lunacy with the obvious question of, "If you relieve believed that, why did you not ask for those recounts yourself?" All to often, the media refuses to call into question obvious bogus statements.