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I'm sure someone will accuse Snopes of being "fake news" or something, but I find their version of events more credible than yours.

Did Fox News win a court battle for the right to lie on air?

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=27363

"Now, with the publication of the “Hollywood Reporter’s 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media 2015,” Roger Ailes, the Fox News chairman and CEO, has confessed that his network, despite its name, is not actually in the news business. Belittling his cable news competitors CNN and MSNBC, he gave the Reporter a statement revealing his true professional aspirations:

“In fact, Ailes, 74, no longer views those networks as rivals. ‘We’re competing with TNT and USA and ESPN,’ he says.”

Because the Daily Caller would never do that!

Because the Daily Caller would never do that!

Why not ban it from Americans too because the US seems to think that every American could be a domestic terrorist -- especially those darned Tea Party and Libertarians.

I'll quote the GP that i was responding to before you decided to interject with your snide comment. You can split hairs about "terrorist watch list" or being labled "terrorists" or whether being designated "terrorists" means you are on a watch list all you want, the fact remains that the GP referred to TP and Libertarians being designated terrorist by the US.
I think everything i've posted bolsters my arguement that it was the Occupy movement that was and not the TP and Libertarians

Worst.
Concession speech.
Ever.

Look, all your goalpost relocations and poorly thought out 'source citations' aside, perhaps you'll find this quote from President Obama, said during a summer 2013 speech given in Tanzania, in response to a question about how he defines domestic terrorism, particularly enlightening:

“Typically domestic terrorists in the U.S. are people who cling to obsolete beliefs from the time of the American Revolution. They are conservative Christians, reactionary Republicans and conspiracy theorists many of whom belong to racist hate groups. [...] Tea Partiers commonly own guns and stock up ammunition and food in anticipation of starting another civil war to overthrow the will of the governing body who represent all of the American people.”

Note that I found said quote on a site that's dedicated to mocking the Tea Party, and even they found it to be over the line.

As for the alleged 'snide-ness' of my comment, keep in mind that your original post (which has been proven wrong, repeatedly, at this point) accuses the GP of trolling right out of the gate. Pot, meet kettle.

Face it, dude - you're wrong. You were wrong in your initial reply to GP, you've been wrong in every response to me, and you're wrong now. Stop doubling down on being wrong - act like an adult and either admit your error, or just shut up. Continuing to argue an already decided point is not helping you.

Those followers of "Faux news" have been against the tyranical government for a decade, and congratuations you have finally just agreed with them.

Bullshit. They are in favor of their particular flavor of tyranny. That's why they keep re-electing the incumbent, like everyone else.

But now they will not support you because you voted for it,

No, I didn't.

you attacked them,

Waaah.

and you called them racists.

That's because that's what they are.

Because you are a bigot,

I love it when bigots call me a bigot for pointing out their bigotry.

the government has effectively continued this kind of behavior

hahahahahahaha.

because instead of calling Obama a tyrant

I call Obama a tyrant every other day or so. Sometimes more.

you are calling other US citizens that had the opinion first idiots.

You are certainly an idiot.

USSR coined a term for people just like you. "Useful idiots".

So you made some truly stupid assumptions about me, and proceeded to make an ignorant post about it and some other things you know fuck-all about, and I'm the useful idiot? uh no, and also, uh no. But I can see why you're too cowardly to log in.

That's the M.O. of the Washington Times - attack other sources.

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=1306

Typical neocon news source.

Please give specific examples to demonstrate reactionary bias in Fox News' reporting.

There are way too many to list in a Slashdot post so you can start with these:

http://foxnewslies.net/
http://www.politicususa.com/fox-news-hosts-speak-words-written-laughing.html
http://aattp.org/category/fox-news-lies-2/
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=8583

In fact, Fox has admitted to lying in Federal Appellate Court:

http://foxnewsboycott.com/resources/fox-can-lie-lawsuit/

Highest popularity is a plurality of viewers... but is it the majority? Your data says "no." Plus, some people may not watch TV news at all, rather they get their information by listening to NPR news, reading, etc... I, for instance, never watch *any* TV news. My opinion of the people for whom television is a primary source of news is... not high. Looks like people who can actually read seem to prefer non-Fox sources http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=2345

The hubris of Leninism-Stalinism was the mad idea that government can effectively and efficiently dictate the omni-variable complexity of an entire modern industrialized state's economy as well as all societal institutions, down to speech and even thought. Why do we always strive to replicate madness?

I hate to break it to you, because I know there an entire fake news entertainment industry built around the plot line that the U.S. is turning into a communist state (or it is fascist state? Big plot hole in the story when the writers confuse the two.), but no one with any authority or following is currently trying to do any such thing in the U.S. A couple of regulations on capitalism do not turn it into socialism or communism, any more than slowing the direction with which one is falling is the same as flying.

The economy remains in the hands of the investment classes, who continue to screw over the working classes; and, despite the complexities Barlow claims, these folks also manage to run multinational corporations with economic power similar to nation-states. UnitedHealth Group's annual revenues, for example, are about the same as the GDP of Bangladesh, a nation of 162 million people.