Fox News: You've earned your own Pit Thread!

[look_ninjas]

@Good Egg

Strangely, I am watching Animal Cops. They are going all out to save these animals which were aandoned in a house and were dehydrating and needing food. And the owner was actually in trouble for this. And here its okay to do it to a human. Food for thought. Food for thought.

'Scuse me while I slam my head repeatedly into my desk for a few seconds.

WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!

Ah, much better. Now let me explain why your situation is not analogous to the Terri Schiavo case. I’m going to assume (and you can correct me if I’m wrong), that the animals in question still had their brains intact before being abandoned, and were in fact capable of running and playing and frolicking and doing all of those happy animal things. If Terri Schiavo were capable of running and playing and frolicking and her husband were to decide to tie her to a bed and starve her to death, he would, indeed, be in trouble.

However (as Faux News has probably neglected to inform you), Terri Schiavo is not capable of running and playing and frolicking. She has no cerebral cortex. She is not conscious. Now, if your animals were all laying in little wee beds in the animal hospital, with nothing but their brainstems intact, with their food and water being provided through tubes in their stomachs, what would we do? Would we leave them in that condition for the rest of their natural lives, or would we humanely put them to sleep? If you honestly believe that their owners would be in trouble for letting their animals die in such circumstances, then you need to start paying attention.

Terri Schiavo is not an otherwise healthy animal who has been abandoned and left to starve. She is in a permanent vegetative state from which she will never recover. This is where your Animal Cops metaphor fails.

Sorry for the hijack, but I’ve reached the end of my patience with this particular argument. Now, as for Fox News: I’m amazed. I really am. I haven’t seen any news coverage that I would have considered to be fair and unbiased, so you’d think that Fox would blend right in to the background. But just when it seemed that they couldn’t be any more repugnant than anyone else, they came up with a daring plan to restore their rightful place as the least credible news source on cable TV - they brought in the psychic. Good for you, Rupert Murdoch! And kudos to the host of Fox & Friends for being able to keep a straight face.

[DoctorJ]

While we’re talking about the media (and like I said, Fox News is the worst, but not the only bad one), I can’t bring myself to watch it, but a headline caught my eye on Yahoo for washingtonpost.com’s “exclusive video”: “Columnist Michelle Malkin Finds Bias in Schiavo Reports”.

The irony! It burns! The goggles do nothing!

(For those unfamiliar, Michelle Malkin is to Ann Coulter what Michael Savage is to Rush Limbaugh. She exists solely so that there is someone for Ann to look at and say, “Jesus, what a right-wing nutjob.”)

[Sample_the_Dog]

@DoctorJ

washingtonpost.com’s “exclusive video”: “Columnist Michelle Malkin Finds Bias in Schiavo Reports”.

They run her column in the local rag they call a newspaper here, along with a bunch of other idiots claiming to be conservative, when they’re really not.

She makes my blood boil sometimes. (That video isn’t bad for her, btw.) Knowing that stuff like her garbage and Hannity et al will actually get an ear… time to make another appointment with my anger management therapist.

[Catamount]

@Tuckerfan

I would highly recommend that you not watch Star Trek Nemesis while that image is lingering in your brain. Unless, of course, you like the thought of seeing Riker on top of Edward, pounding away for all he’s worth at Edward’s “gloryhole.”

You owe me a new monitor.