Alan Dershowitz, a favorite guest of Geraldo Rivera's on CNBC, won't be following Rivera to the Fox News Channel, at least judging by an anti-FNC outburst last week from the Harvard law professor. Alarmed that a “Fox News” sign on the building housing a Boston area TV studio meant that he was about to appear on FNC, an enraged Dershowitz told the Boston Herald: “I have a policy never under any circumstances to go on any Fox talk show. I regard [Bill] O'Reilly and [Sean] Hannity as blatant racists!”
Dershowitz wanted to make sure he “wasn't walking into a Fox sewer.”
The November 21 “Inside Track” column in the Boston Herald by Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa recounted Dershowitz's aversion to FNC.
An excerpt:
Then there's Harvard Law Prof Alan Dershowitz, who never met a TV camera he didn't like — unless it was from the Fox News Channel!
Seems the ubiquitous talking head was over at Videolink in Watertown the other day to shoot one of his many TV appearances — this one for CNN — when he noticed new signs on the building. The signs said Fox News Channel, which is sharing space with the TV satellite service.
“I raised the question, 'What's going on here? I didn't come over to do Fox,'” Dershowitz told the Track. “I have a policy never under any circumstances to go on any Fox talk show. I regard [Bill] O'Reilly and [Sean] Hannity as blatant racists!”
A Videolink voice of reason informed the left-leaning law prof that the right-of-center Fox was just a tenant in the building and escorted him upstairs for his closeup.
“I just wanted to make sure I wasn't walking into a Fox sewer,” Dershowitz said. “If I ran into O'Reilly or Hannity there, I would have had to shower three or four times before I could come home.”…
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Whenever you see someone on television from “Boston,” apparently except on FNC, they are really in Watertown at Videolink, a studio facility which provides guest facilities with changeable backgrounds for appearances on different networks so viewers don't realize the guest hasn't moved, just the background has changed.
(This update courtesy of the Media Research Center.)
