National Day of Reason? "Ridiculous" says Fox News

[cybersapien]

Run time: 03:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17yWvr5oVJM   Posted on YouTube: May 16, 2010 By YouTube Member: Rednecks4Palin Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 16, 2010 By DU Member: cybersapien Views on DU: 2940

 
This Fox News anchor appears to hold a strong disdain for "reason". So, perhaps it's time to ask: What has "reason" ever done for us?

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[liberalla]

1. Did Fox really say "Ridiculous?"

(I didn't hear it)

I liked the video, especially with the music. :thumbsup:

[xocet]

16. Not Really...But They Wanted to...Really, Really Badly!

No, I checked the actual video from which this clip was taken: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4181707/national-day-of-prayer-debate. It is interesting that she says "...reason...." with such apparent disdain.

Another interesting bit is their abbreviation of the separation of church and state to just of church and state in the caption below the video.
I suppose that they are readying their viewing audience for the fusion of church and state.

[Devil_Fish]

21. Is it just me or is faux the only channel that always has women in skirts siting on a couch?

Never behind a desk.

Why?

Faux should be renamend the 24hr Basic Instinct channel.

[Scuba]

2. How's that Prayin' for Peace thing workin' out for ya?

[tomm2thumbs]

3. off to the greatest page with reason!

the problem is you have to pronounce it 'raisin' before they'll ever even hear the word.

[thesquanderer]

4. The first 10 seconds are good

Yeah, her expression of confusion over the concept is funny.

[dotymed]

5. Do you mean

that these accomplishments weren't engraved on a stone? Prayer gave us bush and maybe, changed candidate obama into president obama........

[sallyseven]

6. Where do they find all these

borderline mental women to read the news? 90 percent look foolish and irresponsible. I hate the way they portray women as stupid and vain. An idiot would know better.

[breadandwine]

7. Who needs reason? Dang them Dermacrits an' Libruls!

Time ta woomp me a possum, fried rattlesnake, round up some grub in the woods like a good self-reliant SURVIVALIST gittin offa the GRID man, livin out in the woods where they ain't no dang BLASTED librul DERMACRITS!

[Iggo]

8. So they're for Prayer but against Reason, eh?

Very interesting.

[DRex]

9. Stick the constitution and bill of rights in there too.nt

[JDPriestly]

10. Won't listen to the video because I don't want to waste my time on Fox drivel,

but a National Day of Reason is an excellent idea.

We also need a National Day of Science.

And while we are at it, why not a National Day of Silence?

One day when we just turn off all the noise and enjoy the sounds of creation.

[localroger]

11. Most of the video isn't the Fox newsditz

It's actually a nifty celebration of the things Reason has made possible.

[underpants]

12. to quote Jon Stewart's "America (the book)"

Chapter 1
The 17th and 18th Centuries:Enlightening Strikes

Oppression and high motality rates seemed ready to swallow what remained of mankind, when through the darkeness emerged the light that would be its salvation:Reason. It began slowly. "Hey, what if we stop storing the corpses in the drinking water and see if that makes any difference to our health?" From there it gathered momentum.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, cybersapien.:thumbsup:

[libodem]

14. She says reason

the same way Guano Bleck spits out the words 'social justice'. God, hates reason and loves social injustice, according to Faux.

[penndragon69]

15. Absolutly Unreasonable!

[eyewall]

17. Maybe we need

a National Rational Day

[wial]

18. Maybe she's got a point --

if reason ruled everything she certainly would never have been given a job with such huge influence.

Besides, science shows the neural pathways go from the emotion centers to the thought centers in the brain, so reason is mainly just a way of helping us scurry around getting our insipid little emotional fixes.

But I doubt that's what she meant. She's part of the great insensate propaganda industry that gave us Ronald Reagan even though we all saw it coming for decades.

How can reason stand against something as powerful as that?

[Technodaoist]

19. News imitating Life imitating Art imitating Life

"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

Monty Python - Life of Brian

[Politicalboi]

20. Reason?

These are people just doing God's work silly, it all comes natural. Geesh! :sarcasm:

[DCofVA]

22. I dream of the day when we are ruled by reason again

and not by the irrational fears and prejudice of the simple minded.