5 posts tagged “fox”
I just read that Fox News is now the third most watched cable channel behind only USA Network and TNT, and anyone who saw the Fox report from North Korea understands why the news channel has the number three slot and deserves higher.
Accompanying the New York Philharmonic on it's "goodwill" musical excursion to Pyongyang, reporter, Greg Palkot showed film of the capital and some surrounding areas that was a scene straight out of 1984, and even better, it was in color! .
The bus caravan they rode in was new and looked like those Airstream trailers, but Palkot noted that they were frequently the only vehicles on the road, and the actual sight was startling - wide avenues with no cars (there are about 23,000 of them in a country of twenty-three million).
We were also treated to a library computer room in which all the computers were "mostly internally linked, but the Fox correspondent pointed out that people were starting to realize that a different world exists beyond their borders. Things are being smuggled in, and they get television from South Korea and China.
Palkot then said one particular thing that I found to be very interesting: that "capitalist-minded" individuals were finding their own way. Isn't that amazing that in the most hard line communist country on Earth, it's individual initiative that may be the way to a better life, and that in America and elsewhere, people are pushing for direct government control as a solution to virtually everything?
You should have seen the gleaming gold colored statue that was the focus at the end of Palkot's report. It showed that all that glitters is not gold... and sometimes it's surreal.
The piece on North Korea appeared on a segment of Special Report with Brit Hume if you'd like to catch the replay, and I'd like to mention again that there is no better news program on television than Special Report.
I've had it. On the one hand, you've got the mainstream far left media, and on the other you've got Fox - in the middle, if ever so slightly right of center. As a result, we're inundated with leftist propaganda, lies, conspiracy theories, and other assorted and sundry distortions, and Fox is trying to give them all a fair hearing.
Because of the "fair and balanced" credo, unionists, Democrats, Gorebalarmists, American Muslims, atheists, and the like are treated as if they were human simply because they are capable of speech. So are parrots, and I've yet to see one on Fox, and they make more sense than the above.
Just today there was a guy on Neil Cavuto's show deriding Walmart for the company's allegedly failing to provide healthcare for 46% of its employees. Never mind the question about why in hell are employers expected to provide healthcare benefits in America. In fact, it should be illegal. But the bigger point is the 46%. Walmart doesn't dispute the figure. That's because so many people get their policies through spouses, for example.
But this wasn't even about healthcare in the overall, it's about unionizing Walmart. See, you manufacture an issue, put it in the worst light possible, and then tell people how you can save them from the agony of disease - even if you do that with a bigger disease - unions, but you don't tell them that.
So here's David Asman sitting in for Cavuto, and he does, in fact, bring up the negatives and the hypocrisy and the deceit, but that doesn't deter union guy, of course, whose job is to ignore facts and stay on message. And what then is a good assman to do?
Well, you could throw the pig out of the studio? But then there goes "fair and balanced." Fox seems to feel that if a particular position has more than a dozen or so advocates, it deserves a fair hearing. So Asman makes his points, Union Jack makes his, and never the twain shall meet.
But it's all very cordial: There's the dig with a smile from Davey, followed by "outrage lite," but in the end, it's all "you've got your troubles, I've got mine," and Satan is told what a brave and stand-up guy he is for being willing to take the heat.
Now, Fox obviously provides a service. I mean, without them, we wouldn't even get a counter argument to positions advocated by the aforementioned scum, except that this dovetails nicely with my criticism of the Republican candidates appearing on Ms. NBC.
On the one hand, the candidates quintuple the audience of America's Most Miserable News Network, and on the other, America's most widely watched news net showcases a liar with an agenda that's bad for the country and innately rotten.
But thanks to everyone for having the courage to come on... Yep, I guess that is the very definition of fair and balanced.
All this proves that Fox doesn't care about you or me - or the environment. I mean all Ms. NBC does for its viewers is cause them to froth. Fox raises your risk of stroke and makes you way hotter than global warming ever could.
So "F" Fair And Balanced... I mean if I were grading it....
You may have heard that Democrats refused to appear at a debate that was to be sponsored by Fox News. I don't know how you feel about that, but it's just fine with me, there are already way too many liberals on that channel.
But years before this development, I was screaming about Republicans appearing on ANY of the liberal channels. Why are they continuing to do so? This alone is almost enough to cause me not to vote for them.
