Fail to Factor

I was astonished to see how ill-prepared that Ted Koppel was when he appeared on "The Factor" last week. He actually allowed Mr. O'Reilly to bamboozle him into thinking that Fox News was far more fair and balanced during the day-time. I couldn't frigging believe it.............................................................................................I mean, does Mr. Koppel simply not do his homework anymore? "Fox and Friends" (3 conservatives and no liberals), "The Five" (4 conservatives and 1 liberal), "Cavuto on Business" (Mr. Cavuto is clearly a conservative - an affable conservative but a conservative nonetheless), and even the supposedly straight news (except, of course, for Shepard Smith) with people like Megan Kelly and Bill Hemmer are all constantly, 24/7, putting Obama and the Democrats on the defensive. The fact that a journalist the caliber of Ted Koppel wasn't just able to rattle this stuff off was hugely disappointing to me........................................................................................As for Fox News in general, I think that I've been pretty darn fair to those folks. a) I've praised them when they hire decent people (Chris Wallace, Ed Henry, and John Roberts, for instance) and b) I've commended them for doing a very good job of covering most non-political stories. But for O'Reilly to try and say that they're non-ideological in the day-time is demonstrably ridiculous, I think.