When I watched President Obama’s big speech on health care the other night I was watching it on Fox News — or so I thought.

It turns out I was suffering some type of hallucination. According to The Huffington Post’s Andy Ostroy, Fox News didn’t air the Obama speech.

So President Barack Obama on Wednesday night gave the most important speech of his presidency on an issue, health-care reform, which has taken center-stage in American politics over the past several months. Every single major network and cable-tv news network carried the prime-time address live…except the self-proclaimed Fair and Balanced Fox News.

How better to continue dumbing-down your audience than to censor what they see and hear that just might spoil their partisan delusion. Why give them another side of an issue? Why expose them to a radical/socialist/communist/fascist/terrorist like Obama, right? (can you actually be all of those things at the same time, as he’s been accused?) Wouldn’t the fair and balanced thing to do be to simply, well, be fair and balanced? To let your viewers see the speech and make up their own minds? Nah, that would spoil the fun and prevent despicable blatant liars like Fox’s Sean Hannity from deceiving its audience with its decidedly unfair and unbalanced reporting.

For example, on his program after Obama’s speech, Hannity, during an interview with Republican pollster/analyst Frank Luntz, said that Obama"said tonight that insurance company executives are bad people!" " But if Fox’s viewers had actually seen the speech, they’d know what the president actually said: "Insurance executives don’t treat their customers badly because they’re bad people; they do it because it’s profitable."

Like most Fox haters, Ostroy has revealed through his ignorant writing that he doesn’t watch Fox News. He’s most likely never watched Fox News.

Fox News carried the speech live while Fox broadcasting did not. The O’Reilly Factor aired immediately after the speech and included an interview with David Axelrod. Hannity aired after O’Reilly and he had Frank Luntz as a guest.

You can look for Ostroy’s incredibly stupid post to pull a disappearing act within the hour I predict. That’s okay though, I’ve already downloaded a complete screen capture in case memories get fuzzy.

-Chris Jones

(hat tip johnny$)