Fox News bites back at my tweet. (Yes, my tweet.) I tweet, they bite, you decide!
So last week I tweeted about an amusing Glenn Beck promotional email I'd gotten, and someone at "Countdown" saw it and passed it onto Keith Olbermann, who read it on the air. Well, Fox News didn't like that. A spokesman for the news channel then told The Huffington Post on Monday (10/12) that they didn't send that email.
The headline of the article reads "Fox News PR Never Sent Aaron Barnhart 'Glenn Beck Raising Fears' E-Mail That He Tweeted About." Not "Fox News PR Says..." but simply "Fox News PR Never Sent." This, I believe, is an historic occasion -- the first time Huffington Post has ever taken Fox News PR at their word.
What's more, Danny Shea at HuffPo didn't even ask me for my response. But I sent him one anyway on Tuesday:
Hi Danny. If a department inside Fox News is disclaiming an email saying that Glenn Beck would be raising fears about the H1N1 vaccine on Thursday's program, I can understand why, especially this week. All I can say is, I saw that email, and like so many things that make me laugh, I had to tweet it. Yes, Glenn Beck's going to raise fears tonight, and Jay Leno's going to tell a Jon and Kate joke, and the cheerleading coach on GLEE is going to break someone's balls. I like Fox News, but something about Keith Olbermann makes lasers shoot out of their eyes.
Moving on ....
AUDIO: Before this all blew up, on Monday morning I did my regular radio segment with San Diego morning man Chip Franklin on KOGO Radio. First we talked about the nutty David Letterman video I had just posted. Then we talked about the news that the White House was attacking Fox News. Regardless of my own drama with the news channel's PR department, I still think the White House is insane to go after Fox.
Also in our podcast, I gave Chip a brief history of cable television in America and told him which TV shows to see and skip this week.
