vent

there is a world outside fox news: and it looks like a veritable intellectual utopia in comparison.

as a person who values "fair and balanced" journalism, i want to know why fox news has neglected to report on the news of the world phone hacking ordeal. i've checked the webpage twice within the past week and nary a mention of the scandal has been made. instead: a fluff piece about the "genius" (no kidding, this is the term they used) who created gilligan's island: a show so inept that it requires viewers to believe one of the island's stranded inhabitants could fashion a telephone from coconuts yet he can't seem to apply that same resourcefulness to building a boat, say, to get them off the fucking island.

i think fox news' definition of genius and mine are a little different.

however: smear-piece stories abound on how obama is a baby for using the same defiant tactics the gop has used in negotiations all throughout obama's presidency: specifically, how obama "stormed out" of a debt crisis meeting because the gop were unwilling to compromise on a viable debt solution. the logic seems to be: the gop can throw tantrums and drag their heels in the name of furthering their agenda: filibustering nearly every fucking issue, but when dems get sick of indulging their childish bullshit...they're just being babies.

fucking ridiculous.

obama's going to lose this next election, not because he's a bad president, but because he's up against overgrown toddlers who don't understand the concept of democracy and compromise. every fucking issue is met with opposition from republicans: issues that serve the greater good of everybody. why? because he's "durp durp socialist durp durp." it's truly frightening what this country has come to and i hold fox news (and it's selective reporting techniques) responsible. for keeping conservatives in the dark: for turning them into rhetoric-reciting morons who follow blindly what they're told to follow by these underhanded fake news organizations. it's obvious--painfully fucking obvious--to anyone outside that sphere that fox news has an agenda; that the gop has an agenda: to keep the rich rich and trick the middle and lower classes into supporting these crooks by telling them that to do otherwise is un-american, which in my opinion is closer to evil than socialism (never mind that no one who makes these accusations even knows what socialism means): something bordering on orwellian. it's sick: it's lying by omission; neglecting to present all the facts. these organizations like fox news are in cahoots with big business, republicans are in cahoots with big business: and they see to it that their own agenda is pushed; that their own interests are promoted and reconfigured so that people like joe schmo blue collar conservative gets duped into believing it's his responsibility as an american to support their agenda.