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(Fox News) Stupid Barney Frank was there when his partner was arrested for pot. In happened in 2007, but for Fox News, it's happening now   (foxnews.com) divider line 320
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PacManDreaming [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 11:41:40 PM  
As much as I cannot stand Rep. Frank, I'm glad he wasn't charged with anything. It's a shame our retarded laws allowed his partner to be charged.

 
TheNyquilKid [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-11-06 11:42:33 PM  
Fox News is much like a black hole for truth, none ever comes out. We know this black hole exists by observing the alterations of time as we approach it.

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 12:14:50 AM  
Whooptie farking do.

 
AlwaysRightBoy [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 12:19:08 AM  
It's called a Spittoon

 
No YOU'RE a Towel [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 12:20:49 AM  
Homos and pot? If there are muslims involved it's the perfect storm of stupidity.

 
CheddarPants [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 12:20:55 AM  
If all of our congressmen had gay lovers who smoked pot, pot would be legal.

 
hurdboy [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 12:26:17 AM  
FTFA: "Rep. Barney Frank admitted Friday that he was sitting on the porch of his partner's Maine home when police came to arrest his partner for marijuana possession." (emphasis added)

img1.fark.net Networks push up stories from local affiliates to the main network site

That's what they did, and there's a link to the local Boston affiliate's story at the end of the article.

/But, you know, snark wins over actual comprehension, because, well, it's Faux News
//They could report that the sky is blue, and there'd be progressitard wharrgarbl about the sky not being blue anymore, and Fox is ignoring that the sky is black some of the time

 
baka-san [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 12:29:48 AM  
No YOU'RE a Towel: Homos and pot? If there are muslims involved it's the perfect storm of stupidity.

I think half the people at fox would cumm themselves to death.

 
FredaDeStilleto [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 12:31:22 AM  
Geezus, Fox and their ilk will dig beyond the bottom of the barrel to editorialize their opinion of legalizing medical marijuana.

 
GWSuperfan 2009-11-07 12:41:44 AM  
hurdboy: FTFA: "Rep. Barney Frank admitted Friday that he was sitting on the porch of his partner's Maine home when police came to arrest his partner for marijuana possession civil disobedience."

FTF Rational People

 
SeismicJizzer 2009-11-07 12:44:26 AM  
boring story...

 
3_Butt_Cheeks 2009-11-07 12:44:40 AM  
TheNyquilKid: Fox News is much like a black hole for truth, none ever comes out. We know this black hole exists by observing the alterations of time as we approach it.

Good to know this never happened.

 
Hick [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 12:44:46 AM  
i302.photobucket.com

 
Skleenar 2009-11-07 12:45:48 AM  
It's too bad Jimmy Carter has already taken the crown of "History's Greatest Monster". Because if it was still open, I think this Frank fellow could really have given him a run for the money.

 
Fart_Machine 2009-11-07 12:46:18 AM  
Frank is the author of a medical marijuana bill that would outlaw the prosecution of persons who use marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Well there's the Fox Whammie. Frank is authoring this bill because of his partner's addiction to Devil Weed!!1111

 
Doem 2009-11-07 12:47:02 AM  
fox.com is the new newsmax

 
Rickerkioz [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 12:47:30 AM  
hurdboy: FTFA:

/But, you know, snark wins over actual comprehension, because, well, it's Faux News
//They could report that the sky is blue, and there'd be progressitard wharrgarbl about the sky not being blue anymore, and Fox is ignoring that the sky is black some of the time


Pretty dark outside right now isn't it?

The funniest part about your post, is your knee jerk reaction to the perceived notion that liberals would get their panties in a bunch over Fox reporting the sky was blue actually contains more truth than you know.

The problem with Fox doesn't lie with them reporting when the sky is blue, but rather denying that it ever goes black at all. Add in the ad hominem attacks whenever reality doesn't fit their worldview...and that's why most liberals people, have a problem with Fox News lately.

not that that has anything to do with the article mind you, but I thought I should point it out.

