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Uninformed Glen Beck and Fox News viewers not courageous or smart enough to hold them accountable.

Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:03 PM EDT
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By Taxinum2wice
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The Fox News Agency is the most inaccurate reporting agency of any network in history. The constant stream of lies and vitriol promoted by the network has found an audience of misinformed, closed minded and spineless individuals whom do not dare demanded that Fox News be more responsible in reporting and apologize when they are wrong. The viewers of Fox News have no idea what "fair and balanced" in broadcasting means.

Fox News mis-reports or slants nearly everything except in cases where the line of racial divide is thinnest to the point of violence, with no regard to how it may affect others in our society. Every network has a right to speak its mind or slant conservative or liberal but they also have a responsibility to be honest. When they are wrong, Fox viewers never demand they admit it and say or do nothing to see that it does not happen again. Fox News reports lies and distortions daily to a segment of our society that separate us all for the most part as well as its selfish beliefs that this Country only belongs only to them. Fox viewers do not seem to mind that Fox News reports misrepresent the news and are powerless to do anything to change it.

By broadcasting to such a wide range of small minded, and cowardly tea-bagging individuals who will believe anything "because its on FOX News so it must be true." In my opinion, these veiwers are simply to stupid or lazy to even begin to think for themselves. Fox News and its divisive tactics have nearly alienated both black and Hispanic viewers for the disrespect shown this President openly allowing a commentator to call him a Racist and never once asked that he apologize.

Fox News consistantly gets called on the carpet by every other News organization. How can the producers even allow such unchecked information be aired nationally. Have you ever taken 10 minutes to read the Fox Ticker? I watched it for months, and I had to actually record Fox News just so I can count the number of mispellings in the ticker tape on the bottom of the screen. Would'nt you think if the viewers actually took time to read, they would have done something, anything, even just turn the station. I counted 22 spelling errors in a 3 hour time period. If they cannot spell, how can they research or even report.

This must mean the audience is too busy and are extremely bright individuals whom try to peep under the skirt of the hostess who hikes it up an inch everyday, who really see a difference in their lives based on real policy unfolding in Washington. Or and a much larger group of Budwiser drinking, blue collar, race baiters who rarely have bachelors degree or a long forgotten high school education, who sees and does what Glen beck tells them to. Such as Death camps and Social Engineering or just pure hatred for white people by the mixed race or ACORN Orginization.

They have contributed to so many deaths and volitile situations that it should be sanctioned by by the FCC. Color of Change going after one of or two of the host is not enough. The entire network if rotten and the viewers are the dumbest this country could produce. Not all of them are brain-dead, but none are responsible enough to demand truth and that they answer charges of misreporting and blatant lies every single day.

The actions of Fox News will cause a prominent death and the network will be shut down and rioters will take over their offices and some anchors will become targets themselves if they refuse its responsibility to the public to report honestly, they do not have to be fair or balanced. Although, their viewers will still be in the dark and not care as long as they have teabags and Glen Beck, who nearly became Howard Cosell.

Their viewers will remain shortsighted and selfish, not conservative. They don't need to fear the that the America they grew up in will not be here, they are just to stupid to know that won't be simply because it can't. This is the same argument our parents had and It stopped nothing. They need to understand not let the Glen Becks and Rush Limbaughs of the world make up their minds for them like conservative sheep.

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Taxinum2wice

The viewers of this station have no idea of history or right and wrong. They are conservative sheep and they can only follow, not one is prepared to hold Fox accountable. They wish to destroy at any cost.

  • 12 votes
Reply#1 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:19 PM EDT
Cletus Wilbury

Yeah, they are getting desperate. Regarding Fox ratings, I watch because I want to see what they'll say next.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119951/quotes

Researcher: The average radio listener listens for eighteen minutes. The average Howard Stern fan listens for - are you ready for this? - an hour and twenty minutes.
Pig Vomit: How can that be?
Researcher: Answer most commonly given? "I want to see what he'll say next."
Pig Vomit: Okay, fine. But what about the people who hate Stern?
Researcher: Good point. The average Stern hater listens for two and a half hours a day.
Pig Vomit: But... if they hate him, why do they listen?
Researcher: Most common answer? "I want to see what he'll say next."

  • 6 votes
#1.1 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:46 PM EDT
Taxinum2wice

Fox must have the same research, LOL. As an indivual who watches and learns and give credit to any media outlet as long as it is true, I find Fox totally over the edge. Eventhough they may have an occasional reliable and resonable gotcha, I find myself watching more for that one gotcha than anything else it broadcasts. It is wrong and irresponsible. I feel they should literally be sanctioned.

  • 9 votes
#1.2 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:03 PM EDT
Cletus Wilbury

Let the people sanction them. That would just add fuel to the fire. Along the same lines, I can see why the WP said 'let them hang themselves with their own rope'.

  • 3 votes
#1.3 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:11 PM EDT
Jeff Midwest

Fox is not going anywhere. There are no "sanctions" for them to receive. The viewers are mostly highly-educated Professional people who love their country and are tired of seeing the Liberals push us down the "spending-slide" toward Socialism. The viewers have a great grasp of history, and they know the principals that this country was founded on.

