{"id":4896,"date":"2011-08-02T08:42:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T12:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2011-08-01T20:51:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T00:51:48","slug":"liberal-journalist-bob-beckel-mr-president-i-dont-read-the-ny-times-or-watch-msnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/08\/liberal-journalist-bob-beckel-mr-president-i-dont-read-the-ny-times-or-watch-msnbc","title":{"rendered":"Liberal journalist Bob Beckel: Mr. President, I don&#8217;t read the NY Times or watch MSNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2011\/07\/beckel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5188\" title=\"beckel\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2011\/07\/beckel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>On &#8220;The Five,&#8221; a new afternoon\u00a0panel on Fox News, the group discussed President Obama\u2019s comments last week at the University of Maryland where he talked about the right-left media divide.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;President Obama\u00a0&#8230; blames the media for the divide going around the country,&#8221; said liberal commentator Bob Beckel. &#8220;He said liberals only read the <em>New York Times<\/em>, conservatives only watch Fox.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr . President I know you , I love you, I support you but I don\u2019t read the New York Times. I\u2019m a liberal and I\u2019m on Fox.\u00a0 So I\u2019m not the right guy to\u2026\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s exactly right. \u00a0 I haven\u2019t done a lot of polling here. There\u2019s a lot\u00a0 of people who are\u00a0 Democrats that watch Fox.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is akin to heresy for Beckel,&#8221; comments media observer Don Irvine\u00a0of the watchdog group Accuracy in Media. &#8220;Not only does he not read one of the nation\u2019s leading daily newspapers or watch the leading liberal cable news network, he admitted that there are Democrats who actually watch Fox which doesn\u2019t exactly jibe with president\u2019s characterization of the conservative-liberal divide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=4896#post\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=4896#post\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5186\" title=\"click here! copy\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2011\/07\/click-here-copy3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"21\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On &#8220;The Five,&#8221; a new afternoon\u00a0panel on Fox News, the group discussed President Obama\u2019s comments last week at the University of Maryland where he talked about the right-left media divide. \u00a0&#8220;President Obama\u00a0&#8230; blames the media for the divide going around the country,&#8221; said liberal commentator Bob Beckel. &#8220;He said liberals only read the New York&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[680,1244,2201],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bias","tag-bob-beckel","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Liberal journalist Bob Beckel: Mr. President, I don&#039;t read the NY Times or watch MSNBC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/08\/liberal-journalist-bob-beckel-mr-president-i-dont-read-the-ny-times-or-watch-msnbc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liberal journalist Bob Beckel: Mr. President, I don&#039;t read the NY Times or watch MSNBC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On &#8220;The Five,&#8221; 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