Colin Powell versus Rob Scheider?

This morning I awoke and per usual turned on Morning Joe to catch up with the news. The first thing I see is breaking news that Colin Powell has endorsed President Obama for a second term.

No matter what you think of Mr. Powell he was a member of two Republican administrations including one as Secretary of State so his opinion certainly bears some weight.

Thinking to myself it might be interesting to see how they are spinning this on the Fox Network I turned over to Fox and Friends for a moment and saw that at that very moment they were featuring a story on Rob Schneider, yes that Rob Schneider, had proclaimed on a radio show yesterday that he could would not be supporting President Obama for a second term.

I think endorsements mean very little to most folks. When Bruce Springsteen plays a show at Ohio State and they then on their way out of the building do early voting certainly that has a measurable effect, other than that however I do not think these things matter.

Still, Colin Powell makes his endorsement and at the same time Fox is making a big deal of Rob Schneider supporting Mitt Romney. One has to admit that is a pretty interesting combination of endorsements.

Fox has to play it straight in these cases to be any kind of reputable outside the right wing market.