Howard Kurtz dictates quotes from Fox News execs

This gave us a good chuckle, reading the WashPost's Kurtz. It's in an article about Fox News and Kurtz faithfully goes through the pointless ritual of giving FNC bosses a chance to explain how the entire operation isn't really a GOP movement-driven organization:

Fox executives maintain that the channel's reporting is aggressive but not ideological. Senior Vice President Bill Shine says that “our reporters, people like Major Garrett, have been asking tougher questions” than their rivals, such as scrutinizing efforts to increase White House involvement in the 2010 Census. As for the commentators, Shine says Hannity still has some liberal guests.

Of course, Hannity's longtime liberal co-host, Alan Colmes, recently left the show* so now it's just right-wing Hannity for an hour each weeknight. But an FNC boss claims Hannity still has “some” liberal guests on, so Kurtz types it up.

We just did a three-minute search on Nexis and found Hannity's list of guests for the past week. We couldn't find a single liberal. (A couple of Dems, yes. Liberals? No.) But we did see that Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Ann Coulter, J.C. Watts, Karl Rove, Hugh Hewitt, Newt Gingrich, Judd Gregg, Dick Morris, (radio nut) Mark Levin, and the WSJ's Stephen Moore appeared on the show.

Maybe when Hannity actually does have “some liberal guests” on his program Kurtz can publish an update.

UPDATE: * Changed original language to indicate Colmes left the show on his own accord.