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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 10:47 AM
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Hold it-FOX is on it's high horse about the Clear Channel decency thing?
Edited on Sat Feb-28-04 10:48 AM by underpants
FOX?

The network made a name for itself by appealing to the lowest common dominator (aside from the Simpsons). Christine Applegate's bod was the network banner to attract pubescent and pre-pubescent boys for crying out loud.

Shirtless drunken and stoned rednecks on COPS?!?!?
COP chases?!?!??
Paradise Island!?!??
Joe Millionaire??????
The Littlest Groom??????

Fox News rose in the era of discussing... well Monica Lewinsky every hour on the hour. What kind of discussions did that spark around the dinner tables and on the way to soccer games in minivans? They currently EMPLOY Ollie North and Dick Morris.

Now they are trumpeting this holier than thou puritan crap. Give me a break!!!!!
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DrZhivago Donating Member (234 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 10:54 AM
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1. when I think of FoxNews "reporters"
I think of Robert Downey jr. in Natural Born Killers
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 11:13 AM
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6. I always thought the character was based on Geraldo
Who ironically now is on Fox and they let him back into Iraq after giving aide to our "enemy" by exposing troop positions and movements.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 11:00 AM
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2. fox became porn channel
and sent them all an email the day my son walked in to see a naked woman humping a pole. told them just give up any illusion they are a porn channel. any opportunity to put a naked woman on their news and they do, hypocritical dogs they are
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bucknaked Donating Member (818 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 11:02 AM
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3. The wholesome conservatives and their love for Faux News...
All they ever do is whine about how "this country is going to hell" and use smut-TV as an example, and seconds later, they'll be praising FNC.

Fox, with their "who wants to marry a millionaire" did more to harm the institution of marriage than any gay wedding.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 11:17 AM
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7. Who wants to marry a women beater?
Agreed. They probably gave O'Reilly some "talking points" to cover their bases.

A while ago someone posted a link to the Freep in which THEY were discussing how we could have won Vietnam if their had been Fox News at the time. Seriously. I guess Ari had it right (as quoted by Suskind/O'Neill) "Perception lags reality".
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NormanConquest Donating Member (346 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 11:08 AM
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4. They're the aliens from "They Live"
It must give them sick pleasure to make a buck off both sanctimony and salaciousness. And nobody seems to notice!
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 11:12 AM
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5. THEIR pornography is patriotic
Fair and balanced Pornography. It's all about us getting screwed by the Republicans.

http://www.wgoeshome.com
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WhoCountsTheVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 11:31 AM
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8. remember Married With Children?
FOX started as the "crass" network and first made their money that way.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-04 11:52 AM
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9. As Marge Simpson once observed...
"Fox turned into a hardcore porn channel so gradually I didn't even notice."
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