Brent Bozell's Media Smackdown!

Ginger git Brent Bozell doesn't like OutFoxed, apparently because the film doesn't contain any lesbian scenes. But his criticism goes deeper than that:

It doesn't help matters that Robert Greenwald, the creator of "Outfoxed," is a very sloppy amateur at the science of media analysis.

That sloppiness is why Greenwald paid Vince McMahon and the WWE a cool million and offered a grovelling apology. Oh, wait.

A classic example of the film's inanity is an incredibly silly attack on Bill O'Reilly because he said he almost never said "shut up" to guests. Greenwald goes about disproving this trite little point, but after finding an example or two, he ruins it all by gratuitously adding clips where O'Reilly used the words "shut up" in commentaries, or in questions where he wasn't telling a guest to shut up, but asking the guest if someone else should shut up. Now he's not making a point. He's un-making it.

And do we really need to point out that O'Reilly isn't a reporter, and therefore has nothing to do with the news product of Fox?

You see, O'Reilly almost never tells his guests to shut up, and he isn't really a reporter, and his program isn't a news program, so how can you criticize Fox for being a bad news channel?

The liberal media elite's double standard in journalism extends to this shoddy film, which they've promoted as another noteworthy brick in the wall of anti-Bush anger.

Hey! Brent! Leave those metaphors alone!

If conservatives ever tried to make a documentary about the liberal media this amateurish, it would either never be mentioned, or it would be pounded until it was flat as a pancake, and deservedly so.

It's nice to hear Brent doesn't want to direct, if only because he can't afford to pay the damages.