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You are right, of course. It's not that Fox News makes people stupid, it's that stupid people watch Fox News.

Reminds me of a recent Simpsons episode news helicopter for Fox.

Given the contempt they apparently hold for their own users, I don't think they're concerned all that much with protecting those users' data in the first place.

Back in August - Assange was in Sweden when this first hit the media.
The charges were dropped back then and he was allowed to leave the country after they said they didn't want to talk to him.

From the quotes back in August and those now, it seems that Assange has tried to help the Swedish police with their enquiries as much as possible.

http://www.newser.com/story/98624/sweden-cancels-warrant-for-wikileaks-assange.html
http://www.mediaite.com/online/report-sweden-withdraws-arrest-warrant-for-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange/
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/21/1138240/Julian-Assange-Faces-Rape-Investigation-In-Sweden-mdash-Updated

Republican Sharron Angle more like, where she gives the questions to the reporters BEFORE they ask them back to her?

I'm done with dialog. Ridicule and laughter is how I keep myself sane. I considered the alternative, go crazy and have myself committed, but I don't think I'd like the food there.

Reject Christian religion in favor of Atheist religion? Why? Or pretend that religion doesn't exist? Again, why? Again, clarity, please.

Make religion a personal thing. If your faith requires you to use government as a tool of religious advocacy, then your faith sucks.

generally stops inventing rhetoric that has no basis in reality

Such as? I'm unaware of anything within the realm of unicorns and leprechauns - which, by the way, have at least some basis in reality. Please do speak up. Let's have a dialog, rather than your just spewing hate all over the place.

A little while ago, Glenn Beck said slavery is the result of government regulation. There is absolutely, positively, no factual basis for this statement. It's so incredibly stupid that I swore it had to be taken out of context, but I listened to the segment, and there it is.

. . . are we to assume that liberals, Republicans, and/or Independents never behave badly?

I hate ecoterrorists who burn SUVs and release more toxic gasses than the thing will ever give off in its normal use. I dislike less violent environmentalists who think hydrogen is a sensible solution, or just blame random crap on an oil company conspiracy.

The thing about those groups is that they're small, disorganized, and ineffective. Lock up the truly dangerous ones, and the rest are a self-fixing problem. None of them are anything more than strawmen used to attack more rational environmentalists and liberals as a whole.

The Tea Party is neither small nor ineffective, and that's what scares me.

Let me ask you this: how many people would be directly affected by increasing the rate of the top tax bracket?

Here is an interesting graphic btw. http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2010/10/true-size-of-africa.jpg

This graphic is kinda dishonest, though. It excludes most of European Russia (by itself already about 13% the size of Africa and bigger then India) from Europe.

True, Russia is the biggest country, but in the list of countries ordered by size there are quite a few African countries in the top 40. Sudan, Algeria, and the DRC at 2 million KmSq; Libya at 1.7; Chad, Niger, Angola, Mali at 1.2; ... er just a minute - what the hell is "European Russia"? Surely you don't mean Ukraine, Latvia, and other former Soviet states? Not a particularly popular terminology for that region :)

Here is an interesting graphic btw. http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2010/10/true-size-of-africa.jpg

This graphic is kinda dishonest, though. It excludes most of European Russia (by itself already about 13% the size of Africa and bigger then India) from Europe.

We don't have states or highways, thus we do not have interstate highways. When I say 'some countries' that was for the benefit of the american audience, what I mean is 'not in america'.

Here is an interesting graphic btw. http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2010/10/true-size-of-africa.jpg

Funny how things wound down almost overnight when Obama was elected.

Don't forget the moveon.org shenanigans here:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/moveon-org-removes-general-betray-us-ad-in-response-to-petraeus-appointment/

Even Rachel Maddow knows how to make a lightsaber. All you need is two highlighters. Look: http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-exists-rachel-maddow-reveals-her-secret-lightsaber/

Forgot to mention, I think the Runaway General is probably THE STORY of the Century, because as a side-effect it has brought up to light the positions that the reporting outfits, the 'journalists' are taking at this point in history.

Look at this piece of shit: Roy Exum. Quote from the garbage he wrote there:

All of the old reporters knew that the unwritten code was one of confidentiality and, back then, those who broke it a time or two didn't ever last very long. Instead of the fun nights after practice, they wound up as some proof readers somewhere who never could figure out why suddenly they were going home to watch Ozzie and Harriett. ...
People who break the code hardly ever last and while Michael Hastings has a marvelous ability with words, his Waterloo will come when he finally realizes of all the hurdles he's faced, when a writer breaks the code the nib on his pen usually doesn't last much longer.

- this piece of shit, vomit inducing, diarrhea spewing fucker believe he is a journalist, a reporter.

Geraldo Rivera - the brown nosing dunce says about Hasting:

putting a rat in an eagle's nest,

- does anybody believe this is a journalist, a reporter who understands what his responsibilities are?

etc.etc.

