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In reply to the discussion: Frum: Fox News creates an ‘alternative knowledge system’ [View all]arely staircase
(12,482 posts)8. so many people are so gullible
and that explains the success of Fox News and conservatism in its current form. a perfect example would be the spam/forwarded e-mails I get at work. when they are political, they are always right wing. but even when they aren't of a political nature, they are almost always easily debunked - yet people forward them along with coments like "good information" "I did not know that" "good to know." The last of these was some BS about putting egg whites on burns. So people don't even bother to check out the veracity of medical advice before sending along to friends and coworkers.
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He did say that he would vote for the GOP candidate no matter who he or she is.
libinnyandia
Dec 2011
#5
"or you don't deserve the freedom they protect" when it's about "the troops."
arely staircase
Dec 2011
#34
K and R...outstanding post...someone inside admitting....."an alternative Knowldge system..."
Stuart G
Dec 2011
#9
ditto Regnery and their "Politically Incorrect Guides" ("the hippies wanted a dictatorship!")
MisterP
Dec 2011
#10
Outsiders are ridiculed, & if reality doesn't agree with them, they'll.... warp reality
AlbertCat
Dec 2011
#42
Frum didn't have a problem with Fox when they were catapulting the propaganda for
smokey nj
Dec 2011
#30
Frum was an employee of the rightwing think tank American Enterprise Institute
rocktivity
Dec 2011
#38
At least those who "immerse their audience in a total environment of pseudo-facts and pretend
indepat
Dec 2011
#41