An awesome comment about Fox News..

[Playinghardball]

[samsingh]

1. true words elegantly spoken

fox news is garbage and in my opinion treasonous.

[xxqqqzme]

2. Then can we please stop calling it

N E W S

Fox Hype
Fox Lies
Fox Prop(aganda)
Fox Fraud......maybe but not news!

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Hence 'Faux News'.

[DLnyc]

20. Faux Snooze?

Opiate of the mindless.

[Tigress DEM]

41. "Faux" aka "Fake" News I think skewers it best.

It's the distraction portion of the sleight of hand while the Rethugs keep picking our pockets and filling our airwaves with BS and Fearmongering.

[Heathen57]

23. I prefer Fox Noise

the one that Keith Olbermann always used.

Makes sense to me since I find what they say nothing but white noise, something to be ignored in content.

[calimary]

29. Pox Noise. Or Faux News. Or Fox "News."

[SCVDem]

4. Now who can argue with that? nt

[amuse bouche]

5. Love Dawkins but

he should finish that thought. ...pure propaganda geared to an audience of ignorant fools...just like religion

[defacto7]

26. OK!

Hey, I just realized... Fox News IS a religion!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

32. Fux Spewz.....

Hmmmm, I hadn't thought of it that way, that. ux is a religion.

Seriously, I wonder about what kind of people like that crap, and I think of some specific people I've known. They were all also christian...the kind that tend to use their religion as a battering ram, as blinders to the big wide world, as something to boast about.

They seem to have the same attitude about Fux. Hmmmmmmmmmm

[Helen Reddy]

46. Blanche, a question.

I have been wanting to know if that is a Pom lovin' on you. Aren't they something? I have a mostly black and tan male Pom who has epilepsy. He is a real friend.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

54. HiHelen----Yep!!! That's my Shrimpy. She's not a DOG, though.

She's a tiny furry princess!!

She weighs 5 lbs.

You should post some pics of your baby!

<---not my vid, just some cuteness

[Helen Reddy]

55. Sugary sickeningly adorable!

My 'petite prince' weighs nearly 11 pounds!

I know, I know.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

58. Sugary sickeningly adorable.....

and we LIKE it that way!!!!!

[RVN VET]

51. Thats another argument altogether

But it's one Dawkins would have -- and has had -- a lot of fun with.

Still, I question your tarring of all people who adhere to religious beliefs as ignorant. There are fanatics, of course, and many "believers" who excuse or ignore the fanatics in their midst. But many are not fanatic about their faith, and a few are even saints, who understand the crud at the base of organized religion but choose to follow its higher-order precepts of compassion and love.

(I'm not an adherent to any religion, organized or otherwise, so I'm not grinding an axe of faith here.)

[amuse bouche]

56. Religion is all a fraud, where

bigots got to rationalize their hatred of others and criminals (pedophiles) go to practice their craft and seek safe haven


Those defending religion, are protecting this scum. Period.

[Initech]

6. Fox News: find something about America you don't like?

Just link it to Hitler and you're a guaranteed Tea Party patriot for life!

[oldbanjo]

7. Very true.

[The Wizard]

8. Dedicated to

making slavery a traditional value. As soon as I detect Pox talking points in a conversation I arbitrarily end the conversation by stating I don't talk to people who watch Pox.

[MynameisBlarney]

9. Heh

I usually start laughing. Then tell them to continue and not to mind me as I laugh at their ridiculous bullshit.

[The Wizard]

11. I like

pointing and laughing.

[dsharp88]

10. Fox is to actual news what professional wrestling is to actual sports.

In its best light it's fake nonsense most entertainingly mocked by its audience. Unfortunately, there are vacant minds who still believe it's real.

[rhett o rick]

12. OMG, not pro wrestling? First Fox now pro wrestling, next you'll tell me Beyonce

lip sync'ed at the inauguration. Oh the huge-manatee.

[MannyGoldstein]

13. And our job is to educate those ignorant fools.

Hmmm...

[Boomerproud]

14. No, it's not.

I assume that's what you are saying. You are correct if that's your point.

