Thread: Fox news

Originally Posted by sffone

I'm starting to feel a little bit like General Custer!

NEVER!....you should be more like general MacARTHUR.."I SHALL RETURN"

Originally Posted by ControlFreak1

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - Thomas Jefferson

And on this we can agree!

Originally Posted by ControlFreak1

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - Thomas Jefferson

would you please send that thought to OBAMA, i think he needs to read that every morning when he crawls out of bed...

"It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged." - G.K.Chesterton 1921

Originally Posted by 59caddy

NEVER!....you should be more like general MacARTHUR.."I SHALL RETURN"

Right! Or perhaps, as John Paul Jones said, "I have not yet begun to fight!"

Originally Posted by sffone

Right! Or perhaps, as John Paul Jones said, "I have not yet begun to fight!"

i feel more like admiral Farragut..."damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead"

Originally Posted by ControlFreak1

"It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged." - G.K.Chesterton 1921

And yet another idea on which we can agree!!!

Gents, it's been fun, but it's time for this old man to retire for the evening -- once you get past 60 the bedtimes come earlier and earlier!

Originally Posted by sffone

There's nothing wrong with wanting to make money. That wasn't my point. My point was that people like Beck make a lot of money from getting other people worked up and agitated (and the record is pretty clear on that score). Therefore, agitation, in and of itself become the driving motivation and real political discourse falls to the wayside because people too often get caught up in the inflammatory rhetoric and don't fully examine the issues.

If he is telling the truth and is showing things that are just plain wrong then we need to get worked up! I keep going back to the Acorn story because it was covered just once by all the large papers three weeks after the story broke! If Beck, or anybody else for that matter, enjoys his job, provides a service, and makes money then power to him! There are a lot of people in journalism that get paid to do what? Drive home a point of their choosing. I don't have a problem with Hannity, for instance, because he tells you where you he is coming from. I resent and abhor a reporter writing a story on the front page of the NY Times that is basically an editorial, that piece belongs on the editorial page. Show some GD integrity if you are going to be a journalist and write a story that is true to the principles that you learned in school, quit selling out!


Later,
Richard

None of the major news media networks are worth watching for a supposedly "unbiased" viewpoint, IMO. I prefer getting my news from several different sources, both conservative and liberally biased. It's entertaining to see how different media outlets spin the very same story to suit their own agenda.

Fox News, The National Enquirer of broadcast news.