Former Fox News Reporter Tells All

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22. [Hi, Packman]=> Way to go missing the slow ball...

The fellow you were interviewing said something there were shenanigans in Florida and that "both sides were doing it".

That was a perfect opportunity to follow up and ask the your "guest" to clarify and quantify what he meant when he said it.

Why didn't you do the simple follow-up?
That was a false equivalence slow pitch and you didn't swing it.

I mean, he essentially did something like saying,

"Yeah, there was lots of meat and fish at the banquette and both the vegetarians and non-vegetarians were eating meat."

Now, anybody who just read what I wrote immediately would say something like:

Why that doesn't make sense. The vegetarians I know that would even eat meat at a banquetee usually would have done so by total accident.

You see how I did that?
That's "false equivalence".
And I didn't just slow-ball it...
I walked this one right up to the batter.

And with nobody to call me on it, I just made it seem like there was a even split of vegetarians and omnivores eating meat at the banquette.

I hope to see you (heck, or anybody) actually hold people accountable for false equivalence crap.

Recently, I've heard stories that Soledad O'Brien, the lady on CNN, has been grabbing false-equivalence and weasel-words types by the throat and throttling them on air.

That takes guts.

At least call them out on "false equivalence" stuff.
And be merciless.