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You know it seems obvious to me that Fox News is turning into a parody of itself right in front of our eyes.
Saturday Night Live, the Daily Show, and Stephen Colbert, cannot even write anything as brutally damaging to their credibility as what they actually broadcast into the homes of cable news viewers every day.
Personally I could not be more pleased.
Remember THIS is the network that Sarah Palin touts as the most trustworthy, that the GOP Presidential hopefuls flock to in order to get their faces and messages out there, and is the "go to" place for corporations to send their talking points to help fight potential legislation which might impact their ability to make even more obscene amounts of money.
You know someday we may all herald Glenn Beck as the hero who destroyed Fox News.
Now THAT is a headache inducing proposition.
Agreed--would just add that Scarborough's self-centered conservatism, couched in 'reasonableness,'is bad for the progressive movement, bad for democrats, and bad for MSNBC.
ReplyDeleteShhh... I came to this same conclusion a little while ago but felt that if we don't call attention to it, he, and others like him, will continue to help with our cause. I guess the cat's out of the bag. Anyway, thanks Glenn. Maybe you're really a lib and you've been acting out some genius plan. Wouldn't that be a hoot!
ReplyDeleteDid you see Malia's post earlier today? "Prediction of Palin’s Announcement re 2012"
ReplyDeleteApril, huh?
He should have added that Fox Noise, period, is bad for America.
ReplyDeleteSo is the Republican Party in its present form that exalts ignorance, selfishness, and intolerance.
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that since Palin joined Fox, the whole place seems to have shifted off the edge of a cliff. She just screws up everything she gets involved with. Her family, her town, her state, her employers... every damned thing!
ReplyDeleteMalia is at it again with a letter to Sean Parnell about corruption in the Anchorage police department, oooh this is rich!
ReplyDeleteMany Fox viewers are annoyed by Beck. Some will just avoid his time slot. Some of them really want to believe in that ludicrous Fox slogan; these people associate FOX with integrity, and feel good their decision to be well informed citizens. For these people Beck is a huge problem. How do you trust a network that gives a platform to that money grubbing psycho idiot?
ReplyDeleteThe Redeye show is also a problem for FOX. It's crass and offensive to their older and socially conservative viewers.
Fox's problem is the republican party's problem. I've come up with a mathematical formula that proves this:
Ayn Rand + James Dobson + Timothy McVeigh = NOT A BIG TENT!
I'm waiting for an appropriate delineation that this is a private opinion channel, not a legitimate news source.
ReplyDeleteNo, this is not an effort to curb their first amendment rights, it's to protect consumers that mistake this hateful right-wing propaganda machine as a Fair and Balanced news network.
Beck's a WINGNUT..Always has been. Want more proof..read his bio on Wikipedia. What I can't believe is that more people aren't pointing to his past and saying "Why is this guy aloud air time at all?"
ReplyDeleteWhat has happened to standing up for sanity in this country?
@Anon 9:06 am - to be honest, no I haven't noticed that. Fox was a deceptive rightwing propaganda channel before Sarah Palin, and it's still one now. She fits right in. She also really doesn't have anything original to add other than a few crude soundbites (and even those aren't original), so nothing much has changed at Fox with her presence that I can see.
ReplyDeleteWendy, you are right. It is the "reasonable" cons we have to really look out for. They're the ones who give barbaric rightwing nihilism a deceptive twenty first century makeover. At least with Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, the evil crazy shines through.
ReplyDeleteBut wait, didn't Michele Bachman say that Beck is so smart thta he's the man who could figure out our budget problems by using his chalkboard?
ReplyDeleteIt would be fitting for Glenn and Sarah to crash at the same time, having been born within 24 hours of one another.
ReplyDeleteEven if Glenn Beck does eventually get the boot from Fox News, the damage he has done to the minds of thousands of unstable Americans cannot be overstated. There are people whose minds were literally one inch away from the precipice before Glenn Beck came along and gave them the final shove over the edge.
ReplyDeleteFor that, along with the divisiveness they have sowed in our country, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News should be held accountable by the people one day.
Somebody made Glen apologize for his Reform Rabbi comment. You know he didn't do that voluntarily.
ReplyDeleteGranted it was the usuall no apology apology the Republicans give "If I offended." Which of course he did or else why was he made to apologize.
It remains to be seen if this is the first step in helping him self destruct so Fox can dump him an not loose his particular audience, or if it is not.
I'm not letting the rightwing and Foxy News off the hook just because they decide to disassociate themselves at some point with Glenn Beck. He's just more colorful, but the rest are just as paranoid.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Rush Limbaugh saying that Jared Loughner KNOWS he has the full support of the Democratic Party? Is that not just as crazy a conspiracy as anything Glenn Beck says?
What about Sarah Palin saying Obama is going to pull the plug on grandma through "death panels"?
What about any GOP congressman, if asked, refuse to outright deny that birthers are off their fucking rockers?
We are talking about a modern ideology that is engulfed in paranoia and conspiracies. Dressing it up with seemingly normal commentators like Joe Scarborough and occasionally throwing out the most inartful characters like Glenn Beck changes nothing. They are all completely.fucking.insane.
Speaking of people like Glen helping the left, did you see that in Wi the nurses in a hospital that the unions have been working on for sometime to unionize suddenly in the last couple of days voted 200+ to 30+ to unionize.
ReplyDeleteWalker has proved to them that they need union protection.
another crazy Beck article :
ReplyDeletehttp://bltwy.msnbc.msn.com/politics/behind-the-rights-glenn-beck-backlash-1682184.story
As for Ayn Rand, she was number one just today on an Apple book download site, for something called "Anthem".
ReplyDeleteI loathe her.
Joe had to take an anti radical stance since earlier in the week he was really full of shit when talking about the WI situation. He went off the deep end with no facts whatsoever. Yeah, Joe, those teachers and nurses are the real enemy here! This is Joe pulling it back together.
ReplyDeletePalin and Beck are attached at the hip.
ReplyDeleteShe's toast too.
It's interesting that he does not say that blowhards like Glenn Beck are bad for America and bad for civilization in general. Maybe their problem is they see themselves as Republicans first and Americans second.
ReplyDeleteWhile I am glad to see people hop off the Insanity Bandwagon, it is pretty amusing to see conservatives congratulate themselves and each other for finally realizing what a lot of people figured out a long time ago. Sort of like back in 2008 when it finally hit them that George Bubblegum Bush spent a lot of money as president.
I refer to Faux news as the 'RPC', the republican propaganda channel, cause that's all it is. I'm waiting for the moderate repubs to stop being scared and start coming out in support of sane thinking and refusing to let their party and conservatism be hijacked by crazy idiots! How do you sit back and let yourself be represented by the likes of palin, beck, and limbaugh?
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