Liberal balance on FoxNews

It's a credit to FoxNews that they permit Juan Williams, News Director of NPR, to join the fun on Brit Humes's show.

On FoxNews Sunday, conservative commentators were attempting to deflect attention away from Rumsfeld's performance before the troops last week, by focusing on the fact that the question regarding the lack of armor was prompted by a reporter. Remarkably, Brit was having none of that.

CHRIS WALLACE (12/12/04): Brit, a journalistic felony or just a misdemeanor?

HUME: I don't think it was either. I don't think there's anything wrong with a reporter doing that. I mean, if you can't ask the question yourself and you can get somebody else to ask it, good for him.We could have probably done without his opinions about whether the lack of armor was appalling or something else, but that was said in a private e-mail, not in his reporting.So my sense about this is -- one thing, first of all, that that it was a pretty resourceful job to get the question asked. And the validity of the question, as far as the troops were concerned, was confirmed by the applause that the question got.So, I think good for him, good for the soldier, good for the country, even good for the secretary.

But Wan Williams, that standard bearer of the So-Called-Liberal-Media, finds this a breach of ethics and was afraid the Donnie's feelings may have been hurt.

WILLIAMS (continuing directly): I would say he should have told his readers. He should have said in the story, you know, "I helped to arrange for this question to be asked." I mean, that's a matter of journalistic ethics, I suppose. And you could imagine that Secretary Rumsfeld thinks that he got sandbagged a little bit by this, because he thinks maybe it wasn't a genuine question coming from the soldiers.

Incredible.