Fox host suggest government censor office

Post #260,501 by JayMehaffey 6/30/06 2:20:36 PM 6/30/06 2:59:01 PM Reply	Fox host suggest government censor office [link\|http://mediamatters.org/items/200606290009\|Media Matters] Summary: On June 29, several Fox News media figures suggested that the U.S. government should "put up the Office of Censorship" to screen news reports to determine whether they "hurt the country" or are of "news value," in the wake of a New York Times article disclosing a Treasury Department program designed to monitor international financial transactions. An idea so stupid that even the other Fox hosts reject it. But somebody suggesting that in public a few years ago would have been laughed off the air, it would have been a career ending move. The country is going to hell in a handbasket, and there are far too many people looking forward to a chance to push the accelerator. Jay Edited by JayMehaffey June 30, 2006, 02:59:01 PM EDT Fox host suggest government censor office [link\|http://mediamatters.org/items/200606290009\|Media Matters] Summary: On June 29, several Fox News media figures suggested that the U.S. government should "put up the Office of Censorship" to screen news reports to determine whether they "hurt the country" or are of "news value," in the wake of a New York Times article disclosing a Treasury Department program designed to monitor international financial transactions. An idea so stupid that even the other Fox hosts reject it. But somebody suggesting that in public a few years ago would have been laughed off the air, it would have been a career ending move. The country is going to hell in a handbasket, and there are far too many people looking forward to chance to push the accelerator. Jay Collapse All History
Post #260,504 by n3jja 6/30/06 2:52:21 PM Reply	Der Furher would be proud! Sieg Heil the Neocons!
Post #260,507 by imqwerky 6/30/06 2:58:43 PM Reply	Edward R. Murrow is spinning in his grave! Smile, Amy [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?Amy%20Rathman\|Pics of the Family]
Post #260,520 by warmachine 6/30/06 6:58:58 PM Reply	Run! Get out... Nah, just laugh. This would be 'Run! Get out while you can!' material except no one's trying to make it law. Thought I'd never write that phrase anymore. I assume Fox has become point-and-laugh entertainment, like Pat Robertson, Ann Coulter and Victoria Beckham. Matthew Greet Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? - Mark Renton, Trainspotting.
Post #260,523 by Ashton 6/30/06 8:36:21 PM Reply	Wish that last were even ~~so But, throughout my tenure - there has always been a persistent strain (some say plurality) of dedicated Know-nothings; their megaphones have been raised order/magnitude to stentorian levels by the same transistors as make our screeds possible. Many of these could not name one entry in the 'Bill of Rights', let alone explain one. Defend? - hardly: sneer-at. Add-in the utter humo(u)rlessness of many: nope, these folks Love Authority - long as it's Their Authority. Fox be their Gospel, never 'amusing'. The Sceptered Isle has its share of these; I trust still not so huge a one (?) No 'melting pot' here - of cha cha "tolerance for diverse valuez" cha: nope, only armed compounds, in stasis / usually not actively shooting. Until things get tough, next. I expect no singalongs in the Underground in these parts, just continued but nastier turf wars, enhanced via the beloved hi-tech gunnery that is Everywhere. Oh well, anything for excitement: our motto. A.

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