Midknight Review -- new and revised: Well, after a very slow news day, we have this shocker: Fox News is going moderate.

It is suddenly "news" today, that Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News, is out to move the most popular news cable network more to the center than it has been in the past.

And some worry about what this might mean.

Well, I predict that this bit of news is a "nothing burger."

For one thing, the "adjustment away from the hard right" was made and orchestrated last January. Looking back over the months since then, all seems to be just fine.

Secondly, it included a toning down of Beck's rhetoric, at the time, as well as ". . . . as a more nuanced approach to his most famous pundit, Sarah Palin," whatever that means. Beck is gone, of course, doing his own thing and Palin is making as many appearances as ever before.

Included in the course correction, were words to Shep Smith concerning his apparent support of the Wisconsin unions, his stated belief that the killing of Osama bin Laden was illegal and Smith's continuing criticism of the several war-time scenarios in the Middle East. Smith continues his criticism of Middle East policy as well as his criticism of the bin Laden killing. My point? Not much has changed over the past several months.

Since leaving Fox News programing, Glenn Beck has made appearances on O'Reilly and works a number of commercials regarding his new GBTV, the real reason why he left the Fox network.

When it is all said and done, I do not see anything to worry about with regard to this "course correction." But it is the news item of the day and I am sure a number of freedom hating news pundits (Rachel Maddow, Ed Shultz, etc.) will make much more of this circumstance than the last nine months validates. But, where would Leftist news be if it could not make up stuff.

There is one very clear difference. There are more interviews with Leftist pundits than before last January. As I write, Bret Beir is interviewing the socialist/thuggish AFL-CIO union leader, Richard Trumka. But that is fine with me. Nothing wrong with free speech. Just know, that you will never see "fair and balanced" interviews on Piers Morgan and Ed Shultz and Meet the Press.

Point of post: Fox moves to the center - not to worry.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Well, after a very slow news day, we have this shocker: Fox News is going moderate.

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