 
Hot Rod Zoidberg 2009-11-07 12:48:33 AM  
Oh man, you libs must be so ashamed, especially seeing how you're all so against weeds and gays.

 
3_Butt_Cheeks 2009-11-07 12:49:28 AM  
Fart_Machine: Frank is the author of a medical marijuana bill that would outlaw the prosecution of persons who use marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Well there's the Fox Whammie. Frank is authoring this bill because of his partner's addiction to Devil Weed!!1111


That's what you got from that?

Mmmmkay.

 
MiddleyMcCentrist 2009-11-07 12:50:03 AM  
Fox : News :: Leonard Part 6 : Cinema

 
Alphax 2009-11-07 12:51:18 AM  
hurdboy: //They could report that the sky is blue, and there'd be progressitard wharrgarbl about the sky not being blue anymore, and Fox is ignoring that the sky is black some of the time

Ah, but Fox wouldn't report that the sky was blue. False premise.

 
NeverDrunk23 2009-11-07 12:52:53 AM  
Fox News can be biased all they want. Whatever to that.

However, that 'Fair and Balanced' bullshiat claim is what annoys people. They are the most biased out of all the networks but try to push this false image that they aren't biased. If they just admitted to it, people wouldn't have as much of an issue. But FN is too busy claiming to be on the high road of integrity and fairness while in reality they are licking every piece of crap on the low road.

 
RockIsDead 2009-11-07 12:53:03 AM  
Wow.

They're really reaching around for that story!

/ghey
//as an intern

 
Car_Ramrod 2009-11-07 12:53:10 AM  
img132.imageshack.us

 
Curse of the Goth Kids 2009-11-07 12:53:53 AM  
Well, the War On Drugs always was a very popular Small Government™ initiative for the conservative GOP.

Also:

MiddleyMcCentrist: Fox : News :: Leonard Part 6 : Cinema

dude that was harsh

 
RockIsDead 2009-11-07 12:55:54 AM  
NeverDrunk23: Fox News can be biased all they want. Whatever to that.

However, that 'Fair and Balanced' bullshiat claim is what annoys people. They are the most biased out of all the networks but try to push this false image that they aren't biased. If they just admitted to it, people wouldn't have as much of an issue. But FN is too busy claiming to be on the high road of integrity and fairness while in reality they are licking every piece of crap on the low road.


So, it's really just the advertising slogan that gets your goat?

Like "The quicker-picker-upper"?

You must have many a sleepless night!

 
Hick [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 12:56:07 AM  
NeverDrunk23: Fox News can be biased all they want. Whatever to that.

However, that 'Fair and Balanced' bullshiat claim is what annoys people. .


Only the Liberals.

 
TheRaven7 2009-11-07 12:59:14 AM  
I've never met a member of DARE, but for the life of me I can't comprehend why anyone would be so irrationally against a plant that isn't addictive and has no permanent side-effects.

And yet we give corporations permits to put dead cocaine leaves in their product to preserve a non-existent status quo.

 
sewiusproductions 2009-11-07 12:59:30 AM  
RockIsDead: They're really reaching around for that story!

img.photobucket.com

 
Driving Without Pants 2009-11-07 01:01:16 AM  
Do conservatives know anything about Barney Frank other than that he's both liberal and openly gay?

 
A Dark Evil Omen 2009-11-07 01:01:38 AM  
Nice to have a good, solid reminder of what the Small Government Party That Believes Government Should Leave You Alone stands for: Arresting people for owning dried plant matter.

 
A Dark Evil Omen 2009-11-07 01:02:30 AM  
Driving Without Pants: Do conservatives know anything about Barney Frank other than that he's both liberal and openly gay?

Isn't that enough? He's worse than Hitler!

 
The Dog Ate The Constitution 2009-11-07 01:03:24 AM  
The name of the author of this fine article is Alison Bologna.

