I agree and SAD to say I don't watch FOX anymore or any other news outlet. Rush is the only one these days worth listening to. For the sake of my sanity and ulcers, the tube is off the majority of time. Even TMC slapped the face of many conservatives who love to watch the old flicks. Turner had the balls to spit on our faces the day after the election with a subliminal slapdown during a movie break...MY JAW FELL TO THE GROUND! There really is no place to turn anymore. The only safe havens is FR and Rush...:(
"Turner had the balls to spit on our faces the day after the election with a subliminal slapdown during a movie break..."
What 'subliminal slapdown'? Some details for those of us that didn't see it.
I still watch Special Report with Brit Hume and catch the Beltway Boys and Fox News Watch most Saturdays. I also try to watch or at least listen to the Journal Editorial Report late Saturday nights. I leave the TV on as background noise when I sleep and on Saturday nights I try to remember to leave it on Fox. About half the time I listen to the repeat of JER in the early morning hours.
Glenn Beck's radio show is pretty good, though I can only take him in short segments. His moron trivia is funny, but always lasts about 4 times longer than it should. That's how I feel about most of his stuff, good but too much. His CNN Headline show is often worth watching. He has some of the most interesting and unconventional one on one sit down interviews. He had Danny Bonaducci on talking about his reality show as well as the train wreck that is his life. Beck was a cocaine addict and an alcoholic so his talk with Bonaducci almost had the feeling of an intervention. It actually elicited some interesting discussions with the old Partridge Family child star, at least a lot more interesting than anything I've seen about him in 30 years.
I've long been willing to give a pass to Ted Turner and simply ignore the grotesque things he does politically. He earned forgiveness and forbearance from me when he bought up the library of Loony Tunes cartoons for The Cartoon Network. He said that there were some cartoons they wouldn't show, particularly ones that were overtly racist, which was fine with me, but he then promised that they would not edit any cartoons that they did show. That earned him a pass from me for most of the rest of the things he says and does. It's like how I view Meathead, Rob Reiner. He is a political jerk, but he did direct The Princess Bride, which gained him a place in immortality, as far as I'm concerned.
I watch TCM and AMC, depending on what they're showing. It's amazing how many of those movies are totally unknown to most people. When people complain that there are no good movies to watch anymore I run down a list of old movies, mostly academy award winners or the block busters of their day and usually they haven't seen any of them. I then do a search on the web to find out what old movies are coming up and give these innocents a list of recommendations. I've managed to create some old movie junkies that way. Did you see my earlier post recommending the Broderick Crawford 1949 version of All The Kings Men? Truly powerful film and it might just be an object lesson for those embracing such new demagogues as Pat Buchannen or Jim Webb. I also watch A&E, Discovery, TLC, Travel and HGTV. I watch a few shows on SciFi but by far my favorite TV is Food Network. Except as today when I watch the Sunday shows then football I almost never turn on the old networks. There's just no there there. But that still leaves me a good bit of value out there in that "vast wasteland." You just have to hunt a bit.