NPR HUNTING FOX & BAIER?

On Thursday night's All Things Considered, NPR media reporter David Folkenflik profiled Bret Baier of the Fox News Channel. Tim Graham at Newsbusters has the money quotes on Folkenflix expose':

"Folkenflik said the night he was allowed in to observe, the panel was Stephen Hayes of "the conservative Weekly Standard," plus "a conservative who's a former senior aide to President George W. Bush, and a political reporter for the Washington Post. I asked Baier how that lineup reflected the fairness that he promises." The Post is a "non-ideological news outlet"? See the arrogance of media liberals on display. Fox is a right-wing propaganda house, but NPR and The Washington Post are meticulously "non-ideological."

I wonder if Folkenflik every looked at six months of Rachel Maddows guests? I suspect they Baier would win the "fair and balanced" contest there. But, Graham also points out something Folkenflix failed to mention in his report:

"Notice how in his complaint that Fox is casting reporters as "surrogate liberals,"  Folkenflik never suggested in this piece that one of the Baier regulars is NPR's own Mara Liasson -- perhaps because NPR's liberal listener base hates NPR people "dignifying" Fox with their liberal presence."

A very strange ommission indeed.