America's No. 1 Fox News Democrat Ed Rendell strikes again

by Will Bunch | Columnist, External or Unknown

Published Mar. 31, 2008, 10:47 p.m. ET

Ed Rendell, by way of Michael Calderone at the Politico:

"I think during this entire primary coverage, starting in Iowa and up to the present -- FOX has done the fairest job, and remained the most objective of all the cable networks. You hate both of our candidates. No, I'm only kidding. But you actually have done a very balanced job of reporting the news, and some of the other stations are just caught up with Senator Obama, who is a great guy, but Senator Obama can do no wrong, and Senator Clinton can do no right."

So, if I read this correctly, Fox News Democrat Rendell is endorsing objective reporting like the bogus Fox story that Obama was educated in a madrassa in Indonesia, because it wasn't Hillary bashing. Even one of Fox's star reporters blasted Fox's lack of "objectivity" on Obama recently. Since FNC's also been critical of Clinton lately, is Rendell calling them "objective" because they run biased stories bashing BOTH Democratic candidates?

This goes beyond the current Clinton-Obama wars. Rendell -- in winning elections by the dint of his own personal popularity (and good for him) -- has remained willfully ignorant about the broader truths of American politics in Fox News era, even as he ran the DNC while the media obliterated Al Gore in 2000.

In November, it's all but certain that a) Obama will be the Democrats' nominee b) he'll need Pa. to get elected and c) Fox News will be Obama's worst enemy. Democrats should be thrilled that Rendell has just granted them full immunity.