Fox & Friends promotes "tremendous" iPhone "conservative talking points" app that "fight[s] back against liberal lies"
October 13, 2009 7:39 am ET
From the October 11 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:


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"A Madrassa, This is Huge" "Americans have sex with different Species" can we call these Trends?
Hey Gretchen Carlson, i still can't find that Vid of you calling Ted Kennedy "A Hostile Enemy of the United States" Anywhere?
Can you Pretend to be a Journalist and Help? Or will you let me Wallow in my own Dispair?
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
they get all these "facts" and supposed comebacks on an iphone to go up against those evil liberals. i could slap down those claims before they even finsh reading off of their little kool-aid shot glass.
they think they are so hilarious, too. how sad.
Anyone else notice that "man" transformed into "main man" when it was being read aloud? That seems slightly interesting.
What really kills me is that the examples don't debunk any "lies", pretty much by definition. "Conservative Talking Points views..." That's an opinion. Like for ACORN, it didn't dispute that it's a helpful organization that got rid of its bad apples. It just provides an opinion to counter an opinion that someone doesn't want to hear.
If this application does actually provide some facts, then they should show that in the clip. Otherwise, it's useless, because people can just respond back with specifics and the user is left with nothing. If it's intended for serious use and doesn't provide facts, then I find the entire thing insulting on two levels. First, that people would actually need to use something like that, instead of saying what they personally thought, and second, that liberals would respond to that with "oh, I guess you're right!" or something. The scenario they set up is that friends are out eating dinner. Why the hell would I be friends with someone who can't form their own opinions, and why would I give some pre-packaged response any credence?
I'm almost inclined to think that this was designed as a parody of conservatives, and FOX fell for it. Every other scenario seems, as I said, just plain sad.
I fully agree though Brabantio, that thing doesn't do anything, no bit of facts, if anyone uses something like that they'll be laughed at.
For the love of God, I hope noone is stupid enough to fall for it.
This has to be a scene in Naked Gun 4 right?
The sad thing is, there are many conservative-minded people that say these things.