Ahhh, but the beauty of America.  Tomato, tomahto,...

John Lee

P.S.  I added the OT so don't yell at me.



At 02:03 PM 10/12/07 -0500, Ray Shahan wrote:
>"You're an ignorant twerp."
>
>"Satire evidently escapes you."
>
>
>Can't you just feel the love?   8-)
>
>
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Denys Beauchemin
>Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 1:18 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina Hired By Fox News
>
>Jim, let me explain something to you and please take it in the spirit it
>is
>meant.
>
>You're an ignorant twerp.
>
>Now, with that explanation out of the way, let's see if we can remedy
>that.
>
>This is what you wrote, unsolicited:
>" We can but hope that she will bring to Faux News the same passion for
>excellence and inspirational leadership that she brought to
>Hewlett-Packard.
>With any luck she will have an even greater effect on Faux News than she
>had
>on H-P."
>
>Immediately one can see that you are biased, you slam your bias in our
>collective faces with the (actually absurd) play on words with the Fox
>News
>name.  (BTW, faux is pronounced "FO".)
>
>Then you display your ignorance by expressing the thought Carly could
>bring
>anything of value to Fox News.  As I explained to you, the only reason
>she
>is there is that she is a controversial figure and that will make people
>turn to Fox News when she is on.  It's all about viewers, not about
>content.
>Think of it as a macabre sideshow that people pay money to see.
>
>Joe Dolliver shows that he understands this very well and actually
>proposes
>another name of a person that would increase the viewership of FoxNews.
>Jim,
>I realize you haven't been paying attention but Fox News has been
>gathering
>viewership, market share as it were, while other "news organizations"
>have
>been losing theirs.
>
>The word "faux" is French for "fake" or "false" or "made-up".  Fox News
>is
>as guilty as all the other news outlets for faux reporting of the
>Katrina
>aftermath, but unlike CBS (or See-BS) and others, they have not gone out
>of
>their way to fabricate news.  For instance, I don't remember reading
>about
>Fox presenting fake memos trying to sway a national election.  I don't
>remember reading about Fox rigging explosives to trucks in order to make
>a
>story about pickups with exploding gas tanks.  I don't remember reading
>about Fox spilling national secrets on the front page to help the enemy
>destroy us.  I don't remember Fox new photoshopping pictures in order to
>blame one side in a war.  I don't remember Fox interviewing people who
>claim
>to be soldiers coming back from war zones with surreal tales of
>atrocities
>they have committed.  I do not remember Fox editing and then presenting
>video footage to accuse one side of shooting civilians when it was
>actually
>the other side shooting its own civilians.
>
>The list is endless.
>
>But in your biased little mind, you think that since Fox News actually
>has a
>few reporters and talk show hosts that are not crazy left-wing looneys,
>they
>should be ignored and taken off the air.  Gotcha.
>
>You also have a reading problem, because I clearly stated that I do not
>watch Fox News either.
>
>In the grand scheme of things, the news program that would get my
>attention
>would be one where it would be impossible for me to detect the politics
>of
>the news reader and the reporters that write up the news.  The program
>would
>present all the news and not try to tell me what I should think about
>it.
>However with 89%+ of the "reporters" being of the left-wing persuasion
>(and
>that includes Fox News BTW,) that's not going to happen any time soon.
>
>
>Denys...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf
>Of James B. Byrne
>Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 9:31 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina Hired By Fox News
>
>On Fri, October 12, 2007 10:22, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
> > The display of ignorance one sees here is always amazing to me.
> >
>
>Possibly because you get your biases re-enforced from the Faux network?
>
>
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