I had an amazing opportunity this past summer: I was an intern at the Fox News Channel for the Hannity show. I worked with some of the greatest people in the TV industry. That being said, it was amazing the reactions I got from some when I said I was an intern there. The way some of them acted, you’d think I had gone to work for Satan.
Before I left to move to the Big Apple for my internship, I had to give my two weeks’ notice at work. So I had figured I had better tell my co-workers where I was going. Some people were thrilled for me to have this opportunity, and others, well, they did not quite have the same reaction of excitement. When I had told one lady I worked with that I would be interning at Fox News she gave me this ugly scowl, as if I had just killed her cat or something. She then proceeded to say, “Fox News, oh they are just the worst.” My response, “Well I’m sorry you feel that way”. She then said to me, “I don’t know if you agree with their views, but if you don’t, I hope you do not change and start believing the lies they air.” I just walked away.
There was no point in trying to defend myself because I knew that she would not listen, no matter what I said. I knew that she was a liberal, because she told me how her husband lost his job because of Ronald Reagan, and that Reagan destroyed the unions and put her family in dire straits during the ‘80s. She talked about President Reagan like he was the devil. I knew none of this was true…The President Reagan of my childhood was a great man who stood for individual liberty and freedom.
As my summer went on, I would meet people when I was out with friends, and sometimes they were fascinated by the fact that I worked at Fox News. They showed interest in what I did and whom I worked for. Other times, people looked at me like I had leprosy. I was appalled by some of their reactions. One guy I met said, “How could you work for them? They lie.” This became so typical that my response to these types of people became almost automatic. My response was, “As opposed to ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and MSNBC?” He just stared at me and said nothing. He didn’t expect that I guess! I think he thought I’d try to defend my beliefs and views so he could then attack me further, as liberals typically do, by saying I’m a war-monger, racist, selfish, and well some other choice terms they use to describe us.
When I left Fox and moved back to Pittsburgh to finish my last semester at California University of Pennsylvania, I would go to a local Barnes & Noble a lot to work on papers for class and have a cup of coffee. As I was sitting there minding my own business (with headphones on), I had a lady come up to me who saw a sticker on the back of my laptop which said, “America’s Talking: Foxnews.com” She stopped and stared… Immediately, I thought oh no…here we go again! I took my headphones off…
And she said, “Fox News…I hate them!”
I responded, “Well that’s nice.” Again, it obviously was not what she wanted to hear from me at all. I continued to work on my research paper as she gave me the stare of death because of a sticker on the back of my laptop. Seriously?!?!? These people get this upset over a sticker! She eventually walked away, and continued to mumble under her breath how terrible I was for having the sticker of the “Devil News Channel” on the back of my laptop. It has gotten to the point where I just laugh at these people as they get bent out of shape over Fox News. So why do they actually hate Fox News? Maybe it’s because Fox actually does investigative journalism, unlike the MSNBC news guys. Or better yet, maybe it’s because they get really good ratings and the networks they watch don’t. No, it can’t be that!
Wait – I think I got it! It’s because Fox is the only news channel to hold the politicians and elites in D.C. accountable! That has to be the reason right?
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Very good article. I have had the same thing happen to me when I tell people that I watch Fox News. I just laugh at them and walk away.
"Wait – I think I got it! It’s because Fox is the only news channel to hold the politicians and elites in D.C. accountable! That has to be the reason right?"
You hit the nail on the head with that statment!! I like Hannity but I can't stand when he does everything possible to get the person to say what he wants them to say, Other then that I like his new format..
"Wait – I think I got it! It’s because Fox is the only news channel to hold the politicians and elites in D.C. accountable! That has to be the reason right?"
Perhaps. Or perhaps it's because Fox is not anti-American.
Hang in there, Miss Hershfield. Journalism needs more voices like yours, but you have chosen a tough row to hoe.
as a vocal supportor of FOX i hear this on rare occasions (i don't hang around libs) and i love it when it happens as it gives me an opportunity to shread them and their illegal usurper. i haven't had to beat one yet but, i know some day it will come.