The movement against the Obama/Pelosi Liberalism has only just begun. It will only grow as each day passes, and Fox News will ALWAYS be there to watch it happen. The party is OVER for the hippy Democrats...no more barbecue in the streets.

  • 2 votes
#1.4 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:44 PM EDT
Taxinum2wice

I am afraid you are right. They will be here for awhile, but the rightwing nuts will soon leave long before me. First Murdock and Bill O will die or retire, Hannity will lose his show to Beck and Rush will take his spot Sarah Palin will take his and then some people will get killed and there will not be bar b que in the streets but blood of innocents based on fear and lies spread by fox news. That is what Nostradamos predicts.

  • 6 votes
#1.5 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:54 PM EDT
Suspiciously

What a discriminatory statement! I watch Fox news because it brings up topics that you will not find in the rest of the News Media. Current Topics...Important topics relevent to what is happening today.

They are conservative sheep and they can only follow, not one is prepared to hold Fox accountable. They wish to destroy at any cost

Pure blaspheme! You slander everyone that does not share your point of view. I call that a one sided, single minded view that contributes to the ills of this country.

  • 1 vote
#1.6 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:04 PM EDT
Taxinum2wice

It is not that they lie a lot. They get caught alot and they do nothing, offer no apology, and Nor do you. You are too lazy to write them, to busy to call them, to stupid to change the channel for a different point of view.

But you will sit on your behind in your living room and tell me that I am biased because I listen to all sides of the stories. You sir are the problem with this country. You follow blindly the ideology of knowing and unconfessed and proven liars and remain proud of it.

You sir are the problem.

  • 8 votes
#1.7 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:20 PM EDT
Roberta-349289

Here's a fine example of the hate-filled vitrol spewing forth by the Fox-fed dittoheads on one of the Obama threads a few days ago:

http://politics.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/18/3288311-obama-health-care-anger-not-race-based?commentId=9586588#c9586588

Lot of Fox flamers/trolls on the board that night. Like the Borg, they all attack one thread at the same time. And they call themselves patriots. They make a mockery of our democracy and seem determined to rip it to shreds even at their OWN detriment. The power of relentless, emotionally manipulative, paranoia-inducing propaganda dressed up in nationalistic pride (sound familiar?) should NEVER be laughed it. This is a serious cancer on our society and seems only to be getting more malignant as the the party of fear and hatred wallows more and more in finger pointing and self-righteous indignation (and of course, absolutely NO responsibility by themselves or republican leaders for the current mess we're in). They wouldn't recognize freedom if it bit them on the ass. They would just call it a commie plot and run screaming into the hills, that's how far gone they are. And Bill and Glen (and Rush) laugh their way to the bank at the utter naivete and gullibility of their ardent followers - naivete and gullibility that have made these ENTERTAINMENT personalities very, very wealthy.

  • 6 votes
#1.8 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:37 PM EDT
knight-403465

Roberta

They wouldn't recognize FREEDOM if it bit them on the ass!!!

Very astute and perceptive.

The Republicans ARE TO blame for this deviation from civility. They are complicit with the acceptance of these racist into their party/group. The Republicans knowingly welcomed them and used them in their "tea party" hoopla. Beck and Rush whipped up the hate and then they drove themselves to the protest. The Republican good ole boys, mostly from the south, have allowed racist comments, racist art work, racist hatred, and racist slogans(both spoken and printed) to be used in events publicized and organized by them as their tea party. Fox should get their share of the blame, but the Republicans did this on purpose. I'm not saying there is not racist in the Democratic party but at least they are embarrassed somewhat (not enough) and try to hide it. I am also not saying that all tea party protesters are racist. Some of these non racist feel that they have valid concerns. The racist have turned the concerned tea party protester into a joke. The racist should be run out of the Republican party and the tea party.

President Obama does not want to be a socialist. With the deep recession he inherited at it's high point (or low point) we are all lucky the president has keep us out of a depression. If that happened there would be even more government and 20 to 30% unemployment.

Thanks to the author. Excellent job. You may not get fox, but the Republicans are holding a smoking pistol!!! I admire you putting your feelings on display, I learned something from you.

  • 6 votes
#1.9 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:36 PM EDT
Taxinum2wice

Im simply keeping it pure as I see it. Of course some will not like it, but who really likes the truth told to them in their face. Fox is by far the worst cable station on TV and Murdock has not only a lock on the news, but the news paper.

Have you ever noticed that his Newspaper does not lie like his news channel or at least not as often. That is because there are laws against such fuffery.

  • 5 votes
#1.10 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:55 PM EDT
Brandon-801865

I wasn't sure if interviews of the 9/11 TeaBaggers were outtakes from The Springer Show, America Can't Spell, or if they were a Public Service Message on "Why Eating Lead Paint is Dangerous."

  • 3 votes
#1.11 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:12 PM EDT
Taxinum2wice

Or "Aliens Gone Wild", "Invaders of the Universal Whitehouse" or just a modern day Klan Rally.

