Fox News, Seriously?!?!?!

Fair and balanced is the tag line, so lets investigate.

I watched the second presidential debate on Tuesday night and I thought what the majority of Americans thought, that there wasn't a whole lot of excitement and neither candidate really shined. I thought that Obama won simply because he is already ahead in the polls and I don't think he did anything to hurt his position and I don't think McCain made up any ground. Advantage Barack. So I am watching CNN and they have a panel of close to a dozen analysts (of all political affiliations) and they all seemed to be in agreement with my perspective as well as those who were polled immediately after watching. Actually voters gave Obama a 54% to 30% advantage but lets just say he won for simplicity of argument. Well I like to get all opinions so I check out Fox "News" because I have heard that they can be conservative on occasion. Drum roll please!

McCain over Obama 86% to 12%. Excuse me, what? Yeah 86-12.

People we have just left planet Earth and somehow landed on The Ronald Reagan moon, where Ann Coulter is the town hooker and the Bush Monarchy reigns forever. I know that last statement was just for dramatic effect but I am feeling snappy today. This was the last piece of information that I needed to fully discredit Fox "News" from the ranks of television journalism. I turned the channel on just in time to catch the Hannity and Colmes show; it is supposed to be set up as a conservative vs. liberal point and counter point show but to be that they actually have to debate. Sean "Hannitizes" Colmes so hard that the only talking Alan does is to segue them to a commercial break. Their poll numbers weren't even is the same solar system as every other poll out there, its ludicrous. I have no problem with taking the conservative position, many of my best friends lean that way, but you can't call yourself a news network and blatantly blast that shit on the air.

The only way I will allow this network to continue is if every time someone on the channel says "Fox News, Fair and Balanced" they say it in a whispering voices and make really demonstrative finger-quotes. Or they can change the name to something like "Fox Ultra-Conservative Propaganda Machine, Fair and Balanced, all hail Queen Sarah Palin". Lets just make sure that the slogan fits the substance.

Personally I would borrow a line from everyone's favorite Fox nut-job Bill O'Reilly: "Fox News, we'll do it live - fucking thing sucks"