Moveon.org Demonstrates Against Fox News
It is amazing to me how scared liberals are of the other side’s opinions. Why are they so afraid of debate? Could it be that they know they can’t win a debate, so instead they try to de-legitimize the other side? I am referring to moveon.org and their recent demonstration against Fox News.
About 22 demonstrators gathered outside the ABC News building in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to deliver a petition reportedly bearing 200,000 signatures of people who agree that “FOX News is a Republican mouthpiece” and that networks, including ABC News, should stop “parroting” the Fox News Channel’s talking points.
“Fox News is taking us away from issues that are really pressing and creating a sense that we shouldn’t be focusing on these issues but should be more focused on tabloid issues. We know that Fox News is not a legitimate news organization. It is a Republican mouthpiece. Yet the rest of the media is taking its talking points from Fox,” Domansky added.
Fox News isn’t legitimate because when they debate a subject they have a liberal and a conservative on and they actually debate that subject? This is unlike all of the other news outlets who have people like George Staphylococcus and James Carville on to debate the same side of the argument. How balanced is that? God forbid there is an open and honest debate about the issues.
Moveon.org doesn’t think that debate is good. In a way they are like the global warming alarmists who try to tell us the debate is over.
Debate is good, debate is how we are supposed to iron out issues. We are not supposed to stifle debate. We are not supposed to stifle free speech, we are not supposed to stifle freedom of the press. Yet that is what these people are trying to do. Why?
It’s kind of funny how when it comes to certain liberties that the left feels are being taken away under the patriot act, that’s wrong. However they have no problem going after conservative talk radio with the “Fairness in Radio” doctrine, and they have no problem going after Fox News. They have no problem with those certain unalienable rights being attacked. They also have no problem going after personal behavior choices such as smoking. I suppose it just matters who the person is that is taking away those rights, not the fact that rights are being extinguished.
But let someone try to debate an issue from a conservative viewpoint and watch how fast they are willing to shut you down! They must feel threatened.
I will be the first to admit that I take every opportunity to go after liberals and people that don’t agree with me on this blog. I make no bones about it. But I would never not allow opposing viewpoints to be argued by people who comment here. I allow every comment that is made here to stay here. I have been called many names and have been sworn at, I have been told that I am the type of person that is tearing this country apart. Why? Because I disagree with the person who is leaving the comment. But I let those comments remain. Why? Because those people are allowed to have an opinion here, and I will not shut down debate because I disagree with the person commenting here. It is what America is about. That is a big difference between me and the people who are protesting Fox News.
That is the problem that I have with this group protesting Fox News. Do they have the right to? Yes, but the whole basis of their protest is simply that they consider Fox News to be the mouth piece for Republicans. And because of this they want Fox News to be de-legitimized on the basis that Fox News is considered by them to have a differing opinion than they do. Is it a crime for people to have differing opinions? No, as a matter of fact I think it is healthy for differing opinions to be aired and debated. As a matter of fact it is essential to the future of the country.
On a final note, don’t these people have something better to do with their time than protest a news network?
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I’ve gotta agree with most of the points you make. Moveon.org should find a way to counter anything they feel is wrong with FoxNews with media of their own. This is an excellent post because it points out hypocrisy on the liberal side that often goes un-noticed.
I went to a liberal arts university in MA after growing up in the south and that is where I decided that many “liberals” really aren’t liberal. It took me less than 3 months to figure out that many had a problem with opposing viewpoints and protested things for protesting sake (yes, I do think many feel threatened. In fact, I came to the opinion that many were just PC-liberals and that it was convenient on a “liberal” campus to just go along).
I remember being one of the few ppl I knew that read a conservative publication (which the liberal student body tried to get shut down because of articles that people found offensive).
I was ostracized for this sometimes, too. My retort: why wouldn’t a liberal want to know what conservatives think? Isn’t that truly the only way to have a debate and engage your opponent?
I hate to say this, but on that campus, I never encountered conservatives who weren’t aware of what liberals thought and why. But from my experience, many liberals had no clue upon what conservatives base their opinions.
Fox News, IMO, fear-mongers and plays to people basest-emotions, but the other networks, CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS, etc. all have their own agenda’s too. And I find most news in general to be misleading.
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They do sensationalize the bad stories on FoxNews, I agree. But there are Democrats/”liberals” on Fox too. Alan Colmes, Jeraldo, They have Dick Morris and Susan Estrich on all the time. And don’t forget about Mr. “no spin” Bill O’Reilly, he is no republican. Why just yesterday, I found out that the Founder of BET is in the tank for Hillary, on Fox! Hello, Moveon…. boneheads.
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To a certain point I agree. It is stupid protesting a network. What do they think they will achieve? It will only give Fox more free publicity. But I do have a problem with both Fox and Rush when it comes to the “other” side. They tend to shout them down or not allow the callers through in the first place. I am not saying it is better on the “other” side, but I just haven’t seen any good news networks in the US since I got here 18 months ago. Not US relevant, but the BBC and Sky News is just so much better than anything you can find here. And difficult to judge if they are either liberal or conservative – BBC and Sky News.
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“And difficult to judge if they are either liberal or conservative – BBC and Sky News.”
Then I would conclude they are doing a pretty good job of maintaining journalistic integrity from your comments.
We could only wish.
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AA, I agree with you about Rush, but he isn’t a journalist and makes no bones about his agenda. He is a conservative and as such is not impartial. There are many talk show hosts who are not impartial, it’s true many of them are conservatives but there are liberals out there also. They are not reporting the news but giving their take on it. I just don’t understand the way the left considers Fox News to be so vile.They so have people on from both parties when they debate an issue and I think it makes for entertaining television. I will say that most of their hosts are conservatives, but as Deb points out there are several liberal hosts on the network.
You don’t say, I think you are right that moveon instead of protesting and trying to shut down Fox News would be better served to use Fox News to illustrate the differences between the two sides instead of trying to stifle the opposition.
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Fox caters to what pays it’s bills. I don’t watch Fox secondary I find it asset driven more than agenda and it comes off really cheesy. On the other end I have a hard time reconciling the value of ____bags like Olbermann. Lil’ help folks ?
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One question though….
Are you certain you got the right spelling of George’s last name?
I thought Staphylococcus was the infection commonly acquired in a hospital.
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liberals think freedom of speech and expression only applies to the people that agree with them.
instead of debating they demonize and attack. they cannot attack the idea, so they attack the character and integrity of the people who oppose them.
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I sure have noticed that around here the last week. Some of the names I have been called simply because I don’t agree with them is amazing.
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