HERE SHE COMES TO SAVE THE DAY
Ellis Henican is frequently a member of the ‘Fox News Watch’ panel of media analysts who cover the coverage of the week’s biggest stories.
(Saturday 2:30 and 11:30 PM on the Fox News Channel)
On the August 21, 2010 edition of Fox News Watch, the talk began with the media’s coverage of the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’. Ellis, who lives just blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood, began by telling guest host Eric Shawn that those people who live in lower Manhattan are more receptive to the mosque than people who live farther away, speculating that people living in Idaho are 99% against it.
A short while later panelist Jim Pinkerton said “Let’s just focus on the pundit sector. It’s been a chance for them to demonstrate their moral superiority over the average American by taking this “enlightened,” multi-cultural position.”
Ellis: “ At the risk, Jim, of sounding enlightened, it is not the role of us in the punditocracy to be as quickly as ignorant as the [most] ignorant member of the public. There are some complex principles here that don’t get played out easily in a left-right angry exchange on cable television, and I think frankly we have some responsibility to remember what those principles are.”
Jim: “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the defendant has just convicted himself.”
Ellis: “ Of enlightenment! I plead guilty as charged, sir.”
E-mail ellis@henican.com. Follow him at twitter.com/henican
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