FOX NEWS ISN’T EXACTLY GOOD AT NEWS
12.09.09I’m very much in favor of America having a right-leaning news network, but I wish that Fox News could execute it without tripping over its dick. The latest example is this poll featured on “Fox and Friends” last Friday in which the 
numbers add up to 120%. And even though there were three people discussing the numbers in-depth, nobody managed to come clean about the bad math.
The snafu served as a launchpad for Jon Stewart’s cathartic take-down of Gretchen Carlson on last night’s “Daily Show.” The wide-eyed “Golly, I had to Google this big word” persona she has on “Fox and Friends” is just an act, as the former Miss America is actually a classically trained violinist who graduated with honors from Stanford and studied abroad at Oxford. I guess that shouldn’t come as a surprise, but it still hurts. There aren’t enough smart people out there as it is; we can’t really afford defections.
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Fox also appears to be reporting that the Leafs won a game.
As a guy who leans to the left but tries to maintain some balance, I wish there was a right-leaning channel that was actually genuine instead of going “Obama is a Muslim Communist working with the Russians to bring back the USSR with all of his czars!” Makes it really hard to give the other side a chance.
+1 Enrico
+Infinity CrabApple
I wonder if there will be a movement amongst Fox viewers to replace her with someone whose stupidity is more genuine.
Come on, Steve Doocy is already there. How much more genuine stupidity do you need?
Yeah, I’m the guy who writes “with” instead of “wish” in the same sentence that I call other people idiots.
I’m willing to accept Fox as a legitimate right-leaning network to serve as a balance to the admittedly left-leaning other networks. I’m even ok with them dumbing it down for their audience (mainly because that gives me another reason to call their audience members idiots).
I just with their idiotic audience members didn’t actually accept their motto of Fair and Balanced at face value.
“I’m very much in favor of America having a right-leaning news network…”
How about news networks that don’t fucking lean one way or the other? That report news, instead of bullshit commentary and half-assed human interest stories.
Nah, that would take effort.
CrabApple, thats actually a pretty good line
To her credit, it really is a convincing act.
Im surprised she said “I googled it”
Half her audience is now flipping through pages in the Bible to find out what that means.
The point here is that while other channels give 100%, Rupert Murdoch demands that his people give 120%.
Fox’s mistake was hiring someone with a Miss America background. Miss USA is where the full retard is at.
I wonder if there will be a movement amongst Fox viewers to replace her with someone whose stupidity is more genuine.
Full disclosure: wehavehair is a Cal grad.
I had a friend who went to Stanford. Within a year he was living by a lake, eating bugs and thinking he was John the Baptist. I’m not saying $10,000 worth of E didn’t have something to do with it, but between my friend, Mr. Woods and Ms. Carlson, I’m starting to think it has more to do with that stupid fucking tree of a mascot.
Matt, if it weren’t for Perez, you wouldn’t be able to rip on Fox News.
/was on lunch break during last post
//fuck Randy