Fox News ratings in stratosphere, now second highest rated of all cable networks

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• I watch Fox News because it's a parody of itself. It's entertaining because of it's blatant bias. Half the time I can't figure out if I'm watching it, or the Comedy Channel.I also watch Fox News because I like listening to people I don't agree with.BTW, just because MSNBC or any other network is baised one way, doesn't make Fox News any less baised. My advice? Stick to AP and Reuters (or as Glenn Beck may call them "original sources") and make up your own mind about the facts.

• well thanks for everything, i guess i just need to find another, article or video to comment on. i will write down your advice treehog, and maybe next time ill get it right

  thanks

• hi,
  thanks for the website.
  I read it. I will read it again, my mind is very abstract, and imgaintive.
  i can relate the context to other things in my life.
  if you dont mind im going to ask your opinion on a topic thats been bothering, me since Obama has been in office. Keep, in mind, I am a Independent Party Politcal Viewer.
  i am 24, i do not have any kids , it seems like
  The government is fighting for anyone and everyone who is a mom,
  or has kids,
  I feel left and old.
  where i live, I only know about 10 or 15 people my age who don't have kids
  what are your thoughts?
  thanks

  • I'm not really sure what the question is.

• Great Advice Treehog

• Hi, Thank you all, for your honesty,
  i am in sociology, next week is the last class,
  debating on this website, and rebuttaling is what i am doing my final project on, no one else is doing it.
  so i would love some more feedback on debating,
  here are my concerns,
  i want to express my opinions , and thoughts and stick with some of them
  even if another person disagrees, and still continue to keep rebuttal,
  does that make sense?

  also, i am a excellent sales person,
  just a bad lawyer,

  thanks for the responses,
  andrea
  gap.

  • One more thing that may be useful. Check out Boelcke's Dicta. Boelka was a German WWI fighter pilot and apioneer in combat strategy. Boelka's Dicta are his rules for engagement, and many are applicable to debate in a very figurative sense. You can see them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicta_Boelcke

  • Good luck with your project. Please come back for more debate when you're done.

  • My advice:
    -Be respesctful. Don't resort to name calling.
    -Stay on point. It's easy to get sidetracked and avoid the issue at hand.
    -Be consistant and clear in your arguments and have facts to back them up. If your point is not coherently presented you have lost your audience.
    -Confront your opponent with topics or concepts that they understand. There is no point in trying to teach algebra to your dog. The message will be lost.
    -Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

• I guess characterizing black people as the boogeyman was rather harsh (i got your point). I grew up in a city where the black population was 2 percent or less and that was the treatment I got. I agree, people react to what they are used to and posssibly fearful of what they are not.

  I agree we can only speculate. With Obama, I hope for the best as always. You have given pause to think and in this exchange that is why I guess I first wrote to think out loud. Im not as liberal as people think but lets give Obama a fair shake. If it looks like we are in dire straights I will be the first to want him out.

  • Your last couple posts did make me re-evaluate how far left I thought you lean. :)
    I do hope for the best as well, but it is with great skepticism that I look to our leadership (regardless of party affiliation). Too often I find that public servants are only out to serve themselves, their party (not the public), and the government as a whole. I believe that questioning our leaders is our greatest civic duty. It's the greatest difference between democracy and tyranny.
    Thank you for a spirited conversation. I look forward to more in the future.

• I thought that I would have a little fun and change the original petition. As it was stated the petition is figurative, but heart-felt. When a commentator calls the President who is bi-racial, a racist. He needs to be protested against.

  Here is the actual petition:

  Greetings
  I am signing this online petition to thank Glenn Beck for his bold stand for the Principles and Values that he holds dear and for his desire to educate the American public.
  Mr Beck has motivated tens of thousands to learn more about the U.S. Constitution and the founding of our great country. He has helped expose the corruption in both political parties, and speaks from the heart even when it is not politically correct and may be considered controversial by many to do so.
  I am also signing this petition to ask Fox News Channel to continue to support the Glenn Beck television program and to let his advertisers know that I proudly support the Glenn Beck program and will look to reward those that advertise on his show by using their products and services when possible.
  To current or past advertisers that have reportedly withdrawn support of his program, or are considering doing so to appease the demands of special interest groups, please know that I reserve the right to stop purchasing your product or using your services as a form of economic protest.

