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Is Fox News a cult?
Yes 53%  53%  [ 20 ]
No 39%  39%  [ 15 ]
Just Show the Results 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
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04 Nov 2012, 8:12 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:
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a. A cult is an active religion without any political influence. b. Fox News has political influence. : : Fox News is not a cult.
Cults can have political influence. For example, the Mormons, and the Rajneeshis who took over Antelope, Oregon.

Once they gain political influence, they lose their cult status (imo).

Moot point though ... I don't watch anything on the Fox Network except The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad.


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04 Nov 2012, 8:26 pm

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Jacoby he's just trying to flamebait me and other conservatives like yourself, because he can't stand the fact Fox News isn't worshipping Obama. He can't stand his left wing views being challenged.


This is consistent with what any cult-member might say if he felt that his cult was being attacked.



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04 Nov 2012, 8:28 pm

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the same can be said for all cable news


All cable news networks are cults? I don't think that people who watch other news programming are anywhere near as cultish.


You want to see cultish behavior try MSNBC.


I have never come across anyone devoted to MSNBC.



I have and you act rather similar to that individual.


How does that individual act? And, is he as devoted to MSNBC as you are to Fox "News?"



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04 Nov 2012, 8:31 pm

Just for fun:

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/50818

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Pew: MSNBC’s Bias Far Worse Than Fox

This news is certainly no surprise to anyone on the right, but a new Pew study finds that MSNBC is far more biased than Fox News.

The Pew study, Winning The Media Campaign 2012, tracked the political coverage that President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney received between the conventions and the final days of the campaign. The study of the media landscape (including social media) shows that Obama got a bit more positive coverage than Mitt Romney, but that his positive coverage took a nosedive after his miserable performance at the first debate.

But one of the more interesting aspects of the Pew study is the breakdown of bias from MSNBC and Fox News. This part of the study shows that MSNBC was far more biased against Romney than Fox was against Obama.

MSNBC featured 71 percent negative coverage of Mitt Romney whereas Fox coverage of Obama was only 46 percent unfavorable. What’s more, positive Romney stories on MSNBC reached all the way to a soaring three percent!

David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun exactly pegs these results. Of MSNBC, Zurawik says, “That’s not a news channel.”

“That’s a propaganda machine, and owner Comcast should probably change [MSNBC President] Phil Griffin’s title from president to high minister of information, or something equally befitting the work of a party propaganist [sic] hack in a totalitarian regime. You wonder how mainstream news organizations allow their reporters and corrdespondents [sic] to appear in such a cauldron of bias.”

Why anyone considers commentators such as Chris “Tingles” Matthews, Ed Schultz, or Rachel Maddow anything other than complete propagandists is anyone guess, but this Pew study proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that there isn’t a single unbiased minute on MSNBC while Fox News appears to be far more balanced by comparison.

Another interesting part of the Pew study is that social media is even less forgiving than the Old Media establishment. This, of course, should also be no surprise. After all, social media is not expected to be unbiased. It is built on everyone’s opinion, not any even-handed coverage of the news.


The Pew study mentioned:
http://www.journalism.org/analysis_repo ... paign_2012


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04 Nov 2012, 8:41 pm

The Canada Free Press has an ongoing Countdown until Obama leaves Office

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/About-us/

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Klaus Rohrich - Senior Writer
Klaus Rohrich...is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism. His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and Lucianne, among others.


Do Canadians really watch Faux News and MSNBC, and give a hoot about American politics?

The Canada Free Press would appear to be associated with the Fox News cult.



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04 Nov 2012, 9:02 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Jacoby he's just trying to flamebait me and other conservatives like yourself, because he can't stand the fact Fox News isn't worshipping Obama. He can't stand his left wing views being challenged.


This is consistent with what any cult-member might say if he felt that his cult was being attacked.


It's gonna be awfully cold under that bridge this winter.....


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04 Nov 2012, 9:41 pm

Raptor wrote:
ArrantPariah wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Jacoby he's just trying to flamebait me and other conservatives like yourself, because he can't stand the fact Fox News isn't worshipping Obama. He can't stand his left wing views being challenged.


This is consistent with what any cult-member might say if he felt that his cult was being attacked.


It's gonna be awfully cold under that bridge this winter.....


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04 Nov 2012, 9:48 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:
The Canada Free Press has an ongoing Countdown until Obama leaves Office

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/About-us/

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Klaus Rohrich - Senior Writer
Klaus Rohrich...is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism. His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and Lucianne, among others.


