No on brought up that those new channels were better than Fox News. We are just proclaiming Fox News ****ing sucks. Why are you bringing up other news stations?
How am I twisting your words? I just asked a question.
Eric Bolling should be fired from Faux NEws
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No on brought up that those new channels were better than Fox News. We are just proclaiming Fox News ****ing sucks. Why are you bringing up other news stations?
How am I twisting your words? I just asked a question.
Last I checked we were talking about News chjannels and shows and not childrens programing. Pretty obvious.
Nah, we were talking about Eric Bolling you twit. And that Muppets controversy was made up by Eric Bolling. Get with it.
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Fox news bias is much worse than MSNBC, though most national news outlets carry far too much bias for reliable information sources. All about Al Jazeera, imo.
Please enlighten us all why this is racist.
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It's only racist if you want it to be...
Bolling is just another idiot on foxnews who thrives off playing emotions.
Just as we've seen on those youtube clips, "Captain Planet" and "Muppets" brainwashing kids... Or the accusations that somehow everyone other than "the right" is pointing the finger, hating capitalism, and that OWS was all about being jealous, not wanting to work, and hating capitalism.
That's... Not at all what people are upset about... They're upset about the system being screwed over to greatly favor a select few, superpacs/corporations buying legislation, and a completely unsustainable system that is deregulated and not bringing in revenue from ridiculously low tax rates. People are sick of hearing about how the rich need to have taxes low in order to create jobs, to only see them either not create jobs... Or create them in China.
The mindless tax cuts need to stop. If you want to keep your tax cuts, THEN CREATE JOBS HERE!!!
From what I've seen, most people upset and protesting aren't protesting against CAPITALISM. They're protesting against the corrupt crony capitalism that folks at foxnews want to promote under the disguise of "free market."
Bolling is just another idiot on foxnews who thrives off playing emotions.
Just as we've seen on those youtube clips, "Captain Planet" and "Muppets" brainwashing kids... Or the accusations that somehow everyone other than "the right" is pointing the finger, hating capitalism, and that OWS was all about being jealous, not wanting to work, and hating capitalism.
That's... Not at all what people are upset about... They're upset about the system being screwed over to greatly favor a select few, superpacs/corporations buying legislation, and a completely unsustainable system that is deregulated and not bringing in revenue from ridiculously low tax rates. People are sick of hearing about how the rich need to have taxes low in order to create jobs, to only see them either not create jobs... Or create them in China.
The mindless tax cuts need to stop. If you want to keep your tax cuts, THEN CREATE JOBS HERE!!!
From what I've seen, most people upset and protesting aren't protesting against CAPITALISM. They're protesting against the corrupt crony capitalism that folks at foxnews want to promote under the disguise of "free market."
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The problem with Al Jazeera is that it's a British entity.
If I were to open a Duck Rodgers Academy and were teaching how to properly sift through government propaganda on controversial issues, I wouldn't say go read what the left side of the country says, and then go read what the right of the country says, and then come to your own conclusions. No, because their arguments are always rooted in government propaganda. The big secret is that enemies are often the best source of information for what's really happening when they aren't directly involved in the matter. If you want a fuller picture on US foreign/economic policy that doesn't involve China, read something from one of the "enemy" organs like Xinhua (China). Watch Press TV(Iran), watch Russian TV for US issues that don't directly involve those countries. If you want the scoop on what's going on in China outside of their direct beefs with Japan, read The Asahi Shimbun in Japan. As long as you can naturally skip over the self-serving bravado on whatever the current big issue of the day they're pumping is in those particular countries, it works great. And of course the mainstream US press will give you pretty decent views for issues we aren't directly involved in too at times and the Independent press does a good job on almost everything. It seems *** backwards, but we wouldn't have any need for an Independent press if these governments were as honest about themselves as they are about their enemies when it's an issue that doesn't directly involve them.
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I'm telling you The Muppets are brainwashing kids and murdering those who dream of sheep in their sleep.
I'll take a wild guess that you've never seen 'The Muppets' or whatever reiteration of 'The Muppets' they're talking about, right? Neither have I. Haven't even heard of The Muppets since I was little kid, didn't even know they are still around. And Eric Bolling and his buddies on Fox probably haven't seen it either. But we both have probably seen media that is overly propagandistic presented in the context of T.V. shows or movies directed at children. Don't you think that deserves some circumspection, no matter the superficiality of it? Because, yes, really your brain does a lot of passive thinking and turns down a few notches when the boob tube is on, so you have to be careful with what you're consuming. Muppets or no Muppets. I mean, that's what this whole topic is about. It's a legitimate issue, whether you think so or not. And obviously, you think Fox News is propaganda, which it certainly is to those that just seep everything in at face value, but the same topic that undergoes soft examination focused on children's programming on one of their shows has left you and Media Matters engaged in bollocks? Sometimes business news programs like to have fun. Was there some crazy boycott the Muppets gathering that I missed? Because I would have liked to be there. Sesame Street is much better.
I think this whole process of waiting for people to slip up so that you can crucify them is anathema to freedom of the press and the free market. All these "Independent" Media watcher groups aren't helpful because they are not interested in just correcting inaccuracies and leaving it at that, they all have agendas and they all have big money controlling those agendas. Whatever happened to get the **** out of my way supply and demand concept of media consumption? If Eric Bolling is so offensive, degrading, and simple-minded, then I'm sure people would stop watching him on their own if we let them and maybe those people on Madison Avenue would pull advertising because their boss says so, and not because some overzealous wankers using hysteric boycotts as weaponry to chill free speech say so.
Dude, it's the ****ing Muppets.
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You've got to be kidding me....
It's a friggin kids show. So they had some bad big business guy as the villain.
Spiderman showed a fired executive/scientist turning into Green Goblin, was Sam Rami trying to overthrow capitalism and promote Communism?
Batman Begins showed a group of anarchists known to have overthrown governments in centuries past, was Nolan trying to promote Anarchy? In the sequel, cops were murdered. Was Nolan trying to promote an agenda to kill cops? Or to protect them? Or was it just part of the storyline of a movie based on entertainment?
See, this is another problem with the right wing. They blame anything and everything on the "liberal" "left wing" evil media. Everything. From their ****ing extramarital sex/harassment (gov of SC, Cain, Newt) to now the supposed "Muppet: Anti-Capitalism Agenda."
The paranoia is getting old. This country is getting tired of the paranoia surrounding homosexuality, differing religions, race, politics of the right wing etc.
Just because most of us feel like spending cuts need to be put together with tax increases, DOESN'T mean we're anti-capitalist or Socialist. It's called, HAVING COMMON SENSE...
We're ultimately getting tired of the right wing NEVER taking accountability for anything and conveniently blaming EVERYTHING with paranoid accusations (Obama has a deep seated hatred for white culture... He's a terrorist.. He's a Nazi... He's trying to take away our guns and god.. He's forcing the catholic church to perform abortion...) on the left wing.
come back to earth, stop blaming everything on the left, and actually come up with some solutions by working with the rest of us. The right has no common sense right now (at least the most vocal right). They'll use a bazooka to swat a fly.
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Exactly. So why am I watching a video with a Media Matter's tag in about the Muppets as evidence of his suckatude? I have honestly only seen probably 2 hours total of the guy, most recently a piece he did on the Chevy Volt where Chevy gave him a car to test drive for a couple of days because he has been a major critic of it, and Chevy thought they could change his mind. It was a great piece. Even Rachael friggin' Maddow has good pieces sometime. Don't hate.