Quote: "You don't have a right to degrade me for having mine when it does not line up with your view."
Which is EXACTLY the point I was trying to make. Ann Coulter has a book called "How to talk to Liberals." That's not degrading? That entire book is designed to insult liberals and make conservatives out to be superior. You say they're abrasive when they interview liberals, because "they don't accept the sort of logic stretching and outright lies being foisted upon them." Actually, when you present these people with facts, statistical, actual facts that prove them wrong, they start throwing around insults and trying to act superior because they can't handle being proven absolutely dead-wrong. And they're wrong A LOT. There's no "logic stretching" in looking at hard numerical facts. There aren't any "outright lies" in actually taking the time to talk to someone living through a bad situation to find out what they're going through, and trying to consider their predictament. O'Reilly, Coulter, and others are completely oblivious to what's happening down here in the real world, and hypnotize their audiences into an anti-liberal frenzy. Because it's far easier to simply hate a group of people than to try and debate with them.
Quote: "Fox News is by far the ratings leader in news because people respect its fair and balanced treatment. That's a fact. "
Is it now? Actually,
CNN is the number-one prime time news source in ratings, NOT Fox. They might claim they're number one, but they aren't. They've been "de-throned" in the past a number of times as well, by MSNBC. And the only people who respect their "fair and balanced treatment" are Fox News fans who don't know to look at any other source of news. A quick tour of the internet can tell you that. They're the least ethical of the news networks, and by far the worst source of so-called "news" I've ever seen. Find me a non-editorial news report on CNN or some other news station that's even remotely as biased. Please. I'm serious. Everything on Fox is an editorial... even when they claim they're proper journalists. Everything is slanted in a conservative way, and that's why no one really takes them seriously, beyond their viewers of course. If they're so fair and just, why did Hillary Clinton, and a number of other liberal politicians, decline interviews with them? Because they knew, as a fact, that Fox journalists are on a mission to make Liberals look as evil as they can. And as a viewer, they make you think the same thing, without trying to shed any light on the views of these individuals. Fair and balanced? Prove that to me.
I'm sorry Jinzai if I'm coming across as attacking you personally. I'm really not trying to. But Fox News flat-out brainwashes people into thinking there's no other worthy source of news, and I've yet to see a single piece of noteworthy journalism on Fox. If anyone feels like stepping up to the plate and proving me wrong, be my guest. Prove that they're "fair and balanced" and abide by journalism ethics without slanted opinions working their way into every story. I've been asking people to do this for several years now and no one's even tried.
Edit: And Michael Moore's K-Mart thing was done to prove a point, which it did quite well, in fact. The victims were certainly for it, it isn't like he coaxed them into doing it or anything. Though I wouldn't be surprised if someone from Fox tried to make you think that's what he did, lol.