Why Are Liberals Terrified of Fox News?
 

Seeming endless concerns expressed about Fox News and its influence on the American electorate are often being voiced by liberals in the United States. When the people oppose a particular thing they support, they opine that it is because of the evil that is Fox News. Their fulminations cause to resort to the phrase Fox Noise in order to denigrate it in their own minds.

Recently one poster on this board stated, “…pretty much every time you post something that you got from Fox Noise or other rightie blogs you're promoting fabrication.” This attack is disconnected from reality when you consider the actual reach of Fox News.

Here are the ratings for the prime time news hour:

NBC - 9.0 Million
ABC - 7.9 Million
CBS - 5.9 Million
FNC - 1.4 Million
CNN - 0.8 Million
MSNBC 0.6 Million
CNBC - 0.2 Million
HLN - 0.2 Million

Fox News draws less than 25% of any of the network news shows and just over 40% of the cable news channels in this time period – a grand total of just over 5% of the people watching the evening news. If you want to consider something discouraging, Entertainment Tonight draws an audience of 5.9 Million, more than all the news channels combined.

Perhaps it’s time for the left to grow a pair and admit that the American people are rejecting their ideas because they don’t like them, not because the people are lemmings unthinkingly following their Fox News masters.

Gee, since when do ratings equate to truth. That's the problem with the blind followers of Fox Noise.

You are confused by the response some people make to such patently biased reporting. The "terrified" are some folks who wish we didn't have such unbridled free speech as to allow such ridiculously slanted information on the public airwaves. Many of them are very conservative.

Liberals are ok with free speech, so they just ignore the Fox crap.

I know you expected the above responses, BBQ. It's actually a good thing. They'll never see it coming.

Fox News Is A Wing of The Republican Party.
 

Liberals don't expect to convert the regular viewers of Fox News. Independent thinking people know that Fox News is never fair and balanced.

At Last an Honest Liberal!!!
 

You said “The terrified" are some folks who wish we didn't have such unbridled free speech as to allow …”criticizing the great leader”; “opposing the five year plan”; “believing that the ‘great leap forward’ as a bad idea”; believed eugenics was evil; and in your case – Fox News.

Ijusluvit is clear in his statement – he wishes we didn’t have free speech. Speech should be free only when it conforms to the ‘right ideas’. This is the mark of a ‘liberal’ today although the original liberal, Thomas Jefferson would emphatically disagree.

Free speech as free press exists only when ideas, no matter how much you may disagree with them, can be openly expressed.

This is fundamental principle of this country and without it we subject ourselves to the tyranny that now exists in countries around the world.

It’s your choice – either you support freedom of expression or you do not. Your statement is clear – you do not.

Fox and Friends Want to Repeal the New Deal
 

Since the Depression hard working people moved ahead financially and kept that money through programs like Social Security and Medicare. These programs are being attacked by the right wing because the top wealthiest one percent know that they will be the next source of financing SS and Medicare. Although corporations have American names like caterpillar and IBM, increasing shares of their income come from overseas profits. The Middle Class has become less relevant to profits and is being abandoned.

There are large numbers of people that keep their heads in the sand and are frightened of new information. According to Pat Buchanan, they have an ideology but no political philosophy which can change with new facts. These are the people that Fox appeals to. They are lazy and numerous.

Thinking People
 

Please allow me to edit your comment.
Thinking people know that Fox News is never fair and balanced.

There are people who let others do their thinking for them. One important thread that can be picked up when listening to FOX Noise is that everything that they say saves corporations money in some shape or form.

it's really very simple. I am a member of the middle class and I do not believe from anything I hear on Fox that they are on my side,the exact opposite seems to be true.....they are always defending the wealthiest and the largest. I believe the new health care laws are good for the middle class and it is time for the wealthy and the corporations to start paying more....Fox does not. I have other disagreements with Fox but this is enough for now.

