Liberals pressure Fox News advertisers

Does that work both ways, 2 Timothy2:1-4?

Did you see what Bill O'Reilly did to JetBlue?

 

Bill O'Reilly *shudder*

must have been a REALLY awful night for TV choices BiR

 

Mr

Two organizations that Republican Christians went after were WalMart and Disney.

 

I don't see this as an issue of toleration of others views. It's an issue of something being portrayed as "news" when it is nothing but slanted propaganda. Evangelicals and conservatives have been howling for years about the "liberal media" and you've got several organizations organizing boycotts of major networks all the time, though they don't appear to be very effective. Fox News Network does occasionally lead the cable news ratings, but in terms of viewing audience compared to those "liberal" major networks, is just a fraction of their audience. For conservatives to complain about a liberal boycott or pressure on advertisers is hypocrisy.

There's been a shift in the political perspective in the past few years, and conservatives seem to be having a real hard time dealing with the fact that they are losing control. That was inevitable, though supporting and electing an incompetent president helped hasten the day. There's nothing wrong with what the liberals are doing, since the conservatives endorsed the practice with their own methodology. Fox will have to take their chances, just like everyone else. The world isn't coming to an end as a result, and the "sky is falling" rhetoric that religious conservatives seem so fond of using to their own benefit is a dog that ain't huntin' no more. The pendulum has swung back the other way, and you are just going to have to live with it for a while.

 

Two thoughts came to mind when I read this. Conservative Christian groups probably invented, or if not at least perfected, the act of groups boycotting advertisers in oder to make their voices heard. Second thought, Bill O'Reilly regularly calls for boycotts in order to push whatever pet cause he deems worthy. It is hypocritical for Christians or FOX news to complain about this.

 

Sure they are. If you don't understand this then you are not admitting reality.

 

Let's admit reality, then - a boycott is an effective and legal means of protest.

Been REALLY gunning for Ford Motor Company, but the product...

Yeah, it's only THE top-rated news show. If you really want to boycott something and fail, try his competitor wannabee Keith Olbermann.

 

So credibility and truthfulness are determined by ratings? :laugh::laugh:

 

O'Reilly may well be the top rated show. He makes my skin crawl. If he's all that's on, then that's the best reason I can have for getting rid of all the TVs.

Personally, I watch a lot of the Fox shows. O'Reilly however isn't one of them. Now Shepherd Smith, I like him.

 

Used to watch a lot of Fox News, sis, till I discovered Lou Dobbs.

 

OK, bro, I'll bite, what makes Lou better than Neil?

 

and who in the world is Keith Olbermann?

If his show is fashioned after the O'Reilly kind of shows, I'm not going to watch. I don't like those kind of shows. They are commentary, not news. I don't mind commentary in the news, but I don't want a little news in the commentary. I don't want to watch two people yell at each other. OR even worse have a guest on and yell at them!

Give me some facts and let me make some decisions about it.

 

Nothing at all like Bill "Loofah" O'Reilly. He is a commentator on MSNBC. You can see some of his commentary on MSNBC.com or YouTube. He is highly critical of the Bush administration.

I like him a lot.

 

Olberman's show is not fashioned after O'Reilly's. O'Reilly's is openly a commentary show. Olberman tries to masquerade as a News show while throwing in partisan political one-liners and an occasional far left commentary.

If O'Reilly makes your "skin crawl", have a barf bag handy when you watch Olberman.

I've seen them both in the past, but couldn't stomach either one. O'Reilly is mostly about O'Reilly . Olberman is mostly about lunacy.

 

OK, well I just got my own personal Hannity and Colmes opinion there, didn't I :laugh: ( I don't like them either, but you two are as far apart as they are!)

MP to the Left of me, carpro to the Right of me. Here I am stuck in the middle . . .

 

Ah, another Steely Dan fan! :thumbs:

 

Not so...Countdown with Keith Olbermann is very openly commentary and editorial opinion, along with a lot of tongue in cheek (e.g. "Worst Person in the World"). Olbermann makes no bones about it being editiorial opinion.

 

It's been a long time since I watched him. Maybe his MO has changed. Makes sense. He's far more popular with the far left wackos than he used to be.

He used to like to throw paper in the air when he read a news item he didn't like. Makes some kind of point, I suppose. Does he still do that?

 

Same question goes for anyone else.....