johanB:

“As always you can find similar situations like the present in the US plentiful in history. When a country is in some kind of trouble, you will always find some loudmouth extremist using their array of lies, distortions and pure manipulations to wind up the crowd and find a guilty party.”

Of course you’re talking about Rahm Emmanuel and the Bush/Cheney bashers, aren’t you?

Could it POSSIBLY, just POSSIBLY be that Fox is on to something real and all of you chuckleheads are the ones living in cloud-cuckoo land?

How many of you commentators are from flyover country?

I imagine Fox News is considerably more entertaining than most of the mass media, since they don’t pretend to trouble themselves about facts very much, whereas to satisfy earnest prog wonks the other purveyors of illusion have to include the illusion that they’re at least somewhat reality-based.  Bullshit should be worthy of a bull, no?  The Murdoch approach can be gauged by another item currently on this site, the news that the New York Post has hired Ashley Dupre, the prostitute famously employed by Eliot Spitzer, as an advice columnist or, more likely, the front for an advice columnist.  The New York Times’s prostitutes are far more discreet, and consequently far more boring.

Howie Bledsoe,

“Hold on, folks….
Let´s remember something here…..
Fox news is very well known for scewing figures and distorting facts.”

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(Amen and amen)

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Gordy,

“Fox is on another level still;
they seem to be a media-based cult of stupidity.”

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(No shortage of “cult” mentality these days)

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Sepharad,

“... puerile, venomous, wacked-out reasoning, nothing anyone over the age of three could seriously relate to and, amazingly, a bizarre alchemy spinning an alternate universe out of lies and malevolence.”

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(Think Karl Rove)

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Perhaps the ratings are based on all the other media folks watching FOX every day. After all, if one wants to get the latest low-down on the lowest common denominator, the most popular lies and the honest meaning of dishonesty, there’s no place like FOX. And FOX supplies mountains of comic material!

Besides, if the comics who watch FOX keep giving me my daily chuckle, I don’t have too watch.

I can find enough chuckles by myself, just watching the Senate

In my case its definitely for entertainment. I don’t believe the half of anything they say and enjoy watching them make mountains out of mole hills. They have no idea’s of their own and are always on attack mode against the democrats or the American government. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that during the cold war communist most powerful weapon was propaganda aimed at stupidity. The communist manifesto applies to the fox broadcast in the form of a hybrid of their motto, which would be two steps forward one step back. In this case it would be three steps forward and one half step back.

this is really, really scary.

And even scarier, is the dearth of comments here. Where are all the fiery, angry pundits who lashed out at Obama with such fury?

THIS is the threat - the advance of the extreme right, via propaganda as it has always, historically advanced.

And yet the left is so slow to wake up to this real threat to everything we hold dear.

Wake Up!!

We have some bad news stations in the UK as well.  We
have a couple of real stinkers: one is crass and
manipulative, fear-mongering, the other is inane,
smiley, bimbo-ish.  The BBC has a good international
reputation, but the less popular Channel 4 News is
actually much more incisive.  So we have our mix. 

When I first saw American news shows I found the
experience as extreme in its absurdity as any news
parody I’d seen.  I gasped.  They’re arranged to
cause thrills, sensations and suggestions, not to
inform or analyse.  Fox is on another level still;
they seem to be a media-based cult of stupidity.

Saw my first Fox TV as sort of a prisoner spending the night in house of a couple with whom I was making a horse deal. She was a Texas belle and he was a suave Italian who, whenever she started bouncing up and down in enthusiasm at one of Glenn Beck’s pronouncements, put his hand atop her blonde head and pushed her down and said “Shhhh!” I was tired, and when she first flipped the TV on I thought Beck was telling a long joke and waited, preparing a laugh, for the punchline. (Reminded me of childhood gaffe at my Catholic cousins’s wedding. The priest began speaking rapidly in Latin and, thinking he was playing a nonsense word game, Istarted to giggle but my mother clapped her hand over my mouth.) This woman’s utter belief in her continuing relationship with Fox and all they say made it a very long evening. Hard to believe what was coming out of the various commentators’ mouths. It was puerile, venomous, wacked-out reasoning, nothing anyone over the age of three could seriously relate to and, amazingly, a bizarre alchemy spinning an alternate universe out of lies and malevolence. This was in September. Before then I’d paid no attention to Fox, have no TV, no motive to hunt them up on the web. Now I see it is wrong to ignore these people, predatory morons, but still can’t bring myself to deliberately see, listen or hear.

that’s fucking scary…