Occasionally I read liberal media sources like the Daily Kos and The New York Times, as I believe it is important to hear all sides of an issue, even if it is from a source I don't agree with. Reading Kos this morning, I came across the "Foxhunt" strategy, where a group of progressives are organizing to hurt Fox News by going after their advertisers. This is in reaction to Bill O'Reilly calling The Daily Kos "haters" and "hatemongerers."

"Remember, we didn't start this battle. Bill O'Reilly, going after JetBlue, did. But they aren't the only people who can play this game anymore."

In any case, the Kos bloggers obviously did not like being called "haters," so their reaction is to try to hit Fox News in the pocketbook. Here is what I find interesting about this:

1. The Daily Kos cannot deny being a source for hateful postings. Anybody who reads this blog is confronted with smear tactics on a regular basis, many of them profanity-laden.

2. The Daily Kos claims that Fox News is not "fair and balanced" and only presents a conservative viewpoint, which anybody who has actually watched Fox News can easily dispute. I have seen O'Reilly and others actively play "devil's advocate" and take stands they obviously do not agree with to try to present both sides of an issue. In addition, O'Reilly is a commentator, not a news reporter, so he is free to interject opinion into his show. This is a distinction that seems to be beyond the intelligence of the progressives who wish to smear him. The inability to discern commentary from news reporting seems to be at the heart of the liberal argument against Fox News, as liberals just can't seem to tell the difference.

3. The Daily Kos holds Fox News to a different standard than they do to the rest of the main stream media. The "Foxhunters" on The Daily Kos claim that one of the reasons for attacking Fox News is that Fox News doesn't admit that it has a conservative bias, so it must be silenced. They even make a distinction that it's okay for Rush Limbaugh to speak from a conservative viewpoint because he admits to being a conservative, while Fox News does not. This, of course, is an entirely ridiculous double-standard. By that reasoning, most MSM outlets should also be taken to task for not admitting their liberal bias. It's no secret that most of the main stream media slants to the left but do not admit that they do.

It is my opinion that many of the editors of the Daily Kos can thus be called hypocrites. In between their postings speaking out for free speech and equality, they post diatribes that contain hateful name-calling and profane speech, and will work to try to censor any source that does not agree with them. They cherry pick quotes and video sources and place them out of context, and then claim that Fox News shows only one side.

For example, today the Daily Kos home page featured a video with clips from Fox News that is a brazen piece of propaganda. The video claims that Fox News is distorting the truth on global warning, and contains only clips showing people claiming global warming to be a myth. Of course, Fox News has had people commenting on all sides of this issue, including those who would agree with the liberal-progressive stance on the issue. But you would never know it from this video, because we are shown only those who disagree with that stance.

What's even worse is that the Daily Kos and other liberal-progressives would actually prefer only one side of the issue be discussed - the side they agree with. For Fox News to show both sides of the global warming issue bothers them to no end. If that's not hypocrisy, I don't know what is.