In a round about way that is right….most of these people you are referring to never watch FOX, but they are told by the other networks you mentioned that FOX is bad…and where does ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and MSNBC get their information…you got it, the politicians and elites in D.C… If people would just judge for themselves instead of accepting what liberals in an ideological fog say as gospel they would be far better off, and maybe could even speak with some intelligence!
Recently I answered a Poll on FaceBook that asked "Is Fox News Ruining America". So I answered it "NO". Suddenly I had people making comments on my site that I was amazed at. One person whom I have not seen in 17 years made a comment that I believed to be very rude. Her comment to me was "Please tell me Fox News is not where you turn to get the News, I know you are smarter than that." When I pointed out that her comment was judgemental she said that she was actually saying that she thought I was smart and that she couldn't believe I wouldn't find her comment a compliment. Where do people get their ideas that if you are not drooling over Olbermann that you are somehow not an intellectual. Those types of statements are not compliments and they always show how closed minded those people are.
When people don't want to hear the truth, nothing you can say will change their minds. Your FOX news sticker was akin to lifting up the log and watching all of the bugs run for their hole. Darkens hates light.
I worked there for two years. When I did get flak from some people, I told them that my division (radio) was absolutely lousy with flaming liberals. Still is. I was one of four actual conservatives in a department of around 20; I think by now that number's down to two right-leaning people.
http://www.therexreport.com
http://www.keep2theright.com
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/277946-C...
All they have to do is look at the ratings. LOL
Recent ratings are posted on Drudge…
How dare you work for a capitalist corporation like Fox News. Change your ways and repent to the fascist, marxist, secular, elitist Lame Street Media. Cast out that demon that resides in you, Repent I say Repent and ask Harry Reid to forgive your sins, so that he might pass out forgiveness from the chosen one.
that goes for Rush, Hannity, Beck and other conservatives on the radio as well. Rarely do you have any of them acutally listen or watch anything that might disagree with their delicate sensibilities. Their god given right to not be offended might be broached. Besides, they might actually see themselves in the mirror and not like what they see
I love it when people try to give me grief about my views or what I watch or listen to. I tell them that I read, watch and listen to all media and know more about the facts than they do and am willing to debate them on any point they wish. It's delicious to watch them fade away … they are so used to people backing down
Great article! We need more journalist like you that can relay the facts and let us judge whether it is right or left (wrong). Fox is the only NEWS program that speaks the truth. Thank you, and I hope to read more articles from you soon.
Liberalism is a mental disorder. You would have better luck trying to persuade a rabid dog not to bite you than to engage these people. They don't even realize that self identified conservatives are double the number of self identified liberals and that they are the out-of-mainstream freaks, not you. As if FOX's ratings wasn't evidence enough of that already.
Same thing happened to me in college when my friend and I took a class with a liberal professor and liberal students. Any time I mentioned anything of substance or Fox News, it was like the whole class was going to have a collective heart attack (perhaps Breitbart should start BigIvoryTower). I like your approach, however. These people have no right to hear me defend my views, I don't have the time to talk to ignorance.
I guess it's always someone else who watches Fox News and pushes the ratings so high. Reality is the mindless robots are not the ones watching Fox News, but those reading or watching abcmsnbcnytimeswashingtonpost.com. I may not always agree with the opinions on Fox News, but at least I get to think about what I think.
Good article. As others have already stated, the geniuses that say those things about Fox News have never REALLY watched the channel. They're merely regurgitating the same "open-minded" B.S. that liberals say in the MSM and in real life. The ones that actually DO know the truth, speak that way because they know that the more people that pay attention to conservatives, the more they will snap out of their liberal brainwashing.
The first line of that article:
"Fox News will finish 2009 as the top-rated cable news network, a perch it has enjoyed for eight years running."
I think I can hear Olbermann shrieking =)
Actually we in Pittsburgh love Fox News, I stopped listening to " I am smarter than everyone drivel from CNN, NBC and ABC". I think the Fox viewership is only building up as people are sick and scared of the empty liberal ethos and pervasive corruption they see all around. This was evident in the city folk responding to the G20 here recently.
