Comments on: Rabid like a FOX http://halffull.org/2004/04/29/rabid-like-a-fox/ distributed humor Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:47:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: hulk http://halffull.org/2004/04/29/rabid-like-a-fox/#comment-34 hulk Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:03:58 +0000 http://halffull.org/2004/04/29/rabid-like-a-fox/#comment-34 <p>It just got better. The station owner pulled Nightline's list of the war dead because he said it was "motivated by a political agenda".</p> <p>I'm drawing a blank on this one. Huh?</p> It just got better. The station owner pulled Nightline’s list of the war dead because he said it was “motivated by a political agenda”.

I’m drawing a blank on this one. Huh?

]]> By: hulk http://halffull.org/2004/04/29/rabid-like-a-fox/#comment-33 hulk Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:03:19 +0000 http://halffull.org/2004/04/29/rabid-like-a-fox/#comment-33 <p>What I love about FOX, what I really, really love about it, is that it is NOT fair and balanced. It's right wing. That being said, we've had a huge lack of right wing TV up to this point, b/c Fox News is pretty much it. CNN goes either way, sometimes they're conservative, sometimes liberal, and always do they suck. But FOX News is the first and only REPUBLICAN TV station. So yeah, they're going to adamantly defend the president. So much as bad mouthing the war in Iraq is considered treason by them. At the same time, it's refreshing, especially for people like me, who before had to deal with that blowhard Tom Brokaw, who actually had the gall to suggest we were losing the war in Iraq the whole way through...up until the point when we won. Then they started babbling about how there was no WMD(which there was, just long ago, we knew that much as fact when he gassed his own people years ago. He just got rid of them after that). Basically just don't watch FOX News, because I can't imagine you ever liking it. It's like whether or not you prefer vanilla or chocolate icing on your cake. Eat the one you prefer. Watch the TV station you prefer. And no, the list itself isn't propoganda, that's total bullshit. But it's republican bullshit, and that's the tasty kind for me.</p> What I love about FOX, what I really, really love about it, is that it is NOT fair and balanced. It’s right wing. That being said, we’ve had a huge lack of right wing TV up to this point, b/c Fox News is pretty much it. CNN goes either way, sometimes they’re conservative, sometimes liberal, and always do they suck. But FOX News is the first and only REPUBLICAN TV station. So yeah, they’re going to adamantly defend the president. So much as bad mouthing the war in Iraq is considered treason by them. At the same time, it’s refreshing, especially for people like me, who before had to deal with that blowhard Tom Brokaw, who actually had the gall to suggest we were losing the war in Iraq the whole way through…up until the point when we won. Then they started babbling about how there was no WMD(which there was, just long ago, we knew that much as fact when he gassed his own people years ago. He just got rid of them after that). Basically just don’t watch FOX News, because I can’t imagine you ever liking it. It’s like whether or not you prefer vanilla or chocolate icing on your cake. Eat the one you prefer. Watch the TV station you prefer. And no, the list itself isn’t propoganda, that’s total bullshit. But it’s republican bullshit, and that’s the tasty kind for me.

]]> By: redshift http://halffull.org/2004/04/29/rabid-like-a-fox/#comment-32 redshift Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:02:11 +0000 http://halffull.org/2004/04/29/rabid-like-a-fox/#comment-32 <p>While I agree that a list of names itself cannot be propaganda, it's usually used in the same way that that ad was - propaganda. The list of names itself is not bad. It's good to respect the people that have died for us. It's not good to say that their deaths were meaningless, or that their effort was meaningless.</p> <p>There's a poster at our school [in Wilson Commons] that does much the same thing, and it's always pissed me off. It implies that all wars have been bad, our effort in them was meaningless, and that people never need to fight. If someone hadn't defended that person's rights, the poster couldn't have even been made.</p> <p>It's just a matter of how it's presented.</p> While I agree that a list of names itself cannot be propaganda, it’s usually used in the same way that that ad was - propaganda. The list of names itself is not bad. It’s good to respect the people that have died for us. It’s not good to say that their deaths were meaningless, or that their effort was meaningless.

There’s a poster at our school [in Wilson Commons] that does much the same thing, and it’s always pissed me off. It implies that all wars have been bad, our effort in them was meaningless, and that people never need to fight. If someone hadn’t defended that person’s rights, the poster couldn’t have even been made.

It’s just a matter of how it’s presented.

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