{"id":4434,"date":"2005-06-13T09:58:17","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T13:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4434.html"},"modified":"2005-06-13T09:58:17","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T13:58:17","slug":"it-was-probably-fair-and-balanced-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/it-was-probably-fair-and-balanced-bullying\/","title":{"rendered":"It was probably ‘fair and balanced’ bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"

DNC Chairman Howard Dean was on the Hill late last week for a series of meetings, and met with reporters for an informal press conference with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. One “reporter” went out of his way to disrupt the event. I’ll give you one guess which news outlet<\/a> sent him.<\/p>\n

[Fox News correspondent Brian Wilson] out-shouted other reporters in the room trying to get Dean to expound on what he meant about the Republican Party being full of white Christians. “You say you hate Republicans — does that mean you also hate white Christians?” Wilson asked.<\/p>\n

Some other reporters and staffers who were crammed into Reid’s private office for the event weren’t sure whether Wilson was a reporter or a Republican aide since he wasn’t wearing his press credentials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This assumes there’s a difference between FNC staffers and Republican staffers.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Fox News’ Wilson didn’t do much to impress Dean or Reid, but he also didn’t endear himself to his so-called colleagues. Mark Leibovich, a style writer for The Washington Post who was at the event, approached Wilson to ask him his name. Wilson angrily shot back, “Who the [expletive] are you?” <\/p>\n

After the event, Sen. Dick Durbin called Wilson “a big moose” to describe his bullying behavior. Durbin later apologized — to moose everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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