Tony,

Welcome to TOTV and the Political Forum. Just from the few posts that you've made, I KNOW you are going to be an EXCELLENT addition. Tell your like minded friends about The Villages, Talk Of The Villages, and the Political Forum. :welcome::welcome::welcome::2excited:

Xavier

You just described the other side. I watch CNN, FOX, HNL, along with all 3 major networks newscasts to name a few when I have the time. The only time I have seen guests from both persuasions has been on FOX. What's unbalanced or unfair about that?

I may not be the most savvy, but I am far from lazy. Personally, I don't like either party and certainly don't swallow hook - line- and sinker everything any of them try to sell.

If you think any politician is truly for the people, better rethink and research. So far, all I've seen is that they only want what's best for them.

Is that a bad thing? When was the last time a poor person ever offered you a job?

Thanks, I Needed
 

a good laugh this morning.

On occasion when my liberal friends starting ranting about Fox I ask them one question but none of them has ever answered me. Since I do not watch any of the previously mentioned networks I shall ask the question here:

Just exactly what network is "fair and balanced" or better yet un-biased?

This thread is just too much. All the people who don't want to hear ideas that conflict with theirs. Knocking the news reports on Fox News that the liberal main stream media won't cover doesn't make the stories any less "news". You might not like to hear the other side of the story, and if you stick to the aforementioned liberal news networks, you won't have to. But since it's hard to debunk facts, you have to attack the bearer of the unwanted story whether it's Fox News or an contributor to this forum who's the bearer of this news.

Fox News is the only channel that will have a program where the other side of the story will get a chance to debate the topic at hand. It depends on the host how well this turns out as no one ever gets all the time they wish to keep hammering their points, but overall you get the gist of the arguments. Tune in Chris Matthews and see if the other side gets fair treatment. Bill O'Reilly's far from perfect but the left gets a better shake on his program than any conservative gets on Matthews. But these are opinion shows and you gotta take it as such.

The straight news programs are where Fox will cover a story that the liberal news organizations, in their deference to the current administration, will let sit unless it rises to the surface online or on Fox News.

The people will sort it out in the end. That's why Fox News clobbers all cable news competition combined. People want the story, not liberal progressive propaganda and attacks.

I'm sure I will hear some now.

Just who is a newscaster on Fox Noise? Cavuto? Doocey? Carlson? Surely not Hannity, Susteran, O'Reilly, Beck?
Fair and balanced is not a term I would associate with any of the above.

Yes, I'd like to hear an answer to that one.

What's interesting is that combined they get less than 10 percent of the nation's population! Network TV news just isn't popular anymore...or even relevant.

Don't confuse the commentators with the talking head teleprompter reading newscasters. Hannity, Beck, Van Susteran, and O'Reilly don't pretend to be anything but commentators with an avid knowledge of what is in the news.

Someone who frequently strays from the definition of a journalist and instead carries himself as a liberal activist in disguise is Matt Lauer of NBC. In an exclusive interview with Majority Leader John Boehner, Matt went much further that asking questions, as it came closer to a grilling of Boehner to push Lauer's idea of tax increases and asking Boehner if he was going to shatter Obama's "post bin Laden nations unity" with the debt ceiling debate. Luckily Mr. Boehner was too smart and knowledgable to get turned with Lauer's misrepresentation of the Bush Tax cuts and put Matt in his place.

Has Matt Lauer ever pushed Democrats on his show to explain their rampant spending. Never once has he asked a Democrat legislator on his program where the money was going to come from to pay for their new exciting bill or program. Why?? It seems he acts as a shill for the Democrat Party in trying to goad the Republican into angering constituents or making him appear indecisive and stumbling. Democrats never have to worry about that kind of embarrassment on Matt's program.

I singled out Matt Lauer but I could have just as easily named Dick Gregory or Christina Amanpour for identical actions.

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http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110510122558.aspx

Why Are Liberals Terrified of fox News
 

What I find disturbing with many of the previous posts is that the authors assume, no accuse people of robotic thinking, weaklings that cannot discen for themselves a point of view as if they were Fox or CNN groupies. We have all experienced life and based on those experiences we will no doubt be drawn to those core beliefs. I have always been drawn to the business side of life and hence my career choices and my belief in capitalism. Life is sacrosant to me and hence I do not agree with abortion. these sort of things are not based on what a repoter/commentor, etc has to say but what is fundamental to me. Simply stated don't sell people short

Thank you. That was my point exactly....getting both sides. You just said it better than I.

