I actually didn't go directly to Fox. After Obama finished, I went between channels 54, 55 and 58, waiting to see which network would cut away from the spectacle first.

54 won.

Guess which one that was.

Fox's Brit Hume immediately jumped over the cheering crowds and fireworks to let us know, in no uncertain terms, that the speech by Barack Hussein... uh... Obama was impressive but we'll have to decide whether or not it was just the same old failed liberal policies of the past. Three out of four of his panel said it was old failed liberalism in a shiny oratorical package. In a moment that shocked even me, Bill F$&!ing Kristol was the only one who seemed to genuinely liked the speech.

OK, but since I'm probably the only person brain-dead enough to think to switch over to Fox and the transcripts and YouTube videos are still hours away, what tangible  evidence do I have (as if I need any) that Fox revels in pissing in the Democrats' cornflakes?

Let's take a look at their websites. I screen cap, you don't give them advertiser revenue.

Hey, look! McCain made his VP pick! We don't know who and this is something everyone's known since yesterday, but that'll be the biggest text piece on the site just because. For comparison:

-CNN

-MSNBC

You can look at the time stamps on those sites to see that this was within 2 minutes of each other. It was also Eastern Time, so we're talking about ten minutes after the end of the speech. McCain is always on the main page, but never the top line because this was the night of the Democratic convention.

I did get a kick out of CBS's main page, which seems to think that the coverage itself is the story:

-CBS

WTF CBS?

Anyways, I know no one here is a fan of the MSM. I skipped CNN completely today, simply because... Well, I like Maddow, so MSNBC is my new default and Fox news is the obvious counter. MSNBC, though, was not particularly palatable due to their choice of theater. Putting themselves outside sounded like a good idea... Until the guy spent two hours outside their set chanting "9/11 was an inside job" into a megaphone. (Fire the sound engineer who couldn't figure out how to muffle the crowd microphone pick-ups.)

But Fox has brought wing-nuttery to new and dangerous lows. You immediately pan the speech, anything about it. Take programs in a speech that Pat Buchanan calls "a deeply centrist speech" and call them old, failed and liberal. This is as bad as Babington's review that couldn't even get the time right and made bizarre claims like "He said he would 'cut taxes for 95 percent of all working families,' but did not say how." (Um... By cutting them?) It's blatant partisanship parading as "commentary".

Say what you'd like about Matthews, but at the very least when he expressed his admiration for Obama's ability to inspire, he pointed out (in his way) that this wasn't something reporters do: express personal preference.

But what I want to see is how, precisely, this compares to 10 minutes after McCain's speech. If I don't pass out from boredom during McCain's acceptance, I hope to repeat the survey.

Update [2008-8-29 3:4:59 by TCQuad]: See, I knew YouTube would come through before I winded down for the night (or morning, as the case is). "Barack Hussein... Obama" on the left, the general ridiculousness of the review on the right. Sorry about the slightly ridiculous bump screens, but these are the first copies on-line.