By Madhuri Dey
Feb 9, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Bill Sammon’s comment on Sarah Palin has become a hotly debated one. On Monday, Bill O’Reilly, the host of the popular news show on Fox, “The O’Reilly Factor”, and the executive director of “POLITICO,” Jim VandeHei, sat down to have a chat about the matter. On Sunday, Bill Sammon, the managing editor and vice president of news of “Fox News Washington,” commented to the host of the “Fox News Sunday,” Chris Wallace, that he felt that “the mainstream media” is adverse to the Tea Party movement almost as much as it loathes the propagator of the movement, Sarah Palin.

Bill Sammon further commented that he understood what made the mainstream media dislike Sarah Palin and her Tea Party movement. He called the politician and her movement both a threat. Moreover, he also voiced that Sarah Palin is, and always be, a threat, and likewise, her Tea Party Movement too is harmful to the political situation of the country, because it “galvanizes Republicans.”

Needless to say, the comment was considered to be a rather “absurd attack” on the mainstream media. However, the discussion between Bill O’Reilly and Jim VandeHei made it pretty clear that the criticism is not being echoed in all quarters. Bill O’Reilly maintained strictly that the comment was justified, as Bill Sammon had stated facts, something, he claimed, that can be proved from the coverage of the movement by the mainstream media. He claimed that the researchers with Fox News had hardly come across two reports that said anything positive about the movement. Jim VandeHei, on the other hand, strongly opposed the comment, maintaining that there was no proof to support Bill Sammon’s view.