59 Comments

• Monsoonman | Oct 07, 2012, 05:58 PM EDT

  Clearly the "commentator" is not a professional commentator. Doen't know how to shape an artument to refute the articles truths...Just throws a personal attack & runs away into his safe little anonymous hole

• The Commentator | Oct 07, 2012, 10:28 AM EDT

  I think Mr. Farnan should learn English if he is going to pass himself off as a journalist. Perhaps he is affiliated with Fox. That would explain it. Kowtow is one word and it explains the relationship of Fox News to the Republican Party.

• Monsoonman | Oct 06, 2012, 06:40 PM EDT

  The lefties on this thread mob up to attack Fox News and protect the aura of their holey messiah in the whitehouse. I coin it the musk oxen syndrome. Anne Coulter calls it the mob mentality. Either way it is a sort of herd mentality that is easily manipulated by unscrupulous leaders who feed their paranoia. It is shocking to see the willful ignorance on display...They really can't handle the truth

• milfordmama | Oct 06, 2012, 06:07 PM EDT

  We are not afraid to say we love Fox News (and in lefty/liberal Massachusetts, you need to know you will be scorned.). Once in a while iI turn over to CNN & MSNBC to see who is ranting and raving over there. I really find Fox News, especially daytime to be immensely fair and balanced. They always have guests who present both sides of an issue. The people who criticize have not really watched it. Yes, at night there is more opinion but not in the daytime "news" hours. They really do not show any bias. I resent that those who just follow the "D" party line (like some of the commenters here ) try to say we Fox watchers are stupid, in my home all four of us have graduate degrees and like to be really informed, not lied to by the network news and the other cable news who lie for Obama and want him re-elected so badly.

• The Commentator | Oct 06, 2012, 11:05 AM EDT

  The article is a joke. Everyone is well aware that Fox is a lackey of the Republicans. As far as Obama's success in getting legislation passed; Obama tried to work with the Republicans but the Republicans were afraid of the increase in taxes for the filthy rich and have a mandate to cause problems for Obama. They have no concern for the American people who are not very wealthy and only care to line their own pockets. They passed tax laws/regulations that benefit the very rich and don't want to see changes that benefit the 98% who are not very rich. In fact, Romney has stated that he doesn't care about 47% freeloader of the population and he is going to eliminate funding to the Public Broadcasting System which is a free channel for many disadvantaged people who cannot afford cable television. Another shining example of his war on the poor. He is supposed to be a member of a church that cares about the disadvantaged, but his actions do not demonstrate that. The defeat of the budget proposals were due to the added Republican amendments. The Republicans don't care because the upper echelon is rich enough that the economic woes of the USA don't significantly affect them and they will get enough money from the lobbyists and like ilk that pay for favors.

• Monsoonman | Oct 05, 2012, 08:40 PM EDT

  Additionally you refuse to acknowledge facts that are readily available in media you refuse to tune into. How can you consider yourself informed? Interesting when I talk to folks in relatively sealed vacuums of info, they are shocked to know there is an alternative universe outside.

• Monsoonman | Oct 05, 2012, 08:04 PM EDT

  Were you aware Obamas budget proposals were defeated 98-0 in the Senate? & almost the same ratio in congress. Now why is that? Because Obama is a mathematics retard & even the crooked politicians in DC know his budget is an outrageous slap in the face to economics/logic. So if you think Obama is an economic messiah who is going to lead the US out of it's economic wasteland...You are delusional

• McNamara31 | Oct 05, 2012, 07:54 PM EDT

  Monsoonman So I'm delusional because of the information "you choose to fill your head with". A bit of transference on your part don't you think.

• Monsoonman | Oct 05, 2012, 12:33 PM EDT

  Do you know the (sic) budgets obama submitted to congress (senate/house of reps)didn't receive ANY votes from those politicians of either party? You are delusional because of the information you choose to fill your head with. And yes Nancy Pelosi IS retarded mathematically...Look what she did with our deficits while she was speaker of the house

• McNamara31 | Oct 05, 2012, 12:16 PM EDT

  Monsoonman We can play this game ad nauseam however the figures are right their in front of you, and then you come back with "far left of obama-pelosi-reid are mathematically retarded and do not know what a budget is". You KNOW far too well the the GOP has refused to pass anything and in doing so has greatly hurt this country and its financial status in the world.

• Monsoonman | Oct 04, 2012, 09:51 PM EDT

  Good question Seamus-Americans have been dumbed down w/their tax returns. Election day should be the same day as taxes due. McNamara, not saying the rino republicans don't have a hand in the debt growth. But the far left of obama-pelosi-reid are mathematically retarded and do not know what a budget is. You can see that by the fact there has been no budget for the last 3 years

• McNamara31 | Oct 04, 2012, 02:33 PM EDT

  Monsoonman... The number one problem facing the middle class is that the American economy is broke.The real question is historically which party has run the government in a fiscally responsible manner and which has not. Instead of listening to false Fox rhetoric here are the factual stats as reported in Forbes in May: Reagan (‘82-85) 8.7% Reagan(’86-89) 4.9% Bush 1 (’86-89)4.9% Clinton (’94-97) 3.2% Clinton (’98-01) 3.9% Bush 2 (’02-05) 7.3% Bush 2 (’06-09) 8.1% and finally Obama (’10-13) 1.4% Forbes 5/4/2012 Data from OMB,CBO & Haver Analytics. Obama is the smallest government spender since Eisenhower.

• seamus60 | Oct 04, 2012, 02:04 PM EDT

  As not residing in the USA I am not in any position to imply I know very much on the dailly stuff that afect yous. But I am very curious as to how many people in the USA appear to be either inocently ignorant or just complacent when filing their tax returns. I come at this from an angle of interest in just how well informed the American public are on such matters via all these many media outlets.

• Monsoonman | Oct 03, 2012, 11:53 PM EDT

  Yes make yr replies brief and dont put any links in them. Copy your posts before you send in case they dont appear

• curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 09:40 PM EDT

  site keeps blocking my responses re the wars

• curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 09:39 PM EDT

  The site is blocking my responses re the wars. I excluded Afghanistan from my question. Hussein had nothing to do with radical islamists and had them executed upon discovery - the wars there were a colossal waste of trillions and American lives - the US should have left the Sunnis in Iraq and Shias in Iran at each others throats.

• curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 09:37 PM EDT

  Regarding the wars, I excluded the invasion of Afghanistan to punish the Taliban/ubl. Hussein hated islamic radicals and had them executed upon discovery in his countries - absolutely know links between him and ubl. We should have left the sunnis in Iraq and Shias in Iran at each others throats - it was an absolute was of money (trillions), lives, and time to ever have invaded Iraq.

• curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 09:03 PM EDT

  I said exclusive of the War in Afghanistan to punish al quaeda and those that harbor them. Sadam Hussein was an enemy of radical islamist and had them executed upon detection in his country. He and the sunnis were a good counterbalance to Iran and the shias - we should have left them both alone at each others throats - absolutely no reason to have ever been there for any reason - costs trillions of dollars and American lives. Incidentally, the muppets on Fox News would disagree with you regarding oblitering them and leaving - they blindly believe in the ludicrous proposition that we can export democracy to the unstable regimes which were cobbled together colonial creations.

• curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 08:59 PM EDT

  I'm not disagreeing it was outrageous behavior - if you read my post I said I wasn't surprised. People who rely on television as their primary source of information are generally political imbeciles who fall for the phony dichotomy of the two party American party system.

• Monsoonman | Oct 03, 2012, 08:43 PM EDT

  If you're an American citizen, or a Mexican citizen you would be outraged about F & F due to the hundreds of deaths it has caused and the illegal cover up. So I consider you uninformed on the matter. as far as Afghanistan war, who said it was to benefit USA? It was payback for harboring the jihadists who killed 3K of us. Same thing w/s. Huseein in Iraq. We shd have obliterated them then left, not nation build. They will always hate us because we are non islam..I don't agree w/the policies

• curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 08:18 PM EDT

  I'm not even asking this to be adversarial but I have never heard anyone articulate an adequate answer - outside of the initial invasion of Afghanistan, how have any of these wars benefited the American people - beginning with the original War in Iraq???

• curtisjohnson | Oct 03, 2012, 08:16 PM EDT

  @Monsoonman I've been called a lot of things but uninformed in not one of them. I knew about the incident just not how it was perpetually referred to on Fox News. Frankly, the incident didn't surprise me.

• Monsoonman | Oct 03, 2012, 05:06 PM EDT

  You just don't want to address or acknowledge all of the issues I put forth, always need to deflect with a "well he was worse" answer and then blame bush. Why don't you blame Abraham Lincoln he was a Republican?...It's stereotypical, a sort of pied piper sydndrome, or even a Stockholm Syndrome could be best to describe it.

• Gearoid4 | Oct 03, 2012, 02:11 PM EDT

  Good to see Fox News featured here as it breaks the usual cosy liberal,leftist consensus that seems to dominate the US cable channels and media in general.

• McNamara31 | Oct 03, 2012, 01:34 PM EDT

  Monsoonman...Compared to the actions and debt and spending accrued by the previous administration, Obama is a saint. And for the multi trillions that have been established since the time of Eisenhower, time and time again its the the GOP that left massive debt behind when they leave the White House.

• Monsoonman | Oct 03, 2012, 11:09 AM EDT

  It is so difficult to try to understand this mentality. Because I bring up information, TRUE-FACTUAL, that you are ignorant of, (I am not saying you are stupid), then to you, I am somehow spouting a pro gop narrative? The corruption/incompetence & lawlessness of this administration is staggering, yet you say because it is mentioned here it is simply partisan cheap tricks to mention it? Even though people are/have died by the hundreds? Even though Obama has trampled lawlessly on our laws? Even though he uses our treasury as his personal re-election piggy bank?

• McNamara31 | Oct 03, 2012, 09:37 AM EDT

  Monsoonman What does uninformed really mean to you? Uniformed to the "Fox Narrative" that cherry picks all and anything that may appear beneficial to the pro GOP agenda? Today, a anyone who really want's to stay informed an objective, has to read a proper newspaper and watch a sampling of Public Tv, BBC or Euro News for a worldview, the networks and cable. By only choosing to watch cable alone you are not looking to be informed you are "only" looking to have your bias reinforced.

• Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 10:41 PM EDT

  But you see you already answered my question...You are uninformed, I am not blaming you, just saying your news sources don't tell you what is really happening. F & F is a major scandal and has resulted in hundreds of deaths, laid at the doorstep of Obama and holder.

• curtisjohnson | Oct 02, 2012, 10:16 PM EDT

  I take that back - I googled it and remember the story but not how it was referred to. I certainly don't agree with that an am no fan of Eric Holder. Has nothing to do with my question or points I made.

• curtisjohnson | Oct 02, 2012, 10:14 PM EDT

  I have no idea.

• Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 10:03 PM EDT

  Wait a minute...Answer what Fast and Furious is 1st

• curtisjohnson | Oct 02, 2012, 09:58 PM EDT

  "I'll bet you still think Fast and Furious is just a grade B movie?" Never saw it. Other than the initial incursion into Afghantistan after 911, what do you believe justifies all of these military and non-military interventions (and the first intervention in Iraq)? Do you think the American people or the people of the host nations are better off for it? This is what the American public has been brainwashed into believing by both parties but particularly Fox News.

• Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 07:59 PM EDT

  That's BS NPR is a far left propaganda machine and was outed over a year ago for it..."You people" are so uninformed, it is pitiful. All you can say is "Fox lies", yet you don't know a thing about the many hugely important subject I brought up

• lcobryan | Oct 02, 2012, 07:56 PM EDT

  Monsoonman, your brain is waterlogged. Study after study has revealed Fox news watchers are the most ignorant of the truth. By the way, there is no comparison btw NPR (which is radio) and major network broadcasts. PBS Nightly News Hour is the most respected daily reporting on the bube. Simply reporting events w/out bias.

• Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 07:31 PM EDT

  Yawn, do you dunces actually know the death/destruction on the US southern border? Do you know why our Ambassador to Libya got killed? Do you know what the Muslim Brotherhood stands for?...I asked a few other things earlier and all I got back was the sound of crickets....Why? Because your NPR/abc/nbc/cnn, etc news sources don't want you to know about it.

• McNamara31 | Oct 02, 2012, 07:20 PM EDT

  Seanmor... Google what Karl Rove did to McCain after the adoption of his little girl which caused McCain to lose the South Carolina primary election to Bush. It's a despicable action that McCain will never forget.

• Dunkelly1 | Oct 02, 2012, 06:34 PM EDT

  Fox News is a disgrace to the profession of Journalism. It is a mouthpiece for the Republican party and has No fair and balanced reporting.It espouses the so called values of the far right, the party of corporations and billionaires. Make no mistake about it.

• Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 06:23 PM EDT

  Seanmor, thank you my fellow countryman for your service to our country. You are on the spot w/your comments on how hugely biased the media is in the states...I think it is even worse in other countries. The agenda is to dumb down the public and not give them the info that would make them an intelligent electorate. The comments you see attacking Fox news, show that ignorance, aka contempt prior to investigation. Your comment on Sinn Fein is also on the mark. I hope Gerry Adams lives to see the day Ireland is one country under the Irish flag.

• Maggie47 | Oct 02, 2012, 04:35 PM EDT

  Seanmor, Thank you for your service to my adopted country. I too have brothers who served this great nation at the time were not citizens.

• Seanmor | Oct 02, 2012, 03:39 PM EDT

  During the 2008 presidential campaign as well as the present one, Republicans received the same negative coverage from the mainline press as Sinn Féin has received from the media at both sides of the Irish border. It wasn't until 2010 that I discovered that John McCain and his wife had adopted a severely handicapped child from the Indian subcontinent at the request of Mother Teresa. Why did the liberal media keep that kind, compasionate deed by the McCains hidden fro the public? In the mean time, radio, T.V. and most newspapers continue their unrelenting attacks on Sinn Féin, especially for that parties support for full independence and sovereignty for the whole Irish nation.

• McNamara31 | Oct 02, 2012, 03:36 PM EDT

  Monsoonman Oh I forgot ...We're all supposed to forget Bush (and his damage) ever existed. The GOP have him hidden in the closet like a crazy uncle; not even allowed to show his face at the convention.

• Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 01:45 PM EDT

  Do you have any deeper understanding than the talking points? Please tell us how "Bush lied and people died....again

• McNamara31 | Oct 02, 2012, 01:34 PM EDT

  Monsoonman.... There you go with the Fox style "Lib" talk. Truth is, facts are, the one's who have to wake up as you put it, and get their heads out of the sand, are those who refuse to believe the "reality" that we are in this debt because of two unpaid wars and then a financial crash enabled by deregulation. The financial crash of 2008, was equal to the one of 1929 that actually took 10 years for the country to completely recover from.The GOP crashed and burned the American economy and now they simply can't understand why this president doesn't have it all fixed and thriving.(And BTW obstructing everything in sight) And their answer: he's a Muslim, a socialist, and not one of us. What was it that PT Barnum said? Or was it really Karl Rove?

• Monsoonman | Oct 02, 2012, 12:46 PM EDT

  You misinformed Libs who prefer to bury your head in the sand, rather than hear a discouraging word about your messiahs, better wake up. You are being bankrupted/sold out by the very ones promsing your free ride. You see it already in the european socialist countries where the govt's are starting to run out of other peoples $ and the unionized govt workers are rioting. Of course you probably don't know about because the news you get doesn't want to upset you. Ir how about the black mobs in Detroit who attack stores and gas stations and just take them over, their chant is "we own this"...No you don't know about that either.

• jerrydonovan | Oct 02, 2012, 10:55 AM EDT

  Is this the same Murdoch who owned the biggest circulated newspaper in Britain and perhaps the world.Yes,that's right the one which had to close down abruptly because of its CRIMINAL activity.Fox news the people, who,if they accidently stumble over the truth ,get up and continue on like nothing had happened!

• McNamara31 | Oct 02, 2012, 10:27 AM EDT

  Ex Nixon man Roger Ailes is a political genius and that is why Ruppert Murdoch pays him millions for what he has created in Fox News. Ailes created a network for people to come to have their existing biases reinforced rather than hear the news of the day. Ailes had long planned to build a GOP tv which he finally did with Fox News. The master marketing strategy by Ailes, was to promote his station as the "Fair and Balanced" one, when he knew all too well his mission was to be the GOP mouthpiece and smear and demean all who he saw as a threat to the GOP, and their candidates. Don't believe me folks, get informed and read about Roger Ailes’ history and then read the report by Farleigh Dickinson University who polled viewers and found that Fox viewers were "factually" the most uniformed in the nation. Now do you think that happened by mistake; or a good old Roger Ailes strategy to smear and misinform?

• Seanmor | Oct 02, 2012, 10:26 AM EDT

  Maggie47: In my opinion the defense forces of this wonderful country would better off NOT to have the likes of Obama in their ranks. During the presedential campaign of 2008, his wife said that she was never proud of being an American, and his favorite clergyman called on God to "damn Amertica. While I served in the Marine Corps (as an Irish citizen) I wouldn't want the likes of Obama in my unit.I always say,"God bless America", and my wife, a D.A.R. member, is very proud to be an Americam.

• Maggie47 | Oct 02, 2012, 07:49 AM EDT

  Seanmor, add to that President Clinton and President Obama. McNamara and Kerry, Give us a few facts.

• Seanmor | Oct 01, 2012, 11:57 PM EDT

  The article reminds me of what I learned in a college course (under the G.I. Bill) in the late '70s: "The media are a means to mould the morës".Since ABC, NBC and CBS are all left-leaning, Fox News provides a welcome alternative which is fair and balanced. However, this question comes to mind: In what branches of the military did Bill O'Reilly, Seán Hannidy and Pat Buchannan serve?

• Monsoonman | Oct 01, 2012, 11:42 PM EDT

  Your perception that they are a mouthpiece, is because of the fact the rest of the media tows the liberal line...Fox and now Univision is way ahead of the rest of the media in exposing the corruption and competence of this administration..I'll bet you still think Fast and Furious is just a grade B movie?

• curtisjohnson | Oct 01, 2012, 10:57 PM EDT

  The problem is they've become the mouthpiece of the war party and bought into the idea that democracy can be exported militarily as if its some cheap commodity, even to sectarian states with no middle class or democratic values.

• Monsoonman | Oct 01, 2012, 08:55 PM EDT

  Not all of our Brethren have been sucked down the socialist narrative...If JFK were alive today he wd have no part of this far far left democrat party. He wd call for their arrest

• rgray222 | Oct 01, 2012, 07:43 PM EDT

  Fox news is a testament to the fact that people do not like change. The broadcast networks had a stranglehold on the news that people watched and read. For generations they spoon feed liberal bias to the population and because they all were in the same choir we thought we were getting honest news. Many people (even today) hate Fox news with a passion but those same people have never watched Fox or never made a serious effort to. There is little doubt that Fox is right leaning but they are not dishonest nor do they lie like ABC, NBC, CBS or CNN. The American people have been given biased information for generation so it will take a bit longer for them to be more accepting of Fox. Once you actually open your eyes to the media bias, media agenda and the media dishonesty you are amazed that you ever fell for that load of rubbish!

• Maggie47 | Oct 01, 2012, 06:21 PM EDT

  Thank God for Fox News. They are Fair and Balanced"

• Monsoonman | Oct 01, 2012, 03:49 PM EDT

  I agree the british occupation of our homeland has made it acceptable to make strange bedfellows by folks who still live on the island and our brethren throughout the world. But being pals w/ahmadenajad/jihadisim/marxism, socialism,communism certainly is not going to advance outr interests and freedom. You just exchange 1 set of shackles for another. Sean Hannity speaks out on freedom and that's a fact

• WoundedKnee | Oct 01, 2012, 03:36 PM EDT

  Hannity may be Irish-American by family, but not by his own interest or identification. He knows nothing about Ireland, its history and culture, and appears to care less. That's his prerogative, but it was embarrassing to listen to his stupid faux Oirish buffoonery on radio last St Patrick's Day. From what I've heard of this guy--and I got to admit I find his radio rants turgid and uninformed and hence avoid them--Hannity is actually a big admirer of Britain, especially of people like Thatcher, who was a genuine enemy of Ireland.

• McNamara31 | Oct 01, 2012, 10:02 AM EDT

  ED, Now I know you're far to bright to believe: "Thankfully Fox News is here getting stronger all of the time, countering the dishonesty dished out by the main stream media. Keeping it fair and balanced" ...You know Roger Ailes an ex Nixon operative and employee of Rupert Murdoch (whose organization thinks nothing of tapping the phones of thousands) created GOP TV. The vast majority of what appears on FOX has to fit the pro GOP, anti Obama narrative delivered by blondes in heals and arrogant Plastic Paddys between commercials to "buy gold". Now, that my friend is "fair and balanced".

• DaddyMac22 | Oct 01, 2012, 05:55 AM EDT

  Actual headline I heard on Fox once; ''Spinach will kill you! Find out how, next, on FOX!''

• kerry214 | Oct 01, 2012, 12:24 AM EDT

  Hey Ed, why don't you stuff it ? And if you think Kimberly Guilfoyle is such a Irish rising star ask the Irish of San Francisco what their opinion is of the Fox Network Operative.