Peace Out says:

#20 Paddy-O said, Thou Shall Not Murder… Murder: the crime of killing another person deliberately and not in self-defense or with any other extenuating circumstance recognized by law. Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Pakistan and maybe Iran next. Your far right news and your far right wars are destroying the world and are based on lies and racism!

Paddy-O says:

#21 ROFL!

I can see that you are new here.

Someone Else says:

Fox is too whiney, angry, preachy, and self centered. In other words, it’s too Liberal.

SimonSezz says:

I watch BBC News whenever or local news when I can. I can’t stand Fox News, CNN, MSNBC. Look at how those stations reported news in the early 90′s. Now look at them and it is all opinionated news, and most of the stories are just so the station can express their points of view instead of just reporting the new unaltered. I think that the stations think we as Americans need to have drama and entertainment in our news instead of just plain news stories.

MikeN says:

Paid for by a yearly tax on everyone who owns a TV.

LibertyLover says:

#30, Good post.

fw says:

News for you:
It is hardly only them that has that view about America news.

Ah_Yea says:

If this video means anything, it’s that Glen Beck has come of age. You know you’ve made it when people talk like Booker did about you.

I thought the video was entertaining, which is exactly what it was supposed to be.

Not terribly informative. Taking quotes out of context does not inform, but misinforms.

After all, the guy works for the Guardian. It’s like asking MSNBC to do an expose’ on FOX NEWS. You know what you’re gonna get.

But it was still funny, so I say..

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

cheapdaddy says:

Glenn Beck being the new kid on the block at Fox has to find his own on-air persona. At present it’s kind of a mash-up of Bill O’Reilly and Tammy Fae Baker with a dash of Howard Beale for seasoning. If it really bothers you, don’t watch. I think he’s a proper balance to Oberman.
So sit back, place you bet as to who will ‘lose it’ on air first. These programs have elements of news commentary and entertainment It’s all about the ratings after all. Something the BBC may not grasp the finer points of.

Li says:

#36 I might be wrong. I had merely gotten the impression that the Blair was a favorite of Sky, and got a lot of ra-rah promotion from them. And who else is the epitome of neo-liberalism than Tony Blair, the flexi-religious, Fabian, golden boy of the rise of the nanny state? Was that man ever anything even like the liberal ideal that Labor once represented?

“They are consistently more right wing than our Conservative party. They regularly call for more government restrictions on foreigners, they hate the EU and want less money for the BBC.”

Let me posit that this neo-political movement more or less represents American and British banking and corporate interests, and thus the EU would be seen as a threat to the Old London money and power. Now, I’m sure sky would be just spiffy keen about the EU if the currency was the pound and the capitol was in Manchester, but Brussels? And currencies issued by just anyone? Much harder to game, old boy. Can’t have that. It also explains the restrictions on foreigners (a common theme in the American branches) which should be constantly reminded that they are mere subjects of the empire, not citizens.

And the BBC? Who wouldn’t want less money for a lavishly funded competitor? Really.

But empire is what this all boils down to, I think. These people have this religious belief in growth and expansion, placed at a high preference over the actual prosperity of the people, that in the end in a limited world can only rely upon oppressing other people and taking their stuff. Except now we’re not facing tribesmen with spears, but insurgents with automatic weapons and EFP’s. 19th century thinking should have stayed there, but that we are still led by it well into the 21st century is a crying shame.