# Is Fox News really all that bad?

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**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")\
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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> 😃
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> That made me laugh right out loud. In [del]pubic[/del] public.

I’m glad you laughed, but I cannot claim originality. I even used the line 2 years ago at SDMB, though that time with attribution. (I saw it during the Presidency of a certain R.M. Nixon.)

> [@What jobs would you hate to do?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/55):
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> When I saw thread title, what popped into my mind was a headline almost a half-century ago from the _Berkeley Barb_:  
> _Don’t tell my mother I’m a White House aide; she thinks I’m the piano player in a whore-house._

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