  • 2 votes
#1.12 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:15 PM EDT
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Taxinum2wice

You know, I thought about that. That would be far better if their viewers did it. They should know they are being talked about on other networks about their educational level and the things they have been lead to believe. People that encouragable and easily influenced are a blight on American society.

  • 5 votes
Reply#2 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:15 PM EDT
GApeach-922415

Their viewers won't do it though. They don't believe the other news networks, because their reporting is far from what Fox has already told them. My question to Fox viewers would be: If Fox is fare and balanced, why is their reporting so different then the other networks? Everyone can't be the "liberal media."

  • 5 votes
#2.1 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:02 PM EDT
Taxinum2wice

I think because it plays to fear and hatred of anyone other than themselves. Like change is a just a buzzword but they know it is enevitable. I think they have a lock on news oulets.

  • 5 votes
#2.2 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:21 PM EDT
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Cornhusker4Palin

Wow, a whole thread about Fox News Channel envy. It seems that one is acting as if their 4 opinion shows is the fox News Channel. They have made it quite clear that the 5PM slot which is game shows and judge judy like time on regular networks and prime time 8-10 PM starting shows are opinion shows, for viewers entertainment, not news shows which run the morning, afternoon and from 6-8pm. With O'Reilly getting over 4 million, Hannity 3.5 million and Beck 3 million this week, the left must be getting bitter that few are watching their programming.

  • 4 votes
Reply#3 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:04 PM EDT
Taxinum2wice

Only silly people who wish Obama was not elected watch Fox. They are mostly racist and undereducated and truly believe everything is bad for everyone without Republican leadership. The ratings may be accurate, but the reporting is usually innacurate and unsubstanciated and wishful and mean thinking. They are not good humans, they are saber rattlelers. They never apologize or correct lies that have been proven lies and the viewers are lazy cowards not to challenge them or demand the truth.

  • 8 votes
#3.1 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:28 PM EDT
DanaR-1273622

It is becoming quite clear that it is the people who are supporting obama, who are the racists.

They attack Fox and Beck, only because they know that Beck and Fox are correct.

  • 4 votes
#3.2 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:38 PM EDT
knight-403465

cornhusker

The reason they get so many viewers is that their audience likes to hear the same old hate over and over and over, so they will remember what it is they believe. I might have voted for McCain because of his military history. But Palin ruined any hope for his winning. She ruined his changes because she spews forth the same common sense of beck that you do. You know the tv schedule so good why don't you turn the tv off and try to learn something. Try a book.

  • 5 votes
#3.3 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 12:10 AM EDT
Taxinum2wice

I did, not only do I read them, I write them. Not political garbage either. Not this crude stuff. The viners are simply bored and they think they are pros. This is simply something to do to pass time and see what people are really thinking about what I hear on all stations.

I want to know if the spirit and hatred that I hear about on television is actually real her at the vine. Surprisingly, I have not. However, I have read some pretty stubborn viewpoints. Nothing I would cry about, somethings I have been enlightened by. The faxt that you voted for may not have been so much a vote for McCain as it was a vote against Obama.

You voted is sacred, you have had the right for longer than me or my kind.

  • 4 votes
#3.4 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 12:40 AM EDT
knight-403465

Taxinum

I was talking to the misguided cornhusker. I hope you didn't think I was telling you to read a book. I was telling the cornhusker to. Good article.

Please see my 1st comment above.

  • 3 votes
#3.5 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 12:48 AM EDT
Taxinum2wice

Thanks, but I did. Believe it or not, I told him the same thing about an hour ago. Great minds think alike.

  • 2 votes
#3.6 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 12:55 AM EDT
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Taxinum2wice

I can tell you watch Fox. You really believe that whites are predjudice against other whites. How silly you and Fox must sound if 12 % of the entire US population in the US is black and only 7% can vote. Where is the logic in this argmunet. That is pure Fox news endoctrination. I think you have been brainwashed. You are a pure Fox stick.

  • 3 votes
Reply#4 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:44 PM EDT
DanaR-1273622

You really cannot tell much of anything.

Your post is founded on racism against whites, cut and dry.

  • 3 votes
#4.1 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:20 PM EDT
MartinEZ

Your post is founded on racism against whites, cut and dry.

Wow, you're nutty.

  • 7 votes
#4.2 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:22 PM EDT
Taxinum2wice

As is Fox News reports and Viewers. That was its purpuse. Only a viewer would recognize it, as I do when I watch the show and see the results played out in public.

  • 3 votes
#4.3 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:23 PM EDT
Conservative Black Woman

Roberta~I followed the link you posted and I read the entire. thread.  It is terribly sad that you and the author are so consumed by race that you view valid and reasonable critcism of President Obama as racist. There was nothing vitriolic in that thread -- if you don't agree with those posters then address the points of contention but you didn't do that (I read you reply as well) you just called called them racist.

To the author Taxinum2wice, because I want the truth and not misinformation can you please tell me what it is that Fox mis-reported, or lied about. I am sincerely interested.

  • 1 vote
#4.4 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:39 AM EDT
Taxinum2wice

The answer is nearling everything. Do your own research. Look us Fox News Debunked and your browser shoud jam up with lies. There is only about 92 pages of lies. Depending on if you only go back the last 2 weeks.

