How Fox News opened America

[Exterminator]

Yes reading and comprehending what you read is not important unless it is all spelled correctly. Getting a little anal retentive are we Ex??????????????????

LMFAO!  Yeah, everyone knows there's no link between literacy and reading comprehension.   

[Freethinker]

Charles Krauthammer? What an odd fellow, and totally owned by Faux News.

It's not just Faux, though... The entire news industry has become solely about ratings and profit, and playing to a certain niche.

MSNBC is the polar opposite of Faux, and equally partisan.

In the meantime, it's up to the voter to find the facts for hirself, and most don't bother.

[dan foster]

Charles Krauthammer? What an odd fellow, and totally owned by Faux News.

It's not just Faux, though... The entire news industry has become solely about ratings and profit, and playing to a certain niche.

MSNBC is the polar opposite of Faux, and equally partisan.

In the meantime, it's up to the voter to find the facts for hirself, and most don't bother.

It's all corporate owned news.  We lost the "free press" some time ago.

[Bo D]

What is "news" anyway? Have people lost the ability to discern real news from opinion? Or do people really think that Rush and Bill Oh'Really have NEWS shows?

[Freethinker]

Perhaps "cable news" is an oxymoron. 

[mcgonser]

received via email:
Top 52 Oxymorons:
        52.    Honest Lawyer     
        51.    Jumbo Shrimp     
        50.    Act naturally
        49.    Found missing
        48.    Resident alien
        47.    Advanced BASIC
        46.    Genuine imitation
        45.    Airline Food
        44.    Good grief
        43.    Same difference
        42.    Almost exactly
        41.    Government organization
        40.    Sanitary landfill
        39.    Alone together
        38.    Legally drunk
        37.    Silent scream
        36.    British fashion
        35.    Living dead
        34.    Small crowd
        33.    Business ethics
        32.    Soft rock
        31.    Butt Head
        30.    Military Intelligence
        29.    Software documentation
        28.    New York culture
        27.    New classic
        26.    Sweet sorrow
        25.    Childproof
        24.    "Now, then ..."
        23.    Synthetic natural gas
        22.    Christian Scientists
        21.    Passive aggression
        20.    Taped live
        19.    Clearly misunderstood
        18.    Peace force
        17.    Extinct Life
        16.    Temporary tax increase
        15.    Computer jock
        14.    Plastic glasses
        13.    Terribly pleased
        12.    Computer security
        11.    Political science
        10.    Tight slacks
        9.     Definite maybe
        8.     Pretty ugly
        7.     Twelve-ounce pound cake
        6.     Diet ice cream
        5.     Rap music
        4.     Working vacation
        3.     Exact estimate
        2.     Religious tolerance
        1.     Microsoft Works

[Exterminator]

One that I typically hear in weather forecasts is, "100% chance."   

I also heard someone say, "more than likely," the other day when I'm sure that likely or probably was really meant rather than certainly.

[Freethinker]

Yes, but usually when they are predicting a "100% chance," it is already raining. That always cracks me up.

I think "Microsoft Works" earned its rightful place as number 1 oxymoron.

[LOsborne]

You left out Republican Party.

[mcgonser]

also conservative democrats

[LOsborne]

I've never heard that one. I've heard "moderate democrats," which I think is code for your term. They sure as hell ain't no PAR-TEE!!

[mcgonser]

ox⋅y⋅mo⋅ron  /ˌɒksɪˈmɔrɒn, -ˈmoʊr-/  Show Spelled Pronunciation [ok-si-mawr-on, -mohr-]  Show IPA
–noun, plural -mo⋅ra  /-ˈmɔrə, -ˈmoʊrə/  Show Spelled Pronunciation [-mawr-uh, -mohr-uh]  Show IPA . Rhetoric. a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in "cruel kindness" or "to make haste slowly."

[mageepet]

you know, oxymoron...

god-like republicans

[LOsborne]

a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect...

What, you don't think Republican Party is self-contradictory?

[mageepet]

Actually, McGonser believes in the trinity.
God, George Bush and the Republican Party...
not my choice but it is hers...
Sorry Gonser, I just had to call it as I saw it.