Look at this!
You are making a strong claim about the Speaker of the House. It's too easy - she said that people who are disrupting town halls are acting un-American because they are stifling debate. That's not hard to understand, is it? She did not call all Protestors un-American. She said those who are being disruptive and stifling debate are un-American. I mean, maybe FN has a point here, that it's wrong for anyone in government to challenge the "American"-ness of a group of our own citizens. Yeah, if this wasn't coming from the side that's had a near-monopoly on calling people un-American for the last 60 years!
Okay, moving on.
It gets worse as we go. Here is another page. These are all from the same damn day!
Can you read the subhead? It says that the AARP, one of the most respected seniors' organizations in the country, "is coming under criticism from its own members for appearing to support President Obama's health care reform plans".Wow, that might give you the impression that the AARP, while it doesn't support Health Care Reform,
has been giving some members the impression that it actually does support Health Care Reform, though, according to Fox News, it doesn't.
Oh Yeah??
Plus, you have to read the actual article, but I'll point out a great feature:
"Recent polling by FOX News shows seniors, many of whom are on Medicare, don't want a major overhaul -- 93 percent rate their current coverage as good or excellent, and 56 percent say they oppose the creation of a government-run option for all Americans."The idea is that government-run, single-payer Medicare has such a good approval rating, that people don't want a version for the rest of us???
Excuse me while I go shave my head and join an ashram and pray for the enlightenment of humanity. I just need to get away. I wish I could be funny about it, but it just ain't funny. Is the Greatest Generation turning into the Selfishest Generation? Maybe, but I think it's more likely that Fox News is just lying their faces off!
But wait - it gets even more bizarre. And remember, this is all in one day of Fox News's coverage.
Fox News has this awesome segment called America's Future. You can tell it's on point - see all the futuristic writing? Just look at this:
In case you can't read the tag line, it's "FOX News, in an ongoing series of special reports, takes an in-depth look at the challenges our nation will face in the future."
Looking at this, you might think that OUR ENTIRE FRICKIN COUNTRY IS TURNING MUSLIM!
Look at the first five videos! They're all about some crazy encroachment of Islam into America. Amazing! You would think, because this is featured on a "news" show, that this was something that was actually happening! Oooooh, they're going to turn everyone Muslim!
My favorite is the next bit, where the focus is on textbooks. The piece - I mean, look this up, it's awesome - people are complaining that the coverage of Islam in their textbooks doesn't focus enough on extremism. I mean, WHAT? First of all, there's one book in their own news report that has a whole section there on 9/11. So, not enough, huh?
First of all, I just need to say: people in this country are free to practice or not practice any religion they choose. Period.
But really, these people are claiming that the textbooks don't give enough history of the violence in Islamic history. I'm sure they are also clamoring for the full bloody breadth of the Crusades to be exposed to our youth. And maybe they are...after all, they seem to think that Holy War is a good thing.
But - here is the larger point - aren't there REAL, ACTUAL challenges facing our country, something besides the treatment of a religion that's followed by a tiny percentage of our country? I don't know, maybe the Health Care Crisis might be a good place to start. Or the putrid corruption infesting our political system. Or our abhorrent educational system. Or our struggling military. Or the choking, poisonous pollution we spew every day.
No, instead Fox News wants to ignore real problems to keep people riled and stewing over these imagined insults to some equally imagined "real American" character. In the process, they just let everything get worse, and they recruit legions of undereducated saps to actually muck up the works for those who are actually trying to solve our real problems.
Goddamn I hate Fox News!