The question should be what have they told the truth about??? Look, I am as wealthy as the next guy, I am ashamed to call myself a conservative. I do not at all agree with what is being conformed now to the conservative stamp.

Fox has made them look like fools and Rush Limbaugh may sooner keel over and die and leave you all lost like the sheep you are. I am ashamed to identify with any party simply because my beliefs range and drive from all of them.

  • 1 vote
#4.5 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:44 PM EDT
EPH289

Look us Fox News Debunked and your browser shoud jam up with lies. There is only about 92 pages of lies. Depending on if you only go back the last 2 weeks.

I did as you suggested. Google returned 160,000 results. Of course only some of those were actually attempts to debunk something Fox had reported. I checked a few of them and as most would surmise they were long on conjecture or opinion and short on facts.

If you type "MSNBC debunked" Google returns 134,000 results.

Fox is a legitimate news organization with a decidedly conservative bias. Your claim that they lie about nearly everything is such a gross exaggeration that it lacks credibility. A claim that Fox misleads at times due to its biases would be more accurate and could be applied to all mass news media.

If you want to go after Fox, a much better way would be to attack specific issues and reports rather than a shotgun approach which is so easily debunked.

  • 1 vote
#4.6 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:57 PM EDT
Cletus Wilbury

CNN, 2,060,000 hits.

All on the first page are about CNN debunking someone else.

    #4.7 - Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:25 PM EDT
    Cletus Wilbury

    EPH289, a specific example:

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/11/census-bureau-severs-ties-acorn/

    quoting a Fox article:"ACORN had previously been tapped to help with low level data gathering."

    That's not true.Everybody collecting data will be a sworn in civil servant. They we 'tapped' to help promote the census, big difference.

    I guess that can be chalked up as a mistake, but I sent them email requesting they retract it.

    from an earlier Fox source.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/17/lawmakers-concerned-role-acorn-census/

    The U.S. Census Bureau has refuted any suggestions that ACORN or any other groups will fraudulently and unduly influence the results of the census.

    "The Census (Bureau) is a nonpartisan, non-political agency and we're very dedicated to an accurate account," bureau spokesman Stephen Buckner told FOXNews.com. "We have a lot of quality controls in place to keep any kind of systemic error or fraudulent behavior to affect the counts."

    Buckner said the bureau received an overwhelming number of qualified applicants -- more than 1 million -- for the 140,000 census taker jobs filled to complete the first phase of the effort. Each applicant, he said, must take a basic skills exam, which includes reading a map and entering data into a handheld computer. Applicants are also subject to an FBI background check, he said.
    ...

      #4.8 - Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:48 PM EDT
      Taxinum2wice

      Olberman tonight to answer Fox News on Coverage of the BS event Fox sponsored.

        #4.9 - Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:02 PM EDT
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        MartinEZ

        "In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an
        assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or
        falsifying the news in the United States.

        "Fox" argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right
        to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves. Fox
        attorneys did not dispute Akre's claim that they pressured her to
        broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to
        do so."

        Yea...

        • 7 votes
        Reply#5 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:46 PM EDT
        Suspiciously

        That is the writer of the article's opinion. Show me the text of the actual case. I don't make my decisions by "opinionated" opinions.

        • 1 vote
        #5.1 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:10 PM EDT
        Taxinum2wice

        Your case information you requested.

        http://ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html

        • 5 votes
        #5.2 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:24 PM EDT
        Darkwood

        Fox has won the right to distort the news. The blackguards at Fox have given up any pretense of ethical journalism and with this case let it be known to the world that they are no more than a propaganda engine. How do the defenders of Fox make this OK within themselves? It is OK with them because they are not looking for the truth, but only for a "news" channel that reinforces their ill founded notions and inherited prejudices.

        • 3 votes
        #5.3 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:48 AM EDT
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        Taxinum2wice

        To my point, they blatantly disregard the truth. Why do other networks not do more to discredit them. Do you have a link to that ruling?

        • 2 votes
        Reply#6 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:51 PM EDT
        Rants-opine

        an audience of misinformed, closed minded and spineless individuals

        small minded, and cowardly tea-bagging individuals who will believe anything

        a much larger group of Budwiser drinking, blue collar, race baiters who barley has a bachelors degree or a long forgotten high school education

        the viewers are the dumbest this country could produce. Not all of them are brain-dead,

        conservative sheep

        In just about every paragraph above, in your post, you've managed to degrade over 50% of the population.

        The is an old saying out there, that is, if a person is uneducated, and do not have facts to debate, will use ridicule, name-calling and profanity to press there points.

        Getting back to what your original intent is, on bashing Fox News, the same thing could be said if you substitute MSNBC in place of Fox News.

        • 2 votes
        Reply#7 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:55 PM EDT
        Taxinum2wice

        http://ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html

        Stay Silly. All 50% of the population that listens to this stuff. Try reading instead of being told what to do and think by a bunch of cut throats. There is no profanity in this article. That to is in your mind. You do not win because someone does not cowtow to your opinion. PERIOD.

