“Lankford said having acting secretaries has a significant impact because their authority can be more limited than that of Senate-confirmed nominees. “They can’t execute all policy when they are acting,” he told CNN. “Anytime you have an acting, they can’t perform all the duties that a Senate-confirmed appointee can.”
Which is exactly why FOX is needed the most. If the networks have chosen sides, and they have. It is imperative that both sides be represented. Having only DNC sanctioned news is dangerous.
You’re right, he’s only the Director of the OMB and the Chief-of-Staff and until a couple months ago, the Acting-Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Not to mention you don’t have to be a cabinet secretary to be nominated to be a cabinet secretary or any other position that hasn’t yet been filled.
You make it sound as if FOX was created to combat the spin from MSNBC and CNN. The reality is that CNN and MSNBC were much more news and information than FOX News.
FOX News was created to provide a conservative message. MSNBC changed their coverage to compete with FOX News.
There’s a whole chicken and egg theory that goes on here.
Everyone here seems to forget that before Hannity and Colmes, and “Fair and Balanced”, CNN had Crossfire, which really was “fair and balanced” and provided useful commentary and back and forths. You had legit players from each side debating-for goodness’ sake, Tucker Carlson was on it for a period of time.
Over the years it hosted conservatives such as Pat Buchanan, Robert Novak, John Sununu, Tony Snow, Mary Matalin, and Tucker.
Now compare any of those people to Alan Colmes, who was only ever a radio host/pundit/commentator. If the above conservatives were the “opposition” to a left-wing, DNC supporting CNN, then they sure brought in a lot tougher opposition than a guy like Colmes.
People pretend like CNN wasn’t already providing “fair and balanced” points of view for years before Fox came around, and with much more legitimacy than Fox can claim.
It is pretty funny that a cable News station’s popularity and trust levels such as
Fox News, that a person has to pay to get is better than Mainstream Liberal Fake News Media television such as ABC, NBC, and CBS that everyone gets for free. lol.