Posted on 04/21/2004 12:01:51 PM PDT by quidnunc
I've never been called "a douche-nozzle" before. At least, not that I know about anyway. The insult came from one supporter of the Fox News Channel.
But then I don't think The Globe and Mail has ever been called "the far-left Toronto Globe and Mail" before. That's what this great newspaper was called by Bill O'Reilly on the Fox News Channel on Monday night.
Reacting to my column, which cheerfully suggested that the proposal to bring the Fox News Channel to Canada should be acted upon promptly, so that we can all take a look, and get a laugh, O'Reilly gave us a Fox-style whacking. In his segment The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day, he quoted from my column (which called him "pompous"), dismissed The Globe as a lefty outfit and said, "Hey you pinheads up there, I may be pompous, but at least I'm honest."
Right. But the very idea that The Globe and Mail is "far left" only proves my point that the Fox News Channel is the most hilarious thing on American TV since Seinfeld. When we get to see it, we'll decide if, like Seinfeld, it's about nothing.
Spurred by O'Reilly's remarks, dozens of Fox News viewers wrote to me. Remember now that I only suggested that Fox News be available to us — not only as a vital window on the United States, but as an outright tonic. Before the channel has even appeared, I can tell you I was in stitches reading the voluminous response from Fox News supporters in the U.S. By Monday evening, I was so paralytic with laughter I had to call off the writing of yesterday's column. I was incapacitated with the hilarity.
Me, I find it quite bracing to be so reviled and it's very encouraging to know that mere newspaper coverage of a TV news channel can make some people so very angry.
The people who support Fox News must be the most uncivil and foul-mouthed creatures on the planet. This is an informed opinion. They'd give English soccer hooligans a run for their money.
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I've never been called "a douche-nozzle" before.
From now on, I’ll never call him anything but.
I can tell you I was in stitches reading the voluminous response from Fox News supporters in the U.S.
Dozens is "voluminous"? Says something about how much mail he normally gets.
Uh..Mr. Canadian writer I believe you meant to say "paralyzed." If you were "paralytic with laughter" it would imply that you were inducing paralysis on others around you, or that you had the propensity to do so.
I know it is. If I recall correctly, Margaret Wente is their sole conservative writer. But I guess douche-nozzle thinks her lonely presence absolves the paper from the accusation.
... if he doesn't say so himself
His feigned laughter conceals the fact that this socialist is worried. FNN has the highest share of any US news network.
FNN's entry into Canada would be akin to a reprise of the Passion's success.
"this great newspaper" ... in their dreams (and I know)
Can I have that printed on a T-Shirt?
Christie Blatchford now writes for The Globe and Mail, and John Ibbitson seems basically conservative to me.
Kudos to the author for telling me his opinion is informed, because there is nothing else in the article that would have given me that impression.
Ha! Good point.
I tell ya, it's hard not to like FOX given the way it galls the liberals. And you have to chuckle a little at the liberals' new concern over the "big media conglomerates". Now that FOX is on the scene and kicking tail in the ratings, suddenly this is a big problem.
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