  • Race is not a prerequisite or disqualifier for racism. To say otherwise is naive and absurd.

    • All I'm saying about race and Obama is that he would have to hate half of himself to be racist since he is half white and half black. Since he is a product of both races he would have a hard time saying that one or the other has dominance over the other. That is realistic not naive or absurb.

      • Show me one person that doesn't abhor something about themself. Why should race be disqualified? Do you think it's possible for a man of mixed race, raised by "typical white people" who were afraid when they saw a black man might be a little angry about that? Do you think it might influence the way he thinks about all white people because he may have been treated differently? Or perhaps is it possible that he most closely identifies himself as a black man first?
        Now let's say this man grows up, goes to a college where he studies under prejudicial teaching that further divide black from white. Let's say he worships in a church for 20 years where he is indocrtinated with a hatered for white people. Do you think all of that might influence how he feels regardless of the tone of his mother's skin? I'm not saying that is the absolute truth, but I'm saying it's certainly possible. I see glimpses of it in examples like the Harvard professor who was arrested in Cambridge. Obama, without knowing the facts of the event, called the white police officer stupid, and ranted against the arrest.
        I don't judge Obama by the color of his skin. It is purely the content of his charactor that I find suspect.

        • I happen to be a black man that is not offended when white people cross the street when they see me late at night. I believe it is a typical white cultured response to years of being raised to be afraid of the boogeyman. No anger or fear there. I grew up in black churches but converted to catholicism. I have several college degrees and joined a black fraternity. None of this made me racist or prejudiced or mad at white men and I believe that Obama must feel the same.

          You see I don't suspect his character. He clearly said that that he didnt know all of the facts in the Harvard situation. I happen to believe that this situation was blown out of proportion by the professor. I feel sitting down with everyone in a calmer atmosphere helped to alleviate the situation. I call that problem solving. I agree that Obama initially inflamed the situation with his initial statements, but I think they got to a good resolution.

        • I agree with you on the last paragraph, mostly. I think the sitdown was largely for PR purposes, but it's important for the public to see tham ammends were being made.

          As to your experience, I'm glad that whatever life you've lived has not jaded you or clouded your perception of others. I do have objections to your reference to white people being afraid of the boogeyman. I do, however, believe that all people are apprehensive with people and places that are unfamiliar. The point of it all though, is that I can only speak for me, and you can only speak for you. As for President Obama, we can only speculate. My question, as stated above, is this: "Is it possible?"

• Andrea, you poor misinformed child. Try changing the channel and watch one of Becks shows, only then will you understand why the adults tune in.
  btw, check out the political donations of the MSM CEO's on Newsmeat.com.
  They lean FAR left.
  Jeffery Immelt, head of GE, parent company of NBC/MSNBC donations are very informative. Facts are facts kiddo.

  • OK, generation X, lol.
    I accept what your saying, but all this has made me want to
    be more active in politics.

    by the way, i really should have done a better job of using my voice, when i wrote that, because i mean't to write some of it different. I did my research, so i must voice again.
    thank you.

    I need to listen more to my dad, who is very active in politics as a hobby.
    he took me and my sister, when we were 16, 18, see, Ralph Nader speak at butler university, i met him, also he travels to new york city just to protest, and speak out, and is persistent, etc.

    THE POINT:

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535927,00.html

    keep writing on this blog if you want to, it would be the only one i respond on, so we can start changing subjects whatever,

• Kris Lee; step.away.from.the.bong.

• I do applaud the capitalist nature of your proprosed protest. You won't purchase products that advertise on programs you disagree with. Kudos. I'm glad you have that choice. Wouldn't it be a shame if the Government said, "Sorry dear citizen, you must purchase those procucts because we say they are best for you. Even though you'd rather buy a product that costs less, is better suited to your needs, and is not produced with the money taken from you and your neighbors. We know what's best for you, and don't you tell us otherwise."?
  Sound like anything we've been saying about the propose single payer healthcare plan?

  • Damn, Treehog, until I read the words "single payer healthcare," I thought you were talking about General Motors.

    • I suppose it applies to anything the Government has taken over. I hadn't considered GM, but it makes just as much sense.