Fox News Watchdog

The presumption that any and all response from an attack on the USA should be tenfold the impact of the original strike is preposterous. There’s no place for nuclear weapons in conventional warfare of the 21st century kind. This isn’t the difference between a hand gun and a grenade.

The problem isn’t that a nuclear free world is bad, it’s that Obama wants to restrict its use, and anything Obama does and supports (including saving kittens from a flood) would be seen as an attack on the American people, constitution, and a grand conspiracy of the most sinister sorts by the WHITE conservative minority. Those kittens are commies, don’t you know? KKFC (Killing Kittens for Christ, or Killer Kentucky Fried Chicken <– either way, it can only result in the purist of evil!)

The fact anyone would support the use of nuclear weapons, in any situation, is a revealing picture of the moral vacuum in this country’s most fundamentalist groups. It’s a clear indicator of their complete absence of humanity and hopeless perspective of the world nurtured in their protectionist cave. The ends they will go to discredit their ideological opponents.

The more vocal and ignorant voices in our current political atmosphere would like nothing more than to obliterate the rest of the world if it means they get to watch Nascar and drink beer without fear of “terrorism”. At least until the next fear fad comes along. Next time it could be beer drinking Nascar fans who are singled out as the latest curse and cause for an end of days. The hunter can become the hunted if they run out of bullets, which they seem to be spraying arbitrarily into the political landscape with reckless abandon.

I can hear them now… “Keep talking Pinko, while I reload”.

Anarchy!

Patricia Powell, guest on Fox News, got the troops stirring with some good ole fashioned, all American anti-taxation without representa… wait a sec.

I’ve considered not paying taxes and often get frustrated with how our government blows our contributions. But the amount I would like to retain for buying video games or Starbucks would not be enough to really matter in my life.

As for the government employee hate – that’s a grossly misguided judgment. Most government (State) employees I know are Republican. They do not see their role as an employee as anything more than that – an employee. We wouldn’t egg Walmart employees for the wrongs of the company, so why the attack on government employees (that also happen to, more than likely, watch your show)? The fact someone works for a government agency does not make them a representative for that agency. But the black and white world of Fox News has become blind to anything else, including the obviousness of who comprises their own viewership. The new I got mine Republican party is dominated by people with cushy jobs. Was this exchange supposed to forcefully alienate anyone employed directly or indirectly through government funding? Can the Republican party really afford to lose these people? Should we piss on the construction workers doing projects from the stimulus package?

I think this is more a case of attacking anything they can construe as Obamified. Any government agency is a target of the Republican party. This clearly shows just how desperately they’re grasping at straws. It shows that under that fair demeanor there’s only tenuously balanced lies.

I was watching Meet the Press this morning (December 27, 2009) and Newt Gingrich mentioned the “Tea Party” movement, like it somehow validated an accepted state of the nation. Newt – people have been frustrated with the government for a long time. Just because Fox News can get a few thousand of their most obedient sheep gathered at a particular location under the pretense of opposing whatever is their lead story of the week doesn’t mean all Americans are buying cases of bullets and standing guard at their windows every minute of every day.

This is an example of the talking points being used by the Republican Party to inflate their own sense of importance and to rally the troops. Newt is a good public speaker but he’s long been a tool of the Party. We can probably assume Newt was the ‘token’ dissenting voice for this week’s show. I’ll take what a Republican Party representative says seriously when I start hearing solutions. At this time, absolutely none of them have anything to contribute other than noise.

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Bill O’Reilly on Buddha

I don’t like the way he breathes, you know? It makes me think he’s trying to make America gay.

Sean Hannity

Let me be straight with you – I like George Bush. I think he’s a man of principle, a man of faith. I think he’s got a backbone of steel and he’s a real, genuine, big-time leader … He’s a consequential figure for his time. We don’t see it right now.

Greta Van Susteren

Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we’re gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.

Glenn Beck (who cries weekly about how much he loves America)

When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh shut up’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.

Neil Cavuto

I don’t know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don’t have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don’t have time for BS.

Steve Doocy in defense of the growing minority of Conservative Americans

I’m not sorry I said it. I was angry and maybe a little overly emotional, but I’m glad I brought this issue out in the open. It’s important that we address discrimination against conservatives in this country.

Happy Holidays!

Even your coworkers are getting tired of it.

It’s important to note Beck’s “history” to understand the context of his rants. He’s a performer, not a prophet or politician. He’s also not an educated man, not that a degree would matter, but it would explain some of the ‘conclusions’ and on-air stupidity. I suggest anyone vaguely interested to read his Wikipedia page, especially the final section “Public Reception“.

