Friday, February 15, 2013

Rubio's Water Swig


The conservative on-line publication The Daily Caller has an article about the media's replaying of Marco Rubio's water swig, tallying up the number of times each cable news outlet replayed it: MSNBC 155, CNN 34, and Fox News 12.

This, the article implies, clearly proves media bias. For once The Daily Caller is correct.

It proves that Fox is biased.

Cable news didn't make this a story, no matter how many times they showed it. There aren't even that many people who watch cable news. This story exploded in social media. It was the subject of every comedian's monologue. It was a HUGE story because it was funny. The fact that Fox News only played it 12 times (and nearly all of those times during segments crying about media bias), proves a lot ot things. It proves humorlessness. It proves whininess. It proves that they are biggest bunch of babies that ever pranced in front of a television set.

Cry me a river.