That is all.

 
NeverDrunk23 2009-11-07 01:03:26 AM  
Driving Without Pants: Do conservatives know anything about Barney Frank other than that he's both liberal and openly gay?

What makes you think they need anything else to know about him? That's all their hatred needs to know.

 
3_Butt_Cheeks 2009-11-07 01:03:29 AM  
A Dark Evil Omen: Nice to have a good, solid reminder of what the Small Government Party That Believes Government Should Leave You Alone stands for: Arresting people for owning dried plant matter.

Damn the police for enforcing those pesky laws.

I think all of us should simply follow the laws we like. I bet things will be much better then.

 
Britney Spear's Speculum 2009-11-07 01:04:49 AM  
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

 
The All-Powerful Atheismo 2009-11-07 01:06:23 AM  
A Dark Evil Omen: Driving Without Pants: Do conservatives know anything about Barney Frank other than that he's both liberal and openly gay?

Isn't that enough? He's worse than Hitler!


Is it even possible to be worse than Obama?

 
RevMercutio [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 01:07:08 AM  
Hick: NeverDrunk23: Fox News can be biased all they want. Whatever to that.

However, that 'Fair and Balanced' bullshiat claim is what annoys people. .

Only the Liberals.


Because people like you love to be lied to, apparently.

 
GratuityIncluded 2009-11-07 01:07:23 AM  
I like how FOX kicks everyone's ass in the ratings (almost two times over) and the haters get threads on FARK with misspelled words in the headline.

 
hurdboy [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 01:08:23 AM  
Rickerkioz: The funniest part about your post, is your knee jerk reaction to the perceived notion that liberals would get their panties in a bunch over Fox reporting the sky was blue actually contains more truth than you know.

Willful ignorance of my point. If Fox reported something that's generally accepted as true, there's a large, well-funded cadre of professional detractors who'll complain about it.

The problem with Fox doesn't lie with them reporting when the sky is blue, but rather denying that it ever goes black at all.

Some of their commentators, yes. There's nothing that can save Hannity. But the same could be said of Olbermann and Lou Dobbs. The news reporting is amazingly straight for most things, though they do tend to focus on the sensationalist stories. I have a feeling a lot of the content editors read Fark constantly.

Add in the ad hominem attacks whenever reality doesn't fit their worldview...and that's why most liberals people, have a problem with Fox News lately.

And those attacks are contained, where, exactly in this story? Oh, that's right, it's from Fox, so why bother reading anything beyond the headline!

And, judging by the cable ratings, I think your assumptions about viewership are quite off-the-mark.

not that that has anything to do with the article mind you, but I thought I should point it out.

Because it serves your political purposes. I accept that. But it still doesn't change the fact that the headline here is completely ignorant of the reality of the situation here. If it'd been an AP article, would that have changed their story? No, probably not. Would have it changed subby's headline? Absolutely not, because, WAAH FAUX NEWS.

I spent eight years working in television and radio on the local level, but also reported in a couple of situations for national and international sources (ABC radio, BBC via phone during a situation, via print for UPI....didn't get credit for that, and I'm still PO'd about it. Thank you, mister news director).

But there's no difference between the local Fox stations and the local big three stations. What sets Fox News apart from CNN and the broadcast networks is that they use local news delivery for everything. Every week is sweeps week on Fox. The more sensational the story, the more colloquial the delivery, the more people who watch.

And, despite the "noble" intentions of "journalists," they get paid to get people to stick around long enough to hear or see commercials. Nobody does that better than Fox.

 
A Dark Evil Omen 2009-11-07 01:08:52 AM  
GratuityIncluded: I like how FOX kicks everyone's ass in the ratings (almost two times over) and the haters get threads on FARK with misspelled words in the headline.

Yep, they kick everyone's ass in the carefully couched world of cable news in certain timeslots in certain markets.

