OMG, I cannot believe what a *TOOL* Fox is!

You have to understand, it's extremely unusual for me to turn on the TV. Sometimes I'll watch SNL, or the Daily Show, or Colbert, but in general I ignore the box. I've seen some of MoveOn's "Fox Attacks" spots, which lampoon Fox News, but I didn't really "get it" until recently.

A few days ago, I stopped at my bank to make a deposit over lunch time, and of course there was a line. Also, Fox News was on the 50-inch flatscreen in the lobby, and I had no choice but to take it in. And boy, what a hoot! They were running a story about congress's refusal to grant immunity to the major telecoms for participating in the Bush administration's domestic spying program. I swear, the anchor lady had trouble enunciating clearly because her tongue was so far up Dubya's ass. "If congress refuses to renew this legislation, it will be putting ordinary Americans -- that means YOU and ME -- in danger!" Jeez, play the Scare America card, why dontcha? (Oh wait, I forgot -- the Right's deck doesn't actually *have* any other cards.)

It shocks me that some people not only can take this crap seriously, but actually buy the whole "Fair and Balanced" BS. It is as if everyone has forgotten that we *do* have a right to our privacy (since the Constitution specifically reserves to The People all rights that it does not explicitly grant to a branch of the Federal government or to the states), as well as an explicitly enumerated Constitutional right to be free from unreasonable search.

And you don't get much more unreasonable than the domestic wiretap program. It is as if people think that there is some practical use for the data obtained by wiretapping literally every voice and data stream in the US (the telecoms have already admitted that they tap everything, not just "international calls to known terrorists", as the nice Fox anchor asserted). Who the fuck is going to analyze all this data? How do you know they're not making illicit use of it? Wouldn't it be a lot more efficient use of resources to actually, y'know, keep track of the activities of actual known terrorists? It is as if people think that these BS "anti-terror" provisions have ever actually accomplished anything other than to keep the US population scared and compliant (not to mention dumping billions of dollars into the coffers of the corporations chosen to implement these boondoggles).

War is Peace.
Love is Hate.

Meh.