[ok_cpu]

15. Faux was on in the background at the restaurant I ate lunch at today

They were going on about Arne Duncan and the talking head actually said something to the effect of:

"And this isn't just Fox news being Fox news, this really is bad for the administration."

Thought that was pretty telling.

[Auntie Bush]

18. I would have told them to turn it off or I wouldn't eat there...but yes...that was telling! nt

[DLnyc]

21. Yes, I've complained in airports several times.

Usually the response has been "Yeah, we hate it too!"

Now I see this bullshit less often in airports, it seems to me. Don't know if those two are connected. Could be, though.

Seems like they've toned it down to CNN in a lot of airports. Which is almost as bad, but lately I'm too exhausted to complain. Should do, though. I think I will do, next time.

I do feel that someone somewhere must be paying someone to pipe this crap into the huge captive audience in airports. Plus I suspect that's how faux snooze pumps up their suspicious viewership numbers (which are falling anyway, I believe).

[caledesi]

47. Yes there is a discount for establishments to keep the new TV set to fox

FAUX is NOT news. They are registered with the FCC as entertainment!

LINK: daily kos.

Boycott Fox News in Public-Private Spaces

Last week I was browsing in a large magazine store at a commuter train station. It occupies a large semi-open air space where commuters naturally pass through. I had grabbed several magazines from the shelves and was standing in the checkout line, when I looked up. Overhead there were several television all set to Faux News.

I asked to speak to the manager on duty. I politely registered a complaint that the store was in effect making a political choice by setting the channels of the televisions they controlled in their store to the rabidly one-sided biased Faux News. He smiled and said he had heard this before, but had been told by his boss to keep it on Fox. I told him, this time in a loud but polite voice that everybody else could hear, that every other store and newsstand had the same magazines. There was nothing unique about what his bosses' store carried, and that I would take my business elsewhere BECAUSE of their choice to play Fox News. I made a big deal of putting the magazines down and left. There were a few cheers as I left!

The next day, I wandered back in. They were playing CNN Headline News.
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His BOSS told him...LOL!

(have advanced MS...took me almost an hour with on-screen keyboard ...not real coordinated...but "Elvis is still in the building"...bit of gallows humor..,if you don't laugh, you'll cry)


edit: Everything and Anything.

[DLnyc]

53. Thank you, well done!!!

The more people speak up, the more things can change.

Good on you for setting the example!!

[nightscanner59]

25. Please report all public brainwashing sites at http://www.turnofffox.org/

http://www.turnofffox.org/

[dougolat]

36. Good, thanks for that link. ...nt

[NewJeffCT]

16. Didn't a group of moderate Republicans procure a study

of Fox News viewers that found that Fox-heads had, on average, an IQ lower by 20 points.

[Doc Holliday]

22. I don't need

a study to tell me that. All I have to do is just talk with my co-workers.

[Marie Marie]

28. Only 20?

[mwb970]

37. Fox "News" is the opposite of a school.

It sucks information OUT of your head and substitutes lies and feathers.

[Whisp]

17. Don't have to wonder what those fools will think of Fox's false reporting on Chavez. n/t

[Towlie]

19. But that's not strictly true. Fox is actually more subtle than that.

The honest truth is that Fox News isn't really "not news at all", nor is it "pure propaganda"; that would be too obvious. What they do is present enough real, generally non-political news to maintain the illusion (among their gullible viewers) of being a "fair and balanced" news station, while interlacing as much right-wing propaganda as they can get away with.

[AlbertCat]

49. They are the birthplace of the Logical Fallacy

Even when "reporting" real news, it's like "When did you stop beating your wife?" or "Some people say....."

It's really pitiful in a way, because I only had an introductory course in "Symbolic Logic" in high school (in 1976!) and I can recognize the fallacies presented rapid fire. Anyone who knows a smidgen about manipulation can clearly see it.

[rocktivity]

24. Fox News is NOT geared to an audience of ignorant fools

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It's geared to an audience of foolish ignoramuses!


rocktivity

[defacto7]

27. Fox news is entertainment gone mad.

Entertainment wrapped up in dogma and clothed in a myth.

whoa, say that 5 times fast....

clothed in a myth
clothed in a myth
clothed in a myth
clothed in a myth
clothed in a myth

[BDavinciNY]

30. Amen Brother!

Even 'tho Richard Dawkins is an atheist his quote on FAUX NEWS is very correct! He should add RW talk radio to that!

