How much of a right-wing hack is NewsBusters associate editor Noel Sheppard? He’s in complete denial about the anti-Muslim bias of Fox News.
Sheppard uses a Sept. 12 post to attack a Salon article for daring to point out the obvious about Fox’s anti-Muslim bias. Sheppard declared the Salon article’s headline that Fox has “stoked Islamophobia” to be “truly absurd,” adding that the article is “stocked with misinformation about America’s leading cable news channel.”
But at no point does Sheppard make any effort to disprove the Islamophobia claims — instead, he tries to attack the messenger:
What was the author’s proof? A poll by the left-leaning Brookings Institution.
How convenient.
Lean next gave some examples of Fox’s supposed anti-Muslim bias featuring Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer, before citing work done by George Soros’s shills at Media Matters and Think Progress.
I bet you knew that was coming.
Yes, we did — we knew that Sheppard would have nothing with which to respond to the article but lazy ad hominem attacks. At no point does Sheppard prove anything in the Salon article wrong regarding Fox’s Islamophobia, giving him no basis whatsoever to assert that the article contains “misinformation.”
Sheppard went on to claim that Salon wasn’t “concerned about checking the facts” regarding a claim that Fox News chief Roger Ailes has a large security detail and an office with blast-resistant windows. But all Sheppard does is note that Ailes has denied the claim, not that the claim was disproven. And the Fox News statement Sheppard obtains simply echoes Ailes’ denial.