Ex-Fox host Eric Burns: Olbermann is Right, Fox News is a Cult, and Bill O’Reilly is a Liar

[Joe Johns]

From today's Reliable Sources on CNN

My older sister, a college-educated mother of three, is a Foxhead, and I can sadly report that "cult" is exactly the right word.

[blm]

1. Not surprising, FOX broadcast the propaganda developed by Rev Moon's media machine.

Rev Moon, Poppy Bush's crony, the Korean CULT leader.

CIA assets and cronies. Bush-Moon-Murdoch. All three of them.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. So is my brother and he has a Masters Degree in political science.

He thinks that trumps everything.

[elleng]

5. Degree in Poli Sci don't mean sh*t.

I know; I got one.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. He also got it in Texas.

I don't mean to slam Texas, but he said the courses were easier than those he took in high school. One involved just watching old Western movies...

[elleng]

7. Yup, you/he said it.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. And he went to college in Vermont, have no idea how he turned out this way.

He reminds me of his degree whenever we disagree on politics, which is most of the time.

[elleng]

9. :-(

[Rhiannon12866]

10. He started out watching O'Reilly with my mother

Which was bad enough, but she liked Obama until she found out he was a Democrat...

[elleng]

12. OMG!

So sorry for you! NO SUCH in my family! My mother's family had been repub, before it was what it is now, and decided, when she was young, there was not need for her to follow them in that respect, so became Dem. My Dad grew up in NYC, and THAT's THAT!

[Rhiannon12866]

14. I come from a long line of Republicans

My Dad took after his mother who took after her father, but we're talking Goldwater - and earlier. My grandmother finally saw the light, called me to let me know she'd voted for Bill Clinton. I told her that I did, too, but we didn't need to tell the others.

[elleng]

17. Good for your grandmother!

THANKS to her!

[Skittles]

13. tell him Dubya is Ivy League-degreed

and is dumber than a fence post

[Rhiannon12866]

15. If he hasn't figured that out by now, he never will.

I asked him what he thought of Sarah Palin, figured he couldn't be that far gone, and he said he thought she was "okay."

[Skittles]

21. you want I should kick some smug, degreed sibling ass, Rhiannon12866?

LEMME AT HIM!!!

[No Vested Interest]

18. Me too. nt

[Fantastic Anarchist]

34. I spoke with a woman at a bar last week.

She said she was a Professor of Economics. A few minutes in our conversation, she also said she was a Libertarian. I pictured her reading Ayn Rand to the class or something.

Anyway, I told her of my being a socialist in the anarchist tradition (said it exactly like that). She said, "How can you be a socialist and an anarchist?"

Again, she said she was a Professor of Economics.

Oy vey.

[elleng]

35. OY VEY REALLY!

a PERFESSER? Of 'economics???'

P.S. YEARS after my B.A. (in poli sci/history) I STUDIED for the BAR!!! (exam, that is!)

[Fantastic Anarchist]

36. LOL ...I study for the BAR all the time!

[PatrynXX]

3. yep

with people close to me totally and firmly believe in this war Obama will start to make sure he has another year in office. Scary!!! ammo hoarders

[Thespian2]

4. Had a neighbor

visiting last week. One night he was fumbling around with the channel changer and stopped on O'Really?'s
excuse for a show. I immediately told him to get the LYING BASTARD's face off the TV. My friend was somewhat taken aback, but did as I asked. Darren is not one of the cult; I could not abide even seeing that face on the TV.

[Pharaoh]

11. The Big Lie is

There is no fucking Liberal media!

[Panich52]

16. They remind me of Rush Limburger's followers in early 90's proud to be called "sheeple"

[DeSwiss]

22. They called themselves:

[center][/center]

- That way they didn't have to think. They let Rush do that for them.....

'The proles are not human beings,' he said carelessly. 'By 2050 earlier, probably -- all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron -- they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be.

Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking -- not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.'

~George Orwell, 1984

[BlancheSplanchnik]

25. ^^^ this^^^

Been soooo long since I read 1984.

[shenmue]

19. Oh dear

[Stellar]

20. MSNBC should have never gotten rid of Keith.

n/t

[sakabatou]

23. Agreed

[Joe Johns]

29. Or Phil Donahue

On a side note, I absolutely admire your taste in half-Borg women!

[Stellar]

30. Don't know about Donahue - but definitely Keith.

and I love everything 'Star Trek', including Jeri 'Seven of Nine' Ryan.

[zebonaut]

24. Google will soon rate search results by Accuracy.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

26. good!

yeah, I saw that article.

Will be interesting!

[Stellar]

31. LOL, FOX would continue to call the (Google) media...liberal.

Even for it's accuracy. I guess that will correct sites like factcheck.org and politifact. Rachel Maddow has had a running argument with them for getting stuff wrong. Still, a novel idea.

eta: Bing tops Google in search accuracy


http://www.infoworld.com/article/2623467/search-engines/surprise--bing-tops-google-in-search-accuracy.html

[SoapBox]

27. Count my brother in law and

A neighbor.

Both white...male...retired on pensions...and crazy as loons, with not one lick of common sense.

And most of it aimed at the black guy that lives in THEIR White House.

[ffr]

28. I don't know what's more scary

Seeing the erosion of the Fox Entertainment liars falling on one truth spear after another or the reaction of their cult following once it sinks in that they've lived a foretold lie all their lives.

Remember they have guns and have been taught to fear and be enraged. Indoctrinated people in a state of rage and rational thinking don't go hand in hand.

I worry.

[Joe Johns]

37. Me too

The Matrix was just a Hollywood film. This isn't!

[freebrew]

32. It's been obvious for quite some time...

a college degree is not a guarantee of intelligence or competence.

Many more intelligent people cannot afford the $$ or time to attend university.

[KansDem]

33. Looks like FOX News has a new name...

"FOX Cult"

[Lonely lib in ky]

38. My sister also

My sister is an intelligent mother of 2. She admits that she and her husband watch Fox ALL DAY LONG! When she told me this, I thought she is brainwashed just like in a cult! I am so sad for her. Is there anything I can do?

[MrMickeysMom]

39. No brainer …. Billy-O is a