Sunday, August 1, 2010

Sunday Quick Take: FOX "News" Sunday's Hard Right Cojones

Oh good lord.  I'm zipping through some of the Sunday morning political shows on the DVR. Meet the Press with David Gregory was a snooze-fest, with a too-long segment on Afghanistan, and a depressing panel discussion highlighted by Alan Greenspan's sensible but dispiriting analysis. Next up was FOX "News" Sunday, and it was a craptacular suck-fest.

The first guest was the always well informed and lucid half-governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.  She spewed forth her usual word-salad run-on sentences, read bullet points off a sheet of paper, and a note off of her hand (seriously). She was asked a diverse set of questions by host Chris Wallace--who to be fair, did not lob only softball questions--from Afghanistan to the immigration law in Arizona.  Now, I can see there is a loose connection between Palin and AZ Gov. Jan Brewer. They're both semi-nutty, outsized Governors with polarizing views. But what the f***  does Palin know about Afghanistan, and why the hell should we care?  The pull quote from this interview will be, no doubt, that Palin thinks Gov. Brewer has "cojones."  Which is funny on a couple of levels.  Palin also says, in the same statement that President Obama doesn't have cojones. Nice. 

Next up? House Minority Leader John Boner Boehner and Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McTurtle McConnell. How is that for fair and balanced!?!  Boehner looks orange and twitchy this Sunday morning, but at least doesn't seem drunk (this time).  McConnell made no impression, sticking to this week's talking points as he always does, providing no insights or changing any minds that don't already agree with him.

I haven't gotten around to the ludicrously named "Power Panel" segment, but it is virtually the same every week: a semi-regular group of four people, consisting of two hard-right conservatives, and two centrist, or barely liberals.  This week, one of the panelists is Liz Cheney! You'll never find Chris Hayes or David Sirota in the "liberal" spot on this show.

If you want a single show to point to that fairly well proves the bias of FOX "News"--something that should need no reference; it's like saying the sun is hot--point to the August 1, 2010 edition of FOX "News" Sunday.  Cojones, also.



3 comments:

  1. I want AZ Governor Jan Brewer to show papers to prove she’s a human being. I think it was FOX that did a show on extraterrestrials that live among us, and Governor Brewer does resemble some alien from a B Movie, “Invasion of the Brain Snatchers”, right? I’ve have my suspicions about people like Jan Brewer, Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove because of their lack of human qualities.

    As far as the immigration issue goes… Republicans never made a big deal about immigration enforcement during Bush/Cheney but NOW all conservative hell is breaking loose… even though the Obama Administration is deporting MORE illegal’s than Bush ever did. Maybe we should adopt Ronald Wilson Reagan’s immigration policy (look it up morons)

    And funny how I didn’t hear NOT ONE WORD on the Cable News about AZ Gov. Jan Brewer’s connection with the Corrections Corp of America. Not to mention I could stop this immigration problem with one thing… ARREST ALL THOSE conservative business people WHO ARE HIRING THE ILLEGAL WORKERS! Republican Party = Hypocrisy

    On 7-28-10 I was watching Republicans on Morning Joe (MSNBC) preach about being ADULTS when it comes to our economic meltdown. I say BS! The real ADULTS are trying to demand accountability from those who got us in this financial mess. Republicans want to shift the burden of responsibility on
    American working class, teachers, poor people, unions and immigrants.

    I wonder if the spoiled Silver Spoons on Morning Joe knew how much they hurt Democrats, Progressives, Liberals when they didn’t challenge NJ Gov. Christie. NOW all over the internet the Conservative wacko groupies are swooning all over Christie like he was a rock star. Of course, because of these Republican low grade thought processes, the right wing monkeys now consider American working class, teachers, poor people, unions and immigrants the biggest threat to our economy

    What kind of Americans are stupid enough to believe that decent wages, decent working conditions, enforcing again regulation, reforming our broken financial system and broken healthcare are BAD THINGS! Especially letting all those tax breaks for the rich expire (ten years is enough!) so the rich can again pay their fair share. When the Republicans were running things they started two wars they did not want to finish, set us up for financial system failure and took tax dollars away from grade schools to give BP tax breaks/subsidies (Corporate Welfare). DON’T BELIEVE ME, you rightwing numbskulls, CHECK IT OUT FOR YOURSELVES! consciousmc.blogspot.com

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