{"id":11882,"date":"2013-12-28T00:46:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T08:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11882"},"modified":"2013-12-28T00:46:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T08:46:45","slug":"the-worst-of-faux-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/28\/the-worst-of-faux-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worst of Faux Noise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When it comes to facts Republicans seem to live in a different world from the rest of us.&#160; One of the main reasons is that they get their information from non-factual sources, such as the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>.&#160; Here is one of their most idiotic offerings of 2013.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1228Faux\" style=\"float: left; display: inline\" alt=\"1228Faux\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/1228Faux.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"239\" \/>Along with death and taxes, Fox News is one of the few things we can depend on in this world. Just as the sun rises and sets, it\u2019s a given that, over the course of 12 months, many ridiculous, offensive, stupid and bewildering things will be said by persons seated in front of a Fox News studio camera. Whether it\u2019s from the hosts, guests or mere contributors, you can be assured that someone is going to say something that was better left unsaid.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, join us as we go through some of the lowest lows from Fox News, moments to remind us that when it comes to lizard-brained inanity, no one holds a candle to the guys and gals at Fox.<\/p>\n<h6>5. Bill O\u2019Reilly says Asians aren\u2019t liberals because they\u2019re \u201cindustrious and hard-working.\u201d<\/h6>\n<p>O\u2019Reilly may be considerably less relevant today than he was around 10 years ago \u2014 but he\u2019s still totally racist! While this aside about Asian people isn\u2019t quite so outlandishly bigoted as his <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2007\/09\/21\/oreilly-surprised-there-was-no-difference-betwe\/139893\" target=\"_blank\">infamous recollection<\/a> of that one time he ate at a place with black people, it\u2019s still a brain-dead comment founded entirely on a racial stereotype. And, in fact, it\u2019s kind of doubly (or triply) racist because it implies that people who vote for liberal politicians are not industrious or hard-working. Other than that, though, it was a totally defensible thing to say\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/12\/26\/fox_news_5_worst_moments_of_2013\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salon.com<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/192015\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I shared just number five with you. Click through for the other four and a better understanding of why Republican apologists are so thoroughly detached from reality.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In fact, it is so bad that a University of Maryland study confirmed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/study-finds-fox-news-viewers-more-misinformed-than-non-news-watchers\" target=\"_blank\">people who watch <em>Faux Noise<\/em> are less informed than people who watch no news at all<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to facts Republicans seem to live in a different world from the rest of us.&#160; One of the main reasons is that they get their information from non-factual sources, such as the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise.&#160; Here is one of their most idiotic offerings of 2013. Along with death and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/28\/the-worst-of-faux-noise\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}