What is up with FOX news in the morning, it scary

[woody60707]

I don't really mind Fox news as a whole. I enjoy watching Brit Hume and Bill O'Reilly is over the top a lot of the time, but atleast he brings in guest that know what they are talking about and can debate with him (and win the debate, but i am sure bill always thinks he right).

But I have watched FOX news in the mornings every now and then, and the people they have on,.. it's freaking scary. If you have no clue what i am talking about here is a nice little clip about FOX news in the morning on Barack Obama, they go as far as poniting out that it was his father who gave him the middle name of Hussein. As if that has anything to do with anything. The best part in the clip was when a caller called in and said it would be better if Obama became President because he knows what those muslims are up to. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/19/fox-obama-madrassa/

 

[Capulet]

I don't really mind Fox news as a whole. I enjoy watching Brit Hume and Bill O'Reilly is over the top a lot of the time, but atleast he brings in guest that know what they are talking about and can debate with him (and win the debate, but i am sure bill always thinks he right).

But I have watched FOX news in the mornings every now and then, and the people they have on,.. it's freaking scary. If you have no clue what i am talking about here is a nice little clip about FOX news in the morning on Barack Obama, they go as far as poniting out that it was his father who gave him the middle name of Hussein. As if that has anything to do with anything. The best part in the clip was when a caller called in and said it would be better if Obama became President because he knows what those muslims are up to. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/19/fox-obama-madrassa/

Yeah, I was just about to post this. I hate Fox and Friends. They are so, so god damn ********.

Madrassa = Arabic for SCHOOL.

I quote some guy on digg:

I've come to the conclusion that what we've been witnessing the last month is a new spin on an old routine.... the lynching of black politicians.

Just in the last few weeks, we've seen:

- Obama dresses like Ahmadinejad.
- "Misspelled" of Osama (oh, and these two were by the "liberal" media. hah!)
- His middle name is Hussein (run for the hills!)
- Clip of Obama rally shown during segment of a child molestation story
- Obama is a smoker
- Obama is a terrorist sympathizer

I can only guess all this attention is being paid to him because he's one of the first black candidates they actually view as a real threat.

Remember when the black X flashed over Cheney's face and it was all the rage on right wing blogs as "proof" of the vast left wing conspiracy? Somehow, all this bullfeathers is acceptable though.

 

[kulade]

Always a pleasure to see Fox News blaspheming humanity to greater and greater levels.

Thanks, Fox, for the fair and balanced once more.

 

[rbis4rbb]

He smokes? He gets my vote

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

I'm with rbis4rbb, we need a smoker in the White House. You know, if I was American I'd vote for him, I mean. Look what precedent he could set for the rest of the world with a pro-smoking agenda.

 

[Commie #4522]

FOX news is always pushing right wing agenda. The fact that you watch it at all speakes volumes.

 

[skadistic]

FOX news is always pushing right wing agenda. The fact that you watch it at all speakes volumes.

Sure just like 24 is a ploy by the republican rasists.

 

[Elrohir]

I actually like Fox News more than any other cable news network, and even I think their "Fox and Friends" program is completely ********. Just a way of burning airtime, I expect, but surely they could come up with something better than that.

 

[Bill3000]

I actually like Fox News more than any other cable news network, and even I think their "Fox and Friends" program is completely ********. Just a way of burning airtime, I expect, but surely they could come up with something better than that.

Fox is only "better" in the sense that is more of entertainment than reporting the news. And that it gets more ratings, which is due to said entertainment policy. That's not what a news channel should be about.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I only watch Fox if I need a quick laugh, never for news though.

 

[Elta]

lol the face of neo-cons in America, If you don't belive Fox news is the mouth peice for the regresives, that's on you.

As someone on the blog put it

Oh crap Obama has been swiftboated

 

[Elrohir]

Fox is only "better" in the sense that is more of entertainment than reporting the news. And that it gets more ratings, which is due to said entertainment policy. That's not what a news channel should be about.

I disagree, I think they do, on the whole, a better job reporting actual facts than the competition. You're entitled to your opinion, though.

lol the face of neo-cons in America, If you don't belive Fox news is the mouth peice for the regresives, that's on you.

As someone on the blog put it

If he's being "swiftboated", it isn't only by the right, Hillary's getting in on the action.

 

[Kraznaya]

Why would Fox News name a program "Fox and Friends" (sounds targeted toward toddlers) when the average age of their viewers is over 70?

 

[Elta]

I disagree, I think they do, on the whole, a better job reporting actual facts than the competition. You're entitled to your opinion, though.


If he's being "swiftboated", it isn't only by the right, Hillary's getting in on the action.

Either side is capable of that, Hillary is a Indpendent in disgise she would do something like that, I'll vote for her when I am dead!....... or if she is up agianst a crpay republican

 

[Elrohir]

Why would Fox News name a program "Fox and Friends" (sounds targeted toward toddlers) when the average age of their viewers is over 70?

Source on the average age of Fox viewer?

 

[Elta]

Why would Fox News name a program "Fox and Friends" (sounds targeted toward toddlers) when the average age of their viewers is over 70?

LMAO honestly, that got a good laugh out of me

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Why would Fox News name a program "Fox and Friends" (sounds targeted toward toddlers) when the average age of their viewers is over 70?

They're trying to steal the younger crowd from Colbert.

 

[Kraznaya]

Source on the average age of Fox viewer?

MSNBC’s research claims that the median age for Mr. O’Reilly’s audience is 71, (Fox and CNN both report that the only figures they get for median age of shows with older audiences is “65 plus,” and that Mr. O’Reilly’s audience falls into that category.)

I don't have the overall number, but a number from one of their most ideologically driven shows suffices to give an overall idea.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/a...3ec65612e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

 

[Elrohir]

I don't have the overall number, but a number from one of their most ideologically driven shows suffices to give an overall idea.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/a...3ec65612e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

A competitor's estimate of one show is a credible number for the entire channel? Yeah, right. When you have evidence that the age of the average Fox News viewer (What we were talking about, not the O'Reilly Factor which is only one show on Fox News) then I'll be glad to hear it. But let's not puff up our "facts" and pretend that they say things that they don't, OK?

 

[malclave]

Why would Fox News name a program "Fox and Friends" (sounds targeted toward toddlers) when the average age of their viewers is over 70?

Maybe they're trying to appeal to Democrats as well? After all, Nancy Pelosi said before the election that if the Democrats won the House, the Speaker's gavel would be in "the hands of America's children".