Should do an episode on Fox news..... - Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003) Discussion

[–] cult_classics 14 years ago

Penn and Glenn were clown college alumnists and to this day are close friends.
So i'm sure they will inevitably get a pass as well.

"You wouldn't know crazy if Charles Manson was eating Fruit Loops on your front porch."

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[–] krause-7 14 years ago

There was a period when Beck was actually a fairly reasonable libertarian political commentator - but he went neo-conservative and crazy in order to get ratings and cash out. I suspect that privately he is still reasonable but just putting on a show to make as much money as possible.

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[–] brownguy2004 14 years ago

doubt it

seem penn dislike liberal crazies

more then conservative crazies

accept when it comes to relegion
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[–] Satan2016 14 years ago

There are far more lunatics on the left that the MSM adores: mikey moore, keith olberman, norm chomsky, al gore, al franklin, ms huffington, shawn penn.

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[–] katey525 14 years ago

Far more?

Surely you jest?

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[–] BandyGreensacks 14 years ago

"keith olberman, norm chomsky, al franklin, shawn penn"

You'd think you'd at least spell their names right.

And if you honestly believe Noam Chomsky is a "lunatic," you need to seriously reevaluate your definition of the word.

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[–] tanis573 14 years ago

HAHA NORM CHOMSKY

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[–] pieeatingpirate 14 years ago

They would lose a good percentage of their libertarian fan base.

Ron Paul *beep* that watch FoxNews, dont really understand libtertarianism... but they know they love it. and RON PAUL! YEAH! and.. his SON TOO! HELL YEAH! AND GUNS!

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[–] Scotty7617 14 years ago

As much as I dislike Fox News and despise some of the pundits on it, most news is at least somewhat biased. If it's wrong for Fox to do it, it's also wrong for left leaning news networks like CNN and MSNBC, and it's not right to apply double standards like that. If they do one on Fox, they have to do one for the other networks.

"I know people who floss during meetings. And I hate them."

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[–] radio_active_sexxx 14 years ago

That's a good idea. 24 hour cable news networks are *beep*

When life gives you lemons, you clone those lemons, and make superlemons.-Principal Scudworth

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[–] rockmail 13 years ago

*beep*

There is hard evidence out now of blatant lying and deceit by fox news. It isn't just a point of view, it's MORALLY WRONG.

And if you haven't found the outright lying and simple ignorance in Limbaugh's rants, you haven't been looking hard enough. There are plenty of websites that tear apart his juvenile "thoughts".

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[–] hmidling 12 years ago

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/fox-news-viewers-informed-current-events-don-t-watch-news-study-finds-article-1.981257

There's no conclusion in the study as to whether unintelligent people pick fox news as their source, or Fox news corrupts them (likely a combination of both IMO).

But when the average Fox News viewer is less informed on current issues than people who don't watch any news at all, how can you see it as a viable news source at all?

Spare me your victim speech, people aren't out to get you. We're aware that other news sources also have flaws, but calling any of the US news giants liberal only makes sense when compared to right-wing extremists. There's not a grand liberal conspiracy, just like there's not a grand conservative conspiracy. Fox News just appeals to their demographic, and since that demographic WANTS to be served biased and nonfactual stories, that's what Fox News sells.

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[–] FatherTime 13 years ago

"I'm afraid that most people who bash Fox News (or Faux News as they call it) have never even watched a single second of its programming."

And you know this how? It sounds like you're just pulling facts out of thin air.

"We have long since reached the point in our society where conservative thought is being as fiercely demonized by liberals as hate speech, racism, fascism, etc as liberal thought was fiercely demonized during the McCarthy era as being equal to communism."

Oh *beep* Stop with the exaggerated victim crap. Is there a campaign to make all conservatives lose their jobs (I don't mean conservative pundits I mean anyone who's a conservative?) No.

"But liberals come off as hypocrites because on one hand, they proclaim themselves the champions of free speech, yet on the other hand, shout down anyone who disagrees with them and scheme of political ways to get opposing viewpoints taken off the air. "

What schemes are they using to shut down Fox News? No one's advocating it be banned.

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[–] scottathan 13 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/user/StevenCrowder#p/u/20/5gQG4id6LBQ
this guy was turned away by the daily show people specifically because he is a conservative pundit.

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[–] NoahBody 14 years ago

Just a few of the liberal pundents on FOX :
1) Alan Colmes <-- along with Hannity, put FOX on the map.

2) Greta Van Susteren -- Duh

3) Kirsten Powers -- Democratic strategist

4) Bob Beckel -- Campaign manager for Walter Mondale ('84)

5) Martin Frost -- Ex member of the House of Representatives as a (D) and candidate candidate for chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

6) Geraldo Rivera -- Supporter of bill and hill clinton.

7) Zell Miller -- Democrat Lt. governor, Governor, and Senator

8) Susan Estrich -- Supported the Hildi-beast in the dem-primaries.

9) Pat Caddell -- worked for Democratic presidential candidates George McGovern in 1972, Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980, Gary Hart in 1984, Joe Biden in 1988, and Jerry Brown in 1992

10) Juan Williams -- NPR host, scriptwriter for Oprah Winfrey and contributor to Ebony mag.

11) Mara Liasson -- NPR reporter *NPR ordered her to leave fox, who's the party of "tolerance"?

12) Mort Kondrache -- Married to Millicent Martinez, a liberal activist.

Now name a few conservatives on your choice of MSM channels.

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[–] jbinsaccal 13 years ago

"BTW the Clintons are HARDLY liberals. "

The single dumbest thing i've ever read on the internet in the last 20 years and i'm talking about everything going back to the days of AOL bulletin boards.

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[–] filthydeeds 13 years ago

I reckon they would do one on FOX News though would probably not jab a lot at Beck.

"I just want to be myself" - Jim Carrey

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