Fox's Cameron: On Park51, Obama is "sort of hiding behind" fact there's no law that "prevents people from being stupid"
September 10, 2010 9:05 pm ET
From the September 10 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
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BTW.. check out what was on the 17th floor of the South Tower of the WTC.
The revelation of a 'mosque" inside the South Tower is unbearable irony in the context of the current ridiculous controversy. My brain is exploding.
Stupid, dishonest, bizarro, blonde meat puppets, Hooter's chicks -- the content is irrelevant. If they could be more profitable being honest and accurate they'd do that. But honest and accurate news requires lots of people to make it work, so it's less profitable.
The Pugs... under Reagan... had dispensed with the Fairness Doctrine, as well as the long established limitations on the number and types of media outlets that large corporations were allowed to hold. These laws had been designed to prevent any few large corporate behemoths from completely dominating the market at the expense of the American public's ability to experience diverse intellectual and political points of view. The Pugs, through their shredding of these long established protections, had made the very existence of Faux News possible, and has been rewarded ever since by Faux's incessant cheerleading and relentless promotion of demonstrably false right wing memes. Faux has nakedly and unashamedly served as the central propaganda wing of the Republican Party, as well as chief advocate for America's fast swelling plutocracy.
Anyone familiar with Lewis Carroll should know that it is Faux News that should be singing 'I am the Walrus', as they lead their audience of angry and deluded oysters to lunch.
To expand: Jesus was a carpenter (or at least the son of one). Seems he's oft invoked.
THAT's much more important that the FD. I usually worked for small operations (think WKRP on acid), and really disliked when the newspaper/TV/Radio limits were pulled.
Think of this (and I apologize for being binary) as if there were two different types of 'news consumers'.
One is the 'hit and run' who hears the news on the car radio, checks out part of the newspaper (or uses a site that consolidates various sources.. e.g. Google News), watches the TV Big 3 Newscasts, and local, and they get bits and pieces from various sources.
On the Internet, they read various blogs and sources if they are interested in the subject (e.g. Sports, Tech, Politics). They will use primary (or secondary with links or information on primary) sources.
The other would be the 'sit and consume' who keeps the car radio on AM "Talk", reads few papers (probably the only local?), watches FOX, so there's pretty much a constant beat of the same views (see: Fox News Memo)
They will get information from only specific blogs or sites on the Internet, and use them as standard references instead of primary sources (except when the blog is the primary source)
enough rant