Fox News need some relief

Fox News are in an absolutely frantic state these days, searching for anything at all to help them forestall an Obama presidency.

Obviously the Ayers affair is a hot sell, but so too is Acorn. On an hourly basis, some other person who has been harassed by Acorn activists isn't interviewed. Conveniently, Fox pointed out that the states where Acorn has been most conspicuous are battlegrounds leaning towards Obama. Fox are clearly using their experience from expausing fraud in Florida in 2000 to address it this time around.

Anything to avoid the issues.

Earlier, Scott Rasmussen was on and he was repeatedly implored by Fox to give them, and McCain fans, anything to be hopeful of and to do diminish Obama's lead.

He was given a perfect opportunity to say that Obama's six point lead in Rasmussen's tracker today is really quite insignificant. However, he never took the bait and maintained that Obama's position is really quite commanding considering no president has received more than 51% since 1988.

Rasmussen was given plenty more opportunities to correct his erroneous ways, but he decided to be an actual analyst, and reiterated that Obama's position is prime at this point.

Later, Fox's new media superstar, Mike Huckabee, was interviewed and was presented with the chance to reaffirm that McCain is right to push the Ayers link. Unfortunately, Huckabee dissented and said McCain ought to make the case for himself, rather than the case against Obama

That comment left a lot of head scratching in its wake.