Comments on: Sticking In My Eye http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/10/27/sticking-in-my-eye/ Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:59:36 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: piniella http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/10/27/sticking-in-my-eye/#comment-3174 piniella Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:43:39 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/10/27/sticking-in-my-eye/#comment-3174 <p><em>For reasons I don’t quite understand, Fox has decided that its core viewership needs to believe that it’s getting the true news, free not of the lowest-common-demoninator crap, but of the encumbrances of liberal dogmas. Hence the fair and balanced fetishization.</em></p> <p>It’s because FAUX, like other parts of the GOP’s Noise Machine, wants to discredit any other sources that don’t toe the GOP line. How many times have we heard many of these conservative gasbags claim something like “you won’t hear or read about this in the mainstream media.” The point is that ONLY FAUX News and similar ideologically driven outlets can trusted to tell you the truth.</p> For reasons I don’t quite understand, Fox has decided that its core viewership needs to believe that it’s getting the true news, free not of the lowest-common-demoninator crap, but of the encumbrances of liberal dogmas. Hence the fair and balanced fetishization.

It’s because FAUX, like other parts of the GOP’s Noise Machine, wants to discredit any other sources that don’t toe the GOP line. How many times have we heard many of these conservative gasbags claim something like “you won’t hear or read about this in the mainstream media.” The point is that ONLY FAUX News and similar ideologically driven outlets can trusted to tell you the truth.

]]> By: macaquerman http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/10/27/sticking-in-my-eye/#comment-3171 macaquerman Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:39:50 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/10/27/sticking-in-my-eye/#comment-3171 <p>That was fun. I haven’t viewed Fox News since 1992. Gotta say that neither of these people comport themselves well.<br /> If Obama had handled himself the way Burton did….</p> That was fun. I haven’t viewed Fox News since 1992. Gotta say that neither of these people comport themselves well.
If Obama had handled himself the way Burton did….

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