problems with Fox News and my own prophetic tendencies

It’s very trendy to bash Fox News, which is good news for me. As the channel is the embodiment of Bob Roberts, a 1992 satire about an arch-conservative Senatorial candidate who adopts 60s civil rights rhetoric to reframe himself as a rebel. Republicanism is the new radicalism. With Fox News, puritanism becomes the new subversive culture.

So the following two entries from the Huffington Post are provided here, lest no one miss them.

One is a weak, but nonetheless pointed criticism of Bill O’ Reilly.

The other is the kind of thing that Fox News would turn into two weeks worth of news segments, were it not for the fact that it deals with one of their own – the face of conservative Christianity on the channel, Sean Hannity.

HOWEVER, I wish to point out that 1) I noticed and avoided Fox News long before the moveon.org people arose and before the Robert Greenwald documentary Outfoxed hit screens. And this is not a mild problem - I know of people who ONLY consume their information through the channel. Of course, many people want to feel affirmed in their beliefs and ideas when they watch TV and “conservatives” should be no different.

2) I also liked Johnny Cash a few years before he finally started getting recognition for the American Recordings albums (right before he died). I owned and loved Grace by Jeff Buckley long before he died. Basically, in terms of cultural and media taste, I am a prophet. (just kidding – or am I????)

Then again, I used to love the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.

This opening pre-dates the Natalie Portman gangsta rap video on SNL by 20 years.  (observe for yourself)

God I was such a gay child. (sidebar – if anyone knows of any GLOW appreciation societies, can they let me know?)