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. . . Estrich
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I like her personage
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Fox is constantly alerting us to the "fact" that MSNBC is a "sinking ship." It's been years since it started to sink, pal. Must be a damned big ship.
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I agree. Moreover, if Fox has the majority of the market share, as they allege, and Fox is self professed as "fair and balanced" (which to me is poppycock) - then how does that support Fox's statement that the media (presumably the majority) is liberal?
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. . . . turn off cable news & read "The Economist."
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I love that magazine. I do not always agree with the opinions. However, I find it thought provoking and well written.
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It isn't long before one is able to catch on to their game, is it? "Interviews" consist of nothing but logical fallacies & rhetorical gamesmanship ("Isn't Obama's radicalism going to put us all in danger?"), all of it delivered in a mad, noisy rush intended to get rammed in to the slot before commercial break. (It's like trying to squeeze a camel through the eye of a needle.) As I say, it's all nothing but talk radio on the tube.
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Moreover, McCain and Palin apparently now are only doing "extensive" interviews with Fox News. I guess they are afraid of the other media and/or are playing to their base. Fox is like the "yes person" on an infomercial selling a vacuum cleaner - "Wow look at how that vacuum cleaner works, " "You can't get that anywhere else," "What a great product," "Other products can't compete," etc.
Interestingly, many people on the far left consider CNN, MSNBC, and the like to be rabidly conservative. So figure