Mental derangement is at least predictable. Ask liberals if MSNBC or NPR is biased and you'll get a confused look.
Great article! I am a regular on Fox. I find it the only place to get news that is not controlled by this administration. MSNBC just makes me angry with their slobbering all over this administration and never holding them accountable for anything.
People attack and/or mock what they are incapable of understanding and "fair and balanced" journalism is something most liberals don't understand. In their tunnel-visioned world there is only one correct answer to every question and only one side to every issue and those who don't agree with their lock-step ideology must be demonized and scorned. This is the same mentality that causes liberals who have never met or spoken to Sarah Palin to attack her based on nothing more than their own pre-conceived prejudices or the pre-conceived prejudices of others who dislike her. If this weren't true, Charlie Gibson wouldn't have looked down his nose at Mrs. Palin during their interview and Katie Couric wouldn't have asked her what she reads. Sarah Palin was treated differently than her male counterparts and few in the liberal media cried "foul" because, in their view, she was treated the way all card-carrying pro-life conservatives should be treated. It doesn't make sense – and isn't particularly intelligent – to berate a news channel they don't watch, but that's what liberals do.
You don't hang out with libs? I've started that policy myself. Libs are mean, indecent, foul-mouthed, vicious, unjust..and utterly self-righteous about it. You will improve your life tremendously if you avoid them, ignore them and find a better class of friend. But keep an eye on them otherwise, to keep from being stabbed in the back.
The old adage people would rather believe a lie than the truth is at work here. Thanks for the great article, very insightful. Some how I see the Satan more at ease sitting across the table from Chris Matthews than from Sean Hannity. Now that would be an interesting interview. My question would Chris get that same tingle up his leg?
"they might actually see themselves in the mirror and not like what they see" ….are you admitting that ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and MSNBC are the mirrors of deceit? It is my opinion, it is because they do watch and research the liberal media that they are so determined to present both sides of the issue…Fair and Balanced…remember!
I broke the LSM habit over a decade ago, I quit reading the commie rags that pass as newspapers in my town, and pull my content off the web. I don't seem to have suffered for it. I am glad to have the little islands of sanity that have sprung up over the last decade or so. This is the way we will take back our country, by getting the truth out when the LSM won't cover it.
There is no way to stop it, (or us) now!
"The President Reagan of my childhood was a great man who stood for individual liberty and freedom."
Me too babe. I would have funded the Contras myself.
Ex-Pittsburgher here too. Well if my pen name (pen name? laughing at self) didn't give it away.
You have to an off the charts "toetag" liberal, purposefully blind, and totally out to lunch to think and believe that FOX is a right-wing conservative network. They are not, they are just faithful their journalistic creed : "We Report, YOU SHOULD BE AN EDUCATED ADULT, You Decide"…..
They don't go out of their way to ignore stories that may not fit a right of center world-view. Report it no matter who goes down. If a Republican is corrupt, I want that Rep out, not given cover …That should be the goal of all media outlets, but much to the detriment of all (US), that has not been the case for two generations or more.
I love Sean because he's an unapologetic conservative pit bull.
That is beautifully said Jenna…..I thought of it but you put it eloquently into words…
When I interned at FOX, people in Times Square ripped up the fliers I was passing out and threw them at me. Traumatic then, but hilarious when looking back. As you know, New Yorkers are submerged in an insane ideological bubble. Excellent piece!
I never agreed with or liked Alan but the show has lost "something" since he left… Bring in some other lib for Sean to hammer…There are a few that would be a good fit….Stephanie Miller has a big lib mouth but can be quite funny and enteraining…A very different type then say Rachael Madcow…
After years of indoctrination into the nanny state this is what you get. Many people no longer want the whole story, just the part where the govt makes it all better for them. Although Fox may be the minority in news media, they speak to a far larger crowd than what liberals might believe. Network news is on it's death bed because people have lost faith. They expect to see a reporting of the NEWS, and not just a well censored, candy coated liberal version of it. Anyone who spends five minutes online knows that ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and MSNBC are only giving part of the story and often ignoring major news altogether in favor of the latest celebrity scandal.
