Any awkward Fox videos from last night?

11/7/2012 11:30:09 AM

Megyn consults the nerds -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cSiVhJq4tos

11/7/2012 11:32:35 AM

there's should beone of rove whining and shuffling and stuttering after the sequence described a few posts ago.

[Edited on November 7, 2012 at 11:34 AM. Reason : ^at the end of that]

11/7/2012 11:32:58 AM

[Edited on November 7, 2012 at 11:34 AM. Reason : hahaha beaten]

11/7/2012 11:34:02 AM

I imagine he just quietly slipped out the back door at some point during the night and hopped in his helicopter headed to that skull-shaped volcano island of his

11/7/2012 11:34:21 AM

they want these two storms to be Obama's Katrina so, so badly

and they are going to convince their viewers that they are

which means more ignorant assholes running around spewing absolute bullshit

bleh

11/8/2012 1:06:44 PM

11/14/2012 2:15:53 PM

beat me to it

remember, friends, that nothing bad happened before January 20th, 2009

11/14/2012 2:31:33 PM

Fox News is downright giddy over Benghazi.

11/16/2012 11:48:17 AM

I can only imagine how many crotch fires have been started there as a result of the frantic, lubeless masturbation.

11/16/2012 12:34:41 PM

Great example of cognitive dissonance.

11/17/2012 2:45:30 AM

^wow. the spin spins there.

11/17/2012 10:39:45 AM

I can only see that as a cry for help. Are we sure that he's not pleading for someone to rescue him from the clutches of Fox News?

11/17/2012 11:23:23 AM

Quote :

"Fox News Gags Guest After He Calls Network a ‘Wing of the Republican Party’"

Video:
http://mediamatters.org/embed/static/clips/2012/11/26/27873/fnc-hn-20121126-ricksfoxbenghazi

11/26/2012 10:52:23 PM

11/30/2012 1:07:21 PM

i don't know the point of this pic, the story title is "Bohner: Obama is not being Sersious"

11/30/2012 2:54:22 PM

"Test subjects who received their news from other outlets or reported they do not watch the news scored an average IQ of 104, compared to 80 for Fox News viewers."

"Less intelligent humans do the same thing. Concepts that are too complex for them to understand, may frighten or anger them." He continues, "Fox News' content is presented at an elementary school level and plays directly into the fears of the less educated and less intelligent."

http://news.yahoo.com/intelligence-institute-study-shows-fox-news-viewers-iq-034622242.html

12/9/2012 6:48:51 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/fox-news-less-informed-new-study_n_1538914.html

12/9/2012 7:09:51 PM

^^ lol that reads like a parody article

Quote :

"The researchers said that an IQ of 80 is well above the score of 70, which is where psychiatrists diagnose mental retardation. P. Nichols says an IQ of 80 will not limit anyone's ability to lead happy, fulfilling lives."

12/9/2012 7:21:06 PM

Quote :

""Less intelligent humans do the same thing. Concepts that are too complex for them to understand, may frighten or anger them.""

Freedom!

12/10/2012 10:41:27 AM

Fox News has blamed this shooting on both removing God from the classroom and on online activities and gaming. Fox News is disgusting.

http://youtu.be/IZeEM_Pqqgw
http://gawker.com/5968609/fox-news-blames-shooting-on-online-activities-gaming

12/15/2012 12:04:01 PM

Apparently Steven Crowder's story is unraveling from the Michigan Protests. It appears in a less edited version of the video he pushes a protester to the ground before being punched. Fox and Hannity tried to make it look like he was the victim:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/steven-crowder-no-charges.php

12/15/2012 12:48:35 PM

There are also reports that he had been walking around instigating people

Basically he wanted to get punched, he wanted this story

12/15/2012 2:44:45 PM

^Classic agent provocateur. They are as old as protest itself.

12/15/2012 2:53:38 PM

It was obvious even in the edited video that the protestor was recovering his balance right as the camera turned on. I guess we were supposed to think he was just drunk or possibly delirious with union thugster rage?

12/17/2012 12:23:35 PM

To play devil's advocate: maybe he (the union dude) took a swing at the conservative guy and missed when the conservative guy dodged and lost his balance and fell.

It's definitely unclear to me how it all started and who attacked whom.

12/17/2012 1:37:10 PM

I would allow that possibility, but in that scenario why choose not to show that first punch in the edited video?

12/17/2012 1:38:33 PM

<shrug> The guy making the point (Stephen Crowder) wasn't the one taking the footage so maybe that's just when whomever was started pointing their camera phone at the altercation. After hearing the fight start perhaps. Dunno. Listened to the "Amazing" Atheist rail on about it and I didn't find the evidence compelling either way. Hopefully someone else was recording from a different vantage and will come forward.

Now, the fact that he isn't pressing charges is extremely suspicious.

