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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    Is it the same guy who routinely identifies scandal-hammered Republicans with a "D" in the graphics when it's inconvenient for them to bear an "R"?
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    Image of intime intime
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    Yeah, right. The guilty probably got a bonus for creative programming.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    Faux Outrage from Faux News.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    I mean, does it really matter? Aren't all the same hickadoos that attended the rallies the same basement anarchists that attended that book-o-nonsense gathering last night? Should we really split hairs here between the actual color of flannel and size of trucker hat?
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    Image of intime intime
    11/19/09

    @Spirit Fingers: White people all look alike. It makes it hard to distinguish between all the rally footage they have.
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    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    11/19/09

    @Spirit Fingers: Your use (coining?) of "hickadoos" will make me pledge my love to you forever.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/19/09

    @LatestBy: Thanks. I'm almost not sure what the hell to call these people most times. Hickadoos just rather summed it up.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    I'm sure the sanctions will be less severe than the punishment enemas I used to receive at Murdoch's S&M news affiliate, Fux News.
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    Image of UGAdawg UGAdawg
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    Hey as long as you can fool your core audience you're golden. The dumb will stay dumb and the wiser will just have more reason to back their distrust of Fox.
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    MissNormaDesmond promoted this comment UGAdawg was starred UGAdawg was unstarred
    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    11/19/09

    @UGAdawg: I interacted just the other day with someone who sincerely believes that Fox News is the only fair and balanced news source that doesn't spin the news. Oh, and a slightly less stupid friend who made the slightly less stupid assertion that "they all have a bias", as if Fox's bias were the problem, rather than its lying outright on an almost constant basis.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    11/19/09

    @UGAdawg: Yep. Some people just tune into FOX and leave it on all day. Seriously, I've been in households like this. Not sure if it's even possible to reach those people without doing a SWAT Team-esque invasion of their houses and forcing them to watch some sort of FOX expose (if only a decent, comprehensive one existed).
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    Image of VeraEumelus VeraEumelus
    11/19/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: Oh, so how is my mom doing?
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    MissNormaDesmond promoted this comment VeraEumelus was starred VeraEumelus was unstarred
    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    11/19/09

    @Steverino Begins: When my father was in the hospital in Amarillo, Texas with a stroke, I spent day upon day in the waiting room of the neuro ward. There was one TV in there and it was kept on FoxNews 24 hours a day. This was during the height of the Obama/McCain election, and other family and friends in the waiting room would constantly make "ain't that the truth"-type comments in response to things the Fox News talking heads would say (e.g., "Obama is un-American"). How I escaped without ending up a patient in the neuro ward myself, I'll never know. I still have nightmares about the size of Sean Hannity's noggin'.

    (And I can joke about this now because my father pulled through okay).
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    11/19/09

    @Atilla the Bun: Ha, FOX in the waiting room of a neuro ward. Was it trying to be admitted as a patient?

    Yes, things get scary when friends and family are watching FOX together. The weirdest thing is the way the channel takes any outside criticism and turns it into their they don't want you to know the truth crazytalk.
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    Image of intime intime
    11/19/09

    @Steverino Begins: These are the same people who believe that we didn't really land on the moon - because Fox did a special that "proved" we didn't land on the moon.

    After all, if it's on Fox, it has to be true, right?
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    11/19/09

    @Atilla the Bun: You can always request that they change the station. I've done that. Just tell them you're a psych patient and Fox makes you homicidal.

    Works like a charm.
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    Image of JohnnyJboss JohnnyJboss
    11/19/09

    @Steverino Begins: My parents are doing this now. Is there some type of deprogrammer I can send over to them?
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    MissNormaDesmond promoted this comment JohnnyJboss was starred JohnnyJboss was unstarred
    Image of JohnnyJboss JohnnyJboss
    11/19/09

    @MissNormaDesmond: When questioned on this topic my father parrots: 'Fox News is Fair and Balanced.' like Bill O'Reilly has been training him with crackers.
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    Sounds kinky.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    Maybe "Happening NOW" is really an acro, like "Happening, Not Obvious When"?
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    "Fair and balanced - and accurate!"
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    Image of MisterMustard MisterMustard
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    These sorts of "mix-ups" are planned, the copy editor thought it would be some inside baseball for his friends...he got caught and now he will be punished with a high-five and a manly slap on the ass.
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    Image of HurtsSoGood HurtsSoGood
    11/19/09

    @MisterMustard: And a raise.
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    Image of Knight_Of_The_Burning_River Knight_Of_The_Burning_River
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    The serious discipline? Why, that would be a promotion to the O'Reilly Factor, in Fox parlance, wouldn't it?
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    Image of Dr. Nick Dr. Nick
    11/19/09

    @Knight_Of_The_Burning_River: "Pack your loofah, Cindy, you're moving upstairs!"
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    Image of mamacrass mamacrass
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    In all honesty, how can you get footage mixed up? I mean, ostensibly one you've had for a year and the other you had for a few minutes...it seems like they'd be in different places.
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    Image of VeraEumelus VeraEumelus
    11/19/09

    @mamacrass: They should be. I don't know how Fox runs things, but I interned at CNN back in '02 and any footage from that day or the day before was on tapes in stacks near the feeds in the main newsroom. Anything older than a week went into the tape library. Of course, this may all be digital now, in which case it would still seem like they'd be in different folders on a computer somewhere or something.
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    Image of The Recession Is Over The Recession Is Over
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    Just further evidence that even the people on Fox News can't bring themselves to watch what is going on the screen.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    Punished with a big bonus.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    11/19/09

    In reply to Fox News to Fire Itself
    Being fox news, "serious discipline" involves getting a commendation in your file for bringing attention to fox news.
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