http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/02/winning-lottery-deciding-election-odds/

Fox news trying to get people to stay home during the election?

11/2/2008 3:36:10 PM

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"Voting for president and having your ballot be the deciding one cast -- statistically, that is like trying to hit the lottery. The odds for the average person are 60 million to 1 against it, a study shows."

that may be the dumbest use of statistics ever.....

11/2/2008 3:50:06 PM

In the presidential race I could possibly see your vote counting less in the grand scheme of things but with the state split almost down the middle. Every vote counts.

Also your vote counts even more in the local elections that are on the ballot.

11/2/2008 6:21:49 PM

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"I hope everyone is fine with having peace and prosperity a few years from now."

L O L

11/2/2008 7:47:35 PM

11/2/2008 7:50:43 PM

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"If I voted for Bush or were planning on voting for McCain, I would watch Fox News exclusively. It's the only way I could live with myself knowing what I've done."

So are you saying that fox is the only media outlet that present Bush or McCains plans fairly?

(I know you didnt mean it that way. You were trying to be witty and use sarcasm like the blogs you read....it's just that I couldnt help but point out the flaw in your arguement)

Is the media overwhelmingly left? Absolutely. (of course you let this slide by...you're not concerned at all). The real story should be, "why are most media outlets more liberal than the average American. Fox is viewed as "right wing" because they are the only ones that usually present a remotely conservative argument.

thats the reason Fox is by far number 1 in viewership. They have tapped into the an audience that is largely ignored by other media outlets.

11/2/2008 11:44:10 PM

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"Is the media overwhelmingly left? Absolutely."

haha lol

next thing you know, you'll be building a bunker to hide from the Jews when they take everything over.

11/2/2008 11:45:39 PM

Fox News - bitter until the end - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCeD1RcJjAg

11/4/2008 4:18:01 PM

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"thats the reason Fox is by far number 1 in viewership. They have tapped into the an audience that is largely ignored by other media outlets."

which audience is that? the audience that chooses to remain willfully ignorant because facts might upset their preconceived notions about reality?

11/4/2008 4:56:57 PM

I watch fox quite a bit and I will admit that they are defiantly republican leaning, but I flip around a lot and those of you who are saying cnn and nbc aren't card carrying members of the left wing are sorely wrong.

[Edited on November 4, 2008 at 5:31 PM. Reason : sp]

11/4/2008 5:31:25 PM

FOX NEWS IMPLODES

[Edited on November 5, 2008 at 12:31 AM. Reason : x]

11/5/2008 12:31:21 AM

hahahahha^

11/5/2008 12:34:15 AM

The topic of the night seems to be "how could this have happened?!"

11/5/2008 12:35:07 AM

brit hume has looked like he's going to shit a brick all night

11/5/2008 12:36:35 AM

God I hope they have a vascular surgical specialist on hand for the next limbaugh show. He's going pop an aneurysm.

11/5/2008 12:38:04 AM

Now they're all like "lolol at all those young kids who voted Obama into office. So silly."

11/5/2008 12:43:13 AM

Hahahaha, if anyone thought FoxNews would change now that they've become wholly irrelevant.....

11/5/2008 1:04:40 PM

how are they wholly irrelevant?

11/5/2008 3:55:01 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibsP6XN2dIo

I know nothing about this anchor, however this interview is awesome.

11/5/2008 5:38:51 PM

whatever, the country needs different opinions whether you agree with them or not so fox news is still very relevant to a large majority of the public

the fairness doctrine can suck my balls

11/5/2008 5:46:18 PM

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"FOX NEWS IMPLODES"

wait, what? This is great news for Fox News because now they will have an administration to attack nonstop rather than trying to to prop up a failing President.

11/5/2008 5:48:21 PM

that and another interview he did with joe the plumber where he questioned his views really caught me by suprise
so now i can say him, neil cavuto, brit hume, and a few others are ok

fox has come a long way

11/5/2008 5:49:08 PM

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"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibsP6XN2dIo I know nothing about this anchor, however this interview is awesome."

Wow.

That almost makes me glad Fox's anchors are reactionary dicks. Almost.

11/5/2008 6:01:29 PM

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"God I hope they have a vascular surgical specialist on hand for the next limbaugh show. He's going pop an aneurysm."

I listened for a bit today, he seemed normal. I think he saw this coming a long ways out.

11/5/2008 6:01:39 PM

Coulter has been strangely silent.

I guess she milked the far-right on book revenues and decided it was time for her to shut up.

11/5/2008 6:05:48 PM

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"that and another interview he did with joe the plumber where he questioned his views really caught me by suprise so now i can say him, neil cavuto, brit hume, and a few others are ok"

Rick Sanchez's interview with Joe The Plumber is awesome as well.

11/5/2008 7:53:46 PM

in related news, one of our own classmates got onto bill o'reilly last night with an email.... at the end, he said GO WOLFPACK! lol.... that earns points bc most would probably said, go Tarheels (dumb media)... anyways, there is useless knowledge for the day

11/6/2008 8:34:32 AM

O'Reilly also had a rather scathing and embarrassing report on Sarah Palin and her 'riffs' with McCain. I guess he is still in the tank for the 'Pubs huh?

11/6/2008 8:39:36 AM

Is this what you're talking about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1KvgwTrpQE

Considering he tries to defend her; yes, I'd say he's still in the tank even though others around him might be off the Kool Aid.