[Edited on December 17, 2012 at 1:55 PM. Reason : can read thread]

12/17/2012 1:52:00 PM

Here's the unedited footage (with some ignorable commentary):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57bd1cvpLTo

12/17/2012 1:57:42 PM

Still unclear. I've frame-by-framed the starting point and the camera goes just off frame right at the moment to see what's happening to the union guy. It looks like what was going on at the tent could have pushed him down.

I can say that it didn't look like Crowder was in position to push him down the split second before the camera went off frame. Unless he's a ninja I'm not sure he started that fight physically. He may have instigated it, I suppose.

[Edited on December 17, 2012 at 2:28 PM. Reason : .]

12/17/2012 2:18:34 PM

All true, but observe just how much of a benefit of a doubt must be given to Crowder and the croney next to him and exactly none to the union guy just to reach this conclusion.

12/17/2012 2:41:45 PM

True, and again Crowder isn't pressing charges himself so <shrug>.

12/17/2012 3:07:38 PM

Yoga programs in public schools face backlash

Quote :

" ENCINITAS, California – Public school yoga instructor Katie Campbell proudly looks out at 23 first graders as they contain their squirming in a kid-friendly version of the lotus position. In a voice barely above a whisper, she says into her microphone: "Why look at everyone showing me they're ready for yoga. A-plus, plus, plus!" Then the lesson begins with deep breathing and stretches common to many yoga classes. But there is no chanting of "om," no words spoken in the Indian language of Sanskrit nor talk of "mindfulness" or clasping hands in the prayer position. Campbell avoids those potential pitfalls for the Encinitas Union School District, which is facing the threat of a lawsuit as it launches what is believed to be the country's most comprehensive yoga program for a public school system. Parents opposed to the program say the classes will indoctrinate their children in Eastern religion and are not just for exercise. It's a debate public schools across the country are increasingly facing with the rising popularity of the practice and the recent dispute over school prayer. Yoga is now taught at public schools from the rural mountains of West Virginia to the bustling streets of Brooklyn as a way to ease stress in today's pressure-packed world where even kindergartners say they feel tense about keeping up with their busy schedules. But most classes are part of an after-school program, or are offered only at a few schools or by some teachers in a district. Encinitas is believed to be the only public school system that will have yoga instructors teach full-time at its nine schools as part of an overall wellness curriculum that includes nutrition and a school garden program, among other things. "This is 21st century P.E. (physical education) for our schools," said Encinitas Superintendent Timothy B. Baird. "It's physical. It's strength-building. It increases flexibility but it also deals with stress reduction and focusing, which kickball doesn't do." The program is expected to teach a 30-minute yoga lesson to roughly 5,000 students twice a week at the district's schools, which run kindergarten through sixth grade. It is funded with a $533,000 grant from the Jois Foundation, a nonprofit whose board of directors includes the son of the late Indian instructor Krishna Pattabhi Jois, whose teachings are said to have popularized Ashtanga yoga in the Western world and were followed by Madonna and Sting. The Jois Foundation's program director Russell Case said Encinitas is building a national yoga model for public schools. "Kids are under a lot of stress. There are a lot of mandates on them to perform. We think it would be extremely helpful to have 10 to 15 minutes possible to sit and be reflective instead of go, go, go," he said. Researchers at the University of Virginia and University of San Diego will study the program, including analyzing data on students' resting heart rates. They want to know if public schools can impact not only children's learning, but instill in them good eating habits and skills to help their well-being. The program started in several schools in September but will go district-wide in January after months of protests by a group of parents. Mary Eady pulled her first-grade son out of the classes. Eady said she observed a kindergarten class in which the children did the motions referred to in yoga practices as a sun salutation. The folded over children, stood upright, sweeping up their arms toward the sky. She said while the teacher called it an "opening sequence" the connotation was the same in her mind: Students were learning to worship the sun, which went against her Christian beliefs that only God should be worshipped. "It will change the way you think," she said. "What they are teaching is inherently spiritual, it's just inappropriate therefore in our public schools." Their attorney, Dean Broyles, says they are considering suing to halt the program. Despite the long debate over prayer in school, constitutional law experts say the courts still have not clearly defined what constitutes religion. "You might get litigation on a program like this because it's not totally settled what the boundaries of religion are," said New York University law professor Adam Samaha. He points to the 1979 ruling by a federal court that blocked transcendental meditation classes from being taught in New Jersey public schools, deeming those particular lessons to be religious. But the court did not go so far as to rule that meditation in general is and Samaha thinks courts would not deem yoga a religious practice. If they did, it would open the door to scrutinizing a host of activities. "It's practiced by enough people, who probably don't believe they are engaging in a religious practice," he said. Still, Encinitas Assistant Superintendent David Miyashiro said administrators are not taking any risks. "In light of all the attention, it's not enough to remove things with cultural references but also anything that can be perceived by onlookers as a concern," he said. "We think it's important to keep this program in our schools and we're going to do what we can to protect it." At Flora Vista Elementary School, those precautions were apparent. "Spread out, we're getting ready for some airplane," Campbell said as the children laid on their mats face down and spread their arms, arching their back and then flopping back down. Later she said: "now push back to downward dog." At the end, the children sprawled on their backs to relax like a "pancake" as the lights went off. There were soft giggles. Some wiggled in the dark or fiddled with their socks. "We're like melting cheese," Campbell reminded the students. Principal Stephanie Casperson said fewer children now come to her office for acting out. "I have teachers who say before a test now students do yoga to calm themselves so they're transferring it into the classroom, into their lives," she said. During a recent fire drill, 6-year-old Sylvia Lawrence said she folded over into a yoga position under her desk. "It made the fire drill more fun," she said. Maria Walsh, 11, said she was never into other sports. "It's just a fun way for me to exercise," said the freckled, blond-haired girl with a big smile."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/17/yoga-programs-in-public-schools-face-backlash/?test=latestnews
*facepalm*

