"Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on sedition. Much of it is flat out untrue."

So wrote Time's Joe Klein Friday at the magazine's Swampland blog in a piece intended to be the columnist's critique of the Administration's recent demonization of the Fox News Channel.

KISIT - Well at least "Time" is fair and balanced.

He does make a good point about health care - "It doesn't offer the quick-fix irresponsibility of a tax cut or an invasion. It needs space, time and patience to explain. This is an enervating, midstream moment. It's not certain that the President's efforts from health care to Afghanistan will succeed. We'll know a lot more in a month, but I really hope the White House hasn't launched this attack to fill the public space while the other issues are being sorted out." One thing I am hearing here is, important decisions should not be made quickly. Funny how that doesn't apply when reforming health care. Get it done now, don't read the bill, and don't debate the issues (same argument made when stimulus bill was past - hurry, hurry, hurry).

Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/23/outfoxed/#ixzz0V5zNhCQE

Speaking of spending, $20 trillion of debt at 5% is $1 trillion... EVERY YEAR. What is the total annual federal budget? Who is going to pay this?

BHO has play more golf in 9 months than W play in his first 34 months. I wonder what the non-seditious media would have said if that were the other way around? Speaking of CNN, NYTimes reports, "CNN, which invented the cable news network more than two decades ago, will hit a new competitive low with its prime-time programs in October, finishing fourth – and last – among the cable news networks with the audience that all the networks rely on for their advertising...

For the month, CNN averaged 202,000 viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 – the group that television news organizations use as their basis of success because of their advertising sales. That was far behind the dominant leader, Fox News, which averaged 689,000. But it also trailed MSNBC, which had 250,000 viewers in that group and HLN, which had 221,000."

The White has engaged in a war with Fox News. More from NYTimes:
"In a sign of discomfort with the White House stance, Fox’s television news competitors refused to go along with a Treasury Department effort on Tuesday to exclude Fox from a round of interviews with the executive-pay czar Kenneth R. Feinberg that was to be conducted with a “pool” camera crew shared by all the networks."

Meanwhile, newspaper circulation is down 10.6%, Gallup has American describing themselves as 40% conservative, 36% moderate, and 20% liberal.

myway.com reports: WASHINGTON (AP) - Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They're all more profitable than the health insurance industry. In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making "immoral" and "obscene" returns while "the bodies pile up."
Ledgers tell a different reality. Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones.