SultanOfSwing

It's even more shit if you can afford a cable package, and you have it slipped in there as a channel even though you don't want it.

We should all have the option to have Faux Noise removed from our package in exchange for having HBO added at a discounted rate . **** it, I'll remove all the news stations, if I can watch Game of Thrones for free.

Christ, I hope not. Though, it's ghastly enough to fit in with all the other BE-coined words ...

FlaviusAetius

I'm sort of with you on that. I'd get rid of MSNBC and a bunch of other stations I never watch, in exchange for discounted HBO and Game of Thrones. But that won't happen with DirecTV.

I like FNC because they have the blondest news anchorettes with the greatest legs and shortest skirts in the news business. Best eye candy on the air.

Also, Megyn Kelly is without question the smartest female interviewer on any of the news channels - even though she's also blonde with great legs. She doesn't ask stupid questions like that ditz who was the only one who interviewed Hillary, and who used that opportunity to breathlessly ask her to tell the world her favorite flavour of ice cream.

Nutek

Cecilated.

Leslie

I'm looking forward to the debates tonight. I'm hoping this will give me a jump-start and help shake my present state of political apathy. I will have to record the first one, which I fully intend to watch in its entirety (eventually). I can't resist the urge to follow Rick Perry's every move --- it's a Texas thing --- even if I don't support him, I'm still interested in how he does. The "Texas thing" does not transfer over to Ted Cruz, who I look at as a carpetbagger of sorts, and whose face I cannot help myself from wanting to smash.

Before the 24 hour news cycle, the debates were often the first look we had at the candidates. And for most of the country, I would imagine that's still the case, political junkies are in the minority. The debates weren't always a media circus (Idiocracy is not the future --- it is the now) and you mostly had to find them on PBS, CSPAN, or public radio.

I supported (the ridiculously handsome) then senator, Al Gore in 1988. Prior to the debates I had never even heard of him. Incidentally, Rick Perry (who was a democrat at the time) also supported Al Gore in the 1988 race.

There's a nice dust-up between Gore and Dukakis in this debate.

Democratic Candidates Debate | Video | C-SPAN.org

SultanOfSwing

If you ask me, the news channels are the ones that should be the 'extra packages' and the useful ones like HBO and other movie channels should be included in the 350-channel or equivalent (or GL, if you excuse the car analogy) package.

Though, you get to see actual tits in Game of Thrones, not the allegorical 'tits' you get on FNC ...

RoadWarriorFromLP

Yes, the Fox News anchor who goes out of her way to argue that Jesus was a white guy is a real genius.

SultanOfSwing

Anthropology is the work of the devil, surely ... ?

Leslie

And Santa!!! Don't be scared kids, Santa really is white!!!

zargof

Well the original Santa was black, but he was shot by a redneck who found him in his living room.

RoadWarriorFromLP

What's hilarious is that she strenuously argues against the idea of a non-white Santa based upon her view that there is no need to be inclusive, while missing the fact that Jesus, a Middle Eastern dude, is portrayed to Europeans as being white for the sake of, er, inclusiveness.

And to think that this is what passes in right-wing circles for genius.

zargof

To be fair, the bar is set very low.

SultanOfSwing

She has completely ignored the fact that for either of them to be able to do what it is claimed they can, they'd both have to be aliens, rather than a Palestinean carpenter and an Inuit in a red suit.

RoadWarriorFromLP

They must have buried it several feet below ground.

Giantaxe

Adios mother****ers!

04:20 onwards is just great:

Jon Stewart Blasts Fox News' Hypocrisy | Video | Media Matters for America

Leslie

I hear that quite often, how uber intelligent Megyn Kelly is.

When I said that Donald Trump would be a flash in the pan, I wasn't underestimating Donald Trump, he's played exactly to type so far. Where I missed the mark is in overestimating the intelligence of a significant portion of the US populace.