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Rocknrule Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:18 PM
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What first tipped you off that Fox is the most biased news station
since Communist Russia?

For me it was the first time I had the misfortune of watching Hannity. I've never seen such a simpering Bush shit-eater in my life.
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BillZBubb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:20 PM
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1. Roger Ailes involvement
That told me immediately that Faux would be the voice of the Party.
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Oceansaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:21 PM
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2. Hannity is just another nutjob....
he literally makes me wanna hurl....i never watch Fox......ever
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:22 PM
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3. When I read that Roger Ailes was heading up a new cable news channel.
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:22 PM
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4. I remember the day I relized Fox was biased. It was Oct 7, 1996...
the day it went on the air :P
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Gildor Inglorion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:23 PM
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5. Reading about it on DU...marvelling that other DU'ers could subject
themselves to such utter garbage. I've never seen it, never will, and haven't missed a thing. Neither would you, if you didn't watch it.
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quinnox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:23 PM
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6. When I saw their "fair and balanced" news panels
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 03:23 PM by quinnox
which usually consists of three raging right wingers and one self described Democrat who makes meek protests occasionally and mostly agrees with the right wingers.
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:23 PM
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7. It wasn't any one particular thing...
...but more the constant spin and use of loaded language to deliver a right-wing political subtext to every story they report. That, and the fact that the channel is owned by Murdoch, who makes William Randolph Hearst look like Eward R. Murrow.
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gordianot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:23 PM
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8. I stayed away from Fox News almost day 1.
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 03:49 PM by gordianot
When my brother turns them on then I knew.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:28 PM
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9. The fact that it's owned by Rupert Murdoch
He's a man who, since 1980, has had a continued financial interest in which party controls America.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:35 PM
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14. yep me too
all I had to know was he was involved.
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RoseMead Donating Member (953 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:29 PM
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10. I hated Fox News intuitively
same as I did with Dear Leader (although some of that may have been caused by memories of his dad.)

As a former news copy editor, I found their glaring editorializing repulsive. In my mind they were no better than the sleaziest TV talk shows. I wrote them off as not worth my attention. Imagine my surprise when it turned out people were actually listening to the Fox News crap!
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morgan2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:31 PM
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11. I thought fox news
was a right wing attempt to copy the Daily Show.
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:31 PM
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12. When our local rightwingnut talkshow host, Roger Hedgecock
Edited on Thu Jun-08-06 03:34 PM by MindPilot
had the CEO of Cox Cable on the air ripping into him for "liberal bias" because FOX news was not yet available to San Diego Cox cable customers.

Poor guy from Cox was trying to explain that there was no "bias" in any direction; it was simply that the paperwork wasn't done yet.

Edited for grammer
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:34 PM
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13. I remember Rush promoting the station before it aired...
usually a bad sign for honesty.
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:38 PM
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15. Day 4 in 1996.
On the 160th time they said "Fair and Balanced". If they have to repeat that they are fair and balanced, then they are neither.

Yeah, I'm slow on the uptake.:dunce:
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 04:08 PM
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23. Yeah, that too.
They shouldn't have to keep repeating they are "fair and balanced". It's their form of mind control.
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Mike Daniels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:38 PM
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16. When every criticism of Bush was referred to as "bashing"
along with the wording of the story headers superimposed on screen during "Fox & Friends" (Krazy Kerry, Shrill Hil Bashes Bush, etc...)
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joanski0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 03:51 PM
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17. I turned Fox off permanently when O'Reilly
started bashing Jesse Jackson over an affair. I forget how long ago that was.
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LaPera Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 04:01 PM
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18. Any fucking moron could watch from day one and recognize it...How long
would it take to know that Fox is 100% owned by a neocon, produced operated and edited by the republican party schills. Its not fucking news at all...

It's ALL entertainment that's disguised to be news, with fake and phony reports, to outright lies...Its simply republican propaganda...and stupid fucks around here still watch as if were a real news channel...TV Land is more real than Fox!!
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 04:04 PM
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19. I noticed when they went from bad mouthing one presidential
administration all the time then when a new administration took over, they started carrying the party line message for another. It was obvious.
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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 04:06 PM
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20. They had the 'sandwich'...
the leggy blonde in the middle whose knish you could practically see, with the RWers flanking her spouting bullshit continuously.

They think they're Sharon Stone in the famous scene...

PS: Never forget what Sharon Stone once said: "You can only sleep your way to the middle."
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 04:07 PM
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21. Rupert Murdoch started it
That's all I needed to know.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-08-06 04:08 PM
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22. Can't pin-point the moment, but Britt Hume's neo-Nazi smirk must
have been a major variable.
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