# Is Fox News really all that bad? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 3, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625 "2012-10-03T21:14:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 114
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2263 "2019-01-26T05:36:25Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Oh, I did look (on their website), and they did have a story about Stone. It was about how the FBI surrounded his house with a bazillion tanks, scared his wife, scared his dogs and severely manhandled him. Worse than that, somehow cnn found out about the siege and was right there with a camera crew – **how did they find out about it in advance?** I realize you’re sharing how Fox is reporting it, but do you know the answer (I suspect you do)? In case you or others don’t, CNN had reporters stake out Stone’s house 24/7, because they’ve known ever since December, when Mueller subpoenaed a certified copy of the transcript of Stone’s testimony to the House Republicans, the indictment was coming. No one gave CNN a heads up. Just… good old fashioned stake-out reporting. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2264 "2019-01-26T05:40:27Z")
That’s just what the Deep State leakers want you to believe! ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2265 "2019-01-26T05:45:43Z")
:smack: I’m always so gullible!! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2266 "2019-01-28T07:32:41Z")
This belongs in this thread as well, > [@Stupid Republican idea of the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/40223): > > [Fox News sez](https://crooksandliars.com/2019/01/fox-news-host-accuses-women-haveing) that women who terminate non-viable third-trimester pregnancies are having “recreational abortions”. > > If my mother hadn’t had an emergency abortion before she had me, she’d have died, and my sister and I would never have been born. How can you possibly call yourself “pro-life” if you advocate for a system that would kill _four_ at the expense of temporarily preserving someone that was never going to be born anyway? > > **Fuck you**. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2267 "2019-01-28T14:13:47Z")
“recreational abortion” my god. Having an abortion is about like having all your wisdom teeth extracted through your butthole. Call it selfish, call it irresponsible if you like, but “recreational” is a word that will never apply. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2268 "2019-01-31T05:59:10Z")
Well it’s Friday night, nothing much is playing at the movie theater, and you aren’t up to clubbing, why not have an abortion to pass the time. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2269 "2019-01-31T10:41:44Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Well it’s Friday night, nothing much is playing at the movie theater, and you aren’t up to clubbing, why not have an abortion to pass the time. Sometimes it’s good just to sit down and put your feet up once in a while. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2270 "2019-01-31T14:46:54Z")
Let’s head down to the Abortionplex! > **[Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex](https://www.theonion.com/planned-parenthood-opens-8-billion-abortionplex-1819572640)** > > TOPEKA, KS—Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday the grand opening of its long-planned $8 billion Abortionplex, a sprawling abortion facility that will allow the organization to terminate unborn lives with an efficiency never before thought possible. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2271 "2019-01-31T15:45:36Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Well it’s Friday night, nothing much is playing at the movie theater, and you aren’t up to clubbing, why not have an abortion to pass the time. Thursday night is Taco Night! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2272 "2019-01-31T15:54:30Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Thursday night is Taco Night! I like fish tacos. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2273 "2019-01-31T16:48:32Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Let’s head down to the Abortionplex! > > [Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex](https://www.theonion.com/planned-parenthood-opens-8-billion-abortionplex-1819572640) [Never forget](https://theslot.jezebel.com/congressman-duped-by-the-onions-abortionplex-has-been-a-1793788972). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2274 "2019-01-31T23:16:46Z")
Somebody at [Fox](https://dnslytics.com/ip/216.205.224.64) [sure is paranoid](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Rajulbat&diff=877911879&oldid=877911585)! ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2275 "2019-02-01T00:34:06Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Somebody at [Fox](https://dnslytics.com/ip/216.205.224.64) [sure is paranoid](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Rajulbat&diff=877911879&oldid=877911585)! Please forgive my ignorance, but I don’t understand what you are telling us with this post. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2276 "2019-02-01T00:48:28Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Somebody at [Fox](https://dnslytics.com/ip/216.205.224.64) [sure is paranoid](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Rajulbat&diff=877911879&oldid=877911585)! > [@](#): > > … egregious flaunting of the rules … I think the problem this whiner is experiencing is that they lack English skills. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2277 "2019-02-01T02:50:40Z")
> [@Drum\_God](#): > > Please forgive my ignorance, but I don’t understand what you are telling us with this post. They think Wikipedia is run by a cabal of left-wingers out to destroy Trump while letting any infractions, no matter how egregious, by fellow left-wingers slide. Granted, I don’t know if that’s Fox “News” but it sure seems to be, given how IPs in that range go after Trump’s detractors. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2278 "2019-02-01T05:14:19Z")
> [@Drum\_God](#): > > Please forgive my ignorance, but I don’t understand what you are telling us with this post. If I am not mistaken, someone from an IP assigned to Fox News unleashed an unhinged, conspiratorial rant against Wiki on the Wiki user edit page. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2279 "2019-02-03T20:49:57Z")
I recall reading that when FoxNews tells stories about GOP politicians who misbehaved they sometimes lie and write “(D)” on the screen to make their gulled viewers think it’s just another story about bad Democrats. Is this true? Cite? I had an animated discussion with someone today and wonder if I can back up the assertion I made. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2280 "2019-02-03T20:58:51Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I recall reading that when FoxNews tells stories about GOP politicians who misbehaved they sometimes lie and write “(D)” on the screen to make their gulled viewers think it’s just another story about bad Democrats. > > Is this true? Cite? I had an animated discussion with someone today and wonder if I can back up the assertion I made. ISTR it happening with fair regularity in the previous decade. They pointed it out more than once on _The Daily Show_. Maybe try [this search term](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Fox+misidentifies+Republicans&ia=web) or one like it. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2281 "2019-02-03T21:59:24Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > I recall reading that when FoxNews tells stories about GOP politicians who misbehaved they sometimes lie and write “(D)” on the screen to make their gulled viewers think it’s just another story about bad Democrats. > > Is this true? Cite? I had an animated discussion with someone today and wonder if I can back up the assertion I made. I recall several such instances noted in this very thread, back somewhere closer to the beginning. But I can’t easily search with my ‘handheld device’. Sorry! ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625/2282 "2019-02-04T05:16:53Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > ISTR it happening with fair regularity in the previous decade. They pointed it out more than once on _The Daily Show_. Maybe try [this search term](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Fox+misidentifies+Republicans&ia=web) or one like it. Thanks. I’d post amusing details about the conversation and other nearby Trumpists but I don’t want to help super-Google pinpoint my location. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625.md?page=113) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-fox-news-really-all-that-bad/636625.md?page=115)