Why FOX should be taken off air

so a democrats opinion was wrong, so fox should be taken off the air?

 

I have my doubts about the Prez race, people are so stupid about that, and other than Rand Paul, the Repubs have NOBODY worth a hoot. Maybe not even the senate race, but the repubs are going to OWN the House, by huge margins. Thanks to obamacare, inspite of him deliberately delaying the biz part of it until after the election. ENOUGH people can see what's going to happen to their jobs and their communities.

 

Oh god know BVWC. FOX News is comedy gold. Plus they have the hot mama's on some of those programs that keep my interest.

But I have found myself obsessed with the constant MH370 reporting on CNN. It seems that they have found the perfect disaster here to raise their ratings up a bit. Good for them, they needed it.

 

Absolutely true. After a while people DO get fed up with listening only to the leftwing perspectives and propaganda pushed on the three broadcast networks and CNN and MSNBC and so they get starved for real news and perspectives that are fair and balanced. Well . . . nobody ever said that the job of turning a nation of people into zero ambition or productivity socialist or Marxist drones was an easy one.

 

Agreed. The GOP will win the House fairly simple. If they are lucky, they might take the Senate too. But if Cruz or a far right wing nut is their choice to run for POTUS in 2016....you better be prepared for 4 years of Hillary.

 

losses here and there for the Dems isn't changing the overall tide of the nation.
the far right is done for as is general social conservatism.
the America you long for - and the one that I actually thought would have been a fun time to live in (1950-1965) is gone.
America is forever changed.

 

Yeah I recall the leftwingers across this nation HOWLING after Obama won in 2008 that the back of the Republican Party was broken and that conservatism was permanently finished as a viable ideology and influence in this nation; and those leftwingers were wrong. I recall prior to the 2010 mid term elections political shellacking handed to them by the Tea Party leftwingers HOWLING that the Tea Party was meaningless and had no power to affect this nation one way or the other; and those leftwingers were wrong. I remember after Obama won in 2012 -- with the aid of the IRS, the mainstream media, Bill Clinton and Hurricane Sandy -- that the Republican Party was broken and finished; and those leftwingers were wrong. I recall only a handful of months ago after Ted Cruz temporarily shut down the government over ObamaCare Leftwingers HOWLING that -- again -- the Republican Party was broken and that Ted Cruz was finished in politics and that conservationism was permanently finished as a viable ideology and influence in this nation; and those leftwingers were wrong.

Ahem! On the other hand with rare exceptions many, many of the Right's predictions concerning the Left's steadily declining fortunes have been turning out to be true. But -- hey now -- you hang in there. I figure that these predictions of doom for the Republican Party and for the conservative ideology might come true some day . . . shortly after the end of human life on the planet, that is.

 

CNN, MSNBC is not hateful?

 

If you want to see something that is pumping out hate, you might glance into the next mirror you pass. Obviously any opinion other than your own you consider hate. Quite the tolerant one I see.

 

If you wanna see sorry, check out al sharpton on msnbc... Talk about a freakn joke. The guy works for the CIA

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May I point out the PUBS started as a regional party, mostly comprised of misfits, free soilers, ex Whigs and Federalists, and a large smattering of Forty-Eighters, running for their very lives from from the socialists uprisings in Europe in 1848.

By splitting the DIM vote, Lincoln won the Presidency and commenced on his journey, like the other President from Illinois to fundamentally transform America.

The poor schmucks we call DIMS, which basically started as the Party of Jefferson, whom most hate now, have fallen into the abyss of socialistic iniquity all quite by themselves. Neither party is actually worth a bucket of warm s-it. ( spit, if you will)

That should tighten the sphincters of both parties.

 

I can remember less than 25 years ago, Liberal was a four letter word, too.

In all fairness, DIMS have one advantage over PUBS in that PUBS never seem to get past trying to act like DIMS. If they had done the job we sent them to do in 2000, Pelosi and Reid never would have come to power in 2006 and The Change would still be someone's wet dream.

Alas, the PUBS snatched defeat from victory.

 

They're good at that.

 

They have had so much experience.

 

It took us a minute or two but we finally realized -- You're a plant. You're a rightwing nutjob posting stuff to make liberals look like raving, insane, over-the-top extremist un-American Stalinist dictator wannabes.

Nice parody. Or is it? ... hmmm...

 

Why the hell would I watch MSNBC? They are worse then Fox.

I swear, the ONLY reason MSNBC is still on the air is because all the Lib hating Cons watch it religiously!

 

Oh stop!! This is just idiotic nonsense which confirms the worst nightmares of every right winger on this forum (despite the fact that you are just some person on the internet, not a person with any power). Of course Fox News is a truly awful source of news. Of course it is a propaganda vehicle. So what? You told us you didn't like it, never why it should be taken off the air. If being a propaganda vehicle was enough to get a media outlet banned, almost all would be, as they are all corporate propaganda vehicles. That isn't enough though. If we are going to ban news outlets, what stops government from banning the news outlets you like if the whim takes them?

While I think Fox News is bad for society (as is the entire corporate media), and while I do believe a free and independent media that speaks truth to power is fundamental to our democracy, it is not governments responsibility to ban outlets that don't live up to that standard. It is our job as consumers to demand higher standards. We don't. So we have only ourselves to blame.

 

We may never know...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

 

The problem you have is that is not a phenomenon unique to Fox. The entire media is owned by a small handful of corporations, whose source of income is corporate advertisers. All of the media serves the interests of their corporate owners and corporate sponsors. Pretending that is unique to Fox News is as stupid as believing in the nonsensical liberal media bias nonsense. The media has ONE bias only, and that is to present news favorable to their corporate owners and sponsors, and to make money for their owners. The way in which they go about it is irrelevant. MSNBC shills for the corporatist Democratic party. Fox shills for the corporatist Republican party. Why should one offend me and not the other?

 

The "fairness doctrine"...that is the one that says the only speech that will be tolerated is leftist fantasy?

 

Sorry folks but FOX has as much right to air their stuff as anyone else has the right to air theirs.

 

And the alternative would be what, let the government decide who's truthful and who's not? They're really the only ones who would have the power to make that decision. And what happens if they don't like your stance? So no thanks, they're the last people who should be deciding what the "truth" is and who should be delivering it. I'd rather have the freedom to choose myself then have an agenda driven administration make those decisions.

 

Right. Okay. In any case, people should have a few different sources for their information.

 

I welcome your more objective perspective.

Some Americans (not me) think, speak and act as though no one (living outside of of this country) can SEE what's going on here.

Quite to the contrary, those NOT living here often have a far more objective view of what's going on than we do. We may not agree with their sentiments all the time... but they can indeed look at the FACTS of the issues affecting us (here in America) and be just as objective (if not more so).

Face it my fellow Americans, we are emotionally invested in this society because we live here... someone looking from the outside can probably illuminate things we probably don't even consider.

 

If you don't like fox the you're free to change the channel