{"id":18237,"date":"2010-08-24T09:32:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T15:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=18237"},"modified":"2010-08-24T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:42:39","slug":"fox-news-evil-or-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/24\/fox-news-evil-or-stupid.html","title":{"rendered":"Fox News: Evil or Stupid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On following the sinister money trail behind the &#8220;TERROR MOSQUE,&#8221; Fox News goes all inuendo about some crazy-evil-radical Saudi guy who is one of the funders of Imam Rauf&#8217;s organization.<\/p>\n<p>They do so without mentioning the crazy-evil-radical Saudi guy by name (Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal), of course, because then someone might realize that he is the largest non-Murdoch shareholder in \u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; News Corp, the parent company of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>I like the <em>Daily Show<\/em>&#8216;s segment title: &#8220;The Parent Company Trap.&#8221;  Heh.<\/p>\n<table style=\"font: normal normal normal 11px\/normal arial; color: #333333; background-color: #f5f5f5; height: 353px;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"360\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #e5e5e5;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;\"><a style=\"color: #333; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Show With Jon Stewart<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 2px 5px 0px 5px; text-align: right; font-weight: bold;\">Mon &#8211; Thurs 11p \/ 10c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 14px;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 2px 1px 0px 5px;\" colspan=\"2\"><a style=\"color: #333; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/mon-august-23-2010\/the-parent-company-trap\" target=\"_blank\">The Parent Company Trap<\/a><a><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 14px; background-color: #353535;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 2px 5px 0px 5px; width: 360px; overflow: hidden; text-align: right;\" colspan=\"2\"><a style=\"color: #96deff; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.thedailyshow.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 0px;\" colspan=\"2\"><object style=\"display: block;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"360\" height=\"301\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:351494\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 18px;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 0px;\" colspan=\"2\">\n<table style=\"text-align: center; height: 100%; margin: 0px;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 3px; width: 33%;\"><a style=\"font: 10px arial; color: #333; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 3px; width: 33%;\"><a style=\"font: 10px arial; color: #333; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Humor<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 3px; width: 33%;\"><a style=\"font: 10px arial; color: #333; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/videos\/tag\/Tea+Party\" target=\"_blank\">Tea Party<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>There is so much goodness in this segment, it makes my heart go pitty-pat.  Especially when they get to the John Oliver\/Wyatt Cenac debate over whether Fox is Evil or Stupid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oliver said he has to believe they are stupid, &#8220;because if they&#8217;re not as stupid as I believe them to be, they are really f*cking evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cenac replied: &#8220;And if they&#8217;re not as evil as I think they are, they are stupid. We&#8217;re talking potatoes with mouths.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which they then both agree is an underestimation of potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I almost forgot my favorite quote, from Jon Stewart:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My point is this: If we want to cut off funding to the \u201cterror mosque,\u201d we must \u2013 together as a nation \u2014 stop watching Fox. It\u2019s the only way!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen!<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/08\/the-daily-show-debates-is-fox-news-evil-or-stupid-video.php?ref=tn\">TPM<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On following the sinister money trail behind the &#8220;TERROR MOSQUE,&#8221; Fox News goes all inuendo about some crazy-evil-radical Saudi guy who is one of the funders of Imam Rauf&#8217;s organization. They do so without mentioning the crazy-evil-radical Saudi guy by name (Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal), of course, because then someone might realize that he is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/24\/fox-news-evil-or-stupid.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fox News: Evil or Stupid?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-fourth-estate","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134713,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/whos-upset-superman-stopped-killing-undocumented-workers.html","url_meta":{"origin":18237,"position":0},"title":"So who&#8217;s upset because Superman stopped a killing of undocumented workers?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Sep-17 4:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I read the issue. And I actually saw the angry tweets (and bilious Fox News opinion piece) lambasting DC for having Superman stop a mass shooting. 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Embedded Link Fox News Reignites Islamophobic Campaign Against The \u2018Ground Zero Mosque\u2019 Fox\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5911,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/30\/catastrophic_ph.html","url_meta":{"origin":18237,"position":4},"title":"Catastrophic Photoshop Malfunction","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-Jun-04 8:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Heh. 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