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One word for FOX "News" = Disgrace
After what Sean Hannity and other Fox suck-arounds have been doing in inciting a likely deadly showdown in Nevada--all but cheer-leading armed paranoid anti-government militia types from around the country into joining a wholly contrived conflict with officers of the Federal Bureau of Land Management AFTER the feds had withdrawn to cool the situation (involving dead-beat cattle rancher Cliven Bundy), FOX News has shown its true colors. There is one word that befits this mockery of a "news" network i.e. a disgrace. And if blood winds up being shed, it will be on their hands--questions of criminality must be raised. And the irksome Fox Network must be relentlessly reminded of this disgracefulness.
When one person kills another, it's usually called a murder. But when one person cloaks himself in political regalia and a quarter million people needlessly die violent deaths, it's called something else and he goes fly fishing in Montana or paints to while away the hours. Well, apparently when people hard on their luck or of retirement age after paying into social security for decades it's derogatorily called an "entitlement"--something for "takers". Yet but when someone helps himself to a million dollars in evaded fees and claims he doesn't recognize the government of the country he was lucky enough to be born into, it's not not equated with the "entitlements" of a civil society but some kind of right or "freedom". Republican logic at the top has gotten very enamored with these peculiarities of distinction in the last couple of decades.
Help a person who lost a job with some extended unemployment? Entitlement. Pay social security back to someone who paid in? Entitlement. Help a scofflaw evade $1,000,000 in business expenses and keep all his booty? Call it freedom and back it up by summoning armed crusaders without a clue who think freedom as well as roads, the order of having a police force, fire department, disaster relief, education--those all just magically happen as if a provision by god. Maybe it has something to do with taking creationism too seriously or getting something else about their beliefs all cocked up. But there sure is a lot of entitlement to people who can't seem to stand to see anyone else enjoy the little benefits of living in a civilization--a civilization which also includes one Cliven Bundy when he loads up on groceries safely at the Piggly Wiggly or whatever.
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Mr. Bundy had the privilege to pay one tenth of the fees he would have if he were to feed and water his cattle on state land. But entitled as he deemed himself he just took and took and took for years. He was billed. And like a POS dead-beat, he declined to pay his debts. It wasn't news that businesses have costs. To have a pompous shit-for-brain stiff like Sean Hannity raising the stakes with hypothetical far fetched questions harking back to Ruby Ridge and Waco to sound the alarm for every Ted Nugent to show up locked, loaded and strapped for a new American civil war over this is a bridge too far. It is reckless, selfish, irresponsible and criminal in its base. And god forbid violence leads to deadly bloodshed over Hannity and Company's shit kicking for ratings and giggles. That will be the end of Fox Noise at it has operated. It's a wonder it hasn't already caused violence having had Glen Beck's demented conspiracy theory program so close to its "news" products for years where low information voters (if not actors) had one thing running right into the other where there was no line between news and sheer ad-hoc paranoiac ramblings.
When one person kills another, it's usually called a murder. But when one person cloaks himself in political regalia and a quarter million people needlessly die violent deaths, it's called something else and he goes fly fishing in Montana or paints to while away the hours. Well, apparently when people hard on their luck or of retirement age after paying into social security for decades it's derogatorily called an "entitlement"--something for "takers". Yet but when someone helps himself to a million dollars in evaded fees and claims he doesn't recognize the government of the country he was lucky enough to be born into, it's not not equated with the "entitlements" of a civil society but some kind of right or "freedom". Republican logic at the top has gotten very enamored with these peculiarities of distinction in the last couple of decades.
Help a person who lost a job with some extended unemployment? Entitlement. Pay social security back to someone who paid in? Entitlement. Help a scofflaw evade $1,000,000 in business expenses and keep all his booty? Call it freedom and back it up by summoning armed crusaders without a clue who think freedom as well as roads, the order of having a police force, fire department, disaster relief, education--those all just magically happen as if a provision by god. Maybe it has something to do with taking creationism too seriously or getting something else about their beliefs all cocked up. But there sure is a lot of entitlement to people who can't seem to stand to see anyone else enjoy the little benefits of living in a civilization--a civilization which also includes one Cliven Bundy when he loads up on groceries safely at the Piggly Wiggly or whatever.
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Mr. Bundy had the privilege to pay one tenth of the fees he would have if he were to feed and water his cattle on state land. But entitled as he deemed himself he just took and took and took for years. He was billed. And like a POS dead-beat, he declined to pay his debts. It wasn't news that businesses have costs. To have a pompous shit-for-brain stiff like Sean Hannity raising the stakes with hypothetical far fetched questions harking back to Ruby Ridge and Waco to sound the alarm for every Ted Nugent to show up locked, loaded and strapped for a new American civil war over this is a bridge too far. It is reckless, selfish, irresponsible and criminal in its base. And god forbid violence leads to deadly bloodshed over Hannity and Company's shit kicking for ratings and giggles. That will be the end of Fox Noise at it has operated. It's a wonder it hasn't already caused violence having had Glen Beck's demented conspiracy theory program so close to its "news" products for years where low information voters (if not actors) had one thing running right into the other where there was no line between news and sheer ad-hoc paranoiac ramblings.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/17/1292646/-One-word-for-FOX-News-Disgrace
The Nevada Standoff Has Nothing To Do With "Tyranny," "Sovereignty," "Freedom," or Cows.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024816638
As a DU member, you probably knew this ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024830058
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