Shendy, if you had taken an internship with the Devil, …these same people would have applauded your "broadening" of your religious perspectives.
And your most salient points here…that people have a kneejerk, reflex, Pavlovian response to the very mention of Fox News, tells us all we need to know. It is a cultlike response, because they live in a cultlike brainwashed alternative reality.
If Fox doesn't accept the "cult message", then Fox is the "enemy".
I have a small personal quirk with the term "liberal", however. There is nothing "liberal" about placing a stranglehold on principled dissent. "Liberals" are people who are willing to engage in discourse…and even compromise…or, heaven forbid…change…their opinion in light of new and better facts.
Leftists, on the other hand…are a protest cult. They brook absolutely no dissent, principled or otherwise. Anyone who does not accept the "message" on blind faith, is an automatic "enemy".
There are almost no liberals around any longer. The leftists ate them. Classic liberals have had to adopt a new continental drift to the right…or be swallowed whole by the virulent disease of leftism.
Leftists want to not only own your hearts and minds, they want to own the facts. They want to shapeshift the truth.
And Fox News (and Andrew's "Big" blogs, PJM, Glenn Reynolds, etc) are "in the way". Therefore, they are "enemies".
Shendly, remember that people are entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts…and they do not have a right to shapeshift the truth. If we are to self-govern this land of ours, we need to find a way to keep the truth and the facts flowing freely to our countrymen…because we cannot self-govern based upon a pile of lies.
What you have done, Shendly…is work to keep the truth and facts flowing…and that's something to be proud of, don't ever forget it. Thanks and thank you for your article.
Fox News, we report, you decide (if you get mad.)
Very sober and to the point….I like the Liberal/Leftist distinction but the quip "you're entitled to your opinion but not to your own facts"…Now that's off the charts poignant…I'm sending your comment to MSLSD so you can be the "Wooorrrstt Perrsssonn Innn theeee Worrrld"… You don't mind, do ya?
As much as people "say" they don't like Fox or even watch Fox news…when something big happens that's where they turn because they know they will get more information and uncensored information. People tend to flock where their opinions are but when it counts they go where they can find out the truth in a hurry…and that's Fox news.
Nice article.
HPD, thanks. Don't mind in the least…if I write it…it's out there for public consumption. I have a longer version of this concept written previously as a comment to a Roger Kimball article at PJM, when Christopher Buckley "drifted" off the reservation. If you would like, I will send you a copy…although you can probably google cfbleachers and find it and other iterations of it there.
It's amusing how apoplectic leftwing regressives get over FOX news.
Shendy…my profuse apologies for the typos in your name in my prior comment. For some reason I have a need to give you an extra letter. Sorry. Once again, very nice job on the article and thanks for being a front line warrior for the truth.
Well written, Shendy. I would not take those scowls and words of disapproval from the progressive libtards too seriously. They do not have the intelligence or common sense required for objective debate. The libtards will try to intimidate, marginalize and attack anyone who does not share their sick vision. Speak with boldness and hold to the truth- regardless of your endeavors.
My circle of friends has contracted radically in the past 20 years, since I began to express my true feelings. "Oh you can't possibly believe that!" is the tenor of the comments I get from former friends. They embrace their '60s 'beliefs' so uncritically that it's sad. I say sad because those hoary old platitudes rattle around in their skulls without any challenge or re-examination. They're not stupid; just lazy, maybe, or scared they'll find their old notions are broken if they take them out into the light.
Me, I'm feeling just fine. If we'd kill Obamacare, leave the savages in their Cuban cages and cut it out with all that spending, we'd be on our way to a resurgent America.
A friend of mine thinks I am full of it because (he thinks) I get all my news from "Faux News".
He gets his from Howard Stern.
Seriously!
I wonder which one of us is truly deluded here…
Some people have "issues". Anyone who gets perturbed over a simple sticker needs some serious help. I've usually found that those types tend to be rather bitter and cynical people that have issues with things like smiling. Hence the scrunchy face she graciously gave the author.
