Daily Archives: August 15, 2003

Fair and Balanced Late Night Reading

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The compleat fair and balanced is over at Blah3.
Tom at TBOGG shares with us Lowell Ponte’s stupid and , well, stupid report on fair and balanced.
Gerber and Schwarz want to get sued like Al Franken.
The Rittenhouse Review is repetitively fair and balanced.
Jack Balkin quotes bush apparently talking about the fox news fair and balanced lawsuit:

“The unpredictability of our liability system means that even frivolous cases, even what we call junk lawsuits, carry the risk of enormous verdicts.” Bush told a crowd in Greensboro, N.C.

and discuss the suit at length in posts preceding and following the above link.
And I wish you a fair and balanced Good Night!

Chewing your Religion

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Last week we had the play with dubya toy and this week we have something for the wee ones to chew on:

Think of the impact this could make on a young families life. If this one product will make them think about their relationship with Jesus, then we have done our job.

Other than communion isn’t chewing on Jesus sacreligious or something?
NB: perhaps fair and balanced o’reilly should use one of these when he gets stressed out and is tempted to be unfair and biased.
Via Thymewise.

Fair and Balanced Report

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Here is today’s fair and balanced report. First, South Knox Bubba has the headlines (do not drink your coffee while reading); second, Neal Pollack provides a fair and balanced report on bill’s blackout activities (and now you know why he is trying to divert attention to Hillary, and third, Tegan writes about and links us to the Fox court filing which is full of great quote material such as the Orwellian

15. FNC’s balanced approach to reporting the news has become extremely popular…

and o’reilly’s fair and balanced version of his own show

17…”The O’Reilly factor” bills itself as a “No-Spin Zone” and the goal of the program is to present the audience with the straight facts while allowing the audience to reach its own conclusions about the news.

And in full bushian mode of saying one thing and doing another:

20. To reflect its unique approach to the reporting of news, FNC adopted the slogan “fair and Balanced”, along with the phrase “we Report, You Decide” at the time of the network’s inception.

Folks: watch it, read it, you decide.

Hegemony

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Go now and read this post by Emma entitled On the Fate of Empires:

Or will we become another empire in a large history of empires, and so shall the greatest experiment of human personal freedom ever undertaken disappear under the weight of power?