- Everyone knows what the Fox News Channel is really about.
It doesn't take a genius to detect the "hidden" bias in the overtly
slanted "reporting" of the Fox "news" team. The sole
job of these glorified Republican shills is to make liberal intellectuals
look bad while making our neo-conservative idiot-in chief look good (not
an easy task for anyone, no matter how propagandist). Again, EVERYONE with
more than half a brain knows this. To even pretend that it is a matter
of debate is an insult to the viewing public's intelligence.
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- Have you ever heard Brit Hume or Tony Snow say something
that made a liberal look good, or a conservative look bad? A rhetorical
question, I know. I suppose Fox supporters would have you believe that
"fair and balanced" reporting will ALWAYS make the right look
better than the left, but true intellectual conservatives know better.
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- Fox's staggering political bias has been oft-discussed
(not to mention thoroughly exposed in the recent documentary "Outfoxed"),
but also worth noting is the sheer meanness, vulgarity, and vacuous stupidity
of Rupert Murdoch's propaganda machine. The "reporting" on this
network is consistently sloppy, sophomoric, laced with ad hominem, and
generally as unprofessional as a mock news cast in a high school journalism
class.
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- The most embarrassing "news" anchor in the
history of television is Fox's Shepard Smith. His teeth are perfect, his
hair looks great, and his skin is without a blemish, but that doesn't change
the fact that he can't speak or read intelligibly for more than a 3 or
4 second interval. On the rare occasion that he does speak clearly, what
comes out of Smith's mouth is often crass, and sometimes filthy. Here is
a man who once "accidentally" said live on the air that Jennifer
Lopez was likely to give her friends a "blow job" (he was supposed
to say "curb job.")
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- Yesterday, on Smith's evening news cast "The Fox
Report," during one of his oh-so-uplifting and informative "G
Block" segments, he read (or tried to read) a grotesquely slanderous
tirade against Irish-born singer Sinead O' Connor. The controversial pop
star recently took out a full page ad in her home country, imploring the
media to stop calling her "crazy." Smith suggested that she might
prefer to be called "whacky...nuts...brain-sick..." and hurled
a plethora of other pejoratives intended to "poke fun" at the
mentally ill.
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- Watching this pathetic display of name-calling during
a "news" show was enough to make my stomach churn. Obviously,
Smith's neo-conservative, Christian network hates O' Connor because she
once had the "audacity" to tear up a picture of the Pope on national
television. Unfortunately, the only research that the Fox news team has
done into her background consists of watching old skits on Saturday Night
Live. Fox might want to note the fact that O' Connor claims to have been
a victim of sexual abuse as a child, though some members of her family
dispute this. If she was abused, then she is a victim of the most extreme
trauma and should be treated with sympathy and respect. But if the abuse
didn't happen, then she really IS insane to confabulate such a tale, and
it is monstrously irresponsible to call her "crazy" on national
television, particularly for an alleged journalist.
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- O' Connor had the courage to speak publicly about pedophilia
in the Catholic church many years before it became an item of national
interest. Sorry, Fox News, but Sinead had Bill O' Reilly "scooped"
on that one. Did it ever occur to those morons that she has some legitimate
reasons to be so pissed-off at the world?
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- She is also an extraordinary and vastly underrated musical
talent, possessing arguably the great voice in pop history. But somehow,
I think Shepard Smith's musical taste has a different bend. I could just
see that blow-dryed moron playing air guitar to the strains of Cheap Trick
or Dokken.
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- Fox News has been gloating relentlessly over the hit
CBS has taken on the Bush National Guard "docudrama," but at
least the liars at CBS and every other news organization possess some scholarly
class. They don't go on the air and call confused and wounded people "insane"
while incorrigibly defending the honor of our brain-damaged president.
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- The next time Sinead O' Connor feels the need to tear
up someone's picture on national television and scream "Fight the
real enemy!", let it be a picture of Rupert Murdoch. This bloated-billionaire
dipwad is responsible for the meanest, dumbest, most dishonest and flat-out
vulgar brand of journalism in the history of national television.
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