I think at heart this people are whiners for the most part. I guess it's easier to blame someone else for your own problems than it is to deal with them yourself. Like the woman whining about Reagan. What the heck did Reagan have to do with someone working for Fox? Even if the woman hated Reagan to death (which immediately puts her on my insane list but I digress) she should have at least had enough decorum to congratulate the new Fox intern. Instead the woman went on to give a peevish tirade. Despicable behavior really.
I just moved out of Pgh three weeks ago. That city could fall down around their ears, and they would STILL never vote Conservatives into city government.
And thank you…I'll get it off the net…I like your style…I usually don't read long comments, but glad I committed to yours….
LOL…I'm anything but pithy….it's a character flaw…
I think Reuters is also "State Run and Controlled"…But what do I know, I'm not a "Libertrian"….
well, being pro-american is just not their style.
In a similar situation recently, I smiled and asked the Libtard what she'd seen on FoxNews that she hadn't liked. The reply was that she didn't watch FoxNews. Still smiling, I asked the name of the person who had given her her opinion so WE could have an intelligent discussion. I still get a tingle down my leg from the look I got before she flounced off.
I want to compliment most all the "commenters" posting here…..".Everyone has a take and didn't suck"…to quote Jim Rome…I also like that the Leftist community (HufPo), who can't put an intelligent thought together, has yet to discover this site…or maybe they know better then to start…..
We are not getting the Conservative message out there. It is just as much a failure on our part. Educating the public is so necessary. Knowledge is power. If we want the power, we have to make sure the man and woman on the street, understands just what the liberal agenda is all about. Most voters can't tell you what either side believes. It is so disheartening when you talk to people and realize just how dumb about politics the average person is. No wonder we get some of the representatives we do. Our country is perishing because of lack of knowledge.
"If a Republican is corrupt…"
…Fox reports on them by "accidentally" putting a "D" by their name.
I totally agree. My husband and I have this conversation every time we watch Hannity. It's not that we liked Colmes, but Hannity needs someone to spar with. It isn't interesting to listen to him talk in an echo chamber.
It is amazing how "open to diversity" the people that hate Fox News are. Yeah, right. All true progressives have a monolithic, elitist view of the world and you are right that had you stood and argued the truth with any of them you would still be there arguing. A real shame.
You were very mature not to toss water on her.
They melt, you know.
FOX appears far right to libtards because the other networks refuse to do their job properly, it's as simple as that. The longer they slouch and slobber over the exalted One, the farther right FOX appears even when it has a good mix of presenters, liberal, conservative and libertarian. There's just no reasoning with liberals on this, they cannot discern news from opinion segments by talking heads on any network . They are reality challenged and clearly lack the consciousness to think for themselves – especially when Jon Stuart (a comedian) is praised by liberals as their best and most trusted source for news.
I watch Fox exclusively, but even they do not always get the facts. I can't tell if it's intentional showing bias or just not having done their homework. One small example was their report on Palin's OBiden flack. Fox News neglected to report that Gov Palin discusses the whole thing in her book. Instead Fox News treated the Schmidt comments as if they were some kind of negative revelation about Gov Palin. I guess the simple point is we need to hold Fox News to the fire as well. Don't automatically accept that whatever your told by Fox is true, even if they are infinitely better than all the other networks.
The qualifying word was "MOST" of the commentors…but it essentially correct… should have read" Liberals are confused and it's the Leftists that are dangerous douchbags….." Please make a note of it….
Nice.
Maybe someone at FNC will see this and revamp the new and not improved Hannity just for us…I have not watched Sean's new show since the week after Colmes departed…
I watched stephanopoulos run a panel with three other far, and I mean far left types, himself and george will and laura ingraham..that was like 4 to 2, left vs. right. I have never seen a fox panel that was not completely balanced with left and right. fair and balanced. period.
They hate Fox News for the same reasons vampires hate sharp wooden sticks.
