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Originally Posted by HOZ
I know it is seen as the height if intellectualism by some on this board to belittle FoxNews (with juvy names now). To come on and say that "I never watch FoxNews" yet wax poetically about how bad the news is from Fox. Hmmmm....
It seems that slashing FoxNews is a way to get your intellectual stripes in this forum. Ad hominem attacks on sources and especially people disagreeable to your position is the obvious path to intelectual superiority.
Of the six times I have watched Foxnews in my lifetime I have never seen anything that would make believe that it is a bad news source. No worse or better than CNN and BBC which I watch daily or the NYT and Reuters which I read daily. They have plenty of excellent veteran new reporters, news chiefs, and news casters on their payroll.
Now the point of this thread....which I again am amazed that I need to explain. NYT and the BBC have been under criticism for some time now. NYT for, wrongly IMO, exposing a LEGAL covert-op bank surveilance. The BBC, much like the CBC, for not representing the views of the majority. NYT have since day one been backpedalling and now this from their ombudsman. BBC as well getting exposed for their biases.
I know, I know...I am part of the great NEO-con conspiracy to cover GW's complicity in whatever world domination scheme Dole has thought of this week.  |
Hoz don't ya know that the Republicans have cloned the DNA of Joseph Goebells and he is secretly controlling the world's media. The coverup of the issuance of jack boots to the Secret Service has been one of his more brillant campaigns so far. I wish we could get a side by side picture of Bush and Hitler -- Are they the same guy?
The political arguments on this board aren't much more farfetched than above and have precious little substance to them. I love the BSer's who say well "I've done my research". HO HO HO which amounts to reading a couple of websites and googling a few quotes -- Wow so impressive.
I'm waiting for the day when there is a political topic which has some real substance to it rather than just the pathetic rantings of those who support one party/guy or the other based on the most biased crap that is out there.