Comments on: Late Nite FDL: We’re Not Your Fucking Monkeys

By: Pontifex

Pontifex — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:04:03 +0000

I think a very effective rhetorical tactic would be to start referring to Fox as “the Fox channel.” This does several things:

1. It calls attention to the fact that Fox is a propaganda outlet, not a news organization.

2. It’s technically correct, which makes it hard to criticize as a name-calling tactic.

3. It will drive people at Fox batty.

4. It will drive Republicans batty.

By: Roll Me Over

Roll Me Over — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:01:35 +0000

Wow! That Crossfire clip is amazing. I am madly emailing the link to everyone I know.

Thank you so much.

By: vox

vox — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:27:53 +0000

Civility, please, and respect: “You’re too smart to be watching Fox News. Fox News is for inbred toothless hillbillies scratching at their crabs.”

By: kirk murphy

kirk murphy — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:12:03 +0000

LibertyLee @
389

Fox News gets its audience because many Americans believe CNN or MSNBC do not give Republicans a fair shake. It’s ratings, compared to the other cable news outlooks, should point out that a number of people think Fox News is Correct in that assumption.

Millions of Germans believed the big lie that Poland had attacked Germany in 1939. And they still believed it when Russian artillery began to pulverize Berlin in 1945.

Faux’ rating share is approximately equal to the percentage of Americans who believe:

the moon landings were a hoax…

the Earth is merely thousands of years old…

fossils were placed by thy almighty to confuse impious mortals…

and the UN/New World Order launch “black helicopters” over the US.

The despicable Spiro Agnew was the most prominent mouthpeace for the Rethug’s big lie re “Liberal” media.

Those notorious liberals GE, Sumner Redstone, and Rupert Murdoch, and Lord Black.

Uh huh.

Sure.

I have pity on the millions of Amercians deluded into watching FOX. So many Christians blindly led to accept torture, pre-emptive murder, and wars of aggression.

I don’t blame most of FOX’s audience for their ignorance.

Our schools hollowed out by the Rethugs’ decades long assault on public education, further battered by the Rethugs’ assault on middle class incomes, most Americans have never heard of media literacy, much less the Treaty of Westphalia.

Their lamentable ignorance is no basis for public policy.

So I’m sorry a significant portion of the US popluace is so ignorant as to believe the immensely wealthy mainstream media push “liberal” values.

Ignorance that severe is so sad as to be pitiable.

But why on earth would anyone take such ignorant people seriously on any important question?

By: j.cro

j.cro — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:06:15 +0000

TRex, you’re the best.

By: EvilDrPuma

EvilDrPuma — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:54:29 +0000

LibertyLee @ 389

Fox News gets its audience because many Americans believe CNN or MSNBC do not give Republicans a fair shake. It’s ratings, compared to the other cable news outlooks, should point out that a number of people think Fox News is Correct in that assumption.

To suppose that CNN or most of MSNBC doesn’t “give Republicans a fair shake” is to plumb the depths of commercialized delusion.

By: carolyn urban

carolyn urban — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:42:44 +0000

Whoah. Just watched this video - never saw it before.

Sock it to em Jon Stewart. Straight talk. Nothing like it.

And TRex - Gonzales as personification of the Peter Principle? LOL

By: Miss P.

Miss P. — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:12:39 +0000

When Fox was showing pictures of Mark Foley as a Democrat on the news: I was talking about Foley with my mom and she says, “but you know, he is a Democrat.” “No mom, he’s not.” “Well, yes he is, everybody knows that.” She went and looked it up and apologized. Gee, how could she have gotten that idea?!

By: WilliamWilma

WilliamWilma — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:53:06 +0000

I don’t care if he’s a lieberyouth or not, I’d totally do Tucker in the b$tt. I like Olberman’s take in calling it the Fox Noise network. If I watched that channel and found myself taking anything seriously, I’d kill myself.

By: sa

sa — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:43:23 +0000

Why don’t we drop the word “news” when we refer to F*? As in “this is latest smear attack from FOX”. Maybe call it the “F” channel? Anything to keep suggesting that it is NOT a news channel. Use it often enough and see if more people don’t pick it up.