What flavor of KOOL-AID did you say you were drinkin'?
you could not be more correct. Many of their people at Fox were quite liberal before they came such as shep and greta, others are certainly more independent and libertarian types like stossel and o'reilly. Hannity is too much of cheerleader for my taste but, in fact, Fox is a perfect outlet for an independent or a teapartier or non affiliated. Sorry, but it has been longer than two generations that the Media has been sold out, more like fifty years.
sorry dave, I have to agree with the drifter…if you watch Reuters' use of language, you might note that it is just as left wing biased and based on left wing assumptions as the others…wish it were not so…sometimes as bad as BBC
Google–though obviously not Fox approved–is your friend for this, and the many other Fox tricks and deceits large and small. That is, if reality means anything to you.
Wow, the bar is really low here for "intelligent thought."
Let me try–
Everyone else but me is an ignorant douchebag!
If you disagree I'll qualify it by essentially saying the same slur again!
Douchebag! I really like it here!
I overheard a coworker in the hallway outside my office make a derogatory comment about "those people who watch Fox News and listen to talk radio." I couldn't resist; I stuck my head into the hallway and said, "You mean like me?" I figured he should have an actual face to put with bigoted comments.
Some people do not want to hear the truth. Those people listen to CNN,ABC, CBS, MSNBC.
most people who hate fox news have the same failings as most bigots, laziness its very simple most times if you only give someone or in this case some network.the opportunity they will give you a valid reason to dislike them in the case of fox some people are just to narrow minded and hearing both sides causes a mental overload.
Honestly Guestin', do you really think Conservatives are so stupid that we rely on any one source for news? Most all of us were like you, libs in our early years. But now that we have thrown off the liberal shakles, we gravitate toward news sources that promote American Values: a strong military, free markets, Golden Rule capitalism, pro life, right to work, drill baby drill, and the list goes on. I rarely see any of these values promoted on MSNBC, CNN, NBC, etc. But they are on FOX. So, to me the choice is a simple one…Plus I like the babes…
I don't need to "do the Google" to see examples of FNC blunders and tricks…most all, likely initiated by some lib in the control room..Remember, "you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts".
I am an academic and used to be surprised at the world view of liberals. They think that anyone who does not have the same ideological slant and beliefs that they have are idiots. I also hear the "… you don't get your news from Fox News do you?" talking point. What I have not heard are principled arguments to support the liberal position. Lots of name calling, denigration of character, and questioning of anyones' intelligence who dares to stray from the plantation. So much for tolerance, openness, and diversity. Everything is about them and them alone. My view of liberals can be summed up in a comment that Buzz Lightyear made to Woody, "You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity."
You should understand that liberal/socialist/progressives are NOT as bright or as open as they believe themselves to be. They like to be considered as such, but they lack the memory, intellectual power, rational ability to quantify and logical talent. This handicap is why they seldom, if ever, evince abilty at actual, hands-on craftsmanship, survival skills, manual labor, pride in accomplishment, or calculation of cause and effect. They keep looking for help from Someone, whether it is a Leader, or a representative of theat Leader.
It would be so entertaining to have Keith Olberman there, with his mike shut off, and when ever Sean needed to make a point he'd smack Olberman with a rolled up news paper. Ok, so it wouldn't be good news, but it would be GREAT TV.
That would be the ONLY way for Oberman to get better ratings….How 'bout an ax handle?
I get the same reaction when I tell people that I voted for George Bush. They cannot believe that anyone with a modicum of intelligence could do such a thing. The sad thing is that many of these people consider themselves intelligent although they blindly accept the platitudes that they are given on network news. It never occurs to them that they should examine opposing points of view with an open mind. Their lack of critical thinking doesn't serve them or the democracy that they claim to value.
The comments that people make about Fox lead me to ask"Do you watch Fox"?I always get a NO.Most of them don't have cable or satellite,some will say they don't have a TV! Yet,they all hate FOX.This is the insane mentality,of the Bay Area.
Wow, there's just "libs" everywhere, isn't there–even in the control room of Fox news (of course, he's the devious one, making "mistakes" on purpose–no paranoia there)… by the way, not everyone who finds Fox news deceptive and pandering is a liberal.
