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To: Happy Rain
I dunno about Fox News being solidly behind RINOs. Granted, Bill O'Reilly, the big kahuna at Fox News, is no fan of Herman Cain - and makes that pretty clear. Big deal. O'Reilly is sort of a joke among most conservatives. Gigantic ego and not much to back it up except waving his Harvard Masters degree around once a week and shouting down his guests. I don't take O'Reilly seriously.

I think we tend to see what we want to see on Fox. They employ quite a few liberals and a good many RINOs, granted, but they give the Republican point of view, which you won't see anywhere else. I think too many want Fox to be Free Republic on TV and it isn't, nor will it be if they don't want to depend on subscriber donations to survive. Fox News is a business. They give the political right equal time with the usual leftist bilge. They interview liberal politicians and conservative politicians and don't dismiss anything the political right says, like the other networks do. This notion I see on FR stating that Fox News is a tool of the left and/or the GOP establishment seems a tad overblown.

I realize that, for some, no network, no politician, no website will ever be conservative enough. However, for most of us, although we don't form our political opinions from Fox News commentators, we don't dismiss them as liberals masquerading as conservatives, either. I think they do attempt to be 'fair and bgalanced' but of course, no TV news network will ever be able to please every viewer. So be it. That's why I spend a lot of time on FR.

24 posted on 11/05/2011 2:34:23 PM PDT by Jim Scott (on the 'Cain Train')
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To: Jim Scott
Oh, my Lord NO! No Freerepublic on TV. We are all too long in the tooth with gnarly beards and spindly knock knees ~ time's travails have not been all that friendly to us.

Look at the names some of our better folk select. You couldn't get that humble in the days when local saints spent their time in caves on mountain tops clothed only in rags, sleeping oncold stones ~

We don't need TV and TV doesn't need us.

We must all pray to God to deliver us from the plots of our enemies that'd put us all on cable!

26 posted on 11/05/2011 2:37:49 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Jim Scott
You make a reasonable argument but the almost universal bias of Fox News in favor of Mitt Romney makes a better one.
And Mitt is the enemy of mainstream conservatism—a mainstream Fox News has become so dissimilar with as time goes by. As the other networks go farther Left Fox News goes Left as well hoping their relative 'centrist" appearance will still keep the conservatives watching...it ain't working
33 posted on 11/05/2011 5:36:53 PM PDT by Happy Rain ( "Many of the most useful idiots of the Left are on the Right.")
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