Why FOX NEWS, Isn't actually NEWS at all

Well, that is over SEVEN MINUTES LONG – WAY too much sensibility and reasonableness to expect Terry or Larry to suffer through.

Larry says Keith and Rachel are “bought and paid for” – really, who bought and paid for them, Juice Brother, we’d like to know this! As far as I know they are paid by MSNBC because they are popular and beloved to a boatload of us citizen viewers, and hence attract advertisers.

And Terry lazily labels Rachel a “Democratic Party mouthpiece,” making it clear that he has never watched an hour of her; she (more than Keith but sometimes he too) regularly criticizes the White House and Congressional Democrats from a left perspective.

But I know that hearing this “carpet chewer” out for 7 minutes plus would be way too painful for these two (although I’ve suffered thru numerous of their rightie clips) so I’ll summarize it for them: Rachel contends that Fox is not a news channel, or not simply a news channel, and that the White House is correct to recognize this and behave accordingly toward it, BECAUSE one of FOX’s biggest activities lately is organizing anti-government protests.

NOW I will do Terry and Larry a great favor that they don’t deserve, and tell them what their next comeback should be: Keith Olbermann (which they wouldn’t know as they are afraid to watch him) has been organizing pro-healthcare reform events himself, for a few weeks now. It would be inaccurate (but not beneath their usual standards) to call these “pro-government events” – inaccurate because it’s pretty hard to tell if the White House really wants the strong public option that us progressives are fighting for. But if I were Terry and Larry I’d start calling out the White House on double standards for treating MSNBC like a news channel when it’s starting to do something a little bit like Fox but on the opposite side. You want to try that line, guys? You would be on more solid ground than usual.

OH yeah.

Duane! That’s great! But that Green maniac will be blasting me from the left though, calling me a Democrat hack. Whatever will the Great One say?

This is hilarious! A bunch of Democrat apologists first denying that MSNBC is a liberal bullhorn, then saying “hey, lets look forward, not back!”

I’m sorry, I really don’t understand what you’re saying here. Do you need a cup of coffee? Get those neurons firing better?

Bet if I wrote a piece about all the time Obama has spent on the green hitting around a little ball in his nine months, we’d talk about all the time Bush spent on vacation instead.

That would be a pretty lame piece, I hope you don’t waste your time writing it. And that would be a pretty difficult comeback to resist. But like I said, I personally am going to save the “Bush was worse and you guys have such double standards” component as “Frosting” – frosting on the cake of either defending or criticising Obama’s actions on their own merit. I will never leave out the cake. Can’t speak for my comrades.

Start admitting that when some news sources start putting out information you don’t like, leftists attack it.

“Don’t like?” You mean, disagree with, or consider inaccurate? Well of course we would “attack it” by which I assume you mean, argue. Shouldn’t we? Or do you mean, valid information that makes us uncomfortable. Well, an example of that latter would be the video you put up of some Obama underling quoting Mao as a favorite philosopher with no obvious irony or caveats. I don’t know if anything was cut out of that video by the Fox people, but as it stands, I couldn’t defend her and said so.

Jake Tapper is probably not long for his job the way he asks real questions.

Jake is a very good journalist. I assume he asked some questions recently that made you happy. Want to share? I hope he doesn’t go the way of the Washington Post’s great Froomkin.

Hint: he’s not on Fox.

I know who Jake Tapper is, dork.

Admit its intellectual laziness on the part of leftists that 1. they don’t want to admit there is nothing to their left they wouldnt disagree with

Not true. There are things to my left that even I, FAR LEFT VERN, disagree with, but why get into that when to YOU, Barack Obama is a leftist. There are plenty of us over here saying, Hey Mr President, what about single-payer healthcare, what’s taking so long on Guantanamo and giving trials to our prisoners, let’s get out of this quagmire in Afghanistan, will you finally take some control of these Wall Street monstrosities instead of dancing to their tune, and much more.

2. most Americans don’t buy it

Red Vixen was exactly right the other day when she said 76% of Americans want a strong public option for health care. That was a Washington Post poll last week. And to you I know that’s “left.”

3. very few people are actually watching left wing point of view news.

Well, then our stations and channels should go out of business very soon and you won’t have to worry about us any more!

This could get tiresome if I respond to everything you write, but on principle I sometimes will. I’ll watch your silly 9-minute Pajamas Media video if I get the slightest evidence you watched Red Vixen’s 7-minute Maddow video.

Okay then, cook up your Obama on the Golf Course post, but be prepared for hoots of derision! I think I may sit that one out. Good day, sir.