• With: Judy Miller, Jim Pinkerton, Ellen Ratner, Cal Thomas

    This is a rush transcript from "Fox News Watch," September 8, 2012. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

    JON SCOTT, HOST OF "FOX NEWS WATCH": On "Fox News Watch" --

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    BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Now you're having a good time but this is getting serious and I want to you listen.

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    SCOTT: -- Democrats hold their big convention in Charlotte, bringing out their big political players to push their plans for the next four years, and it was quite the show.

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    PRESIDENT OBAMA: Feel a cold coming on, take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning.

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    SCOTT: Which members of the media got caught up in the razzle dazzle?

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    ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA, (D), LOS ANGELES MAYOR: All of those delegates opposed say no.

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    SCOTT: The Democrats' message gets mixed when God and Israel's capital get cut from the platform then jammed back in a very messy way. Why did most in the media ignore the controversy?

    Two conventions, two candidates, two very different types of coverage. And two clear examples of blatant media bias by the mainstream press. Is this what we can expect leading up to Election Day?

    And what freebie handout at the Democrat convention caused this frenzy?

    (on camera): On the panel this week, writer and Fox News contributor, Judy Miller; syndicated columnist, Cal Thomas; Jim Pinkerton, contributing editor, the American Conservative magazine; and Ellen Ratner, bureau chief of the Talk Radio News Service.

    I'm Jon Scott. "Fox News Watch" is on right now.

    Well, that was the scene on Thursday night, following Barack Obama's acceptance speech in Charlotte, bringing the three-day Democratic convention to a close. We'll talk about the media coverage of the president's speech in a minute.

    But first, something that happened earlier in the week, which most of the media seemed to ignore.

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    VILLARAIGOSA: I'll do that one more time. All those delegates in favor say aye.

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    VILLARAIGOSA: All those delegates opposed say no.

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    VILLARAIGOSA: In the opinion of the chair, two-thirds have voted in the affirmative. The motion is adopted --

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    VILLARAIGOSA: And the platform has been amended as shown on the screen.

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    SCOTT: That's Los Angeles mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, the chairman of the Democratic convention, calling for a third vote to amend their platform, this time to include God and reconfirm Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

    It didn't seem to get much attention in the mainstream media, Jim. Why not?

    JIM PINKERTON, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE: It could be because the mainstream media didn't want to make the Democrats look bad. By contrast, if, I think, this would have been the Republican convention, if the chairman of the Republican convention somewhere had done those voice votes, which -- by the way, it's not even clear to me they got a majority, let alone two-thirds. But if it had been a Republican convention, the mainstream would have hauled acoustical engineers and sound decibel checks and so on --

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    -- To have proven which was bigger and so on. Those two people in the white t-shirts would have been household names by now.

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    The New York Times would have had them on the front page. They would be on the "Today Show," telling how atrocious the Republicans are. Instead, it was the Democrats and sweetness and light. ABC News didn't touch the story. NBC News gave it like 10 seconds.

    ELLEN RATNER, BUREAU CHIEF, TALK RADIO NEWS SERVICE: And I want to say, we talked about this earlier in the week, Jim and I. But I want to say, listen, it was the hottest story on talk radio, both from the right and the left. Every talk radio host asked us about it. So maybe mainstream media didn't take care of it, but radio absolutely went after it like nothing, nobody's business.

    JUDY MILLER, WRITER & FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: And so did the social media, which is the other, another defining feature of both conventions, but especially the Democratic convention, was the intense Twitterization of the Democratic convention. It was just -- you could not, you could barely get on Twitter it was so active.