        • 4 votes
        #7.1 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:05 PM EDT
        Taxinum2wice

        This article was written because this is I feel and I think it is spoken in the truth and opinion. Just like Fox. How can I be wrong in my living room and they be right in millions of living rooms each night. This is what I think they are. This is how I choose to describe them, " Just Like Fox" Where are you when the same thing is going into living rooms all over America. Where is your freedom of speech flag today? Does fox more of a right to spit vitriol than I?

        • 3 votes
        #7.2 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:18 PM EDT
        Rants-opine

        http://rebeccascritchfield.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/the-price-of-misinformation-in-the-media/

        CBS and Time Magazine do the same thing, as all media outlets do. Fox just had to go to court to defend the freedom of the press. As you have the freedom of speech and mis-information.

        Does fox more of a right to spit vitriol than I?

        You can spit and sputter all you want, why attack all others for listening to Fox, when you listen to to the same spuell from other media sources.

        I happen to watch Rachael Maddow two nights ago, her facial expressions, innuendos and sarcasm did not make me a loyal viewer.

        This is your post, this your opinion, I shared mine.

        Peace.

        • 2 votes
        #7.3 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:52 PM EDT
        Taxinum2wice

        I could care less what anyone watches, I care about the results it breeds. That is when it affects me. When a media outlet, whether it be Maddow or Olberman or Hannity and O'Reilly begin to incite anger and angst against other innocent people it poses a problem.

        At the point an opinion is formed based on allegation and bloviation of facts and lies, people get hurt. It is now the fault of an individual, that individual would watch Fox news. A LOT.

        • 3 votes
        #7.4 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:00 PM EDT
        DanaR-1273622

        Where is your outrage at those on the left inciting violence and disruptions at the townhalls.

        • 1 vote
        #7.5 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:21 PM EDT
        MartinEZ

        Where is your outrage at those on the left inciting violence and disruptions at the townhalls.

        I don't think Dana lives in reality... Another ridiculous and off base assertion.

        All you have to do is watch the townhalls to realize it isn't the left interrupting them.

        • 6 votes
        #7.6 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:27 PM EDT
        Taxinum2wice

        They learned that from Fix News, it is a favorite one they use. Called reflection. What they see in themselves, they put it on somone else because it is intolerable behavior and they know it.

        • 5 votes
        #7.7 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:32 PM EDT
        Cornhusker4Palin

        I could care less what anyone watches, I care about the results it breeds. That is when it affects me. When a media outlet, whether it be Maddow or Olberman or Hannity and O'Reilly begin to incite anger and angst against other innocent people it poses a problem.

        If you could care less, why complain about our choices? Don't you understand that people like you who attack Fox News only make us more determined than before to watch it and defend it because you attack it and us. By the way, none of the outlets named above are a media outlet. They are all pundits sharing their own opinions, and except for Olbermann and Mathews until MSNBC stopped them ever pretended to be journalists or broadcasting objective news.

        At the point an opinion is formed based on allegation and bloviation of facts and lies, people get hurt. It is now the fault of an individual, that individual would watch Fox news. A LOT.

        Who are you to decide which political opinions and commentaries are fact and which are not? Just because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't mean that they lie or have malevolent intentions. The scary thing in all this is that some would try to determine what others can listen to or accuse people of being racists or threatening harm for merely disagreeing.

        • 1 vote
        #7.8 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:32 PM EDT
        Taxinum2wice

        Do this for me Cornhusker. Sit on your rear and eat cheetos and continue to be brainwashed because you made a poor choice as to where you recieve your information. My column proves me right again. You are exactly the person I described. Be more determined than ever to watch Fox. I like that. Because once you find all you once believed to be lies, you too will be lost. even more than you are now.

        • 2 votes
        #7.9 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:37 PM EDT
        MartinEZ

        With all due respect, and not much is due, your name implies you are a Palin fan...

        Enough said.

        • 2 votes
        #7.10 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:37 PM EDT
        Taxinum2wice

        I only Tax the rich. They deserve to be taxed. Twice. As for respect, I do not need it, I have their money.

        • 2 votes
        #7.11 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:42 PM EDT
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        TopJedi

        You can call Fox and their viewers a lot of names. Uninformed is not the right word.

        Uninformed... made Van Jones resign. Uninformed... got ACORN fully defunded by the Federal Government... Uninformed is scaring the crap out of a liberal media that is too busy sailing in Montauk to know that US Senators held a special vote and voted 83-7 to defund ACORN.

        Hate baiting these Americans by calling them uninformed, dumb, cowards, is exactly what intensifies the very thing liberals are most afraid of. You may want to reconsider your approach lest you look as insufferable and arrogant as those you accuse.

        • 2 votes
        Reply#8 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:13 PM EDT
        Roberta-349289

        My my....you don't take too well to the shoe being on the other foot. Tsk, tsk....

        Uninformed? Probably very informed about real and imagined doings of the left. Completely and utterly uninformed about the very real doings of the right. How people could say the things they do about Obama after less than a year in office and ignore the extensive damage the Bush administration did to this country only illustrates that Fox News only informs within a very narrow scope. I see you do not share the same self-righteous indignation about the corruption and abuse by Halliburton and its subsidiaries that went on for years and continues to this day that you hold for ACORN. There's a very good reason for that. Your information is extremely narrow because you only get it from one source. If ignorance is bliss, no thanks - I'd rather be sober and AWAKE.

