Isn't it the Truth that the Far-Left Hate FoxNews because.....?

Question

Because FoxNews is successful and gets more ratings.
Because they allow liberals to come on the network and explain their side...

Isn't that really why you guys hate Fox...it has nothing to do with logic. Admit it....you are just emotional.

Deep down...you know what I am saying bothers you...because its soo true.

Man...I love being me.

Answer 1

I love watching Foxnews, I can't stand watching CNN or Nancy Grace or whatever her name is. Its so harsh. Foxnews states the news with dignity and respect.
O'Reilly is super awesome too :)

Answer 2

I don't blame the left for hating Fox. By the way, the far-left refers to the Alexander Cockburns of the world who don't exactly agree with the leftists you're referring to.

Fox isn't a fair and balanced network by any stretch of the imagination. They libeled Ron Paul, a Republican and the only one who truly believes in small government, personal responsibility, and every other phrase typical in the GOP's rhetoric on the air repeatedly. Fox aired some bizarre conspiracy theory about how there is supposedly only 1 Ron Paul supporter and he runs a bunch of spambots to make it look like there is more support (Dr. Paul just drew over 1000 people in a standing-room-only crowd to a rally that was next door to an "Iowans for Tax Relief" event that he, a staunch opponent of the IRS, was excluded from and which only drew 600 people and was mostly to empty seats). They also fraudulently referred to him as a "9/11 truther," which is absurd because he knows that the government doesn't have anybody working for it who is competent enough to pull that stuff off. They even claimed that he "blamed America" in the debates for 9/11 when he merely told the truth about how the bombing of Iraq by Bush I and Clinton helped to incite 9/11. Please don't pretend that Fox is a fair network because it isn't.

Answer 3

I am conservative and I don't "hate" Fox News, I watch it quite a lot, but I don't take seriously their claim to be "fair and balanced."

I am, in particular, thinking of O'Reilly's, Hume's, and Hannity's shows. None of those shows are respectably "fair and balanced."

I taped a special that Hume hosted about a year and a half ago entitled "Religion in America: Church and State." I expected to like that program because I do, in general, dislike what the Supreme Court has done with that subject matter. However, that program was NOT "fair and balanced." They gave only a little bit of "air time" to the people on the "left" who want a strong and firm "wall of separation." Only a little bit of air time. Not enough to be "balanced." And I certainly think that some of the things that Hume and other conservative commentators had said during that show cry for refutation. One commentator was allowed to say (and he said this in a high-pitched, squeeky voice as if the speaker was very uptight) that Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black "hated Catholics," and this was why J. Black had written a certain 1947 SC opinion the way he did. Hume merely replied to this with: "Whatever Black's motives, ....." and nobody else during the program defended Hugo L. Black against that spurious charge. Furthermore, J. Black ruled IN FAVOR of Catholics with the 1947 decision! Hume MENTIONED the fact that Black's majority did rule AGAINST the claim of constitutional violation, but said it very quickly and did not bother to point out the significance of the Court's basic conclusion, nor the significance of what the dissenting Justices said in that 1947 case. Those 4 dissenters were the ones who were more "Anti-Catholic" than J. Black was!

Answer 4

This one's simple.
Fox News is successful because it tells it like it is - and a lot of the time, that's not what the far left wants to hear - especially if the news doesn't support their agenda, which is most of the time.

As far as letting the left express their views - well, every time the actually try and explain some of their lame policies and positions, Fox News' ratings jump up another point or two.
Air America's demise should indicate to these nut jobs that most Americans don't want to hear their anti-American rhetoric.

Answer 5

Thinking people see fox news for what it is, right wing propaganda.

Why do you love being you when you are too much of a coward to go fight in iraq?

fox news is like mcdonalds.

mcdonalds has sold "BILLIONS AND BILLIONS" of its hamburgers.

BUT if you actually believe that a mickie d's burger is the best you've ever tasted, then you have just revealed how naive and inexperienced you are with the world.

Answer 6

The general ethos of the Leftist mind necessitates that you must resist restraining conservative impulses. Logic and reason are restraining impulses. Since modern liberalism is primarily a state of unrestrained emotional turbulence, the liberal must find reasons for excusing his most base emotional instincts and instead embrace the “liberation” that comes from not being able to summon reason to control impulses. Many consequently fall prey to the tempting natural impulse of letting emotion override logic and reason. The liberal creed dictates that feelings are more important than anything and that they shall hold court over reason.

Answer 7

Aren't we a narcissist today...

I truly wouldn't care if Fox Noise had double it's current ratings. You know, American Idol is a popular show, but that doesn't mean I think it's any good.

Quality over Quantity.

Most of their "liberals" are either Fox Noise contributors, or obscure weaklings who couldn't debate their way out of a paper bag.

Answer 8

Actually, I don't think most Fox News bashers ever even watch it.
I always hear people slam Bill O'Reilly, and when I ask them if they ever actually watch him, most say something like "I couldn't put up with his big mouth". Yes, Fox tends to lean to the right, but they ALWAYS allow the left point of view in too.

Answer 9

Some liberals don't like Fox News because when you go on there for an interview, the questions are not pre-arranged

Answer 10

It has the highest ratings, cuz the vast majority of cable markets ONLY CARRY Faux News.

Fox news also presents a dumbed down version of the news which appeals to the overwhelming ignorance and stupidity found in much of red-state America.

What bothers Dems about Faux News is that is lies...

If you dare...read this :

"Fox NEWS sued for their RIGHT TO LIE

The Right to Lie in the "News"
If ever we needed to know why the biggest media consumers in the world are so badly informed, this pretty well tells it all. The Media Can Legally Lie.
According to Akre and Wilson, the station was initially very excited about the series. But within a week, Fox executives and their attorneys wanted the reporters to use statements from Monsanto representatives that the reporters knew were false and to make other revisions to the story that were in direct conflict with the facts.
Fox editors then tried to force Akre and Wilson to continue to produce the distorted story. When they refused and threatened to report Fox's actions to the FCC, they were both fired.
Akre and Wilson sued the Fox station and on August 18, 2000, a Florida jury unanimously decided that Akre was wrongfully fired by Fox Television when she refused to broadcast (in the jury's words) “a false, distorted or slanted story” about the widespread use of BGH in dairy cows.
[...] FOX appealed the case, and on February 14, 2003 the Florida Second District Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the settlement awarded to Akre. The Court held that Akre’s threat to report the station’s actions to the FCC did not deserve protection under Florida’s whistle blower statute, because Florida’s whistle blower law states that an employer must violate an adopted “law, rule, or regulation."
In a stunningly narrow interpretation of FCC rules, the Florida Appeals court claimed that the FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of a "law, rule, or regulation," it was simply a "policy." Therefore, it is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly.
During their appeal, FOX asserted that there are no written rules against distorting news in the media. They argued that, under the First Amendment, broadcasters have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves.
Fox attorneys did not dispute Akre’s claim that they pressured her to broadcast a false story, they simply maintained that it was their right to do so.
OK, pick your jaw up off the floor. That some court thinks they CAN is bad enough, that these people assert their right to do so pretty well kicks it all down the hole. And these guys wonder why their credibility is in the toilet and the net is burning them left right and centre.
Oh, and February 2003, 30 days before Iraq."

That's from the Washington Post.