Letters to the Editor
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Who knew Fox News was ripe with so much material...
...for comedy? Kudos to the author for watching Fox News marathon-style, no small feat.
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My favorite post-election read: good stuff
I've been all over the Web catching up on mid-term election results, having shied away from watching much coverage last night for fear that things would take another disappointing turn. And finally, I come upon the wonderful piece on the Fox News coverage. It is descriptive; it is humorous; it is illuminating and insightful. They -- the Fox news people and Kristol's crowd, have managed to make the insufferable suffering and policy chaos of the past six years look reasonable. They will have to work harder to spin things there way now for a while. I would bookmark a regular piece on Murdock's network "journalism" like this one and check it every day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thanks, Andrew...
...for the BEST description of John McCain I've read in a long while: this is the new, improved McCain, a pod person hatched in some Karl Rove greenhouse who at some point in 2005 replaced the old tough-as-nails, indie-Republican model.
That truly captures him. He's carrying the water for the Bush-Cheney team, making even more of a fool of himself than Colin Powell did (and that's saying a LOT), not realizing that TurdBlossom will be helping Jed Bush in '08, not him. John: did you really endure all those years of imprisonment only to be tortured by your own people?
If so, then head out to Area 51 and wait to be beamed up, as they promised...
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Another metaphor comes to mind
"Then, thanks to Toto, they discover that the Wizard is just a "man behind a curtain", not really a wizard at all, just a "humbug" as he himself admits..."
minus the fact that most of us pretty much knew this.
Great article and great ending sentence.
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Thanks
Brilliantly written!
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Thanks for the good read...
Firstly, wow, I commend Andrew for being able to watch Fox News for consecutive hours on end. I'd never make it.
Secondly, I completely agree with Ferguson, above! How about a regular Fox watch blog that reports and entertains us all with tales of how they deal with their crushing defeat over the coming weeks?
Would LOVE to see something like that, as I cannot proceed to the darkside myself.
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Great piece, but
Here's to Harry Reid, for serving his party, rather than his personal views.
Here's to Howard Dean and Rahm Emanuel, patching things up and giving us our victory cake and the prospects for more with an expanding base (and way more money to do it with now).
Here's to Chuck Schumer, for being the noblest, most earnest liberal out there running this campaign.
Here's to the netroots, for getting toe-holds so that others could use the traction.
Great, funny piece.
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Gloating O'Hehir
Salon and Andrew O'Hehir are about as impartial as the Guardian and Harold Pinter. O'Hehir's article on FOX should be in the Oxford dictionary as the definition for the phrase "pot calls kettle black". The Republicans if anything proved themselves to be better sports than the tempermental, histrionic Democrats, many who had the dignity to whine publically about wanting to leave the USA after the last election, for where, for Europe and those superior white folk over there? What a bunch of tossers.
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Clarification
When a Republican is voted out of office, do they report directly to prison..?
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Priceless
... the description of this propaganda arm of the Republican Party that "just had a can of whup-ass opened all over them." Thanks for making my morning of gloating complete.
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re: Van Souther
Where on Salon do you find the slogan "Fair and Balanced"?
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A Real Problem with This Article
I found a couple of major articles in this article that I just have to call to your attention; they call into question the integrity of the whole piece.
Here we go:
"It was she who chirpily informed us that NewsBusters and other right-wing sites were blaming CBS News for Santorum's defeat in Pennsylvania (and, no doubt, for global warming and the North Korean nuclear bomb)."
Everybody knows that the Right blames Bill Clinton for the NK bomb and that they don't believe there's any such thing as global warming.
Now that we've cleared that up, let the laughter roll loud and long.
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D'oh!
That should read "I found a couple of major errors in this article." Sorry for the brain fart!
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the only cannibalism i witnessed
was fox news gulping down its republican sponsers in the favor of reporting news!
beating katherine harris down with a stick wouldnt have been as much fun as watching her beaten by such a margin,
and in th4 end knowing that the final nail was hammered into the cofin by lush rimbaugh just made this day just a little more like christmas.
As Oscar Wilde might have put it: "To lose one House may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness."
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The Beating Has Just Begun
I spend the evening mostly watching CNN and MSNBC. The conservatives there (esp. William Bennett and J.C. Watts) were repeatedly saying that the Democratic push was not overwhelming, just a typical mid-term shift.
While it is true that a 28 seat pickup in the House and a 4-6 seat pickup in the Senate pales beside the earthquake of 1994, I do not think the worst is over for the GOP. Bush is still in the White House and there is no reason whatsoever to think that Cheney and Rumsfeld will suddenly become flexible in their approach to Iraq. We will still be in Iraq during the entire 2008 election cycle and every Republican will again be in the position of defending what Bush did.
2004 was a great victory for Bush and the GOP, but there was a slow-acting poison in the inaurgual feast. Because the Dems stayed out of the loop 2 more years, there was no one to blame if Iraq went bad. There is still no one for them to blame.
For the GOP, this is a nightmare that will not end until the last U.S. soldier leaves Iraq. There is an unlikely but very real chance that the Bush legacy will be the destruction of the Republican party.
Maybe Karl Rove is a genius but so was Napoleon, and look where he ended up.