"I'm A Conservative And I Don't Watch Fox Anymore"

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http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=8230

I'm A Conservative And I Don't Watch Fox Anymore

Today Geraldo Rivera appeared on my screen, with tousled hair, stern countenance, mock outrage on full display, standing among some dejected New Orleans Hurricane survivors and I realized it was enough for me. I turned the TV off and have not gone back to it.
It wasn't just Geraldo, of course. It has been coming for some time. This newest disaster to hit the American people is just the catalyst for my disdain for TV "news". It was the final straw that broke my TV habit.

We have all seen the complaints of the coverage of news with the 24-hour cable stations pursuing that all-important story, the one we are all just dying to hear about... over and over and over again. We have heard the complaints about how those news stations beat a story to death with such relentless, constant coverage that even the news anchors find they have nothing left to say and stumble over their words trying desperately to utter anything intelligible. You will now have to count me in among that camp.

Oh, I resisted. I wanted to stay a loyal Fox News junkie. But they have beaten me into submission. Sure, when Fox fist came on I was enamored by the style, elated by the caliber of commentators and excited by the ... well, the excitement of it all. I was so happy that at last we had some people on TV with which I agreed. I was also interested to see that their news services were free of the bias I was so sick of from the big three network news casts.

But, now I have lost my compulsion to watch. And it was a category 5 storm that wiped out my cable news TV habit.

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And this hurricane coverage was just the worst. The TV people were so interested in covering the looting that it not only acted as a catalyst for more looting but it took time away from all the many, many thousands of people who were acting like civilized people. Not to mention the ones who were doing truly heroic rescue work. So, as a result we have by turns given the rest of the world ample proof that Americans are savages. We have led people to feel that New Orleans' blacks should be excused for rampaging and murder and rape sprees because they are "poor". And TV has given those disposed the chance to claim that the Federal government is all at fault even though the bulk of first response falls upon any given state in an emergency.

[texpatriot2004]

1. Good for you, glad to hear it...TRULY, welcome to the informed

WARNING: Step away from Fox News it is hazardous to your brain and our Democracy!

[MADem]

3. Read the whole thing, he thinks they aren't covering HIS politics enough

[MADem]

2. He's just mad because they aren't quite as far to the right of Attila the

Hun as they USED to be. Well, there's always the 700 Club!!!

What a whiny putz. Stupid, too--Rupert Murdoch does not give a shit one way or another, he is like WATER to POWER. He will flow to power and make as much money as he possibly can, and will smile all the way to the bank. If this country had a taste for politicians who ate babies for breakfast, Fox and Friends would have a cooking segment showing artful ways to prepare them.

You aren't going to find any soul in people who don't have one themselves! What a nitwit!

[EC]

4. I notice that Republicans are more concerned with

HOW THIS HURRICANE MADE AMERICA LOOK rather than even care about the people and death it caused. Even the ones criticizing how it was handled are more concerned about appearances....




(These are the same people that when their daughters turn up pregnant are more concerned with what the neighbors will say..........)

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Exactly

Why else do you think they're going about the "blame game" nonsense? They could give a rats ass about anyone but themselves and their image. Again, the only thing these people care about is the PR and making money.