11/6/2008 9:24:39 AM

I just saw that on digg.

no spin zone my ass.

you can't spin that shit. This just makes me more glad that Obama won, but i do feel a little sorry for McCain. But only a little. He should never have picked that dead behind the eyes bitch.

11/6/2008 9:56:48 AM

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"Considering he tries to defend her; yes, I'd say he's still in the tank even though others around him might be off the Kool Aid."

no doubt he is conservative but at least he reported on that. credit is due there right?

11/6/2008 10:02:38 AM

Just watched it. You can't sit there and listen to the news that she doesn't know about NAFTA and Africa the continent and claim as Bill O did "she's not a dumb woman"?

Really Bill?

Then, he says "she couldn't be bogged down with preparing for the Couric interview"

Bogged? So, she didn't see the importance of basic prep work which politicians have been doing since the days of radio? I think it's clear this pageant queen has been living in a bubble up there in the extreme north west where people vote on looks and plain speaking. What a terrible terrible pick by McCain.

11/6/2008 10:03:50 AM

^ as someone who agrees with you that she was a terrible pick, I wouldn't say she is dumb per se. She is just completely average. She has no depth of knowledge on domestic or world issues and as long as you aren't on the fringe religious right, you saw that.

Of course, O'Reilly's bread and butter is "the folks" so of course he isn't going to call her dumb or disparage the fact that she is just average.

11/6/2008 10:10:23 AM

My world geography knowledge is down a ton since I took it more than 12 years ago, but not knowing that Africa is a continent is simply not acceptable from anyone holding a high school degree. Sure, you don't have to have "book smarts" to do things in this world...man, I can't even finish this post, not worth it.

11/6/2008 10:14:22 AM

I know it sounds bad, but I would imagine it was simply a one time deal where she mispoke and it became an ongoing inside joke among the campaign staffers who clearly hated her.

I refuse to believe that someone who was that close to the White House didn't actually know that Africa was a continent and not a country.

11/6/2008 10:17:57 AM

Umm, misspeaking would be getting the shias and sunnis confused, or something similar. You.just.don't.misspeak.about.Africa.being.a.continent.

You wanna see someone that can probably relate to Palin about world geography...here ya go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

11/6/2008 10:25:06 AM

must be a pageant whore thing.

11/6/2008 12:22:56 PM

such as the iraq

11/6/2008 12:24:37 PM

hmm, this belongs in here, rather than the McCain/Palin thread:

Bill O'Reilly is such a dick.....
in defense of Palin not knowing who was in NAFTA or about Africa, his response is "you can be tutored on this stuff". He's obviously completely missing the point that a woman who is 5 weeks away from being Vice President shouldn't have to be tutored on middle-school civics! There are plenty of candidates out there who already have all this knowledge, and could have instead come in and hit the ground running beside McCain and brought up to speed on his own policies, not on world geography

11/6/2008 12:50:03 PM

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"Rick Sanchez's interview with Joe The Plumber is awesome as well."

that was terrible, usually sanchez is right on but this time he was way off and didnt understand what joe was saying

11/6/2008 9:29:35 PM

Seriously

Why has someone not started a news network that is truly non-biased?!

11/6/2008 11:29:02 PM

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"that was terrible, usually sanchez is right on but this time he was way off and didnt understand what joe was saying"

He didn't understand what Joe was saying, because Joe wasn't making any sense.

The guy is arguing "principles" when he's famous because he lied and doesn't pay his taxes.

11/7/2008 7:56:57 AM

11/7/2008 10:20:33 AM

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"Is this what you're talking about? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1KvgwTrpQE Considering he tries to defend her; yes, I'd say he's still in the tank even though others around him might be off the Kool Aid."

I always get the impression that Fox News knows when they are propping up idiots, and Palin was one of those cases. Look no further than Karl Rove's comments on her before her nomination.

I don't think they ever liked her, but they have to be graceful about letting people know this, because they still need to support McCain. I don't think it'll be long before O'Reilly is bashing Palin, he just has to make it seem it's a gradual realization.

11/7/2008 10:24:09 AM

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"He didn't understand what Joe was saying, because Joe wasn't making any sense. The guy is arguing "principles" when he's famous because he lied and doesn't pay his taxes."

i dont like joe the plumber but he made perfect sense in the interview, sanchez didnt get it and kept asking the same question over and over and he delved into his private life a bit too rudely

anyways im not sure if joe has a good point or not, thats a tough question to answer

11/7/2008 10:37:06 AM

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"Why has someone not started a news network that is truly non-biased?!"

because it wouldn't make as much money. there was an economist story on the subject matter the other day. basically each news outlet practices the amount of bias that is within the margin of error for how its viewers/subscribers vote.

11/7/2008 10:57:30 AM

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""Why has someone not started a news network that is truly non-biased?!""

they have - its called BBC



[Edited on November 7, 2008 at 10:59 AM. Reason : ]

11/7/2008 10:58:29 AM

cnn is about as unbiased as it'll get

11/7/2008 11:01:44 AM

^lol

11/7/2008 11:16:05 AM

Fox News Cut Out From Questions At Obama's First Press Conference

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/08/fox-news-cut-out-of-quest_n_142404.html

11/10/2008 12:52:10 PM