        • 4 votes
        #8.1 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:47 PM EDT
        TopJedi

        How people could say the things they do about Obama after less than a year in office and ignore the extensive damage the Bush administration did to this country

        Bush suffered some of the lowest approval ratings of any President and could have in no way been re-elected. You should recognize that fact from the American people - I did.

        Obama has already suffered the fastest recorded drop in approval ratings in Presidential history -- Obama should be more careful not to "inherit" so much from Bush. You should recognize that fact from the American people - I did.

        • 1 vote
        #8.2 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:36 PM EDT
        Roberta-349289

        Bush was elected twice, fairly or unfairly. The 22nd Amendment of the Constitution indicates that third terms are not permitted, so your argument about Bush not being re-elected a third time is moot.

        Unlike Bush, Obama didn't have a 9/11 tragedy to boost his first year's poor standing in the polls. Subsequent and relentless terror alerts and warnings about Saddam aiming chemical weapons at our coasts and instructing us on how to make safe rooms (which turns out were all LIES to keep the American people in line with the Iraq invasion) all kept Americans on point. It's easy to get the country behind you when you're being frightened out of your wits that big bad Saddam is going to get you or the terror alert color of the day is red. Bush's ratings prior to all of that were pretty pathetic, so once again your argument is ridiculous but I know you'll grab whatever you can to justify your completely exaggerated and disproportionate hatred of a president who has barely begun, but so be it. Unless you think Obama should start those terror alerts up again? Maybe you don't mind your emotions being relentlessly manipulated by your government for political advantage but those who voted for Obama did and we will not forget, whether you choose to or not.

        • 4 votes
        #8.3 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:21 AM EDT
        Taxinum2wice

        Who cares aboyt approval ratings. Watch the numbers in 6 mos or a year. I bet when all is good. you will still not vote for him. There are 300 million people here an 50million voters. The numbers are about equal to the ones that voted for change. the rest are the Glen Becks of society. Who cares what they think now. Lets wait till then.

        • 1 vote
        #8.4 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:44 AM EDT
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        Suspiciously

        Taxinum2wice...#7.4

        At the point an opinion is formed based on allegation and bloviation of facts and lies, people get hurt. It is now the fault of an individual, that individual would watch Fox news. A LOT.

        Funny you should mention this...that is exactly how I view you and your friends as doing on this and all of your posts...allegations, bloviation of facts and lies...add to that, name calling, arrogance, assumptions...really, keep it up because you and your friends will soon find yourselves talking to each other! As I for one, am not coming back to your seeds. In fact I'm putting you on IGNORE. You are not worth my time.

        No one with any intelligence would contribute to your dribble.

        • 1 vote
        Reply#9 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:21 PM EDT
        Roberta-349289

        "No one with any intelligence would contribute to your dribble."

        Excuse me, but....you just DID.

        • 4 votes
        #9.1 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:58 PM EDT
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        EPH289

        I watched it for months, and I had to actually record Fox News just so I can count the number of mispellings in the ticker tape on the bottom of the screen. Would'nt you think if the viewers actually took time to read, they would have done something, anything, even just turn the station. I counted 22 spelling errors in a 3 hour time period. If they cannot spell, how can they research or even report.

        Someone this critical of others spelling may want to check their own (note two errors in this quoted section). Perhaps checking capitalization rules, proper grammar, etc. might also be in order.

        I kept looking for the "satire" tag knowing that this couldn't be a real article; it is much to absurd.

        • 2 votes
        Reply#10 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:47 PM EDT
        Taxinum2wice

        Oh, so know I know I was correct in stating that Fox cannot spell, especially if I spell the same way. LOL I was so in a hurry to tell the scumbags that listen to Fox News what I really thought of them, I just could not wait.

        • 4 votes
        Reply#11 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:55 PM EDT
        Cornhusker4Palin

        And I couldn't wait to tell you that the more you attack Fox News the more we defend it. Your scribe work changes no minds, it only intensifies our support for and defense of Fox News. We watch Fox news not only because you do not like it being there, we watch it because we know that you do not like it and we watch it and tell every one we watch it just to instigate the likes of you because by watching it we can express the true contempt we share for people who act about it as you do. Just thought that you'd like to know!

        • 1 vote
        #11.1 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:38 PM EDT
        Roberta-349289

        Oh you don't have to tell us. We are well aware that Fox News watchers have contempt for every living person who doesn't believe that Beck's and O'Reilley's and Rush's words are gospel. Nice little victim speech, though. You accuse others of attacking, when you attack with reckless abandon every chance you get. But when did hypocrisy ever get in the way of a Fox viewer? Cry me a river.

        • 4 votes
        #11.2 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:52 PM EDT
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        southwest Page

        I don't know they seem to have Obama figured out. They know he's the worst thing to ever happen to this country.

