Fox News viewership loses half it's viewers

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What keeps me from watching most news showsis the emphasis placed on media personalities;Michael Jackson is an example..I just hear or see that name and click!Off with the TV! Elvis had the right idea[shooting out the set every now and then] :)
 

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Ya, you are right think, I don't really like al-jazzera, see I can't even spell it 8O They never have anything good on..when I watch the telly, I like to see interesting real stuff...ehm...stuff like this just cracks me up.

Fox News Threatened to Sue 'The Simpsons'
First, they went after Al Franken for trademark infringement. Now comes word that the geniuses at Fox News threatened to sue "The Simpsons" over a parody of the right-wing news channel. "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening told NPR that Fox News tried to get him to cut out the segment, before ultimately backing down. Rupert Murdoch owns both Fox News and Fox Broadcasting, which airs "The Simpsons," and apparently even he wasn't crazy enough to sue himself.

hehehehehehehehe....I thought was pretty funny...so I found that parody...now this is the kinda news I like...helps with that opinion I gotta form later. :wink:

On Sunday's episode of "The Simpsons," the family decided that Krusty the Clown should run for Congress. Some highlights:
Marge: "Why is that jet flying so close to our house?"
Lisa: "They must have moved the flight paths over our house." Lisa continues: "Dad, why don't you go to the airport authority and complain?"
At the complaint dept. the family is told: "Go up to room 915 and ask for form 1790."
Marge: "We've already been to room 915. We've already filled out form 1790."
Homer: "With an application to open a Cinnabon stand."
Marge: "Can you please just tell us why you changed the flight paths."
Complaint Dept.: "They were changed because it disturbed local wildlife and their mating rituals."
Marge: "There has to be a solution that pleases everyone. From ducks and trees to you's and me's."
Complaint Dept.: "Are you threatening a government official?"
Marge: "No."
Complaint Dept.: "Good because we're the government, we make the laws, we make the money and we breed the super soldiers. So go home, learn to live with it, pay your taxes and remember, you didn't hear anything about super soldiers."
Lisa: "Why don't we go to our Congressman."
Bart: "Hey, Krusty should run for Congress. He could help us with the airplanes."
Lisa: "Yeah, entertainers are always winning elections, Jesse the Body Ventura, Sonny Bono, Gopher from 'Love Boat,' Mary Bono."
And at the Springfield GOP Headquarters, Mr. Burns opens the meeting with: "Welcome fellow Republicans. To start on new business, brother Hibbert will read a report on our efforts to rename everything after Ronald Reagan."
Hibbert: "All Millard Fillmore schools are now Ronald Reagan. The Mississippi River is now the Mississippi Reagan."
Burns: "Who will we put up for young Wilcox's congressional seat."
Krusty: "Gentlemen, I am your candidate. There's just one thing. Are you guys any good at covering up youthful, middle aged indiscretions?"
Burns: "Are these indiscretions romantic, financial or treasonous?"
Krusty: "Russian hooker, you tell me."
Burns: "We'll say you were on a fact finding mission."
Hibbert: "Congratulations Krusty, you're running for Congress."
In a TV debate between the two candidates, the reporter notes: "Welcome to Fox News, your voice for evil. Tonight we'll be interviewing the top two candidates for Springfield's 24th congressional district. For the Republicans, beloved children's entertainer, Krusty the Clown. And for the Democrats, this guy.
Armstrong: "I have a name."
Reporter: "Yes, I'm sure you do comrade. I do appreciate you're being here, you're usually so mired in sleaze, it must be an effort to come down to the studio."
Krusty: "May I say something?"
Reporter: "Certainly, Congressman."
Armstrong: "He hasn't won yet."
Reporter: "You make a very adulterous point. We will now conclude this debate with a Krusty campaign commercial."
While the debate was airing, the following ran on the news ticker: "Pointless news crawls up at 37 percent. ... Do Democrats cause cancer? Find out at Foxnews.com. ... Rupert Murdoch: Terrific Dancer. ... Dow down 5000 points. ... Study: 92 percent of Democrats are gay. ... JFK posthumously joins Republican Party. ... Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple. ... Dan Quayle: Awesome."
And on election night, Krusty: "I won. I'm a Senator."
Lisa: "Congressman."
Krusty: "Whatever."
In Congress, proposing legislation, Krusty asks: "Where is everybody?"
A Rep.: "No one shows up unless there's a vote."
Krusty: "Why are you here."
Rep.: "I steal stuff when everyone else is gone."
Janitor: "I think I can help. I've been working in this town for a long time and I know how to get things done."
Homer: "Beat it."
Marge: "No let's hear him out. He looks a little like Walter Mondale."
Janitor: "Yeah, looks like. Let's just say I know how a bill becomes a law."
Lisa: "Oh that's easy. First it's introduced then it goes to committee."
Janitor: "Wrong. That's wrong. Well I'll show you how things really work around here."
Bart: "Congressman I have a tape here showing you using your free mail privilege to send a get well card to your aunt."
Rep.: "I'm ruined. Maybe I wanted to be caught."
Janitor, to Homer: "That southern congressman is your biggest obstacle. You have to drink him under the table so he misses the vote tomorrow." To Lisa: "Now your job is to attach Krusty's bill to a more popular bill, one that can't fail."
Rep.: "The House will now consider the Flags for Orphans bill."
After passage, Krusty: "The system worked. I have become enchanted and illusioned with Washington."
Janitor: "The reason it all worked is because you all did your part."
It ends back home in Springfield. Bart: "At last those planes are flying where they belong."
Homer: "That's right, over the homes of poor people"
 

