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 ...
It is easy to accuse .... must I beg for proof about your indignant post? I won't.
"your position is based on a false pretense" -- optimistically_conservative
Aw, c'mon. Look how much fun everyone is having...and we're all playing so nicely, holding a good conservative course. If you don't want to play, you can do other threads, and we'll catch up with you on a different topic!
Later, man!
So, you think this is just a case of "the lady doth protest too much"? That is the most reassuring response I've seen.
I had read it was a Green thing, some lefties thought it cluttered up the pristine environment...but it just goes to show that its a crap law since dishes are so small now..they dont create an eyesore like the old C bands did and now you have limited access to news. plus ..once you pass a law..have fun repealling it!
Sometimes, it is important to know what our young people's minds are being filled with. This is the most read paper, by Gen X'r's and 20somethings, in a fairly large city that comprises at least eight colleges and two of the five largest financial institutions in the country.
I don't see how anyone can vote for Bush again.
That's something that I think needs to be made known whenever you pass comment, in order to have the proper context.
You've been around FR longer then most folks. You've seen it all. These articles that ridicule conservatism and trash and bash the Commander In Chief, aren't welcomed by most FReepers. I don't appreciate this garbage and I don't think JimRob would mind if such diatribes are never posted again.
There are many lurkers and disruptors on FR.
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