And I'm not so sure a proper news site is supposed to "promote" particular values, especially if said promoting results in skewed news coverage–say, avoiding a story that's true but makes someone in the military look bad, or provides the side of the story that says maybe "drill baby drill" isn't the answer some pandering/rabble-rousing politicians are trying to make it out to be. (And are using it as a distracting from possible real answers.) And the list goes on.
Though it's nice to hear that one of the qualifications for a news anchor is that she be a "babe"… yeah,. no sensationalistic Jerry Springer mentality at Fox… now there's a value to promote.
You realize your whole comment is filled with what you accuse liberals of doing.
And a whole lot of namecalling here on a site that decries (supposedly) namecalling and denigration of character, etc…
I consider all liberals/democrats unstable. Most of them belong in a mental instituion. Seriously. I would never try to argue with one. They are so narrow minded that they would not know it if facts slapped them in the face. If a million people witnessed Obama pissing on the sidewalk in Times Square and he denied it, who would the liberals believe, one million people of Obama. So my advise is to ignore these loons. They are not worth the effort.
No, you are incorrect. I am reporting on what liberals have said to me, and have said to others in my presence. I am completely at ease in having discussions with them but have never called them names and have always been respectful of their positions. The same cannot be said for them. They cut me off and while have never to my face engaged in name calling, they routinely call other people names, including students, who happen to differ with their views. So, if I understand you correctly, you are faulting me for repeating their open disrespect of me and others.
Whew–thank goodness for echo chambers like this so we can all "win" imaginary arguments with stereotypes of liberals, and don't have to accept challenges to our deep-seated undeniable "logic"–a logic so strong and irrefutable even facts can't penetrate.
Heh. Where can I get some Fox News stickers. Never want to miss an opportunity to piss off a liberal!
When Libtards ask why I changed my views to Conservative, I tell them that Conservative women are much more attractive. Armpit hair on women is just downright ugly. Drives them nuts.
Many liberals wear their political bigotry on their sleeves, just like Wahhabis wear their religious bigotry on their dishdashas or Klansmen wore their racial bigotry on their sheets. They're small parochial people who believe their devotion to their particular ideology makes them superior to others, which they desperately need to believe.
Irony alert
people who react that way when you told them where you were interning are probably not worth talking with about much of anything.
I really hope someday you can bring yourself stop drinking the Leftist Kool-Aid before it's too late…Like I explained to you previously, They agree with me, so, I tend to tune them in and voices like yours I tune OUT…Dig? I'm outta here ….Gotta feed my horse, Foxey…Of course…!!
It's because people have a tendency to not have the time or inclination to Dig For The Truth ! They consider the skum that comes to the top to be the truth. This country is so celebrity-obsessed that people automatically take what comes out of their favorite movie star's mouth as fact. Well, if George Clooney says it it must be true … ahhh……… he's so handsome and all… Oh, and that "Oprah", She wouldn't lie to me ! The American public had s been so dumbed-down and fried crisp by "hot celebrities" they'll believe anything that comes out of a Brad Pitt mouth.
Put up or shut up. Please provide factual, logical and documented arguments that "libruls" are something more than the emotional and intellectial cripples they accuse others of being. Please provide documentation of Barack Obama's academic career. Please indicate why federal legislation should be formulated behind closed doors. Please indicate which Marxist/Socialist/Progressive run country has increased national prosperity AFTER shooting all the capitalists. Please explain why 70 plus doctors have defected from Cuba, if Castro's health care, which liberals are frantically trying to emulate, is so successful. For that matter, explain why there was a Berlin Wall if Obama's "equality" policies should be as attractive as Honecker's were.
Hmmm, wow, this isn't even a challenge…using YOUR OWN WORDS…
"I am completely at ease in having discussions with them
but have never called them names and have always been
respectful of their positions."
Then a mere few moments later…
'My view of liberals can be summed up
in a comment that Buzz Lightyear made to Woody,
"You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity."'
Yeah, lot of tolerance and respect there. Is this the part where you say, "I'm just giving them a taste of their own medicine" to excuse your denigration of "sad little men" worthy of your pity?