Beck has referred to himself as an entertainer,[87] a commentator rather than a reporter,[88] a rodeo clown,[87] and identified with Howard Beale “When he came out of the rain and he was like, none of this makes any sense. I am that guy.”[89] For a Barbara Walters ABC special, Beck was selected as one of America’s “Top 10 Most Fascinating People” of 2009.[90] Time Magazine describes Beck as “[t]he new populist superstar of Fox News” saying it is easier to see a set of attitudes rather than a specific ideology, noting his criticism of Wall Street, yet defending bonuses to AIG, as well as denouncing conspiracies against FEMA but warning against indoctrination of children by the AmeriCorps program.[91] What seems to unite Beck’s disparate themes they note, is a sense of siege.[91] Time further describes Beck as “a gifted storyteller with a knack for stitching seemingly unrelated data points into possible conspiracies”, proclaiming that he has “emerged as a virtuoso on the strings” of Conservative’s discontent … mining the timeless theme of the corrupt Them thwarting a virtuous Us.”[37]

Beck’s shows have been described as a “mix of moral lessons, outrage and an apocalyptic view of the future … capturing the feelings of an alienated class of Americans.”[87] One of Beck’s Fox News Channel colleagues Shepard Smith, has jokingly called Beck’s studio the “fear chamber”, with Beck countering that he preferred the term “doom room.”[37] An Anti-Defamation League special report referred to Beck as America’s “fearmonger-in-chief” and said “Beck and his guests have made a habit of demonizing President Obama and promoting conspiracy theories about his administration.”[92] Beck responded by claiming that the ADL was, “as responsible for the plight of Jewish people as the National Organization for Women is for the plight of women. It is nothing, I believe, nothing but a political organization at this point.” [93][94]

In 2006, Beck asked Muslim congressman-elect Keith Ellison, a guest on his show, to “prove to me that you are not working with our enemies…And I know you’re not. I’m not accusing you of being an enemy, but that’s the way I feel.” Ellison replied that his constituents, “know that I have a deep love and affection for my country. There’s no one who’s more patriotic than I am, and so you know, I don’t need to — need to prove my patriotic stripes.”[95] Beck’s question, which he himself suggested was “quite possibly the poorest-worded question of all time,”[96] resulted in protests from several Arab-American organizations.[97]

During the 2009 Henry Louis Gates controversy, Beck argued that President Barack Obama has repeatedly shown “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture,” saying “I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people. I’m saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist.”[98] These remarks drew criticism, and resulted in a boycott promulgated by Color of Change.[99] The boycott resulted in 80 advertisers requesting their ads be removed from his programming, to avoid associating their brands with content that could be considered offensive by potential customers.[99][100][101][102][103][104][105] Due to the show’s high ratings, broadcast industry observers believe Beck’s potential earnings remain unharmed.[106]

In July 2009, Glenn Beck began to devote what would become many episodes on his TV and radio shows, focusing on President Barack Obama’s Director of White House Council on Environmental Quality, Van Jones. Beck was critical of Jones’ involvement in a communist non-governmental group, and his support for hotly debated death row inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who had been convicted of killing a police officer. Among other things, Beck referred to Jones as a “communist-anarchist radical”.[107] It has been speculated that Beck’s criticisms may have been motivated in part by Jones’ prior involvement in Color of Change, the organization that had previously convinced advertisers to pull their support from Beck’s TV show.[107][108] In September 2009, Jones resigned his position in the Obama administration, after a number of his past statements became fodder for conservative critics and Republican officials.[107] Time magazine credited Beck with leading conservatives’ attack on Jones,[37] which Jones would characterize a “vicious smear campaign” and an effort to use “lies and distortions to distract and divide”.[108]

In 2009, Beck and other conservative commentators were also critical of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) for various reasons including claims of voter fraud in the 2008 presidential election.[109] In September 2009, he promoted a series of undercover videos portraying community organizers offering inappropriate advice to filmmakers who posed as a pimp and prostitute while visiting various ACORN offices. Following the videos’ release the U.S. Census Bureau severed ties with the group while the U.S. House and Senate voted to cut all of its federal funding.[37]

The controversies throughout 2009 garnered increasing attention and Beck was featured on the cover of the September 28 issue of Time magazine. The piece called him “the hottest thing in the political-rant racket” and reported that his television program had drawn upwards of 3 million viewers in recent days.[37] He was also parodied in an impersonation by Jason Sudeikis on Saturday Night Live.[110] The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart quipped about Beck: “Finally, a guy who says what people who aren’t thinking are thinking.”[111]

In 2009, lawyers for Beck brought a case (Beck v. Eiland-Hall) against the owner of a satirical website named GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The claim that the domain name of the website is itself defamatory was described as a first in cyberlaw.[112] Beck’s lawyers argued that the site infringed on his trademarked name and that the domain should be turned over to Beck.[113] The site, created by Isaac Eiland-Hall, claimed to be parodying Beck using the same kind of straw man arguments Beck reputedly employed. The WIPO ruled against Beck but Eiland-Hall voluntarily transferred the domain to Beck anyway, saying that the First Amendment had been upheld and that he no longer had a use for the domain name.[114]