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Daily Show: FOX News sucks GOP c**k?

Posted by David DeGraw at 1:46 AM on September 14, 2006.


Jon Stewart takes a look at FOX News' questionable use of question marks.
Daily Show: FOX News skit

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You don't have to be a media critic to know that FOX News utilizes every propaganda trick imaginable. Just to mention a few: the way they frame their debates and issues, the guests they have, the graphics and sound bites they use...the list goes on and on.

Last night, The Daily Show decided that it was time to speak out on FOX's questionable use of question marks:

"Yes, FOX has figured out that by simply by putting a question mark at the end of something, you can say F**king anything.

The Question mark: A prophylactic protecting FOX News from anything it might contract during its extensive GOP c**ksucking."

After watching this clip, you will never look at FOX News' lower third without thinking about their prophylactic use of the question mark.

Check it out and pass it on.

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David DeGraw is AlterNet's video blogger.


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The Daily Show
Posted by: Steve Adair on Sep 14, 2006 4:20 AM   
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I couple of days ago I heard Joe Scarborough say that most of the people who follow 'The Daily Show' don't vote in elections. Scarborough went on to say that 'The Daily Show' crowd are probably the same people who are in the 'MoveOn.org' group. It's hard for me to believe that these people don't vote. I wonder it there are any statistics on that?

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» RE: The Daily Show Posted by: zipper696
Amazed & Befuddled
Posted by: NoPCZone on Sep 14, 2006 6:51 AM   
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It amazes me that anyone with a functioning brain could even consider the possibility that Faux Newz™ is Fair & Balanced. More like unfair & unbalanced.

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» RE: Amazed & Befuddled Posted by: Metesh-ah
AlterNet headline writers do the same thing
Posted by: axolotl_helix on Sep 14, 2006 11:10 AM   
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I noticed it here first, because I don't watch FOX News.

It's a way of saying something without commiting to having said it.

Just go ahead and say it and then back it up.

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I ignore most
Posted by: mishanti2 on Sep 14, 2006 11:12 AM   
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of what Joe and his like say on TV. They try to be dismissive of everyone that doesn't follow their thought patterns and try to think for themselves. The fact that they continue to bring up the Daily Show and Colbert Report and MoveOn.org means they find these threatening. And they are threatening-they make people sit up and think!

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Enlightenment
Posted by: robmikejas on Sep 15, 2006 9:27 AM   
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The Daily Show is simply a more enlightened commentary on the workings of today's political environment. Those who get it are people of intelligence and compassion and a penchant for tolerance. Not to mention a true sense of humor. Those who attack the format are tight assed right wing humorless slogs. Just my humble opinion.

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» RE: nlightenment Posted by: misterx