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I myself wouldn’t paint all Fox News with the same brush as seemingly Bill O’Reilly has painted FreeRepublic.

You've picked out Snow and Hume - probably the only two positive things about the channel (I'm not a Hannity fan, but I'll admit he's not as bad as O'Reilly). In the end, Fox is in it for the money, and in the evening you are going to hear more about Paris Hilton or whatever attractive female went missing or whatever celebrity is currently screwed up than you will hear about much more important things (the wars we are in, etc.).

Maybe I'm weird, but I just never saw the appeal of those types of shows. I've asked fans of the O'Reilly Factor and Hannity and Colmes, when they say "did you watch last night's show, this or that liberal activist was on, and O'Reilly or Hannity tore them a new one", I ask them what they learned. Usually they give me a "huh?" response. Me, if I'm going to watch something that's basically non-fiction, I'm going to learn why I don't want to be an ostrich farmer, or why noodling reaffirms my beliefs about Oklahoma, or what's being found as some battlefield is being excavated or that we don't give our ancestors enough credit, etc. I'm not going to waste my time on idiotic talking heads on Fox or wherever.

All they did was watch the political equivalent of a daytime talk show. Instead of 12 year old daughters wearing too much makeup and too short of a skirt having their moms criticized by Dr. Phil, they heard some nutty liberal being criticized by Hannity or O'Reilly.

They serve their purpose - people who are insecure in their beliefs like to see people who believe differently being criticized by others.

The majority of FReepers are probably not like that - I think most of us are secure in our beliefs and are mature enough not to feel threatened, that we don't spend every night glued to FNC. I would bet that FReepers don't watch much FNC, etc. in the evening. We're probably more apt to be watching the Discovery, History, Military, History International, Science, etc. channels (or movies or Sci-Fi). I have a friend who is a FReeper, who could probably tell you the Military Channel's lineup in the evening for the next few weeks. They are like me, they find a Napolean or George Patton or Rommel much more interesting than some blow-hard like O'Reilly ripping into somebody.

why noodling reaffirms my beliefs about Oklahoma.
***I think I watched the same show awhile back. It was fascinating to see those guys catching catfish by hand. Note that when I was going through silentknight’s prior posts, it was easy to see that the guy spends a lot of time watching TV so he may think that such personalities as the BORe are authorities. I run into that mentality sometimes, don’t know what to make of it.