Short People Got No Reason...

After the debate last night I decided to quickly flip through all of the channels to see if there was a standard media consensus. There was, but I was surprised that most of it was about what was said instead of how the two candidates acted. Well, then I turned to the Fox News Channel. At 10:39 p.m. Brit Hume was not talking about the differences in opinion on Iraq or the war on terror. He wasn't talking about North Korea or bilateral talks. Brit was talking about how Bush might have seemed weaker than Kerry because of the camera shots. He commented (i.e. complained) that Kerry was taller than Bush and therefore when the camera was on Kerry, the entire screen was full. In the shot there was podium, Kerry, and very little space between Kerry's head and the top of the screen. However, with Bush there was podium, Bush, and a significant amount of space between Bush's head and the top of the screen. Now, unless I have read something wrong, Fox News got to play cameraman for the entire media last night. It was their video feed that all the other networks received and then directed that feed from the Fox cameras accordingly. Could it be that Brit was making excuses from what he initially preceived to be a poor performance by the President? Certainly we all know on which side Brit and Fox's political bread is buttered. Could it have been too early after the debate for Brit to have received the official "Kerry is still a flip-flopper" rote response from the Republicans? Oh, gee. I'd hate to imply that Fox News is in the collective Republican pocket. Wait, no, I really don't hate that at all. Poor Brit was out there live after the debate having to go it alone (without talking points) and what did he do? He thought he needed to defend the President against a strong showing by Kerry and he did so by saying it wasn't fair that Bush is shorter. Good job, Brit. Good job, Fox. I certainly didn't hear those pansies at CNN or MSNBC talking about height differences in the debate or attacking the quality of the camera work, even though it was done by your network. Keep fighting the good fight, FNC, you are certainly doing the Lord's work.