Even Fox Sports isn't "fair and balanced!"

mumon

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Mon Oct-20-03 01:45 PM
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Even Fox Sports isn't "fair and balanced!"

I was amazed at how obnoxious their coverage of the game last night was- they were too busy puttin up their logo to cover Florida's advance to scoring position!

Geez, what crap!

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graham67

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Mon Oct-20-03 01:48 PM
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1. It's awful...

Faux News/Faux Sports.

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RobertSeattle

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Mon Oct-20-03 01:53 PM
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2. Devil's advocate

Edited on Mon Oct-20-03 02:40 PM by RobertSeattle

Fox's NFL Pregame show yesterday had a devestating parody of Rush Limbaugh at the "Trent Lott Therapy Clinic" (or something like that). It was very funny. The actor playing Rush had a huge pile of blue pills in front of him.

I personally don't see much bias in Fox Sports myself, but that's just my opinion.

Added Link
http://www.foxsports.com/named/FS/NFL/OnFox/foxNFLSunday

Go to the bottom left and click on the Frank's Picks Week 7 - it starts about 1/3 of the way through.

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mot78

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Mon Oct-20-03 05:09 PM
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9. I don't watch Faux News

But Faux sports isn't blatantly right wing. Neither are the shows on Faux network tv (ie. The Simpsons, which made fun of Faux News recently).

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MadHound

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Mon Oct-20-03 01:57 PM
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3. Hate to break it to you,

But most sports coverage in this country has a conservative bias, everything from football to the Olympics. Rush Limpballs was just the obvious tip of the iceberg. Of course this is all just to balance out that "liberal media".

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VermontDem2004

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Mon Oct-20-03 01:58 PM
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5. I disagree

The Best Damn Sports show tore Rush a new one the day after he made those comments.

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skippysmom

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Mon Oct-20-03 01:57 PM
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4. Fox Sports just sucks

no matter what its political persuasion may be. They ruin every sport they cover.

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RedSox02

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Mon Oct-20-03 02:01 PM
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7. I recall the RedSox-Yanks series

Two of the three broadcasters were: Tim McCarver (Yankees Color guy during the regular season) and Bret Boone (Brother Aaron plays for Yankees). That, on top of the fact that they would rather make sure you see the full promo for "Skin" for the 10th time of the night then let you see Manny Ramirez hit a home run in game 5. The game came back from commericals in Boston and New York with a fan jumping up and down holding the home run ball. Needless to say we were left to guess what happened.

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WindRavenX

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Mon Oct-20-03 05:28 PM
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10. THAT PISSED ME OFF

FOX has the WORST coverage of baseball.
On another thought, it is true, I think, the sports are basically more RW than not...sad x(

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Ficus

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Mon Oct-20-03 02:00 PM
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6. Tom Arnold...a big Dem

in a somewhat but not really related to Fox Sports post, Tom Arnold, who is from Iowa (and is on "Best Damn Sports Show period, on some Fox channel like FX,) is a big time Democrat. He has been kicking around the idea of running for Governor or Congress. I'd love to see him, or anyone for that matter, run against Chuck Grassley...

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newyawker99

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Mon Oct-20-03 04:59 PM
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8. Hi Ficus!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

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mumon

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Mon Oct-20-03 07:52 PM
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11. You know, they ARE right wing...

remember the Tim Robbins/ Budd Durham thing?

But, heck, you'd think if they have a contract, the damned thing would say that they'd actually have televise the game!

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