http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/5337/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/alessandra-wonders-why-foxs-comedy-show-targets-left <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Plus cheap shots at Rush: &quot;Mr. Limbaugh is the newly elected commander in chief, and he tells his fellow Americans that his Democratic opponent, Howard Dean, is &#039;finally getting the medical attention he has so desperately needed for so long,&#039; which is a strange joke for Mr. Limbaugh to make, given his history of pain killers and prescription fraud.&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Alessandra Stanley's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/17/arts/television/17stan.html " target="_self">review </a>Saturday of the first episode of Fox News' comedy show, "The ½ Hour News Hour," began with a couple of dubious assertions and includes a cheap shot at Rush Limbaugh.</p><br /> <p>"Making fun of the president is not ideological. Not making fun of the president, on the other hand, is.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/alessandra-wonders-why-foxs-comedy-show-targets-left" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch "RushLimbaugh "The1/2HourNewsHour AlessandraStanley comedy FoxNews JonStewart NewYorkTimes NYTimes StephenColbert TimesWatch TimesWatch.org Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:11:00 +0000 admin 5448 at http://archive2.mrc.org