Don't misread this entry as an endorsement. It is an example of the very poor journalism at FOX News. FOX is trying to brand the new Democrats making headlines before there are known as good people with good policy that deserve a vote.
They also point to the fact "Vanity Fair" published the article about the Democratic hopeful before he announced. That is good journalism. Looking for "the exclusive" is what makes journalism great. I applaud "Vanity Fair" for it's insightful journalism.
Cherry picked news is not good for anyone or the country.
By David Badash
FOX News tried to take down former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (click here) Thursday morning, just after the Texas Democrat announced he is entering the race for the White House.
Vanity Fair published a lengthy, nearly 9000-word profile of O’Rourke this week, in advance of his expected announcement, and the “Fox & Friends” crew couldn’t help but try to mock the 46 year old who came surprisingly close to unseating Senator Ted Cruz this past November.
But out of all that nearly 9000 words in the Vanity Fair profile, it was this sentence that appeared to really bother “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade:
“A candidate of honesty and basic decency, à la Jimmy Carter, is in high demand among a lot of Democrats looking for optimal results in 2020, as is that sense of generational shift that powered Democratic campaigns dating back to John F. Kennedy (whose Profiles in Courage is in O’Rourke’s library).”
Kilmeade was clearly upset – that Beto reads books, and that Vanity Fair mentioned it.
“Vanity Fair has a huge article and feature on [Beto O’Rourke], it’s almost as if they helped launch his campaign,” Kilmeade says, as Media Matters reports....
