FTFA: RUSH: Well, you must try. That's great. Now, this is fabulous. That's guts! That's courage! Tell him he can't listen to Fox, pulls up my website. Do it again with the teacher behind you. Be defiant there. Because we lie. We lie. We're "spreading propaganda." It's scary. It is really scary to find out just how ignorant and stupid so many American teachers in this country are. They're just activists. They're nothing more than activists. They're not teachers at all.



What. the. fark. is. going. on. in. America.

It used to be a country that really was a beacon to everyone else - and now you have... this? People who are out and out proud of being morons? People who revel in misery and pain and destruction and ignorance?

People who actively crush hope, destroy dreams and want everyone else to feel as repressed and bitter and...

... hang on, I just remembered an old saying about always being wary of he who shouts loudest. Don't know about the States, but where I come from, the ones shouting the loudest about family values and so on tend to be the ones who in the end get busted with a dead hooker in a hotel room while wearing women's underwear.

So maybe it's not so odd.

You put the quotes in the wrong place there, subby. It's Fox "News" Channel.

The teacher was right.

Propaganda != news.
Opinion != news.

Words have meaning.

FTFA: RUSH: Summarize it in 30 seconds.

CALLER: Something like they actually know that they have, you know, conservative views they're trying to push on me and all these different things that there are speaking points that they tell their reporters to report on to get me to believe certain ways and that I can only listen to BBC and other news venues.

Yeah, that's the point I realized that kid was full of shiat and just wanted to get on the radio with his hero. I don't doubt teachers have done this sort of thing, but it didn't happen to this farking kid.

/yes, I was listening when this happened. i was bored.

There are many machines on ix

Help help, I'm being repressed!

Fox News is worthless crap, Rush is a living piece of shiat, and this kid is probably destined for a job wearing rubber boots... but denying him access to material he wants to read when other equivalent material is ok is wrong.

That conversation was shopped. I can tell from some of the phraseology and from seeing quite a few bullshiat "faux outrage" stories presented as news in my time.

If only someone would write a book explaining that phenomenon.

Rush Limbaugh, great comedian or greatest comedian.

Subby: I see what you did there.

/Unwittingly gave page views to the Rush Limbaugh website.
//Now I feel dirty.

Hot like under the collars of some posters here.


Approves.
/Hot like where he deserves to go after he shuffles off this mortal coil.

Is this really THAT hard to envision? Heck, refer to a FOXNEWS story here in the tolerant climes of Farkistan and it gets ugly fast.

Anyone who dismisses Fox just for being Fox is just as bad as someone who ONLY watches Fox.

/There, I said it.

Was it fark? Because it clearly states it's _not_ news.

/didn't RTFA
//okay, maybe a little
///but I didn't enjoy it.

The "caller" was an intern in an office down the hall.

j_moriarty: Was it fark? Because it clearly states it's _not_ news.

/didn't RTFA
//okay, maybe a little
///but I didn't enjoy it.

be sure you washed your hands aftwards before touching food.

fireclown: Is this really THAT hard to envision? Heck, refer to a FOXNEWS story here in the tolerant climes of Farkistan and it gets ugly fast.

Heck, if you've attended college in the past two decades, it's easy to envision.

It is really scary to find out just how ignorant and stupid so many American teachers in this country are. They're just activists. They're nothing more than activists. They're not teachers at all.

I'm a teacher, and I have to give him credit for a modicum of truth here. I am an activist. An activist against the mental retardation of America. An activist against the emotional sensationalizing of the American psyche by a 24-7 Jerry Springer version of all reality. An activist against the idea that being louder and more red in the face and waving your arms around lends any credibility to what you have to say.

Good call, you bloated obsequious pussbag.

C'mon, how can you hate Fox, but like Family Guy?.

The kid was probably watching streaming video of one of those fox news "soft-core porn" stores about college kids on spring break or the danger of internet porn and the teacher berated him for being a perv.

CygnusDarius: C'mon, how can you hate Fox, but like Family Guy?.

Fox, the sybil of broadcasting.

If anything happened in real-life like what happens in their shows the gnashing of the teeth would be monumental.

Fox - good
Fox News - not my form of entertainment

Remember, kiddies: Only Fox has any bias at all. Every other network/news outlet is completely free of bias. Absolutely.

Fascism is coming from the left.

Could it have happened? Possibly.
Could it not have happened? Possibly.

Again, Rush Limbaugh Show quotes are not reliable news. He is an entertainer. Believing anything from his show is like believing in Santa Claus, sans presents on Christmas Day

boobsrgood: It is really scary to find out just how ignorant and stupid so many American teachers in this country are. They're just activists. They're nothing more than activists. They're not teachers at all.

I'm a teacher, and I have to give him credit for a modicum of truth here. I am an activist. An activist against the mental retardation of America. An activist against the emotional sensationalizing of the American psyche by a 24-7 Jerry Springer version of all reality. An activist against the idea that being louder and more red in the face and waving your arms around lends any credibility to what you have to say.

