House of Eratosthenes

There’s a reason President Obama tries so hard to convince Americans not to watch Fox News. He keeps shamelessly lying about easily verifiable facts. Evidently he figures that left-leaning media outlets won’t call him on it, so if he can only convince people not to watch FOX, he’ll be OK. Unfortunately for the president, the American people simply have to look around them to see that he isn’t being honest with them.

Campaigning in Des Moines, Iowa, yesterday, the President repeated his biggest health care reform whopper: You can keep your current health insurance. Here is what he said:

“There’s nothing in the bill that says you have to change the health insurance you’ve got right now. If you were already getting health insurance on your job, then that doesn’t change.”

Yet hours before he uttered that line, the Boston Globe reported that Harvard Pilgrim Health Care was canceling its Medicare Advantage coverage specifically because of new regulations imposed by Obama’s health care law.

A little while ago I echoed a mini-manifesto peeled off by a left-winger who wanted to bully and cudgel and sway people away from watching Fox News.

Fox News, four or five months back, captured an abrupt about-face with regard to Our First Holy President’s appreciation of technology. Remember when He was going to make the White House more sophisticated, because He knew how to work a Blackberry and an iPod and what not? It went straight from that, to bragging about not knowing how to work these things, to appear more folksy.

If you got your news form something other than Fox, you’d never have known. Ah yes, I know what the rejoining argument is supposed to be…you don’t have any business knowing because it doesn’t matter.

Funny, it mattered quite a bit when people were voting in droves for His Majesty. So sophisticated! There’s Just Something About Him!

Still the Obama apologists are out there saying…don’t watch it. Or we’ll call you stupid. Or evil or rotten or bigoted, or, or, or…

But it’s funny. If I watch the mainstream media, minus Fox, it seems all the questions I’m seeing put to His Gloriousness are one of:

1. What are you worried about as negotiations with the evil Republicans begin, on [insert subject here]
2. What do you have to say to people who [insert situation here]
3. Human interest pablum (daughter wants to know when he’ll plug the hole, picking out the White House dog, etc.)
4. What’s it like to be so awesome?

Haven’t heard much by way of hard questions. I mean hard — like, for example, “If you voted in favor of TARP as a Senator, isn’t it hypocritical to complain about the previous administration handing you a big deficit?”

I really don’t watch that much of Fox News myself. None at all, really. Just not a teevee guy. But it just strikes me as bad form to be complaining about hard-hitting journalism as if we’re suffering from some kind of glut of the stuff…when, if anything, what we really have is an acute shortage. Our Top Dude is out there still telling us we can keep our health care plan if we want, while it is being demonstrated this is not the case.

It isn’t a case of — the boss says something poorly-thought-out, and it’s proven to be in error a whole year later. It’s a case of: Boss says something, it’s proven wrong, and He keeps on saying it. Then…He does it a whole bunch more times. It’s at the point where it brings discredit upon the entire nation when He is allowed to keep getting away with it.

For the most part, I can’t stand cable news.
I turn on Fox & Friends in the morning mainly to piss liberals off by helping to drive Fox’s ratings up more.

And to oggle Gretchen or whoever is substituting for her. 😉 Well seriously, she doesn’t hurt the show any! I’m a guy. Sue me.

I catch a few headlines while we’re getting ready for work, and then I split. I’ll bet I don’t actually catch more than 15 mintes of it… but….

I don’t watch in the evenings. I tape Glenn Beck, but I only watch it if he says on his radio show he’s going to cover something I’m interested in in more detail on it.

One reason I like that show as opposed to the other evening shows is that it doesn’t consist of people with opposite worldviews shouting soundbites over one another.

I hear Fox News Radio during the day off and on. And I catch those Fox News news breaks occasionally.

But I read stuff from all over the country, and all over the world on the web every day. And I’ve gotta say … when people hit me with the “Fox News Lies” bit, I gotta ask, “what? where? when?” Because their news checks out against all the other news I read. And so far, nobody’s come up with anything more than an opinion they heard that they don’t like.
- philmon | 10/03/2010 @ 21:44
For the most part, I can’t stand cable news.
I turn on Fox & Friends in the morning mainly to piss liberals off by helping to drive Fox’s ratings up more.

And to oggle Gretchen or whoever is substituting for her. 😉 Well seriously, she doesn’t hurt the show any! I’m a guy. Sue me.

I catch a few headlines while we’re getting ready for work, and then I split. I’ll bet I don’t actually catch more than 15 mintes of it… but….

I don’t watch in the evenings. I tape Glenn Beck, but I only watch it if he says on his radio show he’s going to cover something I’m interested in in more detail on it.

One reason I like that show as opposed to the other evening shows is that it doesn’t consist of people with opposite worldviews shouting soundbites over one another.

I hear Fox News Radio during the day off and on. And I catch those Fox News news breaks occasionally.

But I read stuff from all over the country, and all over the world on the web every day. And I’ve gotta say … when people hit me with the “Fox News Lies” bit, I gotta ask, “what? where? when?” Because their news checks out against all the other news I read. And so far, nobody’s come up with anything more than an opinion they heard that they don’t like.
- philmon | 10/03/2010 @ 21:44
Ok, how that got posted twice I don’t know.
- philmon | 10/03/2010 @ 21:45
Oh, and my original thought is … yes, there may be no language in the bill that says you will have to change your health care insurance and/or provider …

Goes back to something I said a while back, here:

All during the “debate”, their side was talking about what was literally in the bill’s wording (when you could get them to talk about details in the bill at all rather than The Grand Idea or how evil/stupid their opponents were) … and our side was talking about what the effect of the bill would be.

We said “it’ll mean this will happen” and they said “Fear monger! That’s not IN THE BILL!” and hence it was, to their eyes, “proven false”. But now even proponents are openly admitting that that is exactly what we’re talking about. Government officials being in charge of what care you get based on whether it’s “worth it”. To whom? By whose standards?
- philmon | 10/03/2010 @ 21:50
As a TV addict, FOX NEWS is what I have on 24/7/365.

As a result of getting FOX NEWS, I had to subscribe to MSNBC and CNN, and pay a premium to get FOX. During commercials, I will watch MSNBC and CNN, and it is not Brain Salad Surgery to see the difference between the content of the programming. For God’s Sake, Fox has Geraldo Rivera and Juan Williams.

Talk about a Tea Cup and a Saucer. And thank GOD for PIP. 😉
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