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Posts tagged Fox News
Jon Stewart parodies Glenn Beck.
If you’ve ever seen Glenn Beck before, you need to watch this. It is the single most brilliant video in the history of forever.
(via azspot)
Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally - Interviews With Participants
A waterfall of incoherent gibberish from tea party rubes… (via lgf)
In this Fox News segment about the recent U.S. District Court decision banning the National Day of Prayer, Dan Barker (author of Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists) handily parries a Fox News announcer’s clumsy blows.In just over 5 minutes, Barker makes the pro-prayer-day Fox News host look like a complete doofus.
Via BoingBoing.
FOXNews.com - EXCLUSIVE: U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women's Rights
Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged “immodest.”
Hmmm. Hold back on the “outrage” just a second, guys…
Have a look at at the website for The Commission on the Status of Women. It has 45 members. Isn’t it better to have Iran as part of the discussions on equality and rights for women, rather than have the UN try to just lecture Iran without them even being part of the discussion?
Fine. Protest about the hideous treatment of of women in Iran and round the world. I am all for that. There is plenty about the UN which sucks.
Just don’t pretend that Fox News or the American Conservative Right gives two fucks about the rights of women - all this story is about for them is knocking Iran and the UN.
Bruce Bartlett was an advisor for Ronald Reagan and a treasury official to George H.W. Bush. He’s an extremely intelligent, capable, and well-written individual who is currently on my “who would you like to have coffee with?” lineup. He’s a conservative in a way that most ever conservative should emulate. He knows the facts, can admit error, and seems to be unwilling to sacrifice common sense for ideology.
It is people like Mr. Bartlett that I feel so sorry for. Today, when you say you’re a conservative people immediately have images of Tea Party protesters, Mitch McConnell, John McCain and Sarah Palin. They think of “cut taxes!” “no gay marriage!” “no illegals!” “no terr’rists!” They think of “where’s the birth certificate?!” It’s hard to stand firm for your own political party when so many people are working diligently to make you seem woefully uninformed and anti-intellectual.
This article discusses a topic that I feel is extremely important for the survival of the Republican party: addressing epistemic closure. The cocoon in which so many conservatives live where their only sources of news are FreeRepublic.com, Fox News, talk radio and Tea Party protests— and any and every conflicting fact or idea is immediately labeled as “liberal” or worse-yet, “communist!”
It’s not a sustainable way of life. With the public (and even party leadership) increasingly wearing cognitive biases like merit badges, the Republican party has to change course.
http://capitalgainsandgames.com/blog/bruce-bartlett/1660/data-point-epistemic-closure
(via backyardpolitico)
TAX DAY TEA PARTY 2010
Some quotes worth writing down:
- “Abolish the Department of Education”
- “Global Warming is bullshit”
- “Senior Citizens are expendable”
- “There would not be nearly 50,000 people here today were it not for the freedom loving, fair, balanced, unafraid journalists of the freedom channel, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Riley, and Shawn Hannity”
- “We dont watch CNN, theyre a bunch of lying pigs”
- “CNN - Communist News Network”
Wow, Fox has really done a number on these peoples minds




