Fox needs to be stopped!

[Charles]

Originally Posted by finnbow

OK, Chas, Whell, JJIII and/or Twodogs. Take a moment and read this short piece and please explain where it is that you take issue with it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/op...1.html?_r=1&hp

It's fairly reasonable for a one sided article. Then again, the left hasn't exactly doused themselves with cold water when it comes to political rhetoric.

Let's take a couple of other things into consideration. Congress is polling lower than whale shit, I've seen numbers which indicate that as many as 70% no longer trust the government to do the right thing, illegal immigration IS illegal, the health care bill is very unpopular with basically half of the population, the national debt is out of control, both parties are bought and paid for, and after 10 years even the staunchest supporters of the wars in the Middle East are looking for a way out.

And the unemployment numbers aren't entirely accurate, hell, they're nothing but a pack of lies when you get right down to it.

Does it come as a surprise that people are getting a case of the ass?

Now the Republicans can take a lot of blame for stirring the pot, but they're not the only culprit. I can remember Ms. Pelosi parading through the health care opponents with her oversized gavel it what appeared to me to be an attempt to enrage them.

Not exactly my idea of a come together moment.

The country is divided on the issues, not because Fox and MSNBC tells them their divided. The media simply reflects what's going on. And by and large, the only way anyone is going to get the folks inside of the beltway to pay the least amount of attention to them is to show up with a big envelope stuffed full of cash.

I would say that one of my biggest complaints with those on the left is their myopic view that the level of discontent in this country is solely the fault of the Republicans.

Just a few thoughts.

Chas