Posts Tagged ‘foxnews’

Dry run for terror?

August 31st, 2010 | 1 Comment

Dutch Question 2 Men Arrested on Terror Suspicion on Flight From Chicago to Amsterdam Dutch investigators on Tuesday questioned two Detroit-area men arrested at Amsterdam’s airport after U.S. authorities found suspicious items in their checked luggage, including a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle and a knife and box cutter. The pair were arrested [...]

Linda Sanchez sees white supremists

June 3rd, 2010 | 3 Comments

Accusing the Arizona immigration law of leading to the slippery slope of racial profiling has apparently worn thin.  Linda Sanchez decided to up it a notch: “There’s a concerted effort behind promoting these kinds of laws on a state-by-state basis by people who have ties to white supremacy groups”,”It’s been documented. It’s not mainstream politics.” [...]

Facebook and the death penalty

June 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

Sometimes I feel like most of my views are totally contrarian.  That beliefs in traditional values and harsh consequences for harsh actions is something most people can’t deal with.  Then I see something like this on Facebook: Results: Is the death penalty wrong? Yes 7,880 No 16,568 Now, Facebook’s as hip as it gets.  This [...]

Reaction to Obama’s state of the union

February 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Reaction to Obama’s speech in the media is about as predictable as you’d expect.  Fox is finding all kinds of problems with it, CNN is lauding how their poll reaction was.  MSNBC couldn’t contain themselves during the Republican response.  I’d run a poll here, but I know most of my readers don’t like Obama, so [...]

Media and the wrong values

November 6th, 2008 | 2 Comments

It’s easy to trash media.  They screw things up all the time.  Just pick a story, any story, and you’ll find something wrong with it.  For instance, today, Foxnews, which claims to represent the conservative peeps of the US, ran this headline: Flip-Flopper? McCain/Palin backing ‘View’ co-host Hasselbeck stuns viewers | PHOTOS The story headline [...]