Richie: If you want to understand why some people dismiss Fox News, I would recommend something to you.

Watch "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart".

Now, most of the humor, you might not like, though Obama can get raked from time to time as well. But last week, when doing a story on the controversy over the White House inviting Common to a poetry gala, Stewart and his writing team were at their best.

They showed how Fox News took Common out of context when they quoted his violent lyrics and left out the part at the end that basically said "but that's not for me". They left out that he writes childrens books and has starred in mainstream romantic comedies. They (Fox) had Common looking like 2-Live-Crew on steroids.

Then Stewart quoted other lyrics from another singer. Lyrics that included how wonderful it was to shoot and kill one's wife. Cut to Johnny Cash receiving an award from President Bush. Check out some of Cash's lyrics and they won't be pretty either - but Cash has a much wider body of work than what was quoted about Common for a moment.

But surely, Stewart asked, Fox wouldn't support someone who had such violent opinions as Common was *supposed* to have with his "burn bush" lyrics?

Next tape has Sean Hannity OUTRAGED at the White House for letting Common in. Cue the next tape (from 2008) of Ted Nugent saying that Obama should suck on a machine gun barrel and Hillary should be equally killed. Followed by the person Hannity was talking to saying "won't you repudiate that" and Hannity saying no, that he *liked* it (Nugent's lyrics). Hannity: 2008, advocating murdering Democratic Presidential candidates is ok. 2010, inviting a rapper (one of the mildest in the industry) to the White House is atrocious.

That's one example of why Fox News is so virulently hated by many.

DJ; while what you saying is technically true, that's not why liberal hate Fox News. Every network could be torn down with similar inconsistencies of it's commentators.

Ted Nugent can be a jerk, but he, as lots of excited flawed citizens do, uttered a stupid remark, and who hasn't. He wasn't applauded for it as was Common for his performance of his remarks, as art.

Johnny Cash came from a different time and he sang a story; related a fiction, and everyone knew it to be so. Common glorified an actual cop killer who fled the law and is hiding in a foreign land. He's praised an enemy of the United States of America. Quite a difference in my book.

Context, DJ, context.

You are right.

I watch both. They both have bias. I agree usually with one more than the other...but not always.

Spin Richie, spin!...Like a top.

Where am I wrong? Try thinking about it for a change.

I know there isn't anything more important to discuss than the rapper/poet Common being invited to the White House by Michelle Obama. So, I just want to get in on this discussion and clarify one thing @RichieLion, if I may.

You said, "Common glorified an actual cop killer who fled the law and is hiding in a foreign land." Actually, Common glorified an actual cop killer, Assata Shakur, who killed a police officer in 1973. She was convicted of first degree murder, escaped from prison and is in exile.

Common also praises Kathy Boudin from the Weather Underground who went to prison for felony murder and robbery. The robbery led to her arrest in the death of multiple police officers. While in prison, Boudin's son was raised by Obama's good friend William Ayers.

I knew this information because I watch Fox News and I researched the facts with several independent sources.

It seems to me that there are a lot of Grasshoppers and very few Ants on this thread. I have been an ant all my life.

What I get from the government in SS is peanuts compared to what I have saved and invested.

None of the major or cable news networks ever tell the whole truth. Living on the border (Old Mexico/New Mexico) I can tell you for sure that not all the bodies found on the US side are reported.

The fense is NOT finished, the border patrol does all it can but its hands are tied by those in DC, both parties, one wants cheap labor the other wants votes.

You have to be able to find then search out the truth for youself and make informed decisions. Going all the way back to 1913, the start of the FED and going forward we have not had any true government, Of the people, For the people or By the people. The term career politican turns me off. When did public service become a career? It is only used to line their pockets at the expense of our, the working class.

Might be time for a start over as allowed by the Constitution. Maybe some of you should read that document. Interesting reading.

You know liberals don't think Richie; you've said many times I'm sure.