12/18/2012 12:38:08 AM

Actually, I'll allow it. Despite being secularized and co-opted by Western Orientalism, Yoga is at its heart a religious practice for Hindus.

12/18/2012 8:56:34 AM

meh, if she's purposefully omitting all the spiritual crap and just getting kids to exercise I don't see what the problem is. I have a hard time believing anyone being told to unfold their arms upward is being taught to worship the sun, especially given the ubiquitousness of yoga exercises in gyms and the media.

Guess we'll have to see what the courts say.

12/18/2012 9:47:19 AM

so do conservatives what Religion in schools or not.....




oh i get it....only if its Christian religion

12/18/2012 12:07:34 PM

Well d'uh.

12/18/2012 1:37:54 PM

This story just brings so many oddities to it. Normally, the right is all about slamming frivolous litigious action, but that's exactly what they are threatening here because they are scared and ignorant. You would think that parents would be all for healthier kids who are calmer and have better focus.

12/18/2012 4:07:38 PM

This isn't "the right." It's "butthurt Christians."

12/18/2012 4:24:14 PM

Fair enough. I suppose abject ignorance will continue to baffle me.

12/18/2012 4:39:43 PM

Quote :

"This story just brings so many oddities to it. Normally, the right is all about slamming frivolous litigious action, but that's exactly what they are threatening here because they are scared and ignorant. You would think that parents would be all for healthier kids who are calmer and have better focus. "

I don't get why the school caved (to an extent).

Do the kids not read Tolkein or Harry Potter? Would teaching that you can't live inside of a fish, that space, not heaven, is above the clouds, that the devil doesn't live in the earth also count as indoctrination?

12/18/2012 11:56:24 PM

Did the school cave? It looks like the only thing that happened was one butthurt parent took their kid out of the class.

12/19/2012 1:18:02 AM

http://nation.foxnews.com/connecticut-elementary-school-shooting/2012/12/20/bikers-turn-out-protect-newtown-mourners-westboro-baptist-church?intcmp=fly

12/26/2012 4:37:51 PM

Ha I was going to post this.

12/26/2012 5:11:11 PM

Nothing screams left wing like being crazy religious and homophobic.

12/26/2012 9:23:41 PM

WBC describes themselves as left wing I'm pretty sure. So Fox News is just reprinting stupid ideas that crazy people think as fact. That's all.

12/26/2012 9:43:12 PM

The yoga story reminds of when I had to read bible verses for 10th grade English because of its literary value. I didn't really mind even though I'm not christian, other than the feeling that other religious works, "literary value" or no, would have been considered.

Lo and behold, a few years later, parents/media/everyone raise hell for UNC's summer book reading about the Koran

http://www.unc.edu/~cernst/rsnews.htm

[Edited on December 26, 2012 at 10:07 PM. Reason : ]

12/26/2012 10:07:02 PM

^Haha, I remember that shit. Holy cow, that was so ridiculous.

12/27/2012 4:07:22 PM

When I went home on Christmas break my mom was browsing on the computer and I heard her say to herself, "Wow! I think this is the first time Fox News has ever lied to me." She said it in an entirely serious voice and meant it, I shit you not. It was EXTREMELY hard to keep my mouth shut but I figured I would save myself a lot of hassle by doing so. Same situation almost arose around the dinner table at Thanksgiving, everyone fresh off of the election. Maybe someone here can sympathize... goddamn rents and their wacky politics.

12/29/2012 11:01:24 PM

major props to FoxNews.com for having the embassy attack in Libya as their main headline right now instead of the fiscal cliff talks

priorities and whatnot

12/30/2012 6:03:26 PM