In honor of our national day of teabagging, I put FOX News on for the first time in months. It’s pretty entertaining today, but I just watched some woman complain that the Department of Homeland Security’s report on right-wing extremism didn’t include ACORN. That’s just a level of stupid racism that can’t be defended, even on comedy grounds.
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So the question is,
Where is the liberal equivalent? Fox News has much more reach than MSNBC because they let cable carriers offer it in lower-priced packages.
When one side is the only one talking, what do you expect people to believe?
That’s why I say we need to bring back the Fairness doctrine in some form, and force people to hear another side of issues on the channels of their choice.
Rush Limbaugh and others wouldn’t survive if the facts were never far away.
The fairness doctrine made sense when there were thirteen channels of teevee. I don’t see how you can put that genie back in the bottle now.
Fairness doctrine wouldn’t help – FOX News is a cable outlet and isn’t governed by the FCC.
More important is keeping the ‘net neutral these days – if the big media and big telco companies are able to get control over the net, there’s no chance for pushback. The neutral net really levels the playing field in ways that no fairness legislation can match. And as the oldsters die off and the youngsters get older it will only get better.
And here’s the scene from Cincy.
Respect the Constitution! Bush did, after all.
Attractive crowd. Is that someone weeping?
Now was this woman a “person on the street at a teabagging festival” sort of woman, or was it someone ostensibly serious brought on to talk about this stuff?
If it was the former, well, not surprising. The teabaggers are going to attract a lot of stupid people today – a lot of people who don’t know anything about anything. I imagine there will be a number of Birchers there too, and Birthers, and Palin4Ever people. And on.
If it was the latter, if I were ACORN I’d be trying to find a pro bono attorney to file a defamation lawsuit against FOX. If blatantly equating a group of community activists to a terrorist organization isn’t defamation, I’m not really sure what is.
it was a frigging anchor.
Oh for the love of …
That’s got to be actionable. I mean, really – they don’t even have the wiggle room to claim that it was a guest stating an opinion. An anchor? Really?
NewsCorp needs to start taking monetary hits from this idiocy – defamation cases are a good way to start.
My man Murshed is good. He’s got it already.
here.
remember when dissent was treason?
From Josh Marshall, apparently FreedomWorks is giving pointers on their website about how to the tea-pers can help the movement avoid those humiliating YouTube moments.
Like they need any help???
And for some reason I find this one particularly humorous given the serious righty aversion to any type of civility or friendly discourse.
Politely tell them the sign is inappropriate???
BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA!!!