          Reply#12 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:34 PM EDT
          Roberta-349289

          EVER? You make that claim based on less than a year in office? Fox "News" channel has done it's work. You and your fellow Fox-fed groupies keep drinking the paranoia KoolAid.....seems to be the only thing that gives you meaning in life since that's all you appear capable of dwelling on.

          • 4 votes
          #12.1 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:56 PM EDT
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          LukeNY

          Fox News is to news, what Kentucky Fried Chicken is to chicken. It's also just as hard to swallow.

          DanaR thinks Palin scores "political victories" with comments on twitter/facebook.

          DanaR thinks there were 1 million people at the 9/12 protests.

          DanaR may or may not be Glenn Beck.

          • 3 votes
          Reply#13 - Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:52 PM EDT
          knight-403465

          taxinum

          I think some of the comments here have proved that hate is alive and well. Their comments proved the exact point they are arguing against.

          I thought if you wanted to argue a point you were supposed to not prove the opposite. If you are trying to prove someone wrong why would you actually prove him right??? Your own worst enemy.

          I think this might apply to an article on newsvine "Are Bin-laden Cronies Posting Comments on Newsvine? Maybe these up front, in your face, unapologetic, and rude racist are not real. Maybe they are from Iran or Pakistan. Many went to school here and know English. These comments could be from a terrorist or some Muslim trying to spread hate and divide the American people. How do we know who they are they just call names. They really argue no points except that they are not racist. They seem to want to make you mad. They could be in China or Russia for all we know. Just IGNORE them.

          Oh, anthropologist believe that every human being on earth has mixed blood in their veins. The say all humans started originally in Africa.

          That's right! We All have mixed blood. So yes you racist, you too have black blood in your veins, even stronger if your great grandfather visited the slave females. If you are smart you would drain all your blood out very soon. That's what glenn would tell you to do. How's them apples.

          • 2 votes
          #13.1 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:26 AM EDT
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          sheaster

          I don't watch Fox news, but I remember my 73 year-old father coming to my hotel room to greet me on a visit to his town a few years ago. I had just turned the TV on, and it happened to be Fox news. My father gave me a hug and promptly said, "Listen, you have to change that RIGHT now! You're not watching Fox news, are you? I can't stay in here if you have it on." Yep, my old man knew the score! I assured him that I had not lost my mind and turned the TV to some horrible soap opera- he breathed a sigh of relief.

          I know a few Fox news fans. Here's what they have in common: FEAR. I almost feel sorry for them. These are not evil people- but they ARE very, very afraid. Afraid of losing what they have, afraid of not getting back what they might have lost, afraid of things they don't understand, afraid of those who don't look and act like them, afraid of change, afraid of the future, afraid of damn near everything.

          Fox news comforts them by telling them they SHOULD be afraid- weird, huh? I guess it feels better to be right and terrified than to be wrong and have to look in the mirror and say, "It's just ME. I'm sick to my stomach every day and it's all in MY head."

          The only thing scarier than thinking the world's gone mad is thinking YOU'VE gone mad.

          • 4 votes
          Reply#14 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:08 AM EDT
          Taxinum2wice

          Your old man is a old enough to know that he is being lied too. Most current Fox news fans are sheep and never give credit where it is due.

          • 2 votes
          #14.1 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:47 AM EDT
          Cletus Wilbury

          "Fear is the mind killer"

          • 1 vote
          #14.2 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 11:27 AM EDT
          knight-403465

          sheaster

          Excellent observation. You convinced me. Fear!!! How do we approach the limiting of fear.

            #14.3 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 12:45 PM EDT
            redsfan

            sheaster - your story about your father is a good one, and it reminds me of a story about my uncle....

            A couple of years ago, my 91-year-old uncle (veteran of WWII - heroic story of his time in France after D-Day...off-topic though) was literally in his death-bed at his niece's house...very sick...pretty much waiting to die. There were three of us around his bed, spending time with him though he was sleeping most of the time. He woke up and looked around and became very agitated, pointing across the room and saying something we couldn't understand...we kept asking him and finally understood that he was saying "Get him off there!!!". We looked around and saw the TV was on and President Bush was giving a speech on the TV...my uncle kept saying "Get him off there!" until we turned off the TV...then he calmed down and said "Thanks...Can't stand that man!" and went back to sleep. Funniest thing ever!

            • 3 votes
            #14.4 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:12 PM EDT
            sheaster

            Our world is like a big amusement park ride. Some of us have our hands in the air, laughing and excited and optimistic that it's gonna' be a little scary and totally worth it.

            Others can't get past the fear- they walk thru the entrance thinking about all the things that could go wrong, remembering every story about how it actually DID at one time or another. They look at the happy ones and think, "They should put their HANDS on the bar- don't they know?" They suffer the ride and are happy when it's over. Upon exiting, they look until they find the ONE person who THREW UP and think, "See? It's not just ME!"

            Fox News is the guy who threw up.

            • 3 votes
            #14.5 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:54 PM EDT
            Taxinum2wice

            Very good analogy and thought provoking, yet directy to the point.