Do Canadians really watch Faux News and MSNBC, and give a hoot about American politics?

The Canada Free Press would appear to be associated with the Fox News cult.


And the Pew study they're quoting? Look it up, it's all over the web, not just the conservative sites either.


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04 Nov 2012, 10:02 pm

socialism is a dirty word thanks to Fox



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04 Nov 2012, 10:06 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:
The Canada Free Press has an ongoing Countdown until Obama leaves Office

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/About-us/

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Klaus Rohrich - Senior Writer
Klaus Rohrich...is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism. His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and Lucianne, among others.


Do Canadians really watch Faux News and MSNBC, and give a hoot about American politics?

The Canada Free Press would appear to be associated with the Fox News cult.


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Conservative writer Kevin Michael Grace has described McLeod's writing as that of an "emotionally incontinent ninth grader," [5] while Toronto Star columnist Antonia Zerbisias describes her as "eccentric" and the Canada Free Press as a "whacko news site." [6]
Toronto Life magazine reported that McLeod was harassing city councillor Betty Disero. McLeod had been driving past Disero's home, taking pictures. [9]

McLeod published the home address and photograph of Cathy Crowe, co-founder of the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, in the CFP along with what Crowe's lawyer deemed defamatory statements. The lawyer alleged that McLeod was encouraging her readers to harass and even physically attack Crowe. [7] The paper also published the home address of "anti-poverty activist" John Clarke of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty along with a photograph of the house he was renting.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judi_McLeod#Criticism


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04 Nov 2012, 10:17 pm

Apparently even Canada has its kooks and Fox cult members.



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04 Nov 2012, 10:22 pm

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Apparently even Canada has its kooks and Fox cult members.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bountiful, ... h_Columbia

There's also a lot of Hutterite colonies in rural Manitoba.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/16 ... th-change/


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04 Nov 2012, 10:41 pm

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a. A cult is an active religion without any political influence.



Network marketing businesses operate as cults, as did Nazi Germany and the USSR

http://www.howcultswork.com/

A cult doesn't necessarily need to be an active religion to be called a cult.

An important feature of the cult is Information Control.

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Those who control the information control the person. In a mind control cult any information from outside the cult is considered evil, especially if it is opposing the cult. Members are told not to read it or believe it. Only information supplied by the cult is true. One cult labels any information against it as "persecution" or "spiritual pornography", another cult calls it "apostate literature" and will expel you from the group if you are caught with it. Cults train their members to instantly destroy any critical information given to them, and to not even entertain the thought that the information could be true.


Just ask Inuyasha to read something from Media Matters. He has been thoroughly trained over his Cult's required response.



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04 Nov 2012, 10:47 pm

ArrantPariah wrote:
Raptor wrote:
ArrantPariah wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
Jacoby he's just trying to flamebait me and other conservatives like yourself, because he can't stand the fact Fox News isn't worshipping Obama. He can't stand his left wing views being challenged.


This is consistent with what any cult-member might say if he felt that his cult was being attacked.


It's gonna be awfully cold under that bridge this winter.....


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05 Nov 2012, 3:04 am

ArrantPariah wrote:
Inuyasha wrote:
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the same can be said for all cable news


All cable news networks are cults? I don't think that people who watch other news programming are anywhere near as cultish.


You want to see cultish behavior try MSNBC.


I have never come across anyone devoted to MSNBC.


Because they can tune into comedy central, bill maher, tune into NPR, or read the NYTimes and never miss a beat. You only have Fox News as the ONLY conservative outlet on cable. And that is why it blows MSNBC and CNN and ABC,CBS,NBC away, because you hear one of those, you've heard them all, but you can only hear conservative opinions on Fox.

For the record, I hate Fox. I've seen a few clips on the internet and I cannot stand 90% of the content I've seen, the exception being John Stossel, he always has some rational, fun pieces to report on, or when I catch up with Charles Krauthammer on RCP.


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05 Nov 2012, 4:49 am

I am amused but not surprised by the recent studies that show people who rely upon Fox News as their main or sole source of information about what's going on are LESS well informed than people who watch NO NEWS AT ALL! This was a local (statewide) study at first, but then they repeated the study nationwide with the same results.

The Daily Show on the Comedy Channel is a more reliable source of accurate information about what's going on than Fox News is.


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