I'm glad Fox cut away from the Presidents speech to go to a basket ball game.

Umaro · Mar 11, 2011

Priorities.

blueapplepaste · Mar 11, 2011

I can't really fault Fox - all about the ratings, which = $$.

KarateCowboy · Mar 11, 2011

How is this related to politics?

Gawron · Mar 11, 2011

Yeah, we all should have been forced to watch the Presidents speech, under penalty of law, or death. Yeah.....

I mean, it isn't like you could have changed the channel and found it on NBC or anything.

grasping the after wind · Mar 11, 2011

Umaro said:
Priorities.

Good to see they have them in the right order. Presidential speeches are tiresome and repetitive basketball games can be tiresome and repetitive too but you don't know in advance everything that is going to happen and you know at least one side will come out the better for it which is not likely to happen with a Presidential speech.

Douger · Mar 11, 2011

The president is a tool. Why do you want him being seen on TV?
I think that on the whole, we simply need to turn our backs on the political establishment.

lux et lex · Mar 11, 2011

They didn't cut away from enough of Bush's speeches when he was president. Stopping the World from listening to him be a bumbling idiot was good for America.

ImmortalTechnique · Mar 11, 2011

KarateCowboy said:
How is this related to politics?

because FOX is the propaganda arm of a major political party in the United States disseminating anti-American disinformation as "news"?

Ukrainia · Mar 11, 2011

This is kind of immaterial to me. The vast vast majority of major media outlets have dropped the pretense of not having a bias. Their isn't one news station or web site that I know of that even attempts to stay objective. Fox and the Wall Street Journal are very conservative, just like MSNBC and the Huffington Post are very liberal. It's legitimate to criticize a news station because you think they're wrong, but if you're going to criticize a station for having a bias, to be consistent you'll really have to have that same criticism for almost every news outlet out there.

Umaro · Mar 11, 2011

Ukrainia said:
This is kind of immaterial to me. The vast vast majority of major media outlets have dropped the pretense of not having a bias. Their isn't one news station or web site that I know of that even attempts to stay objective. Fox and the Wall Street Journal are very conservative, just like MSNBC and the Huffington Post are very liberal. It's legitimate to criticize a news station because you think they're wrong, but if you're going to criticize a station for having a bias, to be consistent you'll really have to have that same criticism for almost every news outlet out there.

Bias is one thing, but a channel that calls itself news cutting away from an emergency speech given by the President of the United States is absolutely ridiculous. That is the very definition of news.

Douger · Mar 12, 2011

Umaro said:
Bias is one thing, but a channel that calls itself news cutting away from an emergency speech given by the President of the United States is absolutely ridiculous. That is the very definition of news.

Sorry, I'm with FOX on this one. B-ball definitely more important.

JustMeSee · Mar 12, 2011

Umaro said:
Priorities.

What was Obama speaking about?

lordbt · Mar 12, 2011

JustMeSee said:
What was Obama speaking about?

Couldnt tell you. I listened to a few minutes of it on radio, but he was droning on and on so I cut away from it myself.

ThePresbyteers · Mar 12, 2011

lux et lex said:
They didn't cut away from enough of Bush's speeches when he was president. Stopping the World from listening to him be a bumbling idiot was good for America.

I turned my TV to OFF when Bush spoke.

Brak · Mar 12, 2011

Interesting they would cut off OBAMA for a BASKETBALL game, of all things. That would be like cutting off Clinton for a saxophone gig. And this is March Madness, mind you.

JustMeSee · Mar 12, 2011

lordbt said:
Couldnt tell you. I listened to a few minutes of it on radio, but he was droning on and on so I cut away from it myself.

Obviously, you were not capable of understanding the speech. Does anyone else know what was the topic of the speech?

GadFly · Mar 12, 2011

lux et lex said:
They didn't cut away from enough of Bush's speeches when he was president. Stopping the World from listening to him be a bumbling idiot was good for America.

President Bush will go down in history as a great president whereas Obama may be the number one most poor president. We will take your word for it that you think GWB was an idiot since you apparently have more familiarity with idiots than the rest of the world.

GadFly · Mar 12, 2011

ImmortalTechnique said:
because FOX is the propaganda arm of a major political party in the United States disseminating anti-American disinformation as "news"?

Your logic is amazing. Whose side do you think the 93% liberal journalist fall on? Talk about propaganda, you guys present the news with one word to label the situation and then you give a slanted view of the news which is always liberal. At least Fox News is fair and balanced and that just kills you typical suspects of liberalism.

Umaro · Mar 12, 2011

JustMeSee said:
Obviously, you were not capable of understanding the speech. Does anyone else know what was the topic of the speech?

He talked about the tragedy in Japan, unrest in the middle east, urged us to get off of foreign oil. You know, tripe things like that...

GadFly · Mar 12, 2011

Ukrainia said:
This is kind of immaterial to me. The vast vast majority of major media outlets have dropped the pretense of not having a bias. Their isn't one news station or web site that I know of that even attempts to stay objective. Fox and the Wall Street Journal are very conservative, just like MSNBC and the Huffington Post are very liberal. It's legitimate to criticize a news station because you think they're wrong, but if you're going to criticize a station for having a bias, to be consistent you'll really have to have that same criticism for almost every news outlet out there.

No! The liberal news media does not admit that it is bias. Just like on this thread the liberals in their superior arrogance keep saying that all others are idiots and that without giving the reasons why they think so poorly of the rest of us.

I'm glad Fox cut away from the Presidents speech to go to a basket ball game.

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