And in turn get theirs handed to them by a cartoon sponge.

 
Car_Ramrod 2009-11-07 01:08:58 AM  
GratuityIncluded: I like how FOX kicks everyone's ass in the ratings (almost two times over) and the haters get threads on FARK with misspelled words in the headline.

Liberal MSM media.

 
The All-Powerful Atheismo 2009-11-07 01:10:42 AM  
Car_Ramrod: GratuityIncluded: I like how FOX kicks everyone's ass in the ratings (almost two times over) and the haters get threads on FARK with misspelled words in the headline.

Liberal MSM media. Liberal MSM Mainstream Lib Media.

 
A Dark Evil Omen 2009-11-07 01:12:01 AM  
3_Butt_Cheeks: A Dark Evil Omen: Nice to have a good, solid reminder of what the Small Government Party That Believes Government Should Leave You Alone stands for: Arresting people for owning dried plant matter.

Damn the police for enforcing those pesky laws.

I think all of us should simply follow the laws we like. I bet things will be much better then.


Just saying. You guys had eight years to prove that there's anything to the whole "less government intrusion" stuff you like to pound on, and we got massive expansions of military and police powers, which you now selectively whine about except when it's pointed out that it's there because of you guys. Good job.

Oh, wait... You're a Free-Thinking Independent and so that has nothing at all to do with you, right?

 
The Dog Ate The Constitution 2009-11-07 01:12:14 AM  
GratuityIncluded: I like how FOX kicks everyone's ass in the ratings (almost two times over) and the haters get threads on FARK with misspelled words in the headline.

Fox is known to misplace a letter or two as well.

i34.tinypic.com
i37.tinypic.com
www.loudmurmurs.com
www.huffingtonpost.com

 
3_Butt_Cheeks 2009-11-07 01:13:11 AM  
A Dark Evil Omen: 3_Butt_Cheeks: A Dark Evil Omen: Nice to have a good, solid reminder of what the Small Government Party That Believes Government Should Leave You Alone stands for: Arresting people for owning dried plant matter.

Damn the police for enforcing those pesky laws.

I think all of us should simply follow the laws we like. I bet things will be much better then.

Just saying. You guys had eight years to prove that there's anything to the whole "less government intrusion" stuff you like to pound on, and we got massive expansions of military and police powers, which you now selectively whine about except when it's pointed out that it's there because of you guys. Good job.

Oh, wait... You're a Free-Thinking Independent and so that has nothing at all to do with you, right?


No, I'm a federal employee who enforces laws actually. I did under Bush, and now under Obama.

 
GratuityIncluded 2009-11-07 01:13:48 AM  
Certain markets? I beg your pardon.

/ "I beg your pardon." That's the South's way of saying: "Get your head out of your ass."
// In all seriousness, your rebuttal doesn't stand up to reason. I've never seen a good example of FOX getting their ass handed to them.

 
RockIsDead 2009-11-07 01:14:04 AM  
RevMercutio: Hick: NeverDrunk23: Fox News can be biased all they want. Whatever to that.

However, that 'Fair and Balanced' bullshiat claim is what annoys people. .

Only the Liberals.

Because people like you love to be lied to, apparently.


Nope, just adept enough to not get upset over stupid slogans or take them too seriously.

But then, you all voted en masse for ♥♫♪Hope and Change!♥♫♪

 
RevMercutio [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 01:15:01 AM  
GratuityIncluded: I like how FOX kicks everyone's ass in the ratings (almost two times over) and the haters get threads on FARK with misspelled words in the headline.

By "kicks everyone's ass", we mean "gets half the ratings of pro wrestling and doesn't even have as much good advertising."

Call them Fox Ratings Whores, since apparently that's more important than being honest.

 
Somacandra [TotalFark] 2009-11-07 01:15:09 AM  
MiddleyMcCentrist: Fox : News :: Leonard Part 6 : Cinema

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AS

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