Hilarious! Olbermann slamming Faux News!

Has on some bearded kid who was turned in to the FBI by a Freeper for reading an anti-Murdoch/Fox book. Olbermann joked that maybe he'll be sentenced to watch Fox News--"a fate worse than death."

BTW, the graphic behind him said "We report. You comply."

I was trying to following but I got there too late.

Book was Weapons of Mass Stupidity, a scathing work about Faux News and Rupert Murdoch.

Scary stuff... Anyone catch what city this occurred in?

The Weekly Planet,in it was an article with the title"Weapons of Mass Distraction",about murdoch and the dumbing down of the news.Someone called the f.b.i on the guy(Mark Schultz).

. . .what was the grounds for questioning him?

but someone apparently cared enough to follow him to his car and take his licence number. He said it might have been because he has a beard and is somewhat dark-complected (darker than lily-white, anyway).

I'm going to miss Keith Olbermann and "Countdown." No, I don't know anything about it being canceled -- but I DO know that I'm the kiss of death for TV shows. Whenever I find something that I like and begin watching regularly, it's usually gone within a few months. (The Daily Show and 60 Minutes don't count, since they've been around long enough to have built up immunity to my fearful power. The only reason your screen isn't dark right now is because I don't watch much TV.)

EXCELLENT!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

I am dying to know.

at HarperCollins in NY and just have to say he's a total TWIT!

Feel free to turn me in to the FBI...

http://www.weeklyplanet.com/2003-01-15/cover.html

Doesn't seem to be about Fox, though.

Weapons Of Mass Stupidity
Fox News hits a new lowest common denominator

BY HAL CROWTHER

It's the inviolable first rule of democracy that all politicians will praise the wisdom of the people -- an effusive flattery that intensifies when they ask "the people" to swallow something exceptionally inedible. What the people never hear from anyone, or from anyone with further ambitions, is the truth. If a public figure wishes to leave the stage forever, a sound strategy is to offer his fellow citizens a candid and disparaging assessment of their intelligence.
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Fox News is an oxymoron and Cheech and Chong would have made a more credible team of war correspondents than Geraldo Rivera and Ollie North. Neither Saturday Night Live nor the 1973 film Network, Paddy Chayefsky's corrosive satire of TV news, could even approach the comic impact of Geraldo embedded, or of Fox's pariah parade, its mothball fleet of experts who always turn out to be disgraced or indicted Republican refugees. If Ed Meese, Newt Gingrich and Elliott Abrams couldn't fill your sails with mirth, you could count on the recently deposed Viceroy of Virtue and High Regent of Rectitude, my old schoolmate Blackjack Bill Bennett.

With its red-faced, hyperventilating reactionaries and slapstick abuse of lame "liberal" foils who serve them as crash dummies, Fox News could easily be taken as pure entertainment, even as inspired burlesque of the rightwing menagerie. But the problem -- in fact, the serious problem -- is that Fox isn't kidding, and brownshirts aren't funny.
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http://www.weeklyplanet.com/2003-06-11/cover.html

as the author stated, don't believe the polls, the media is terrified of this admin.

Anyway....I was impressed. He made some excellent points; i.e.:

Many of those that were 'attacked' as liberals against the war have survived handsomely.

People do not like this war. I see it every day, as do most of you.

We will come out of this, probably at the last minute.

Hang in there DU'ers, it won't be long now!

I really enjoyed that read..

http://www.weeklyplanet.com/2003-01-15/cover.html

Doesn't seem to be about Fox, though.