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Thursday 10-22-2009 12:14pm PT
I want to say a few things about Fox News and how they are reporting the war. Not the war in Iraq, or the war in Afghanistan? the war in their heads. If you haven?t been watching (and I hope for your sake that you haven?t been) Fox News is going crazy insisting that President Obama is conducting a "war on Fox News." Premium Link Upgrade Here?s a dispatch from Earth to Fox News: There is no Obama administration "war on Fox News," guys. Just because someone is telling the truth doesn't mean they're at war with you. It just means they're at odds with you. OK, actually, Fox News is not just at odds with Obama, they're at odds with reality. There is no difference between 'opinion' shows on Fox and the news on Fox. They're both all opinion and no news. I guess that's a blessing, because their opinions are all wrong. I assume any news they gave would be wrong as well. Anyone relying on Fox News for their information will have no idea what is going on in the real world. You would be better off getting your news from the Cartoon Network. At least "Scooby Doo, Where Are You" occasionally intersects with reality. Everything on Fox News is fake. Fox News is to journalism what professional wrestling is to athletics.
Give Fox News credit: they went out and got a legal opinion justifying their actions? and they didn't even have to go to John Yoo to do it. They actually got it from a court. Back in 2003, Fox News got Florida appeals court to rule that it is technically not against any law, rule, or regulation to deliberately lie on a television broadcast. Premium Link Upgrade The attorneys for Fox argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves. Fox News isn't content with getting it wrong, they wanted permission to intentionally make it wrong. And they got it. Of course, the right to lie applies to any news organization, but none of them seem to have zealously used it like Fox News has. Fox News stretches and ****** the First Amendment the same way Fox News viewers stretch and ***** the Second Amendment. And now they've applied their license to lie to a campaign of lies about themselves. Fox says they're item #1 on an Obama White House 'enemies list' like Richard Nixon had. One big difference: Richard Nixon had an enemies list because he was a delusional paranoid. Fox News thinks that Barack Obama has an enemies list because THEY are delusional paranoids.
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Thursday 10-22-2009 12:14pm PT
I want to say a few things about Fox News and how they are reporting the war. Not the war in Iraq, or the war in Afghanistan? the war in their heads. If you haven?t been watching (and I hope for your sake that you haven?t been) Fox News is going crazy insisting that President Obama is conducting a "war on Fox News." Premium Link Upgrade Here?s a dispatch from Earth to Fox News: There is no Obama administration "war on Fox News," guys. Just because someone is telling the truth doesn't mean they're at war with you. It just means they're at odds with you. OK, actually, Fox News is not just at odds with Obama, they're at odds with reality. There is no difference between 'opinion' shows on Fox and the news on Fox. They're both all opinion and no news. I guess that's a blessing, because their opinions are all wrong. I assume any news they gave would be wrong as well. Anyone relying on Fox News for their information will have no idea what is going on in the real world. You would be better off getting your news from the Cartoon Network. At least "Scooby Doo, Where Are You" occasionally intersects with reality. Everything on Fox News is fake. Fox News is to journalism what professional wrestling is to athletics.
Give Fox News credit: they went out and got a legal opinion justifying their actions? and they didn't even have to go to John Yoo to do it. They actually got it from a court. Back in 2003, Fox News got Florida appeals court to rule that it is technically not against any law, rule, or regulation to deliberately lie on a television broadcast. Premium Link Upgrade The attorneys for Fox argued the First Amendment gives broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on the public airwaves. Fox News isn't content with getting it wrong, they wanted permission to intentionally make it wrong. And they got it. Of course, the right to lie applies to any news organization, but none of them seem to have zealously used it like Fox News has. Fox News stretches and ****** the First Amendment the same way Fox News viewers stretch and ***** the Second Amendment. And now they've applied their license to lie to a campaign of lies about themselves. Fox says they're item #1 on an Obama White House 'enemies list' like Richard Nixon had. One big difference: Richard Nixon had an enemies list because he was a delusional paranoid. Fox News thinks that Barack Obama has an enemies list because THEY are delusional paranoids.
