Sunday, August 29, 2010

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: FOX NEWS

Some weeks I literally toss and turn over who should be douchebag of the weeks. Other times, like this week, there really wasn't any contest. As a matter of fact, I had picked them by Monday and by Friday I was certain that I had made the right choice. Let me start off by saying I actually like Fox News in some ways. Certainly not their obvious pro-Republican slant, by unlike CNN and MSNBC, they actually report the news for the most part. Watching CNN is positively draining as the stupid factor bleeds through my TV like a rerun of Videodrome. Tweets on air? Really? And Larry King is the worst. At least Hannity and O'Reilly have an obvious agenda. But where Fox News lost me this week was on several factors.
First they started the week blasting the ill-advised building of the mosque near Ground Zero. As stated in an earlier post, I have no problem with Mosque building, but putting one there was going to cause untold problems, which it has, including the stabbing of an innocent Muslim cabdriver in, where else, New York City. Fox has been blasting the airwaves demanding to know where the money was coming from to fund such a Mosque, throwing their usual Molotov cocktails of deception at Obama, none of which was true by the way. The real culprit behind the funding however is, drum roll please. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD FOX NEWS!!!! Yes you read that right. One of the co owners of Fox News is a powerful Saudi Prince who gave millions toward the building of the mosque. Worse, two of the people interviewed by Fox previously worked for the Bush administration and had multiple dealings with the Saudi Prince in their endeavors. When interviewed they failed to mention this fact, never mentioning by name the Prince they worked with closely. The Daily Show ran a bit that I've been doing for years where Team Stupid fights verses Team Evil. Fox news is one or the other they argue, a point I agree with. CNN=Stupid, Fox=Evil. Personally I'd side with Evil over stupid any day.
As if that wasn't bad enough, Fox News made and televised a turning point in American history. The turning point is demagogue Glenn Beck and the 300,000 people who showed up to hear his speech at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of MLK's "I have a dream" speech. The Telegram and Gazette wrote an op-ed about it and it was very similar to previous posts I made about mankind and the Tea Party being douchbags of the week. In the article she wonders what has happened to this country. More and more of our politicians (i.e. Republicans) are subscribing to idiotic conspiracies such as Obama being a Muslim or the birther debate. In Worcester, three of the five Republican candidates running for state Representatives in the area believe Obama is a Muslim and wasn't born in this country. This is the best we have to represent us? Hell no. And these religious morons are doing it by voting fools into office. Obama is NOT a Muslim. Likewise, he was born in Hawaii and has the birth certificate to prove it. Google it. You'll find it in less then five seconds. The theories about it hold zero weight. As for Beck, he is without a doubt one of the most dangerous people in the world. If you watch him, stop immediately. He is a liar about everything just about. His knowledge of history is appalling and his political theories are incorrect 100% of the time. He obviously doesn't know what words like communism or socialism mean because he's convinced millions to protest the Democrats Marxist leanings (they aren't). He's convinced people, along with fellow demon Sarah Palin, that we don't need health care reform (we do), that faith will save us all (it won't), and that if the republicans were back in power all would be right with the world (shudder). This is a dangerous precedent heading toward a possible theocracy/ fascist state. So congratulations Glenn Beck. You are indeed Douchebag of the week.

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