Friday, March 27, 2015

Let's single out Fox News. Because ...

George Lucas and Jon Stewart team up to single out Fox News on lying, quick judgments and just being Fox News. Lucas did take a jab on Murdock's recent "can't talk bad about Fox," so fair enough on that.

But wait, how about CNN? MSNBC? How about picking on Stewart's show itself for quick - if not petty judgments? The fact that both Lucas and Stewart treat Benghazi as a "What's the big deal?" way is a testament to their blind adoration to their own political leanings and contempt for non-progressives, or at least the "non-enlightened, cool folks."

The reason I'm fed up with the Fox bashing is because I did it too when I was in university. I arrogantly said it was "Faux" News (how clever) and really ate up CNN whenever I got the chance in my dorm room. I thought CNN was the real deal; oddly enough I was very tempted to subscribe to Wall Street Journal as flipped through its pages when it was delivered to my building (the building I was housed in received subscriptions to various newspapers, WSJ being one of them). Only did I stop watching CNN and paid more attention to Fox did I realize that the previously held belief I held for Fox was more out of ignorance and naivety. It sure isn't the best, but it sure isn't in lock-step with left-leaning networks of the Alphabet Soup. I then noticed that Fox News was, besides Bush and Palin, a favorite punching bag of the left/left-leaning-libertarians. I wouldn't just here Fox News being tea bagged every other month, it was almost every week by the left and its followers.

"Why?" That's what I wondered. It then dawned on me: Fox News was the only station of prominence that didn't, as mentioned before, march in lock-step with the "progressive" agenda as willingly as networks like ABC, CNN, NBC, MSNBC etc. They views Fox as the tabloid station like how Sun is viewed by NYT or how a state university is looked down and mocked by more prestigious institutions like the Ivies or elite LASes. Fox is that news channel.

I'm no particular fan of Fox News, but the amount of tea bagging it gets by "cool, smart" people (the left/left-leaning-libertarians) is rather pathetic, if not bizarre.There's the Palin Syndrome, Bush Syndrome and the Fox Syndrome. It's basically bullying that is celebrated.

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