Do not believe the official news channels, they are simply mouth pieces of those in power, they LIE, they LIE for living, they LIE for access, they do no reporting of truth, the stories the 'report' on are given to them by those in power for various political purposes, mostly as propaganda or 'damage control' pieces. These people are NOT doing any actual journalism and reporting, they do NOT question anything that those in power feed them.

Those are NOT controversial opinions and will not be blocked by the TSA.

Positively agree. They later removed this story. Clearly they are in it for the fame, not any journalistic integrity.

President Obama did receive tremendous amounts of money from special interest. He received $77,000 from BP PAC. No wonder he struggled with not condemning them, they lined his pockets!

Dont forget the poll that added up to 120% http://www.mediaite.com/tv/when-120-makes-sense-fox-friends-defends-poll-display/

Given some of the footage I've seen [mediaite.com]... that would seem to fit it...

For anyone who didn't watch thevideo he posted it shows the police already having described it as unlawful assembly and have already began firing in tear gas and using the "sound cannon". A large amount of the crowd are journalists. The garbage dumpsters thing was a few people rolling it towards the police, it was pretty pathetic and in no way made it a riot. Even so considering the police were already using force to try and disperse them it is well known that this can cause people to riot (see G20 protests in London and the kettling) and so it can be the police that causes the violence in the first place.

Really? Your Google-foo must be weak... mine though is strong, because a quick search for g 20 pittsburgh damage [google.com] turns up 290k hits... repeating a number of ~50k in damage (20k of which sounds to be due to one man).

Haha yes your google-foo is so strong that you think that the number of results from an unquoted query on google proves anything. Did you even look at the first link google responds with?
Well here it is. The first paragraph:
"PITTSBURGH - A vociferous but peaceful group of several thousand people marched for miles through downtown Pittsburgh on Friday, united by opposition to the Group of 20 summit but expressing a diversity of mostly liberal causes as an army of stone-faced riot police watched their every move"
So in summary if you are trying to correct someone for spouting bullshit don't bullshit yourself.

How your trash got modded insightful is beyond me.

>Speaking of Orwellian, you're a fascist.

Didn't you get the memo? Calling those you disagree with facist is so 2001-2008... now you are supposed to call them racist, get with it man!

>No one is rioting.

Depends on your definition of rioting, Merriam-Webster defines it in part as:

2 a : public violence, tumult, or disorder b : a violent public disorder; specifically : a tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled together and acting with a common intent

Given some of the footage I've seen... that would seem to fit it... or are people grabbing dumpsters and running them towards the police something ordinary and peaceful protestors do?

>That's a lie that you just made up.

Such a shame that the word 'lie' has lost all meaning over the last 8 years.

For what he said to be a lie... he would have to know the truth and be deliberately trying to say or imply otherwise. He could be dead wrong... as could you... however you are offering no more than him but instead come off looking rather petty with your name calling.

>I've read several accounts of what has been going on, and I find nothing about damage or what I would call a "riot".

Really? Your Google-foo must be weak... mine though is strong, because a quick search for g 20 pittsburgh damage turns up 290k hits... repeating a number of ~50k in damage (20k of which sounds to be due to one man).

Care to offer some links to some of these bits you've read with no mention of damage?

>What the protesters are accused of is "unlawful assembly", but I've also found nothing about what makes the gathering unlawful.

Just because you have the right to free speech does not mean you are free to exercise it where you want. Some areas (including Pittsburgh) require permits for certain types of activities so as to try to prevent those activities from interfering with the rights of others.

Those groups who were accused of 'unlawfully assembly' failed to acquire such permits.

Interestingly enough... many of the Tea Parties planned ahead and did.

>So that makes you a fascist who hates our constitution and our freedoms, in my book.

And you are a moron who does not understand our constitution or our freedoms... not just in my book, but in demonstrated fact, as evidenced by this post of yours.

>It doesn't matter what they think they are accomplishing.

Amazing... you've actually said something correct here, congrats!

>They have a first amendment right to protest, and shooting them with pain cannons seems to fly in the face of that right.

It depends on if they are breaking the law while exercising that right.

I too have the right to free speech... however if I show up outside of your front door with a bullhorn at 3 am to express it with a lecture on... why Coke is better than Pepsi, I will be arrested (as I should).

If I were to return with a group of friends the next night to protest my arrest, break a few windows and refuse to leave when the police come, they would once again be legally obligated (rightly so) to arrest us.

>If someone breaks a window, obviously that person should be arrested, but you can't arrest people for crimes that you think they might be about to commit when there is no evidence that any crime is imminent.

You started correct... but then just had to go off on another nonsensical tangent... unless you wish to provide specific evidence from this case of someone being arrested for just being there based on the fear that they MIGHT commit a crime...

slashdot seems to have improperly published the link?.. bug anyone?

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-daily-show-explains-how-fox-self-pollinates-outrage/