Good call, you bloated obsequious pussbag.

Do you think that teacher should have done that?

boobsrgood: It is really scary to find out just how ignorant and stupid so many American teachers in this country are. They're just activists. They're nothing more than activists. They're not teachers at all.

I'm a teacher, and I have to give him credit for a modicum of truth here. I am an activist. An activist against the mental retardation of America. An activist against the emotional sensationalizing of the American psyche by a 24-7 Jerry Springer version of all reality. An activist against the idea that being louder and more red in the face and waving your arms around lends any credibility to what you have to say.

Good call, you bloated obsequious pussbag.

This FTW!


CygnusDarius: C'mon, how can you hate Fox, but like Family Guy?.

Family Guy isn't on Fox "news" channel.

Do What Now Question Mark: Remember, kiddies: Only Fox has any bias at all. Every other network/news outlet is completely free of bias. Absolutely.

Fascism is coming from the left.

Troll bait.

/God, do I miss the days of jail bait PhotoShop pics on Fark.
//Good times.

Boobsrgood: An activist against the mental retardation of America. An activist against the emotional sensationalizing of the American psyche by a 24-7 Jerry Springer version of all reality. An activist against the idea that being louder and more red in the face and waving your arms around lends any credibility to what you have to say.

Good for you!

Good call, you bloated obsequious pussbag.

Based on your previous sentence, I can't tell if you're being ironic or a pompous hypocritical douchebag. If it's the former, then touche.

I don't watch Fox. I have watched it in the past. It is no more biased than any other news channel. The only difference between Fox and CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC is that the individual anchors on Fox are honest about their beliefs. I don't understand the hatred for Fox News, but then again I don't watch it. To listen the critics of Fox News, you'd think Bill O'Reilly claimed to be an objective journalist and unworthy of the respect of someone as pure as Dan Rather. I realize common sense will probably be called trolling if you have a visceral hatred of Fox News, but seriously, it doesn't make any sense to me.

JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: Anyone who dismisses Fox just for being Fox is just as bad as someone who ONLY watches Fox.

I have never seen news on Fox News. It is always editorializing. I'm not saying the other cable news channels are any better, just saying that Fox News doesn't broadcast news. It is news based entertainment.

boobsrgood: It is really scary to find out just how ignorant and stupid so many American teachers in this country are. They're just activists. They're nothing more than activists. They're not teachers at all.

I'm a teacher, and I have to give him credit for a modicum of truth here. I am an activist. An activist against the mental retardation of America. An activist against the emotional sensationalizing of the American psyche by a 24-7 Jerry Springer version of all reality. An activist against the idea that being louder and more red in the face and waving your arms around lends any credibility to what you have to say.

Good call, you bloated obsequious pussbag.

The teacher unions and the city school districts seem to do nothing but promote the retardation of America. Many school districts no long grade papers in red ink, fail assignments for being late, or hold back students for any purpose. This movement has done nothing but completely cheapen the high school diploma and the standard bachelor's degree

Wolfmanjames: Heck, if you've attended college in the past two decades, it's easy to envision.

I got my undergrad in '94, so it isn't that hard to envision. I'm in MBA school now, which thank heavens is more civil.

hippolaxative 2009-05-02 12:55:01 PM I don't watch Fox. I have watched it in the past. It is no more biased than any other news channel. The only difference between Fox and CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC is that the individual anchors on Fox are honest about their beliefs. I don't understand the hatred for Fox News, but then again I don't watch it.
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Watch it for a day. If you don't get severely pissed off at something, you're just a conservative gasbag who actually believes the lies they're sending forth.

If you're a liberal... you'll then know why we all hate it.

Maybe we should subject detainees to a life of listening to Sean Hannity, Rush limbaugh, and Glenn Beck.

THAT is torture.

JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: Anyone who dismisses Fox just for being Fox is just as bad as someone who ONLY watches Fox.

/There, I said it.

When are you whackadoodles going to learn about false equivalencies? Probably never...

When a network can be caught lying more than 50% of the time, then, no, it is not unreasonable to assume they are lying.

AirForceVet: Rush Limbaugh Show quotes are not reliable news. He is an entertainer.

The only entertaining thing about Rush was when Rahm Emanuel referred to him as the "intellectual force" behind the Republican party, and all the right wingers just nodded their heads and smiled, not getting the fact that they'd just been horribly dissed. Yes, the intellectual force behind the Republican Party truly is a drug-abuser who flunked out of college, skipped Vietnam because of a pimple on his ass, and whose only real work experience before being given his own radio show was as a sportscaster.

I wonder if the teacher's major in college was ultra-liberal arts.

msheda:
Fox, the sybil of broadcasting.

If anything happened in real-life like what happens in their shows the gnashing of the teeth would be monumental.

Fox - good
Fox News - not my form of entertainment

Well, think of Fox 'news' as a Comedy Central show. You'll laugh, trust me, it does work.

hippolaxative: I don't watch Fox. I have watched it in the past. It is no more biased than any other news channel.

