Fox news = false news

Of course, they dissimulate this under the cover of complaining about Fox's demonstrable factual inaccuracy, but fortunately you can read minds.

And then there are a further few million ways of reporting a story and lying. Or, indeed, just plain ol' inventing the story in the first place. Bias may perhaps be unavoidable, but there is a line between that and outright falsehood, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that journalists should stop short of it.

And most people who don't want terrorists to use biological weapons against the USA couldn't tell anthrax from baking soda. They would in fact be more alarmed by baking soda in a jar labeled ANTHRAX than by anthrax in a jar labeled BAKING SODA. But I don't see how this invalidates their position.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Soros is Jewish, so it stands to reason he must be up to something evil. Rupert Murdoch is Aryan and is therefore an angel of light.Back in real life, Soros' investment fund owns a whopping 7.28% of the Times Mirror Group. And ... er ... that seems to be it for media ownership. So basically he must be controlling all the rest of the media by Jew Magic. They can do that, you know. Their big non-Caucasian noses give them powers.

Coyote, Buzsaw is agreeing with you.You should regard this as a wake-up call.

There probably is a law preventing you from mailing people baking powder labeled as anthrax, which would be a more accurate analogy to the situation you describe. And I find in that situation little cause for concern. So it means that I can't own "a pimped out .22 with a front grip, folding stock, and a banana mag". Good heavens, why would I want to? Today they deprive me of the front grip on my .22, tomorrow they'll make me take the rudder off my car. But I regard the prospect with stoical equanimity.

That's exactly why my analogy is better. Baking powder pimped to look like anthrax = a 22 pimped to look like a more dangerous weapon. Absent the pimping, both remain legal. If the language of the AWB prohibits a pimped 22, I'm not sure that that indicates that it was drafted by people who knew nothing about guns. Maybe they just didn't care one way or another about pimped 22s. What you seem to be suggesting is that they actually thought that such absurd chimeras are more dangerous than an ordinary 22 and made law on that basis; but I doubt that that was the case. I think it is relevant. If a ban on assault weapons also inadvertently bans something which no-one in their right minds wants or currently possesses, then the phrase "no harm, no foul" comes to mind. And when I trim my toenails, I am equally apathetic towards the gradual erosion of my feet. I never mentioned the subject. My sole point was that when it comes to the question of who should decide, you are setting the bar of technical expertise too high. It is surely not necessary for the decision-makers to have the ability to recognize exactly how dangerous a gun is by means of a cursory visual inspection; just as the same applies to white powder.

Some facts would have been nice, but since opinions are all you've got, let's look at this one: Now if Fox is "left-leaning", then it is strange that conservatives are always so keen to defend them. Given that they also lie like Ananias, surely you guys should be denouncing them as a hotbed of deceitful socialistic propaganda; the Pravda of American political discourse.Meanwhile, it seems that there is a big gap in the market for a news channel which really does cater to a right-wing demographic; I am slightly surprised that no media mogul has yet taken advantage of this valuable commercial opportunity. Apparently the law of supply and demand is broken.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

The Simpsons isn't what it was, but Fox News is still funny.Justifying Bush's foreign policy, Fox News host Eric Bolling said: Meanwhile, here's how they're spinning the phone hacking scandal: Yeah, why aren't corporations which were the victims of hacking being subjected to the same sort of scrutiny as the corporation that perpetrated it? That is just so unfair.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

That's an actual Fox News headline. See if you can connect it to the story.They're mad, aren't they? They've just collectively gone nuts.

The phrase "Did you come up with that one by yourself?" gets 682,000 google hits.

No it doesn't. The two words faux and news get that many results in conjunction. The phrase "faux news" only gets 1,060,000.

I wouldn't have put it quite like that, I like Artemis and was merely joshing him. But yes, RAZD seems to be radically missing my point, which was in fact that.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

That you have chosen an singularly unoriginal way to point out that RAZD is being unoriginal.

Well I never. Get away.