FOX News Sure Is Touchy

AndFeelyToo!

Are you insinuating that Mr Obama is not the Magic negroe? Under what grounds?

"Mistakes were made."

The culture of stupidity.

I hope you realize there's nothing at all accidental or self-defeating about this. The fox news network has it's solid viewing bloc, and they are not merely the dumb. They include the emotionally immature, the extremely self-righteous, right wingers who desperately need confirmation that their opinion is valid, etc.

I've known some otherwise very smart people who are Fox News fans.

It's a like a child who gets caught screwing up, and whose first instinct is to point to some other kid and say, "Yeah, but he screwed up, too."

It's also like the kid who farts in church, and then says, "at least I'm pious enough to be here. P-f-f-f-f-t."

And who let's their hosts utter rude vulgarities? Comedy Central? Is that where Fox sets the bar?

Yeah, is she referring to something in particular?

Wasn't it Scarborough who let slip the F bomb on his show. Then some of his guests actually said he didn't?

It was all very weird.

I'm willing to give FOX the benefit of the doubt & say it was a simple mistake (although their track record for such things does give pause).

But curses to CNN for ever giving Kathy Griffin a gig & providing the low-bar example for FOX to point to. Seriously, Kathy Griffin -- what was CNN thinking? And given Griffin's D-list status, I can only imagine CNN's first choice was Andrew Dice Clay.

*sigh* It's gonna be a long four years...

Or was it Hannity who dropped the F-bomb on his Fox show? I could be wrong; they look and sound so alike I can't really tell them apart.

At FOX we recognize our error as opposed to networks who allow their hosts to utter crude vulgarities to the public.

Does she know that Bill O'Reilly is on her network?

"Yeah, is she referring to something in particular?"

@Andrew, apparently Scott is referring to Kathy Griffin's New Year's Eve co-hosting appearance on CNN. Griffin started out being merely crude ("Can I get a pap smear from Sanjay Gupta?"), to outright offensive (responding to heckler: "Why don't you get a job buddy. You know, I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth.")

Why anyone, let alone CNN would give Kathy Griffin a gig is beyond me. The left doesn't need an answer to Anne Coulter.

maybe kathy griffin could come over to fox news and start knocking their heads out of their asses!

It's a like a child who gets caught screwing up, and whose first instinct is to point to some other kid and say, "Yeah, but he screwed up, too."

That would be because Fox News is run by mental children.

I suppose everything would have acceptable if the president-elect had been referred to as "Barack, the magic African-American."

Hey Steve, you missed the most important issue and the most stunning irony: the race (other meaning) for RNC Chair! Fox said "At FOX we recognize our error as opposed to networks who allow their hosts to utter crude vulgarities to the public." Er, how about as opposed to Parties who allow their leaders (like salty good ol' boy Chip Saltsman) running for their Chairmanship to not merely "utter", but put out CDs with a song ("Barack the Magic Negro") expressing that very same "vulgarity" with the President Elect's name given for good measure!

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winner says "I've known some otherwise very smart people who are Fox News fans."

Isn't this the definition of "oxymoron"?

Look, with Fox, it is just as easy to assume incompetence as it is malice, at least 30-40 percent of the time.

As for smart Fox news fans, it is a fact of life that possession of any one mental faculty (such as being able to program computers, operate on brains, paint pictures, or sing) does not increase or decrease the likelihood of that person having any other faculty (such as understanding politics or being a good lover, or compassion, or being able to drive safely).

So if they recognize it's a problem, what have they said about Chip Saltsman and his CD?

Nothing?

Are you insinuating that Mr Obama is not the Magic negroe? Under what grounds?

Posted by: EC Sedgwick on January 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM

EC Sedgwick must by Dan Quayle's nom de blog.

Maybe Obama knows how to dismantle vicious religious parties (Taliban, Republican, etc.). Just like not every Afghan with a beard is hard core Taliban, not every bozo who voted Republican is a hard core supporter. Fox News is doing us a favor by keeping this issue alive and on the front burner. It's already offended all the true Americans that it can, but it might still offend a few Republicans if it's repeated often enough. Maybe even help a few change their minds (the minds they're using now aren't working that well anyway).

Let's hope the slave-state crackers keep embarrassing their plutocratic masters

Well, now gosh-darn it all, people---at least no one wrote, "Let's hope the next terrorist attack makes FOXnoise ground zero." whatever would we do without FOXnoise to kick around? We might have to gather up our heavy-caliber automatic weaponry, and attack Rush Limbaugh or something....

PeteCO: "Isn't this the definition of oxymoron?"

I believe it's been said that an oxy-moron is a Rush Limbaugh fan.

And, FOX is the "dirtiest" of the four commercial networks! This has been a matter of GOP hypocrisy for more than a decade, and one that the Religious Right still won't call bullshit on against the GOP, either. Or against FOX itself, for that matter.

Fox is the same network who systematically identified Republican after Republican indicted (or otherwise found to be a liability) with a capital D (as in Democrat). Honest mistakes?????

That they now claim not to have known that the crawl had "The Magic Negro...." is just so much more bogus crap.

'Fox News can't just admit it made a mistake; it has to take shots at its competitors. It's a like a child who gets caught screwing up, and whose first instinct is to point to some other kid and say, "Yeah, but he screwed up, too."'

lol. And who reacts to any criticism of democrats with "but Republicans are worse" or "Republicans do it too"?

"That would be because Fox News is run by mental children."

My nine year old daughter has a more nuanced understanding of the world than Fox does.

"lol. And who reacts to any criticism of democrats with "but Republicans are worse" or "Republicans do it too"?"

Nice to see the trawlers are still there. Steve has never done that, though I suspect that you already knew that. I also noticed that you backed up your accusation with so many examples..... Oh wait you didn't.

It would be interesting to find out what the higher-ups at FOX consider "crude vulgarities" coming from the hosts of other networks. My guess is that what they mean by "crude" and "vulger" is any insinuation that FOX harbors racist views for allowing "Magic Negro" to crawl across its screen. I wonder how long it took FOX to "discover" the "error" and pull down the offensive message. File this along with the right wing creep running to head up the Republican National Committee who says his crude and vulger politically correct critics need to lighten up and get a life for suggesting his mailing a CD with "Obama the Magic Negro" and other favorite red neck hits to top Republicans was anything other than a piece of harmless fun.

It would be silly and inaccurate to say that there are no Democrats who have played the "but the Republicans do it too!" game, but last time I checked, none of them are Vice Presidents of programming for a cable news network. Mrs. Scott should have finished her statement at the word "error."