Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Fox News Has Divided Country In A Way Not Seen Since Civil War

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81. Full of shit? I wouldn't be that harsh. Uninformed, definitely.

There is a political spectrum in this country (well, everywhere) that I believe resembles a normal distribution (the classic bell-shaped curve).

There is a political spectrum.We have more democrats than republicans, but the numbers hover around the 50% mark in elections. But programming is nowhere near a normal distribution. Not even close. Approx. 90% of talk radio is RW. Progressive and Liberal radio shows are disappearing. 90% might be low as that percentage doesn't reflect the losses we've sustained since 2005.

I think the reason why people on the left go absolutely apoplectic over Fox is that they don't accept that 90% of their programming is opinion (propaganda)

No, the reason we despise Fox is that they lie. They misrepresent the truth. They character assassinate. They create a reality that divides our country. MSNBC has shows that do that too, all in favor of RW'ers. The liberals we have... the FEW liberals we have on MSNBC tell the truth. (If you want to argue this, you might be asked to give an example. Warning: it's easy to find examples of Fox lies. I doubt you can find a single lie from Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Ezra Klein and the few other liberals we have at MSNBC.

I personally don't feel that Fox is tearing the country apart. I believe that the divisions we see are real, genuine differences in perceptions of what the role of government should be, what kind of society we want to be

You are entitled to your opinion, but I'm afraid that it isn't a very informed one. You haven't been paying attention. People can disagree and have different opinions, but they can't have meaningful discourse if they have different "facts". Fox spews lies so fast, it is impossible to keep up with it.

I have pulled up a 3 minute clip of a Fox Business and stopped it every time I caught a lie or misrepresentation and dissected it. It takes 2 seconds to say the lie but several minutes to explain why it is false. They can weave so many lies in segment, it is virtually impossible to refute.

What Roger Ailes has built is truly dangerous to democracy.