Will no one rid us of this troublesome network?

Media Matters CEO David Brock

Here’s something from David Brock’s new book that you may not have known: America is a politically divided nation today because the Fox News Channel denied President Obama the traditional presidential honeymoon in 2009.

That appears on page 103 of “The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes turned a network into a propaganda machine,” which Brock co-authored with his vice president at Media Matters for America, Ari Rabin-Havt.

Now that you know that Fox is the cause of all of Obama’s problems -- and the nation’s -- it might be worth flipping also to Chapter Nine, for a riveting account of how Fox held Massachusetts voters at gunpoint and forced them to elect a Republican senator.

And by the way, did you know that Fox News frequently interviews Republican candidates for president? No, really, it’s right there on page 277.

Fox also makes “donation[s] of airtime to Republican candidates,” otherwise known as “presidential debates.” This publication co-sponsored one such debate with Fox -- we all wore hair shirts for a month afterward and promised never to do it again.

“The Fox Effect” is every bit as insightful and scintillating a read as the Media Matters website. And if you flip to the endnotes, you will realize that it actually is the Media Matters website.

Click to read the complete column in The Washington Examiner