From last night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On the Obama administration insisting that Fox is not a news organization:

Look, the great sin of Fox News is it broke the monopoly of the liberal media.
That’s the reason why it is so wildly successful. I once said years ago that the genius of Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch is to have discovered a niche audience of American broadcast news, namely, half of the American people.
And the other consequence is that it angers the Obama administration, which is used to, particularly after last year, wall-to-wall adulation.
I mean, this is almost comical if you look at the lineup. On the one hand, in the tank are NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, PBS, CNN and MSNBC. Some of these like MSNBC are so in the tank they need scuba gear. Some of them occasionally emerge for a breath of air, but only occasionally.
And Fox stands up and refuses to bend a knee, and that’s what they can’t stand.
Look, CNN was patted on the head by the Obama administration as objective. CNN is an organization that a few weeks ago had a fact-checking on a “Saturday Night Live” skit that was mildly critical of Obama, but did no fact checking on wildly, grotesquely, libelous racist statements allegedly made by Rush Limbaugh which were not made by Rush Limbaugh.
…That’s not a matter of sloppiness. That’s a matter of ideology.

On how the Afghan elections affect the troop surge decision:

Two points. First of all, General McChrystal and Petraeus are as aware as anybody in Washington about the irregularities in this election and the damage it did, and they still recommend a troop surge as a way of saving Afghanistan.
Second, the administration acts as if this Afghan election, the flawed Afghan election, is sort of an act of God sprung out of nowhere. It’s [the election] been on the books for a year. The Obama administration was in power for almost eight months when it happened.
We have envoys here and there, special envoys, ambassadors on the scene. Where is all the “smart diplomacy” exerting all kinds of pressure, diplomatic, economic, et cetera, to achieve our ends?
If there has ever been a regime in the world dependent on the United States and subject to American influence, it’s the one in Afghanistan. If we withdraw, these guys will end up hanging from trees.
It [This election] is not just a failure of Afghanistan .., it is the failure of our diplomacy. Our guys ought to be in there and telling Karzai — Either you have a runoff and soon, or you and your opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, will make a coalition government right now with no need for any further elections.