"The problem with the Fox slogan 'Fair and Balanced' is that it's not" -- fair and balanced
Fair and Unbalanced
“And in that day men will weary of life, and they will cease to think the universe worthy of reverent wonder and worship. ...Darkness will be preferred to light…[and] no one will raise his eyes to heaven; the pious will be deemed insane, and the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good. ...all things will be disordered and awry; all good will disappear. But when all this has befallen…then the Master and Father, God…will look on that which has come to pass, and will stay the disorder by the counterworking of his will, which is the good. He will call back to the right path those who have gone astray; he will cleanse the world from evil, now washing it away with water-floods, now burning it out with fiercest fire, or again expelling it by war and pestilence. And thus he will bring back his world to its former aspect, so that the Kosmos will once more be deemed worthy of worship and wondering reverence….” —From the “Corpus Hermetica” written circa 200-300 AD—translation by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
I was watching Fox News the other day (I know, I know, but I was channel surfing and got sucked in by a segment on “Fast and Furious”), and as I was watching I thought to myself, “The problem with the Fox slogan ‘Fair and Balanced’ is that it’s not”—fair and balanced, that is. If there was really truth in advertising, then the Fox slogan would be something along the lines of “Fair and Unbalanced,” or “Sane, and Nuts.” What Fox means by “fair and balanced” is a spectrum representing sides from the Far Left to marginally right-wing conservatism of the liberal kind. Truly conservative views are lumped in with the “Far Right loons,” and given no serious consideration.
That is not fair and balanced at all; that is blatantly unbalanced in favor of the liberal side of things. It is also unbalanced in the sense that the Far Left weltanschauung is demonstrably crazy. A Fox point/counter-point typically consists of a sane, conservative view, versus a jejune, destructive, and unbalanced—as in insane —liberal view.
Whatever the opposite of the Midas touch is, liberals have it in spades. Most every social program that they touch turns to c—p before your very eyes—it’s a “gift” they have. Link
Liberals are the acknowledged masters of producing “unintended consequences” (read that as screw-ups)—unintended consequences that they seldom admit to, and in fact seem incapable of recognizing. Their immaturity, coupled with their trademark arrogance is off-putting to say the least. Why does Fox News feel that it is necessary to give equal time to these clueless, if verbose morons? Yes they are sometimes quite educated—but educated in what, and to what end? Link
America would be much better served by a debate between, say a John Birch Society spokesperson, and a liberal conservative, then between a liberal conservative and an indoctrinated tool of The Machine. Link
And let’s have no more talk of the media’s liberal bias —they are not biased, they are straight-up propaganda outlets for The Machine. “The Machine” being the Marxist/Fascist mélange of big corporations, big government, big banks, unions and puppet-masters that are The Powers That Be. The MSMs are actually LPOs (Leftist Propaganda Outlets)—nothing more, or less.
Given the deplorable state of America’s “news” venues, I suppose I should be glad that Fox News, at least, is not totally committed to the anti-American views of the Far Left. I’ll take my silver linings where I find them.
Perhaps after the coming tribulations, after the dust has settled, Fox News will change their slogan to “Fair and Sane,” and stop giving equal time to those whose track record has proven their “notions” to be mostly impractical, if not outright suicidal and unbalanced. One lives in hope.
Laus Deo.
P.S. Speaking of hope—I hope to see you in Washington DC on the 11th. If you have not yet seen the “Tea Party Versus Occupy Wall Street Checklist” you should look it up. It serves as a brief synopsis of why the “Restore the Constitution” rally is being held. Be there, or be square. Link Link Link Link
 P.S.S. I recently saw a graphic of a colonial patriot taking out the garbage—the garbage in question being RINOs and Democrats, as represented by the GOP elephant, and Democrat jack-ass symbols. As they say, “one picture is worth a thousand words.” (A tip of the hat to Col. Riley and Lloyd).
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Born in June of 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jim O’Neill (constitutionalwrites.com) proudly served in the U.S. Navy from 1970-1974 in both UDT-21 (Underwater Demolition Team) and SEAL Team Two. A member of MENSA, he worked as a commercial diver in the waters off Scotland, India, and the United States. In 1998 while attending the University of South Florida as a journalism student, O’Neill won “First Place” in the “Carol Burnett/University of Hawaii AEJMC Research in Journalism Ethics Award.” The annual contest was set up by Carol Burnett with the money she won from successfully suing the National Enquirer for libel.
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