From the Op-Ed page of Friday’s NYTimes, in the column by Paul Krugman, comes the following little tidbit:
“*The political agenda of FoxNews, to take the most important example, is hardly obscure. Roger Ailes, the network’s chairman, has been advising the Bush administration. Fox’s Brit Hume even claimed credit for the midterm election. ‘*It was because of our coverage that it happened,’ he told Don Imus.'People watch us and take their electoral clues from us. No one should doubt the influence of FoxNews in these matters.’”
Fair and balanced my ass.:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Fox News should change its slogan to something a little more truthful, like: FOXNews. We decieve. You follow along like mindless sheep.*
*Yeah I know I used that quote in another post, what of it. It still fits.
I heard the Brit Hume interview on Imus. He was being sarcastic. If you’ve ever listened to Imus’ show you would understand. Imus jokingly forced Hume into making that statement.
Paul Krugman has used his gigantic brain to “discover” what the entire country’s known for years, no wonder he works for the New York Times. I wonder if FNC keeps their tagline just to hear the howling about it.
That said, I’m not so sure that the “news” portion of Fox News is all that biased. Flashy, shallow and glib maybe, but not hugely biased. It’s their analysis shows where the bias is strong, most everyone is conservative. The one liberal that I can think of on the network is that goofy looking pinhead who’s on their Crossfire rip-off.
Oh, Bill’s my favorite snuggly bunny too Dio. I especially like how he always looks like he has a hot poker rammed up his ass, which may explain his ill-bred and bad tempered habit of never letting any of his guests have the last word.
Sean Hannity is another pissah. He’s such a numb-nut I have to ask myself at times if it isn’t an act. The thought that it isn’t is extremely frightening to me.
At least you don’t have to put up with that show-bizzy type feel.
And Fox has the worst morning news show EVER. Nope, I’d rather hang with Paula Zahn. At least I don’t have to listen to Van Halen at the station breaks in a desperate attempt to be hip, or listen to that dickhead Mancow(I know it’s only for 2 minutes or so, but it feels like an eternity.)
I agree completely. Sean Hannity is smarm incarnate. And is it just me or does it seem like Alan Colmes gets to say about four words an episode, and the rest is just that smug little fucktard Hannity spouting the GOP’s daily talking points or ranting on at the guests in his typically uninformed and polemic way instead of asking them questions?
Just when you thought the NYT couldn’t sink to a new low.
That sort of deliberate misrepresentation — Hume was joking, people — by extremist-left news sources is no doubt one reason that Fox News has taken over. People are sick of liberal preachiness and disreputable fabrications.
Frankly, I’d love to see a libertarian news source. One that points out, for example, the irony of conservative presidents creating brand new federal bureaucracies.
