I Don’t Know Why My Wife Turned on Fox News Tonight….

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:The TV is behind my workstation, so I just listened…. She tuned in Megyn Kelly to watch news about Flight 370. Experts provided testimony as to how and why the jetliner disappeared, with a lot of emphasis on conspiracy theories and how we live in a dangerous world. You could hear subtle hints that perhaps the U.S. State Department could have done more to find an answer for this problem—i.e., Fox subtlety blaming the Obama administration for the missing Malaysian airliner.

Megyn finally changed the topic to the Ukraine crisis, and my wife thankfully turned the television off.

Fox News is WAY worse than any other network on television when it comes to airing sensationalist pap with a political agenda attached to it, to fill the ears and eyes of boobs who drink their Kool-Aid by the tankard full.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:Experts provided testimony as to how and why the jetliner disappeared, with a lot of emphasis on conspiracy theories

Bob wrote:Fox News and MSNBC are both just a sick twisted joke.  Overpaid,  over-glorified hacks telling each's retarded braindead audience exactly what the audience wants to hear.
It's either obama and the democrats are the greatest thing since jesus.  Or it's obama and the democrats are commie muslims.  
Two things come to mind.  Wrastlin.  And political evangelism.  But definitely nothing to do with journalism.

Bob wrote:Fox News and MSNBC are both just a sick twisted joke.  Overpaid,  over-glorified hacks telling each's retarded braindead audience exactly what the audience wants to hear.
It's either obama and the democrats are the greatest thing since jesus.  Or it's obama and the democrats are commie muslims.  
Two things come to mind.  Wrastlin.  And political evangelism.  But definitely nothing to do with journalism.

othershoe1030 wrote:

Bob wrote:Fox News and MSNBC are both just a sick twisted joke.  Overpaid,  over-glorified hacks telling each's retarded braindead audience exactly what the audience wants to hear.
It's either obama and the democrats are the greatest thing since jesus.  Or it's obama and the democrats are commie muslims.  
Two things come to mind.  Wrastlin.  And political evangelism.  But definitely nothing to do with journalism.

Also agree. Fox and MSNBC are more like marketing arms for their two outlooks but maybe since I lean left myself the F news's presentation sounds more persistent.

What I mean by that is subtle (and not so subtle) words are used to imply a sense of doubt, suspicion and fear when anything related to Obama is mentioned.

One of my favorite F news moments that makes this point was during the 2008 campaign. Obama had just chinched the nomination. He and Michelle went on stage to speak to his supporters and gave each other a little congratulatory fist bump. Was this a secret handshake sort of jester, the F news people wanted to know, what might this actually MEAN! Was that a FIST BUMP? WAS THAT A TERRORIST FIST Jab???

As in OMG to high heaven, we have just discovered who this person really is!! Breaking news!! Hold the presses! F news is just idiotic! For some reason I was watching F news to see how they were covering it. I would love to see the original footage done by (as I remember it) three people sitting around the TV set and being mutually amazed, confounded and terrified at what they had just seen. To even have the word "news" in their title is disgusting to me.

Dot wrote:There's nothing wrong with fox news that isn't the same in any other news. You guys are just told there is something wrong by your handlers.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

Dot wrote:There's nothing wrong with fox news that isn't the same in any other news. You guys are just told there is something wrong by your handlers.

Who handles you?   

othershoe1030 wrote:

Bob wrote:Fox News and MSNBC are both just a sick twisted joke.  Overpaid,  over-glorified hacks telling each's retarded braindead audience exactly what the audience wants to hear.
It's either obama and the democrats are the greatest thing since jesus.  Or it's obama and the democrats are commie muslims.  
Two things come to mind.  Wrastlin.  And political evangelism.  But definitely nothing to do with journalism.

Also agree. Fox and MSNBC are more like marketing arms for their two outlooks but maybe since I lean left myself the F news's presentation sounds more persistent.

What I mean by that is subtle (and not so subtle) words are used to imply a sense of doubt, suspicion and fear when anything related to Obama is mentioned.

One of my favorite F news moments that makes this point was during the 2008 campaign. Obama had just chinched the nomination. He and Michelle went on stage to speak to his supporters and gave each other a little congratulatory fist bump. Was this a secret handshake sort of jester, the F news people wanted to know, what might this actually MEAN! Was that a FIST BUMP? WAS THAT A TERRORIST FIST Jab???

