The local (DC) Fox affiliate refused to acknowledge the dramatic difference in the size of the competing rallies. They literally scripted their reportage to make it sound like the two gatherings were roughly equal. This was the late evenings news, mind you, well after varying crowd estimates had settled into the national news narrative. This was a FOX affiliate. Astounding. Disgraceful. Cowrdly.

I’m aware that a network affiliate doesn’t have to cleave to Fox News Channel protocol, but it was disconcerting. The local ABC affiliate’s on-sight reporter referred to the Honor rally as the “much larger of the two,” and didn’t even need to get into a numbers game because he stated reality in general terms. I wonder why the Fox affiliate folks were so wetting-their-pants frightened?