Friday, October 23, 2009

MediaMatters takes on Fox



I enjoyed watching this; it's like the best of FOX crazy over the past 10 months.
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6 comments:

TJE said...

Will there be a sequel about Keith Olberman?

October 23, 2009 at 12:22 PM
evan said...
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October 23, 2009 at 12:33 PM
evan said...

Katie Couric as a center of liberal media crazy? If only...just because she gave one interview to Palin doesn't make her part of the "liberal media."

I'd really enjoy a takedown piece of Olbermann; he's way too shrill for me, although I do generally like Maddow. Chris Matthews is also crazy, but in a less angry, much funnier way.

October 23, 2009 at 12:34 PM
evan said...

Maddow was more wrong than Matthews was - she let her emotions get the better of her. But religious fundamentalism is religious fundamentalism, and it's always really bad. The religious right in America is a fundamentalist movement that wants to impose a lot of its views on everybody else. The Taliban in Afghanistan is a fundamentalist movement that wants to impose a lot of its views on everybody else. The religious right does not share all its views with the Taliban, but they share the same (extremist) goals.

Do you actually have anything substantial to rebut Matthews' comment, other than that you find it offensive?

October 23, 2009 at 12:51 PM
evan said...

I see substantial differences, of course. The Religious Right doesn't behead people who are nonbelievers. The Taliban doesn't hold telethons. But Chris Matthews didn't say that the Religious Right is an American Taliban. He said that it's the closest thing we have.

If this is a crazy, beyond-the-pale idea, prove it. But the religious right doesn't exactly preach tolerance; take Bill Donohue:

"Sexual libertines, from the Marquis de Sade to radical gay activists, have sought to pervert society by acting out on their own perversions. What motivates them most of all is a pathological hatred of Christianity. They know, deep down, that what they are doing is wrong, and they shudder at the dreaded words, "Thou Shalt Not." But they continue with their death-style anyway."

And that crap was published in the Washington Post!

If you can't see the similarities between religious fundamentalists in the United States and the Taliban -- the hatred of gays, the desire to impose a religious state in their nation, the desire to convert or remove the "nonbeliever" -- I don't know what I can say, either. I think we may just have to accept that we have our differences and walk away.

October 23, 2009 at 1:24 PM
evan said...

You're very correct; thankfully, the religious right doesn't go around doing any of those things. But didn't you also just validate Chris Matthews? He said that the group which most resembles the Taliban in America is the Religious Right. I think you kind of echoed that.

October 23, 2009 at 1:37 PM

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