Last night on the show I interviewed my college here at MSNBC, Keith Oberman About he and I being used this week by the Fox News Channel as a means for that network to hit back at the White House. Fox this week criticized the White House for inviting Keith and me to attend an off the record briefing with the President. Given that the White House has also recently critized Fox which of course is seen as one of our competors. The White House, including the President himself, has said in recent days that they will essentially treat Fox as an opposition political outlet rather than a normal news channel. That position was made manifest yesterday when the White House arranged an interview sitting for the Executive Pay Chief, Kenneth Feinberg, the way these things work is that the news maker sits in the same chair and talks to the same camera but every five minutes or so the interviewer the news maker is talking to changes, so it would be NBC interviewing Ken Feinberg for five minutes, then ABC interviewing Ken Feinberg for five minutes, then CBS, then CNN, etc. Well, yesterday the White House said that Fox would not among the networks invited to interview Ken Feinberg in one of these round robbin pool interviews and the other networks came to Fox's defense They said they would bow out of interviewing Mr. Feinberg themselves unless Fox was included so Fox was included. Fox has since been trumpeting this as a victory over the White House and as evidence that the media sees Fox as a news station even if the White House doesn't. Fox is right in that the media generally does treat fox as a news station even as the White House says they're not. Is Fox a news station? The answer to that is unrelated to the question of whether and which Fox hosts and corrispondents express their opinion about the news. It is possible to express an opinion about the news and still cover the news responsibly. We the American people, the world's admired democracy, cannot ever again allow ourselves to be misinformed, manipulated, and mislead into disastrous foreign adventures. Walter Croncite's statements about his opinion of the Vietnam War did not negate his authority in delivering the news about that war or about anything else. Today Bob Schiever, the venerable host of Face The Nation, sometimes closes out that program with his commentay on the news of the day. That commentary, while it's opinion does not make his audience believe less in Mr. Schiever's ability to deliver the news and deliver it well. Anchors like CNN's Anderson Cooper and yes, Fox New Channel's, Shepard Smith earned respect and admiration From their audiences and beyond with their impassioned expressions of opinion and outrage against the failed response to Hurricane Katrina. The government said 'you go here and you'll get help' or 'you go in that Super Dome and you'll get help' and they didn't get help. They got locked in there and they watched people being killed around them and they watched people starving and they watched elderly people not get any medicine and now they know it's happening because we've been telling them repeatedly over and over everyday. For the last four days I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi and to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other, you know I've Got to tell you there are a lot of people here who are very upset and very angry and very frustrated and when they hear politicians slap, you know thanking one another, it just, it kind of cuts them the wrong way right now. It's not even just anchors, even for flinty hard nose reporters like war corespondent, Laura Logan at CBS, the expression of an opinion about the news that reporter's cover is frankly sometimes part of covering the news. What kind of a wake up call do you need to say that you're still at war? And, and, this idea that you can separate the things is just ludicrous. Expressing an opinion about the news does not negate one's status as a reporter or as a corispondant or as a new's anchor. The expression of opinion about the news is not the difference between Fox and the rest of the news media. The difference between Fox and news is that Fox is now actively organizing and promoting a protest movement against the US government. Celebrate with Fox News, this is what we're doing next Wednesday. That was a promo run on fox in advance of the Tax Day Tea Party Protests. I say this is a promo not an ad because no one paid fox to run that. The network produced it themselves, promoting as a network protests against the government. And helping to organize them both on their website and on air. We want to be with you and your tea party, if you have a tea party anywhere we're not convering. One of those. Email me at GlenBeck@foxnews.com we may cover your tea party live on April 15th. In addition to the Tax Day protests that Fox helped organize in April. They also organized and promoted a protest against the government on 9/11 oddly. It was the so called 9/12 march organized by Mr. Beck, we've seen here, one of the Networks Prime Time Hosts. I launched a project back in March and it comes together Saturday September 12th, 9/12. Thousands of people are going to gather in Washington D.C. and around the nation to stand up for the principles and the values that have made America great. The difference between Fox and news is not that Fox's hired personalties and executives and producers share and express an opinion about the news. That they share an idology, opinion has always been a kissing cousin to the news and one man's Idology is another man's objective passion. The difference between Fox and news, the way in which one of these things is not like the other is that only one of these organizations is organizing anti government street protests. There's nothing wrong with that, it's perfectly legal as far as I know, it just makes Fox an opposition political outlet to the Democratic party and the Obama White House rather than just a normal news channel. The exclamation point was put on that fact today when it was announced that the next round of American's for prosperity, anti health reform rallies, which we've highlighted on this show in the past, they will be headlined by Fox host John Stozzle, Mr. Stozzle is a paid contributer at Fox News, he hosts specials for them and he's about to start his own prime time hour on their business channel but not before he tours Arkansas. leading rallies against what our friends at American's for prosparity call the dangers of government forced healthcare. This is a story that most of the media has gotten wrong so far by not only defending fox as if Fox is just a news network that has a right wing point of view but by ignoring what Fox does as a network that has nothing to do with the news, it's a free country and Fox can do what it wants, God, God, God bless them and keep them but it would frankly be strange , it would be weird for the White House or the US government to treat a group that is organizing protests and rallies against it as if that group is just covering the news, it's not. One of these t things is really not like the other.