Bwaaaaahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Scott!! You stupid PUTZ!

Plus FOX has the conservative brand on it, while MSNBC is much more patchwork — Joe Scarborough is a former Republican congressman, Mika Brzezinski is a gun-owning working mother who identified with Sarah Palin, David Gregory and Tom Brokaw are theoretically neutral reporters in the line of Brian Williams. (Personally, Brokaw seems conservative and Gregory more liberal.) On the liberal end, Chris Matthews is a blue-collar Democratic-leaning personality along the lines of Gov. Ed Rendell, Keith Olbermann is a lot like Jon Stewart in that he heaps scorn on hypocrisy and the incompetence of the Bush administration, and Rachel Maddow is a prime example of a progressive. They have a “rainbow coalition” as it were.

As far as people who hate Keith Olbermann — he is no less incendiary than Bill O’ or (ugh) Hannity. Disagree with his viewpoints, dislike his unmitigated contempt for the Bush administration and their apologists, fine. But don’t tell me that the FOX guys don’t heap scorn and personal attacks on their ideological opponents.

Personally I grudgingly admire O’Reilly in some ways — he suffers a raging inferiority complex and tends to fight his arguments through intimidation and bullying, but like Limbaugh he is intelligent and talented in his medium. Really dislike most of their viewpoints though on rare occasions I agree with them. Hannity and Glenn Beck make me ill just watching them. Speaking of which I’ve heard CNN referred to as the “Communist News Network” by some ultra-conservatives, which makes me laugh. I guess if you label anyone who disagrees with Rush Limbaugh on any topic as a “communist”… Less ideological viewers can see that CNN largely skews conservative (Lou Dobbs anyone?), although Campbell Brown showed some surprising independence in aggressively questioning McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds.

To be fair, I did make a comment about folks masturbating. I guess that could be taken as a “hateful comment” if it’s taken the wrong way. But what it really means is closer to “preaching to the choir”. It’s not a bad thing, just folks of like mind agreeing with each other in a more or less closed forum.

Ok. There it is. I’ll even formally apologize to those that didn’t understand the comment.

But I stand by my comments.

There are certainly biased folks in the media on all sides of the house. There are certainly liberally biased shows. Countdown is one of them. But, the only overtly biased network is Fox. They are not liberal.

I am a part of (very) small town America, located in North Louisiana. I am neither Democrat or Republican. I always vote on which candidate makes the most sense and will do the least to expand government (most folks around feel you must always vote for the lesser of two evils).

I watch Fox, MSNBC, and CNN often b/c I enjoy hearing different viewpoints. I don’t care much for Hannity, but I cannot stand K.O. and Matthews. Instead of making their liberal points by offering facts and debating actual issues, they make one personal attack after another on those they do not agree with. Bottom line, if you want to coerce me into your line of thinking then you must present an intelligent argument based on facts and not personal attacks.

Jim and Chris, people like you great for this country b/c it makes people like me take the total opposite viewpoint. I can count on one hand all the facts you both offered in your arguments, yet I don’t have enough fingers for all the unintelligent hateful comments you just made.

Fox news is my favorite news channel b/c it makes the most sense to me. Intelligent discussions and debate are the norm and the facts are presented. For the most part, FNC does not promote McCain or Obama. That is infinitely more than I can say for MSNBC and CNN. If you would like to know why FNC does so well, try watching it sometime. You’ll be better informed on making a decision afterwards. Until then, keep pushing people like me to the right so the conservative party can “steal” another election.

Whether you’re talking Clear Channel or News Corp, it’s the the same thing. Your Liberal Media = No Liberals Allowed.

Just one personal example of the corporate expansion of media, my uncle was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist with his own popular column. When his news paper was bought out, one of the first things they did was take away his column.

From my point of view, he wasn’t really a Liberal. At least not with a capital L. But I guess from that point of view that Liberal = Anything to the left of Fox News, it was close enough.

As far as the Hannity and Colmes comparison? It’s almost a complete sham. Colmes is like the “guest wrestler” on the old WWF T.V. matches. In those days every match was one “big name” wrestler against an unknown punching bag that would, of course, never win.

To say that there is a balance is false. T.V. may not be as right wing slanted as radio. It MIGHT be a bit less slanted to the right than print. But it is hardly balanced. Fox’s “Fair and Balanced’ tag is the most dishonest label on T.V. news.

What you seem to be saying is that a few liberal shows like Countdown are the equal of Fox having an entire network completely devoted to right week propaganda and repugnican party talking points.

That may be true in terms of inherent worth but not in terms of airtime. The closest to balanced we seem to get is CNN. You will almost never see a liberal like Bill Press on CNN without his counterpart on the right, say Tucker Carlson, for example. Now with the edition of shows like Glenn Beck and Nancy Grace, it’s getting really ridiculous to say that they are liberal.

You can apply that concept to just about anything. The liberal media bias is a myth. I understand that even those who have used the idea to great effect are embarrassed to do so anymore. It’s gotten to be that laughable of an assertion.

From the comments,it appears to be nothing more than right wingers masturbating. While there’s nothing wrong with that, as far as it goes, I can’t take seriously complaints that the few left wing shows out there are crossing the line.

Those assertions are ridiculous as long as Fox news exists in it’s current extreme right wing state.

You have to be kidding me,,,,,Countdown is going into the dump!

When he told President Bush to shut the Hell up….that was the end for me and I suspect alot of viewers.

I also will not watch him on Sunday night football,,,he has NO credibility!!