You should watch "Outfoxed", which detailed the daily dissemination of talking points directly from the Republican party to the news anchors. The process is like clockwork. They are the only network that does that.

hippolaxative: I don't understand the hatred for Fox News, but then again I don't watch it. To listen the critics of Fox News, you'd think Bill O'Reilly claimed to be an objective journalist...

I think you've answered your own question here. If you'd ever watched his show, you'd know that Bill O'Reilly does, in fact, claim to be unbaised and objective.

Is it just me, or was the moment Obama got elected also the moment that Fox "News" stopped running the waving flag graphic in the bottom corner of the screen on every single program?

There is no intolerance like libtard intolerance.

can you imagine if a conservative teacher berated a kid for watching CNN?

Boy, there's a lot of smug in this room.

Where's Auntie Beeb when you need her?

I teach part time at a community college, and the other "teachers" there drink the liberal koolaid that Fox News is evil. They don't watch it, they just condemn it like good little goosestepping liberals. I'm the token conservative and I enjoy making their blood pressure skyrocket. I can tell you though, there is nothing tolerant about liberals.

Hammurderer: JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm: Anyone who dismisses Fox just for being Fox is just as bad as someone who ONLY watches Fox.

I have never seen news on Fox News. It is always editorializing. I'm not saying the other cable news channels are any better, just saying that Fox News doesn't broadcast news. It is news based entertainment.

You must be talking about the prime time programming which is talking heads arguing from both sides. It's not a bad way to get both sides of an issue at once even though the presentation gets old quickly.

If you're looking for unbiased news you're not going to find it anywhere. The best thing to do is get it from several sources from which the spin is consistent.

boobsrgood: It is really scary to find out just how ignorant and stupid so many American teachers in this country are.

I'm a teacher,

An activist against the mental retardation of America.

You are a teacher and you can't compose a sentence? Hopefully you are only teaching homeroom.

hippolaxative: I don't watch Fox. I have watched it in the past. It is no more biased than any other news channel. The only difference between Fox and CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC is that the individual anchors on Fox are honest about their beliefs. I don't understand the hatred for Fox News, but then again I don't watch it. To listen the critics of Fox News, you'd think Bill O'Reilly claimed to be an objective journalist and unworthy of the respect of someone as pure as Dan Rather. I realize common sense will probably be called trolling if you have a visceral hatred of Fox News, but seriously, it doesn't make any sense to me.

Umm, it is much more biased than any other news channel. They call themselves fair and balanced and then lie to their viewers. If you've spent any time here at all, and I've only been here a couple of years, you'd know that a vast majority of the right-wingers here pay very close attention to all the garbage coming out of Fox News and spew it out verbatim - and then are promptly proved wrong by the simplest of Google searches and at least 20 separate Farkers. Then the Fox news junkies dig in and claim everyone else is biased and that they are being persecuted.

Fox cultivates a victim mentality in their viewers, fills them with misinformation and a cult-like sense of belonging, then shoves them out into the world to scream and yell stupidity longer and louder than anyone else. It's a travesty of journalism, and they should not be able to use the word news on their program.

hippolaxative: I don't watch Fox. I have watched it in the past. It is no more biased than any other news channel. The only difference between Fox and CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC is that the individual anchors on Fox are honest about their beliefs. I don't understand the hatred for Fox News, but then again I don't watch it.

For my sins, I was at a workplace with Fox turned on during the run-up to the Iraq war. This was the time when Fox dropped every pretense of being a news station and turned to complete propaganda saturation. If they had been my only news input, I would've been left with the impression that Saddam Hussein engineered 9/11 - as so many of their viewers still seem to think.

They willingly turned themselves into a Gvt. agitprop outlet, and for that they deserve nothing but condemnation. Piss on them.

tenpoundsofcheese: There is no intolerance like libtard intolerance.

can you imagine if a conservative teacher berated a kid for watching CNN?

^

ukexpat: Where's Auntie Beeb when you need her?

You mean this bastion of fair and balanced?

BBC report damns its 'culture of bias' (new window)

jake3988: hippolaxative 2009-05-02 12:55:01 PM I don't watch Fox. I have watched it in the past. It is no more biased than any other news channel. The only difference between Fox and CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC is that the individual anchors on Fox are honest about their beliefs. I don't understand the hatred for Fox News, but then again I don't watch it.
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Watch it for a day. If you don't get severely pissed off at something, you're just a conservative gasbag who actually believes the lies they're sending forth.

If you're a liberal... you'll then know why we all hate it.

Maybe we should subject detainees to a life of listening to Sean Hannity, Rush limbaugh, and Glenn Beck.

THAT is torture.

I love the earlier post that referred to this as Farkistan. I thoroughly intend to overuse that term, 'til you're all so sick of it you could puke. Jake here is a perfect example of the liberals on Fark who don't want to have a reasoned debate. They think anyone who dares to disagree is, at the very least, stupid and, often, should die a horrible death. I don't see that level of visceral hatred coming from very many of the conservatives here.