Posted on 06/04/2003 8:48:29 PM PDT by TaxRelief
Fox News hits a new lowest common denominator
...The wondrous blessing God bestowed on Gustave Flaubert -- and on America's own great chroniclers of contagious stupidity, Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken -- is that they lived and died without imagining a thing like Fox News. It's easy to laugh at Rupert Murdoch's outrageous mongrel, the impossible offspring of supermarket tabloids, sitcom news spoofs, police-state propaganda mills and the World Wrestling Federation.
Fox News is an oxymoron and Cheech and Chong would have made a more credible team of war correspondents than Geraldo Rivera and Ollie North. Neither Saturday Night Live nor the 1973 film Network, Paddy Chayefsky's corrosive satire of TV news, could even approach the comic impact of Geraldo embedded, or of Fox's pariah parade, its mothball fleet of experts who always turn out to be disgraced or indicted Republican refugees. If Ed Meese, Newt Gingrich and Elliott Abrams couldn't fill your sails with mirth, you could count on the recently deposed Viceroy of Virtue and High Regent of Rectitude, my old schoolmate Blackjack Bill Bennett.
With its red-faced, hyperventilating reactionaries and slapstick abuse of lame "liberal" foils who serve them as crash dummies, Fox News could easily be taken as pure entertainment, even as inspired burlesque of the rightwing menagerie. But the problem -- in fact, the serious problem - is that Fox isn't kidding, and brownshirts aren't funny.
Harper's reports that Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly became so infuriated by the son of a 9-ll victim who opposed the war -- "I'm against it and my father would have been against it, too" -- that he cursed the man and even threatened him off-camera. A Fox TV anchor, one Neil Cavuto, celebrated the fall of Baghdad by informing all of us who opposed the war in March, "You were sickening then, you are sickening now." If reports are accurate, these troubled men are neither bad journalists nor even bad actors portraying journalists -- they're mentally unbalanced individuals whose partisan belligerence is pressing them to the brink of psychosis.
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotte.creativeloafing.com ...
Grow up.
What is your major malfunction, sport? You stated that there were better articles and I encouraged you to share them. For this you toss out vitriol?
If there's any part in this exchange that's got some growing up to do, I'd say it's the one staring back at you in your mirror.
Look, conservatives understand that the left is desperate.
Yes, because we get to see it in articles like TaxRelief posted.
You may find crap like this interesting and enlightening. For me, its neither interesting or enlightening. Its garbage!
And again I reiterate: NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO READ THEM, SPORT!
The fact you're spending so much of your time defending this article, makes me wonder what your politics really are.
What...I differ with your opinion and suddenly my entire political philosophy is called into question? Get a grip, sport. Try going through my posts in the forums. Had you even bothered, you wouldn't have ventured into making such a patently asinine remark.
This is a conservative website and should not be used to spread the liberal agenda.
Making fun of the Left is now "spreading the liberal agenda"? Oh dear Lord, you need to chill out.
Unless of course, you're a liberal. If thats the case, in the future I'd take your liberalism to a more appropriate venue. Like DU.
Be my guest. If anyone's acting like a rabid Leftist who can't stand a common sense view on the matter, it's you.
-Jay
Ah! Satan's favorite trick. Tell 'em they're stupid if they believe in God. (It's the old "only the subintelligent masses believe in God," trick.) Wouldn't Crowther be surprised if he saw the IQ test results of Conservatives, as a whole?
You have an excellent point. There is definite something mentally disjointed in an individual who can ramble on so long with rhetoric that is so deeply embedded with loathing. He is blinded by his disgust and doesn't realize, apparently, that he is being completely sidelined by some deep-seated prejudices. My guess: he has serious issues and needs long term therapy.
Add to their plan: legislation restricting talk radio, GLAAD organized pressure of any advertisers in conservative forums or papers, union activities targeting forums, paid DUers, more legislation restricting use of no-public schools, more erosion of personal property rights, more power to Dept of Social Services or Child protective Services, and on and on.
Do they have a war room somewhere with a strategy plan posted? LOL
how many American soldiers are spinkled around the world: 104,140 out of 230,484 active duty military as of Sept. 2002. If you like, bump that number up another 100,000 for recent deployments to Iraq, even though many probably went there from an overseas station.
to save America as a result of national security lies: For the sake of argument, let's assume every soldier stationed overseas is a result of national security lies. It's a false premise, but very libertarian.
I will wager the number is many times over any immigration issue.
Estimated illegal population in US: 7.0 million in January 2000.
Nonimmigrants admitted in FY 2000 under tempororary workers visa programs: 543,950, plus Spouses and children: 672,943 (Table 37)
Nonimmigrants admitted as temporary workers, exchange visitors, and intracompany transferees in FY 2000: 1,234,112 (Table 38)
I wasn't angry when I wrote my post to you, so it wasn't meant to be interpreted as indignant. I do think many of your posts reflect a cynicism that is expressed through overstatement, rather than reflecting a reasoned critique. You may also find this interesting: Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-1999
Basic Factchecking 101: Network was released in 1976. So, if this dude can't get the simple facts right...
I couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you.
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