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As peapod has shown, comedy has truth bottled up in a laugh.

Only comedy takes the most shortest direct line to the the truth in the most emotional way, and it is the laugh that triumphs over everything, particularly over the tedious sequential and necessary nature of logic.

It's why, being a conservative, I forgive Al Franken and Michael Moore for everything.

In Bowling for Columbine, Moore walks into a Montana bank and opens an account. He then receives a shotgun or a rifle (i forget which) and then they give him a box of amunition of comedy to go with it.

Now that's love.

Forget about a toaster or a tote bag when you open a bank account.

And Al Franken lives in immortality for a sketch comedy that will always have a 2nd life: The 12 step program.

Look into a mirror, and say I love you. Say it's okay if you are.

Don't worry about Fox or CBS or CBC.

We as the viewers, readers and citizens must follow our own code of conduct.

Give me the remote.

But linger awhile and see what they say when it is against what you believe. Linger there. Your opponents always have a piece of the truth.

The world thought that the world was flat. Piece of the truth?
Absolutely. Euclidean geometry still teaches you that no triangle contains more than 180 degrees. This assumes a flat world. This is a truth that is practical in human dimensions, but it is not a truth ultimately, for every triangle in curvilinear space always must contain more than 180 degrees.

So truth in comedy and truth on both sides of the coin will always be.

Crap.

Just tripped over my soap box.

Achilles heel tendency.
 

Jo Canadian

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jimmoyer said:
As peapod has shown, comedy has truth bottled up in a laugh.

Only comedy takes the most shortest direct line to the the truth in the most emotional way, and it is the laugh that triumphs over everything, particularly over the tedious sequential and necessary nature of logic.

Exactly, that's why I will usually post cartoons. Plus it's faster than typing.




 

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I'm not sure how watching fox news is going to have any benefit what so ever....from the bits that I've been forced to watch.

What can you possibly learn from Bill "shut up" O'Reilly......

Wait...I answered my own question.
 

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Twila said:
I'm not sure how watching fox news is going to have any benefit what so ever....from the bits that I've been forced to watch.

What can you possibly learn from Bill "shut up" O'Reilly......

Wait...I answered my own question.

How to be a prick?
 

jimmoyer

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Nobody I've seen on TV or on Radio is as bad as they are demonized to be.

That goes for Dan Rather, Bill O'Reilly, Al Franken.

Heck, I've even seen Lou Dobbs on CNN actually interview Ann Coulter and both had class and style but you wouldn't believe it if you hadn't have seen it.

But Ann Coulter is the worst of the lot and likes it that way.

I know you all know and hate the sound bite, but you're all showing proof of the sound bite's persuasive impact.
 

jimmoyer

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LOL !!

Actually I'm waiting for Yoda, Obi One Kenobi and Captains Kirk and Piquard to run a politics show and take callers.

Darth Vader will be allowed but only offscreen and fulfill the show's necessity for an occasional crank call.

How else can light exist unless there is dark?
How else can a mountain be without a valley?
 

missile

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Re: RE: Fox News viewership loses half it's viewers

jimmoyer said:
Nobody I've seen on TV or on Radio is as bad as they are demonized to be.

That goes for Dan Rather, Bill O'Reilly, Al Franken.

Heck, I've even seen Lou Dobbs on CNN actually interview Ann Coulter and both had class and style but you wouldn't believe it if you hadn't have seen it.

But Ann Coulter is the worst of the lot and likes it that way.

I know you all know and hate the sound bite, but you're all showing proof of the sound bite's persuasive impact.
I watched that, and yes,it was a good piece.Lou Dobbs rules! :)
 

jimmoyer

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Wow !!

Somebody actually saw that Lou Dobbs interview of Ann Coulter ???

We might be the only two on the planet that ever saw Ann Coulter actually be reasonable and most only because Lou Dobbs has class and depth and Ann Coulter knows it and paid respect for the points made.