The liberal media needs them, I think, far more than they need the liberal media, and if all Republicans refused to appear and held out for better treatment and respect, it might even break the solidarity of the MSM. Right now rude and stupid liberal commentators can say the most outrageous things about the right and even the toughest (and I use that word with great hesitance) Republican will just smile and attempt to dismiss or deflect the comment, charge, insult, what have you.
Did you hear some of the questions Chris Matthews & Co, asked the Republican candidates last night? When they weren't shockingly juvenile, ridiculously simplistic, or clueless as to priorities, they were just flat-out insolent.
Why would anyone stand for a debate with Chris Matthews as the moderator, anyway? And the stunningly stupid Keith Olberman was the host! Don't the Republicans realize that showing up means legitimizing people whose audiences are usually statistically insignificant?
I waited to write this because I wanted to see numbers, and they're in. Ms. NBC's audience was about five times what it would normally be. And some of that increased viewership will consider tuning in again. Sure, I know most who do will eventually be put off, but that doesn't excuse the Republican assist the network got.
Now here's the thing though, if Fox had hosted the debate instead, they would have taken a ratings hit, because even with the huge increase for the peacocks, Fox still had better ratings for the time period. So I realize it's presumptuous to assume Fox even wanted the candidates.
And don't get me wrong, I'm not a Fox fan. I think any right leanings are a marketing decision. I also know that sticking to Fox might have some negative repercussions for Republicans and that Republican candidates are perfectly capable of dealing with any idiotic thing a liberal... make that a liberal wacko... like Matthews can throw at them, but then appearing on CNN is far more preferable than on the featherweight network.
To me, this does nothing to counter the image that Republicans are wimps.
And how about that question some dirtbag asked: "What do you dislike most about America?" Romney answered it tactfully enough, saying that he loved America and that he was at a loss for words, but I would have answered far more directly:
What I dislike most about America is that is allows fools like you to feel comfortable asking questions like that.
"The truly great, giddiness-inducing thing about the Justice Department scandal is how it owes its existence to the gratuitous nastiness of these hate-driven punks in the White House." - Paul Slansky
Even if true, at least they're civil* hate-driven punks as compared to Mr. Slansky.
Today's Celebrity DUI Arrests
Vivica A. Fox - Los Angeles, Ca. - Circumstances: failed field sobriety test after her vehicle passed a patrol car on the Hollywood Freeway at 80 mph. No word if Mz. Fox was in it at the time.
Tony La Russa - Jupiter, Fla - Circumstances: asleep inside his running sport utility vehicle at an intersection stop light.
Coincidental Headline of the Day - Report: Intersections often deadly for older drivers
From the article: Drivers 70-79 failed to yield to other vehicles because they misjudged distance - drivers 80 and older failed to yield because they never saw the other vehicle.
What a difference a year makes!
The first Baby Jessica in the news fell down an eight-inch pipe and was pulled out. The latest Baby Jessica emerged too dark from a different sort of pipe, so the Andrews, of Commack, N.Y. are suing New York Medical Services for Reproductive Medicine for pumping up the missus with the wrong sperm.
Implications: artificial insemination can create bigger problems than it creates.
The couple’s lawyer, Howard Stern (you can't make it up), did not immediately return a telephone call for comment.
The Politically Opportunistic News of the Day:
The bad news: John Edwards' wife's cancer has returned:
The good news: He's still running for President.
The moral: some people will do anything to divert attention from their excess energy use.
You thought they're are making way too much of the prosecutor firings? Well: Jamaica Gets Help in Cricket Death Probe
Capitalism comes to lawmaking? This seems like an inventive approach to countering bad lawmaking: Ecuador Swears in 21 Alternate Lawmakers
* "Sivil" for our Miami readers
American Idol... is it me or, to paraphrase America's mom...
Are they runnin' the place like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about?
I'd watched the first thirty minutes of the American Idol premiere when I asked the wife, "Is it me or are shrieking 'ho's just not as interesting as they used to be?
Wife: "I think the spastic guys are more coordinated this year."
We managed to get through the first hour, and I had to turn it off...
"Who's gonna watch any more of that," I wondered?
Turns out, just about everyone not on life support.
It's being reported that hospitals were running the show for people in comas and that many left intensive care under their own power...
Presumably heading for an American Idol audition.
And yes, we've watched each succeeding episode. The wife said she thought the final twelve would be the best ever (is that saying much?). I still had no interest, but watched anyway to show support for the troops.
And didn't Randy Jackson have the stomach reduction surgery? If so, I cant wait for his diet tips book: "How I Stay Fat On 300 Calories - An Hour.