As in OMG to high heaven, we have just discovered who this person really is!! Breaking news!! Hold the presses! F news is just idiotic! For some reason I was watching F news to see how they were covering it. I would love to see the original footage done by (as I remember it) three people sitting around the TV set and being mutually amazed, confounded and terrified at what they had just seen. To even have the word "news" in their title is disgusting to me.

PACEDOG#1 wrote:The country is already in the crapper from the lack of leadership this COWH has not demonstrated ever.

PACEDOG#1 wrote:The country is already in the crapper from the lack of leadership this COWH has not demonstrated ever.

Floridatexan wrote:

PACEDOG#1 wrote:The country is already in the crapper from the lack of leadership this COWH has not demonstrated ever.

No, you blooming idiot, this country is in the crapper because of George W Bush.  How many times do you have to see the direct results of the "leadership" of the previous CIC, the one you actually had allegiance for, to realize how he raped and pillaged Iraq, Afganistan, and our own country, for personal gain...for him, his daddy, and those who are positioned to profit from war.  You, Markle, and a few others are pawns in the game, and the sad part is you don't even see it.  OMG, Obama is trying to turn the country socialist, OMG, Obama is weak, OMG, Obama is a Muslim in disguise, OMG he's a commie, OMG, he's trying to undermine the USA, when all that was done under YOUR fearless leader, who led you to a cliff and said, "Jump", and you happily complied.  

Wordslinger wrote:I too agree that Fox and MSNBC are opposite sides of the same coin.  Fox has nothing to say other than to blame Obama and the democrats for everything, real or imagined.

MSNBC continually attacks republicans.

The difference between MSNBC and Fox however, is that the talking heads on MSNBC usually present facts in their arguments, while Fox will say literally anything that they think is red meat to their carnivorous audience of old white men.

I think Ms. Maddow really believes what she says.  I know that  Hannity and O'reilly don't.  Like Ann Coulter, Glen Beck and the Duck Dynasty mob, they've all learned how to get rich pretending to be as outraged at liberals as the sick, white, generally uneducated crowd they suck money from.    

For hard news, I watch PBS, CNN and ABC, BBC and Al Jazeera.

Reality.

Wordslinger wrote:I too agree that Fox and MSNBC are opposite sides of the same coin.  Fox has nothing to say other than to blame Obama and the democrats for everything, real or imagined.

MSNBC continually attacks republicans.

The difference between MSNBC and Fox however, is that the talking heads on MSNBC usually present facts in their arguments, while Fox will say literally anything that they think is red meat to their carnivorous audience of old white men.

I think Ms. Maddow really believes what she says.  I know that  Hannity and O'reilly don't.  Like Ann Coulter, Glen Beck and the Duck Dynasty mob, they've all learned how to get rich pretending to be as outraged at liberals as the sick, white, generally uneducated crowd they suck money from.    

For hard news, I watch PBS, CNN and ABC, BBC and Al Jazeera.

Reality.

othershoe1030 wrote:

Bob wrote:Fox News and MSNBC are both just a sick twisted joke.  Overpaid,  over-glorified hacks telling each's retarded braindead audience exactly what the audience wants to hear.
It's either obama and the democrats are the greatest thing since jesus.  Or it's obama and the democrats are commie muslims.  
Two things come to mind.  Wrastlin.  And political evangelism.  But definitely nothing to do with journalism.

Also agree. Fox and MSNBC are more like marketing arms for their two outlooks but maybe since I lean left myself the F news's presentation sounds more persistent.

What I mean by that is subtle (and not so subtle) words are used to imply a sense of doubt, suspicion and fear when anything related to Obama is mentioned.

One of my favorite F news moments that makes this point was during the 2008 campaign. Obama had just chinched the nomination. He and Michelle went on stage to speak to his supporters and gave each other a little congratulatory fist bump. Was this a secret handshake sort of jester, the F news people wanted to know, what might this actually MEAN! Was that a FIST BUMP? WAS THAT A TERRORIST FIST Jab???

As in OMG to high heaven, we have just discovered who this person really is!! Breaking news!! Hold the presses! F news is just idiotic! For some reason I was watching F news to see how they were covering it. I would love to see the original footage done by (as I remember it) three people sitting around the TV set and being mutually amazed, confounded and terrified at what they had just seen. To even have the word "news" in their title is disgusting to me.