[AlexdeLarge]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AlexdeLarge', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'W')here was Obama on Thursday, June 4th, 2008?

[dorlomin]

Fox News amuses me. When we got home from the pub we would stick it on for a half hours worth of giggles. A bit like laughing at the mentally inferior but hell, it is pretty funny when you’ve had a skinful.

If I was to have a problem with it it would not be its bias but just how dumb it is. I can pick up and read 'right wing' news sources like the Economist, FT, The Times and even the Telegraph and filter out the bias and get a generally descent article. By far my favourite would be the Economist. But Fox is just plain dumb and often gets basic facts wrong. Its definitely a news source for people who struggle with the earth being billions of years old and wacky modern ideas like all that 'evolution' nonsense.

[Chuckmak]

Dr. Claw >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ernst Blofeld

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', 'F')ox News amuses me. When we got home from the pub we would stick it on for a half hours worth of giggles. A bit like laughing at the mentally inferior but hell, it is pretty funny when you’ve had a skinful.

If I was to have a problem with it it would not be its bias but just how dumb it is. I can pick up and read 'right wing' news sources like the Economist, FT, The Times and even the Telegraph and filter out the bias and get a generally descent article. By far my favourite would be the Economist. But Fox is just plain dumb and often gets basic facts wrong. Its definitely a news source for people who struggle with the earth being billions of years old and wacky modern ideas like all that 'evolution' nonsense.

[HeckuvaJob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'H')owever, I think its important to have a range of news coverage so the MSM isn't completely monolithic so I like having Fox there along with ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('HeckuvaJob', 'H')ow many of them covered the massive war protests of 2003? Iraqi civilian causalities? Palestinian casualties?

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', 'B')ut Fox is just plain dumb and often gets basic facts wrong. Its definitely a news source for people who struggle with the earth being billions of years old and wacky modern ideas like all that 'evolution' nonsense.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('HeckuvaJob', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'H')owever, I think its important to have a range of news coverage so the MSM isn't completely monolithic so I like having Fox there along with ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('HeckuvaJob', '&')quot;I enjoy a vast diversity of cuisines, which is why i eat at McDonald's AND Burger King."

[kiwichick]

isn,t fox a comedy channel?

i didn't realise they reported on the news

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kiwichick', 'i')sn,t fox a comedy channel?
i didn't realise they reported on the news

[JoeW]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', '
')There are NO fair and balanced sources; though they all claim so.

What is honest is that Fox acknowledges its biases; CNN does not. BBC does not.

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JoeW', 'Y')ou say that Fox acknowledges their biases. That is not true. They claim to be "Fair and Balanced".

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JoeW', '
')MSNBC is loaded with Democratic Party cheerleaders, FOX is loaded with GOP cheerleaders, and CNN is somwhere between those two extremes.

[HeckuvaJob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('HeckuvaJob', '&')quot;I enjoy a vast diversity of cuisines, which is why i eat at McDonald's AND Burger King."

[HeckuvaJob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'H')eckuvajob, you seem obsessed with FOX. if you actually aren't OK with the MSM, can you name another channel or program you don't like?? Surely there must be something other then FOX you don't approve of since you claim to scorn all of the MSM??.....Whats wrong with MSNBC or CNN, for example?




[............crickets chirping...........]

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('HeckuvaJob', '
')Actually, I'm obsessed with you, Plantagenet.

[HeckuvaJob]

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[HeckuvaJob]

Let me draw a line here, Plantagenet:

I will not be composing any verse for you.

[mos6507]

BTW, if you want some of Fox's propaganda and distortions catalogued and itemized for posterity, this is a good site.

Fox on Global Warming.

Day by day accounting of Fox's Obama Bashing in the first 100 days.