Ok, so I am Australian. Big Deal eh? Well I was in the USA during July. Just in time for the ballyhoo over that little creep Michael Jackson (btw I was more disgusted over the way he treated his children than anything else). As soon as we arrived in Los Angeles CNN was full of Jackson, Jackson, Jackson…. at the same time there were two other stories that should have had more prominence than stupid Jackson. One of them is the continuing crisis in Iran. The other was the situation in Honduras. Now I was in Conneticutt and of course the TVs were tuned to CNN. I noticed that CNN had a very partisan reporter in the Honduras, and I was totally disgusted over the way he was reporting the situation over there…. this reporter might as well have been a member of the Chavez team the way he was carrying on. Eventually, at that hotel where I was staying, some of the other guests had a real gut full of CNN…. and they took action. The TV in the lounge area was then tuned to FOX….. Oh what a relief.
Now it happens that a good friend of ours, an Australian, had been caught by this anti-FOX bug. I just ignored his comments because I just felt that he had no real idea about the truth of the matter…. that the others are not reporting the real news, only their version of the truth…. which is not journalism.
Hi Shendy, Love Pgh and Love FoxNews–all of them but espcially Glenn Beck. He's the devil incarnate and the stings lots of libs. Frankly, without "We report, you decide" this country would be in much worse trouble.
Well, as long as you admit to the echo chamber, and can't refute any of the actual facts presented–(it's easier to just say KOOL-AID, isn't it! No thought process involved)– have fun.
Uh, Nitro, I think you read what asymmetrical wrote, instead of what (he or she) intended to convey: I believe the "them" in the comment, "Rarely do you have any of them actually listen or watch…" referred to liberals who demonize the conservative commentators without actually listening to or watching their shows — in short, they're regurgitating allegations they've heard or seen elsewhere.
Thank God for FOX News. My mother in law used to watch the local news at 6 pm and during one of my visits to New Orleans I switched the news to the Fox News Channel. She loved it. That is all she watches now and she tells me that she has learned so much from them. On my last visit, she told me that she is now hooked to Glenn. She is 90 years old. Shendy, be proud to have worked for Fox News and good luck in your future.
Let's be fair–even if somebody wanted to go through that bizarre smorgasbord checklist of weird accusations there, just admit this up front…
…any documentation refuting your view will be just denigrated because it's source isn't Fox news, or, as in most cases, totally ignored.
This is on top of the fact all that mumbo-jumbo is either built on false premises, or are just nonsensical. Just to take one as example…
"Please explain why 70 plus doctors have defected from Cuba, if Castro's health care, which liberals are frantically trying to emulate, is so successful."
First of all, you have to buy the premise that liberals are "frantically trying to emulate" Castro's health care, which is at the very least (and this is being kind) debatable–but EVEN IF THIS WERE TRUE, 70 doctors defecting from Cuba does not automatically "win" any argument. And, more importantly, it doesn't change the facts that…
1) Currently the U.S. has a higher infant mortality rate than most of the world's industrialized nations.
2) The USA's life expectancy lags 42nd in the world, after most rich nations, lagging last of the G5 (Japan, France, Germany, UK, USA) and just after Chile (35th) and Cuba (37th).
3) The USA's life expectancy is ranked 50th in the world after the European Union (40th).
4) The World Health Organization (WHO), in 2000, ranked the U.S. health care system as the highest in cost, first in responsiveness, 37th in overall performance, and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations included in the study).
5) A 2008 report by the Commonwealth Fund ranked the United States last in the quality of health care among the 19 compared countries.
So, America does not have the best health care in the world–despite Rush's rich man comment–far from it– and the dems are at least trying to do something. You might not like what they're trying to do, but it's better than what The Party Of No is offering, which is namecalling and misdirection. (It's Marxist! It's Socialist! Th' gubberment is taking over everything–but don't take away my socialist programs like Medicare and roads and the military, etc.)
"Unstable" is letting a problem fester, and get worse. If you offer nothing but namecalling, you can't expect to be taken seriously on issues when you offer no other real alternatives (and by real I mean actual, not just pandering nice words with no action behind them)…
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