FOX News: Helping or Hurting for 2012?
James Poulos ·
May 24, 2011 at 8:13am
On Alyona's show at RT, I make the case that Fox is markedly improving the GOP's White House chances. If my opposite number in this debate is representative of the best arguments the other side has to offer, the president's reelection is a shakier proposition than I imagined:
And, no, I don't spend the whole segment with my eyes closed.
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Re: FOX News: Helping or Hurting for 2012?
The host's questions and snarky attitude really irked me, but you did a very nice job, James.
Apr '11
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I agree James that you did do a great job with an obvious bias from the questions of the host and responses from the other guest.
I was having this very same discussion with my 23 year old son recently and how he views Fox news as extreme, biased and far from "Fair and balanced" and can only harm republican chances.
When your assumptions are such that the MSM is center thinking than of course everything else will look skewed and distorted "Extreme".
I love the way that term is so loosely used today. Like giving out 10.0 scores and standing ovations when nothing has been truly earned.
I'm perplexed how individuals with an obvious relativistic world view suddenly find absolutes when it appliers to thought they disagree with.
Keep it going James!
Feb '11
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James, as a law student I find the view of the host and your opposite number in this debate to be pervasive amongst students, but you did a great job in this debate countering their arguments, perhaps my favorite bit was your observation of a non sequitor for the left, Fox News gets rid of Glenn Beck and somehow they see this as Fox News going further to the right.
May '10
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So he is nostalgic for the good old days when the "racist" "warmonger" Bill Buckley was so much better than the "extreme right wing" Fox News?
May '10
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Agreed, very well done, James.
I could only watch half of the video before deciding it was a pointless exercise. You can see how Lefties remain Lefties. They ignore contrary arguments, dismissing their opponents as stick figures, and misrepresent the facts before proceding to build their own arguments on those falsehoods.
There's no sense arguing with someone who is interested in neither truth nor you. You're a punching bag to them, not a human being.
I strongly recommend Peter's recent interview with Thomas Sowell. In the final segment, Sowell talks about elementary school kids being encouraged to write to their Congressmen and discuss politics. They are in effect being taught, he says, to develop a habit of forming views without facts or understanding. That's how such willfull fools are made (some, at least).
Klavan has found the best way to get Lefties thinking, I believe. Instead of arguing, repeat their views back to them in a way that highlights just how unthoughtful and ridiculous those views are. Let them find their own way.
May '10
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Aaron Miller:
Klavan has found the best way to get Lefties thinking, I believe. Instead of arguing, repeat their views back to them in a way that highlights just how unthoughtful and ridiculous those views are. Let them find their own way.
When I moved to California from the Midwest a few years ago, many of the more liberal people I befriended assumed that I would be a right wing lunatic. I played into it, caricaturing my own views and those of Republicans in general, to an extent that ridiculed their views of of the right. It seemed to work, illustrating to them how thoughtless about conservatives were.
Jul '10
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Good grief, Mr. Polous, you have the patience of Job. Bravo! I would've resorted to personal attacks on the presenter's own unabashed bias, but you kept your cool and answered intelligently. Well done.
Apr '11
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Well done, James. You are a class act.
Re: FOX News: Helping or Hurting for 2012?
She went from complaining that Fox is the GOP to wondering why Fox doesn't have the front-runner on television, which would mean they are not the GOP. As in she is searching for something to complain about.
That guy likes the way Buckley comported himself? How about the time he said to Gore Vidal "I'll sock you in the G__ D___ face and you'll stay plastered."
You know what? I agree with the guy - I like how Buckley comported himself too:
Edited on May 24, 2011 at 10:50amNov '10
Re: FOX News: Helping or Hurting for 2012?
Frankly, she was so unbearable that I couldn't sit through the thing until James came on.
May '10
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In watching this clip I was struck by the shallow, cliched, and sophomoric comments and questions from this host Alyona. She is a lovely young woman with beautiful hair, but I'm embarrassed for her and the people at "RT" if she is the best they can do.
The other guy didn't dig any deeper than Alyona did. He was basically saying he was against free speech the way he was talking about Fox News. "What happens to a country when you have a major new station validating..." Um, this is America and we do have freedom of the press and freedom of speech, buddy.
The Left likes to congratulate itself on how much more intellectual they are than us. Do they call their analysis in this clip "intellectual"? If the snarky Ms. Alyona would tune into the bipartisan discussion panels on Special Report with Bret Baier or The O'Reilly Factor for example, she would see much more "intellectual discussion" than what she is putting out.
Jul '10
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When is the last time that Think Progress guy bathed? And his mom forgot to iron his shirt.
Jul '10
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Hey now, just a minute. As a fellow bearded man with no tie on (only for the summer under Japanese government "Cool Biz" dress code!) I have to stick up for my kind. We may look scruffy, but keeping facial hair trimmed and clean is no cakewalk. Plus, it takes a lot of guts these days to go up against the likes of Mr. Polous without a tie, especially when you can't afford starch because you're working at Think Progress. I'll give him points for style if for nothing else at all, but I would suggest to him Brooks Bros. non-iron shirts.