"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose."
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 ...
I saw it too that guy was a Smarmy lil git.
JimRob doesn't want this type of crap on his website. As conservatives, we know what the leftwing is all about and don't need endless rhetorical reminders.
Here's a selected piece from Mr.Robinson.
" ... liberals and liberal causes. This board was established for discussions by conservatives of events and concepts that are important to us. The media is dominated by liberals. The government is infested by liberals. Our educational institutions are overrun by liberals. The liberal viewpoint and liberal "debate" is forced upon us every day from every news broadcast, TV program, newspaper, school room, congressional debate, and on and on, ad infinitum. We are not suffering for a lack of liberal input. We do not need liberals coming in here to "inform" us or to "debate" with us on the need for so-called gay rights, abortion rights, gun-free rights, or to expand our minds to any other mushy liberal feel good concepts. There are no such rights in natural law, common law or the Constitution. We are well aware of your immoral and perverted desires, believe me. We do not need to hear it again. Your vanity posts on such subjects will likely get deleted, and you will likely get booted if you are a liberal and come in here thinking that we owe you a soapbox. This is not a government funded or approved project and we do not need to offer you equal time. If you are a liberal and want to post on FR (and several long-time posters are), you'd best watch your step and take care not to offend anyone, especially me. I have a very short fuse when it comes to tolerating anyone who wants to deprive me of my Constitutional rights, my God, my livelihood, the fruits of my labor, my children, my unborn grandchildren, my American Heritage, my freedom of association, my freedom or my Liberty.
Here's the LINK.
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose."
But do you feel assured about GWBush being a conservative? I mean wasting one trillion US taxpayer dollars going after OBL and Saddam and not one thing has turned up, yet. BTW, where are those WMD, promised by GWBush?
"I feel reassured now that I know that Robert Byrd is not a liberal." -- Huber
With all due respect, it is wise to hold your friends close and your enemies closer.
-Jay
Right...and, Right!
But back to the article, this guy was out of control with his insults:
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.
To equate the two circumstances requires mental and verbal gymnastics not seen even in the Summer Olympics.
Actually, the question is: how many American soldiers are spinkled around the world to save America as a result of national security lies. I will wager the number is many times over any immigration issue.
"How many Americans immigrate to France versus how many French immigrate to the US?" -- Blue Collar Christian
PresBush understands and appreciates the old adage of keeping one's friends close and one's enemies closer.
This guy has his undies in a bunch because a Fox figured out that most viewers have grown way past believing that just because a news anchor looks as if he smelled a fart and speaks in a condescending manner to the little people, he must really know what he's talking about.
Those old boys are through, finished, and it's a hard pill for some to swallow.
Says who?!?! PING!!
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