              #14.6 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:32 PM EDT
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              Ditto

              Blah blah blah racism. Blah blah blah socialism. Blah blah blah communist. Blah blah blah death panels. Blah blah blah blah blah blah Obama will take your guns away.

              Look at me mom, I'm a fox news anchor.

              • 3 votes
              Reply#15 - Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:43 AM EDT
              Betty-1359472

              "The Fox News Agency is the most inaccurate reporting agency of any network in history."

              Any proof?

              "Fox News constantly gets called on the carpet by every other News organization."

              Like who?

              "They have contributed to so many deaths and volitile situations that it should be sanctioned by by the FCC."

              Really? When? Where?

              "I had to actually record Fox News just so I can count the number of mispellings in the ticker tape on the bottom of the screen."

              Too funny! You spend your time recording Fox news so you can count the misspellings in their ticker? Oh my gosh, what a riot! You criticize, yet you back up nothing you say. You make assumptions about the character of people you don't know - how silly! That's exactly what the likes of MSNBC and the other so-called media outlets do.

              As for being racists, I got a link to this post from the Conservative Black Woman blog. Some people can think for themselves rather than letting the Democratic Party (the party of the KKK) do their thinking for them for the promise of some pie-in-the-sky.

                Reply#16 - Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:07 PM EDT
                Cornhusker4Palin

                Total Viewers: (L +SD)

                Total day: FNC: 1647 | CNN: 582 | MSNBC: 408 | HLN: 367

                Prime: FNC: 2792 | CNN: 794 | MSNBC: 857 | HLN: 609 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:

                FNC Beck: Baier: Shep: O'Reilly: Hannity: Greta: O'Reilly: 2701 2281 1887 3487 2559 2317 1652

                CNN Blitzer: Blitzer: Dobbs: Brown: King: Cooper: Cooper: 707 553 692 869 834 678 510

                MSNBC Matthews: EdShow: Matthews: Olbermann: Maddow: Olbermann: Maddow: 451 439 585 1061 933 576 435

                HLN Prime: Prime: Issues: Grace: Issues: Grace: Showbiz: 294 327 458 875 607 396 398

                Notice how Beck gets nearly twice as many viewers as all the other three combined. O"Reilly gets more than all three others combined and has over 800,000 more on top of that. Hannity gets 200,000 more than all three put together. The Fox News channel gets over 40,000,000 viewers daily. Keep on complaining about it and us who watch it, though as that just steels our resolve to support it. I have no interest in containing any of their opinion show hosts. My preference as a viewer is to promote and support them, pressing for more, using articles such as the above that this responds to as proof of their success. The more calls from the left to censor or curtail the Fox News Channel, the better of a job to me they are doing. I take a thread like what is here as proof of Fox's success and the more there is stuff like this, the more they should program in your face programming if for no other reason than to make the left mad.

                • 1 vote
                Reply#17 - Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:02 PM EDT
                Cletus Wilbury

                Even O'Reilly thinks Beck has gone off the deep end.

                http://globalwarming.change.org/blog/view/van_jones_aftermath_oreilly_tells_beck_that_communism_is_dead

                  #17.1 - Sun Sep 27, 2009 10:40 AM EDT
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                  Cornhusker4Palin

                  What? You mean there's no one single opinion being repeated over and over again on Fox? Oh, the humanity of it all! I have seen hosts like O'Reilly, Cavuto, Geraldo, Hannity, and Van Sustern disagree on issues in addition to Beck like you mentioned. I am not sure communism will ever be completely dead as long as socialism is alive. I also know that there are more liberal pundits and contributors on Fox than there are conservatives in those positions on all the other networks put together.

                    Reply#18 - Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:12 PM EDT
                    Cletus Wilbury

                    Cornhusker - ". I am not sure communism will ever be completely dead as long as socialism is alive. "

                    Irrational fear of anything resembling socialism is the basis for much of the nonsense coming from Hannity & Beck especially.

                    The most important functions for any society are water & sewage. Appropriately, those functions are provided by government. Few would call that socialism.

                    I see the current debate about a government option in health care as similar to that of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

                    Opposition to TVA

                    The strongest opposition to TVA came from power companies, who resented the cheaper energy available through TVA and saw it as a threat to private development. They charged that the federal government's involvement in the power business was unconstitutional.
                    ...
                    In February 1936 the Supreme Court ruled that TVA had the authority to generate power at Wilson Dam, to sell the electricity, and to distribute that electricity. In 1939 the Court upheld the constitutionality of the TVA Act.

                    Having a government run competitor is an advantage as the public then has a yardstick of what the real costs are in markets that don't lend themselves to competition. (like electricity in that case)

                    Hearings on the Allocation of Antitrust Enforcement Between the States and the Federal Government

                    ...
                    Having competition among diverse enforcement institutions can provide a yardstick for
                    comparing the results produced by different professional enforcement agencies.
                    ....
                    A regulatory example of the yardstick function was the use of the Tennessee Valley
                    Authority's electricity rates to measure the efficiency and pricing of private electric power companies regulated by state and federal agencies. See 2 Alfred E. Kahn, The Economics of Regulation: Principles and Institutions 104-05 (1971)

                      #18.1 - Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:39 PM EDT
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