mind_philip
saw the light
I've been in the USA for a few weeks visiting my girlfriend, and have watched quite a bit of Fox News, having heard of it on websites like moveon.org and from writers like Al Franken, but never having seen it before. I think it's one of the channels tacked on the end of Sky Digital in the UK, but I don't have enough money for Sky, so apologies if the lunacy of this channel is well known back home already.
In the past two weeks, from a roster of several outrages, here are the choice few.
Business and current affairs anchor Neil Cavuto used his 'Common Sense' talking point segment to tell MS sufferers to 'shut up' and quit playing the victim, during a discussion on social security reform. With brutal irony he instructed people with a movement impairing condition to 'get over it and move on'.
Sean Hannity, the arch dick of Fox prime-time, began an interview with Ralf Nader by telling him that he'd decided he should be renamed 'Loser Ralf Nader', and in the spirit of informed debate, spent the rest of the section goading him with a bet of $1000 that he wouldn't poll 3%.
For the last two weeks Bill O'Reilly has been castigating John Kerry for not coming on his show, 'The O'Reilly Factor'. In the spirit of shit-slinging, he produced two shills to perform an 'almost' Kerry interview, and revealed that his first question for the Presidential hopeful would be about whether he regretted the rape of 5000 Kuwaiti women in 1991.
In fact, until I watched Fox, I never realised I cared this much.
In the past two weeks, from a roster of several outrages, here are the choice few.
Business and current affairs anchor Neil Cavuto used his 'Common Sense' talking point segment to tell MS sufferers to 'shut up' and quit playing the victim, during a discussion on social security reform. With brutal irony he instructed people with a movement impairing condition to 'get over it and move on'.
Sean Hannity, the arch dick of Fox prime-time, began an interview with Ralf Nader by telling him that he'd decided he should be renamed 'Loser Ralf Nader', and in the spirit of informed debate, spent the rest of the section goading him with a bet of $1000 that he wouldn't poll 3%.
For the last two weeks Bill O'Reilly has been castigating John Kerry for not coming on his show, 'The O'Reilly Factor'. In the spirit of shit-slinging, he produced two shills to perform an 'almost' Kerry interview, and revealed that his first question for the Presidential hopeful would be about whether he regretted the rape of 5000 Kuwaiti women in 1991.
In fact, until I watched Fox, I never realised I cared this much.
