Monday, January 17, 2005

Smarter without fox

I think Rupert Murdoch is a hypocrite. On the one hand, he has completely immoral shows like "Who's your daddy", "Temptation Island", "The OC" and other crap. On the other hand, he sets up Bill O'Reilly (or Oh-lie-lee as I prefer) as his host par excellence on his Fox propaganda news network. And Bill, despite forcing an intern to have phone sex with him, says that conservatives are right because they have moral values. He would deny that he ever said that, of course, because the way that O'Liely operates is by making an outrageous claim and, when someone confronts him, by denying it, even when confronted with evidence. I guess we would expect nothing more from a man who condemns Clinton for having an affair with an intern while having phone sex with his own. And, all of the Fox stuff we see on TV is owned by a man who has no moral values whatsoever aside from the almighty dollar and seeing to it that politicians are put into office that will allow him to continue getting more money. I got angry the other day because of all this hypocrisy. I deleted four stations from my TV: Fox, Fox News, Fox Sports, and FX. I have accidentally turned on FX in trying to get to other channels but I quickly turn it to another channel that is not trying to pretend that his has moral values while simultaneously selling smut but I have not watched a single program from a Fox owned station identified above. I don't expect to affect Murdoch's bottom line (Or O'Liely's for that matter, though the good thing is that O'Liely will just lie about his bottom line just like he has about his ridiculous boycotting of France!). But, I've been amazed at one thing. I'm finding more time to read and learn than I did when I watched Fox. I think Fox stations have an unusual affect on my brain. They make it lethargic. In other words, I think Fox makes some people stupid. Hypocrisy tends to have that effect.

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