Last week I canceled my 180 channel satellite package and went down to the 45 channel basic package to save a few coins each month now that my retirement income dollars are shrinking faster than a $5 cotton shirt. One of the channels in the package that I canceled was Fox News.
My wife asked me if I wasn't going to miss Fox, and after thinking it over for a about one nanosecond I said no, not at all. I had just then realized that I seldom watch Fox anymore for any longer than it takes for it to cut from a LA freeway car chase and go to one of it's model agency supplied reporterettes after she finishes scraping enough makeup off her lacquered face to read a minute or two of "news" before the next five minute commercial break comes on accompanied by a blast of extremely irritating, ear-splitting, drum thumping, nerve jangling, electronically synthesized noise disguised as "music".
When you add to that the Fox staff of supposedly conservative news readers typified by the male version of Katy Couric disguised as Shepard Smith who mangle any sensational tabloid style news reports that come in and usually involve either rock stars with Mohawk hair styles and Satanic tattoos, or half nekkid Hollywood celebrities and their hangers on and then give their obviously uninformed opinion on that so-called news, you begin to realize that Fox News just aint what it's cracked up to be.
Of course I'm referring to the daytime version of Fox, and when you come to the evening edition shows which are best represented by Brit Hume's hour, which is seldom blessed with his presence BTW, it becomes somewhat more tolerable. But since I haven't shown any signs of withdrawal tremors, or suffered any relapses into fantasizing about Shepard Smith strapped on a medieval torture rack and surrounded by grinning, bent over old men with red hot iron pokers clutched in their bony hnds, I don't think I will regret losing Fox News too awfully much until the upcoming recession is done with recessing. And anyway, I may go back to the 180 channel package after the recession has played itself out if I have any more inflated dollars left in my forlorn bank account. But if I could swap off Fox News channel for a film channel featuring anything slightly more entertaining than an endless series of reruns of black and white depression-era Bowery Boys films I would jump at the chance.
I agree with everything you said about Faux News. :-)
The only redeeming comment I have about them is that Harris Faulkner should copyright, patent and insure her smile.