[AlbertCat]

50. Even 'tho Richard Dawkins is an atheist ...

What does that have to do with anything?
Are atheists all incorrect liars now? How big of him to reveal a truth. I guess he's back to his old nefarious atheist tricks by now tho'.


Even 'tho Richard Dawkins is a Brit...
Even 'tho Richard Dawkins is a black man.....
Even 'tho Richard Dawkins is a Muslim....
Even 'tho Richard Dawkins is an illegal alien....
Even 'tho Richard Dawkins is a homosexual.....

[BDavinciNY]

59. And your point is what exactly?

My point was was to agree what Richard Dawkins was saying about FAUX News. The fact that I may disagree on his viewpoints on about religion and his atheism is immaterial to the topic at hand or him being an incorrect liar. My statement. You might not like how I said my statement but it shows that people with two different viewpoints on one topic can both agree on something that they do not like on another. P.S. I am a Black man who is not that very religious.

[AlbertCat]

60. The fact that I may disagree on his viewpoints on about religion

"even though"

The fact that you may disagree on his viewpoints on about religion .... need not even be mentioned.

[LittleGirl]

31. how about "Fox Spews" nt

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

33. Fox News is very, very good at what it does. I know a few people who ought to be too smart to beleve

the lies, especially as they often contradict themselves (on FoxNoise), but they are people who like drama. That's the only thing I can think of to explain their failure to reject tha crap.

[Amonester]

34. And to make million$ in profit$ for doing so.

And for who?


Well said.

Spread around.

[AverageJoe90]

35. Dawkins hit the nail SQUARELY on the head with that one, fellas. n/t

[nxylas]

38. I don't see what's so "awesome" about it

To me, it's just a statement of the bleeding obvious.

[KharmaTrain]

39. It's Propaganda...

...when there's no other sources of information. Faux viewers do so no only willingly but with much enthusiasm. They can be told or shown facts and they will ignore them so they can continue to believe the lies they're being fed. While a noisy minority, they're a small one and growing smaller every time an EMT van heads to the Villages.

We're witnessing a unique dumbing down...one that has been accepted by a segment of this country that has infected the rushpublican party but by no means ALL Americans. Au contrare...last election showed how limited and ineffective the faux noise "propaganda" machine really is. This is traditional "yellow journalism" done with bubble-headed bleached blondes and fancy graphics...

[angry citizen]

40. terrorist organization

I have lately viewed Fox News as a terrorist organization conspiring to destroy the POTUS.

[Maineman]

45. Also conspiring to destroy civilized discourse, an informed citizenry, and a functional government.

They are an enemy of a well functioning democracy. They should leave here and set up shop in North Korea. They need to work their magic on the government and the people of North Korean.

[Quantess]

42. is that a photo of Richard Dawkins?

[PrMaine]

43. But FOX is Fair and Balanced!

At least that is what they tell their audience.

For myself I've studiously avoided watching FOX since 2000. Up until then I thought they were fair (if only by their own standards) even if clearly unbalanced. However, in 2000 I learned this was clearly not true - that they were in fact quite consciously and intentionally unfair.

I was watching a panel discussion on FOX (my mother-in-law had it on) and one panelist seemed as though he might be preparing to say something that would suggest unfairness in that Florida vote-count that then favored Bush. Suddenly - in mid-sentence - FOX switched to a commercial and when the commercial was done, the panelist in question was simply gone from the set and without any explanation or even recognition of that fact; apparently the assumption was that audience attention span and memory was so short-lived that no one would notice.

[marble falls]

44. Fox is to news reporting what the WWF is to professional sports.

[chervilant]

48. Ignorant, GULLIBLE fools ...

And, there's no excuse for willful ignorance.

[think]

52. The most egregious thing about a "news" syndicate lying is

that it is all perfectly legal.......

[Zax2me]

57. Not exactly a shocking comment coming from aattp.org

The entire website is an anti-fox news rant.
What we need is America to turn the channel.
And that includes in restaurants, bars, auto shop waiting rooms...