Thread: Fair and Balanced

Originally Posted by Hoplite

I guess they missed this one then.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/...y-wall-street/



Wow...and this is coming from FOX of all places.

From what I can figure out, the writer of the article, Sally Kohn, is a progressive that runs a progressive organization. Someone that almost guaranteed would be referred to as "liberal" by FOX and 90% of it's viewers....yet they're allowing her to publish, on their site, something that contradicts what a lot of their commentators have been saying.

Very interesting.

Strange Fox allowed this ... but it is much fairer and balanced to present stories opposed to your own dogma. Both sides of the fence should present the news this way. Some good links to polls also.

Is it making anyone's head's explode to have Fox publish something like this? I predict some cognitive dissidence occurring.

Originally Posted by fishjoel

Is it making anyone's head's explode to have Fox publish something like this? I predict some cognitive dissidence occurring.

It's definitely outside the realm of what we've become accustomed to seeing from FOX but one act of remittance does not erase all your sins.

Unless this becomes a constant trend, I dont see it really blowing anyone's mind.

Out of curiosity, have you never heard of Geraldo Rivera? Granted, he's not as out of his head crazy socialist as Ed Schultz but he's damned sure no conservative and FOX gives him a whole hour.

Originally Posted by fishjoel

Is it making anyone's head's explode to have Fox publish something like this? I predict some cognitive dissidence occurring.

It's "dissonance". Unless you're trying to be ironic, not to be a spelling Nazi but dissidence is a whole 'nother word.

Personally, I think Fox is just letting this on to rub our noses in it, saying: "See, even though you really ARE the 99% you still don't mean shit, we now return to our worship of a few loudmouths who love rich people."

Originally Posted by John Drake

It's "dissonance". Unless you're trying to be ironic, not to be a spelling Nazi but dissidence is a whole 'nother word.

Haha...I suck at spelling. I spelled the original word wrong and used spell check and didn't look close enough at the word to notice was I clicked on.

Originally Posted by lutherf

Out of curiosity, have you never heard of Geraldo Rivera? Granted, he's not as out of his head crazy socialist as Ed Schultz but he's damned sure no conservative and FOX gives him a whole hour.

Remember when they used to do HANNITY and Colmes? They only let Jerry Rivers on to discredit liberals :rolleyes:

Its an opinion piece. What was the poll question? Do you agree with crooked banks? How many is gonna say hell yea I do! .......Polls suck.


By the way I don't know what the question was I was using a for instance. Have to make sure I make that plain before Liberals turn purple screaming PROVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fox also gave Juan Williams a shoulder to cry on when PBS made him cry.

Shepard Smith gets two hours a day. They put Bob Beckel in front of a camera for an hour.

Thats what Fair & Balanced means, people get the opportunity to be wrong.

Yup, no matter what Shep says those Rebels got no hope at all down in Oxford. Heck that bear that he keeps showing (falling out that tree onto a trampoline) would do better.