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The Simpsons explains why Fox News, Fox Network are so different

rawstory.com — In this video clip from The Simpsons, as Homer stares mesmerized at the set, Lisa asks the eternal question: "How can Fox News be so conservative when the Fox Network keeps airing raunchy shows? They don't fit together."

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  • squishee, on 10/11/2007, -59/+27"I have a name!"
    "I'm suuuuure you do, Comrade."
  • Crazysticks, on 10/11/2007, -39/+7Fox News looks like this: 8===>
  • MAdaXe42, on 10/11/2007, -20/+6The bit with the krusty campaign was censored, er, cut, from the version I downloaded, er, saw on TV.
  • mb96net, on 10/11/2007, -14/+12"and it's true too, it's funny and true."
    Mrs. LoveJoy

    "ha ha, it's funny cause it's true."
    Homer Simpson
  • ycohain, on 10/11/2007, -5/+152ticker: "do democrats cause cancer? find out at foxnews.com"
    • SilentSpyder, on 10/11/2007, -61/+3Is Ron Paul an anti-american terrorist sympathizer? foxnews.com
  • shootdashit, on 10/11/2007, -19/+7man, i've discussed this with friends. nice.
  • ragamuffin2, on 10/21/2007, -37/+10What does Ron Paul have to do with this?
    • amoirae, on 10/11/2007, -28/+12Nothing, just like he has nothing to do with politics or life in general.
  • andrewsalois, on 10/11/2007, -217/+13but can homer explain y the simpsons blows?
    • glasgowm, on 10/11/2007, -13/+110I'm guessing that as you can't even spell "why" that these jokes are too sophisticated for your simple mind.
    • Billistic, on 10/11/2007, -132/+8I can

      They've been on a long time and don't seem to want to make their characters age.

      Maybe if bart were in puberty now it'd be more interesting.
    • punkisnotdead, on 10/11/2007, -7/+74What? Where do you morons come from?

    • xero8472, on 10/11/2007, -9/+50I wish there was a way I could bury you more than once.
    • dodus, on 10/11/2007, -32/+6Nice. I can't think of a single thing that would provoke more unanimous ridicule than talking ***** about the Simpsons.
    • Seruphim, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11@dodus

      actually it's easier to get ridicule by being grammatically incorrect.

      also using "y" in place of "why"
    • pyry, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Typically because such "mistakes" are the easiest thing to make fun of when you don't know how to properly answer what is actually being said.
    • dodus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Damnit, I was trying to defend the Simpsons up there. Like, it provokes ridicule, and should.
  • totorototoro, on 10/11/2007, -11/+6Thats what Ted Haggard asked Mark Foley.
  • feckineejit, on 10/11/2007, -9/+66So glad they finally said something about this discrepancy.

    NObody has to think, just look at the boobies and let fox TELL you what to think.
  • tituspullo71, on 10/11/2007, -40/+6i think the simpsons is played out taped out done finished, lets have some futurama! that's the good stuff. i hate to see this show drag on and on it needs to end already it's getting like cheers!
  • Zackypooh, on 10/11/2007, -76/+4Ino that was hilarious I was cracking up when they were doint the thing where they edited out what they were saying.
    • bigfkncee, on 10/11/2007, -3/+72what language are you speaking?
    • shinynew, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14I'm sure that one of his other comments could be a rosetta stone, anyone care to look?
  • Subiklim, on 10/11/2007, -4/+78It's all about money. Conservative news sells better than liberal news, raunchy shows sell better than conservative shows.
    • Billistic, on 10/11/2007, -6/+115So you mean fox caters to beer chugging assholes as well as old crotchety bastards?

      It's like they want 100% of the market...
    • crimson117, on 10/11/2007, -24/+14@Subiklim

      "Conservative news sells better than liberal news, raunchy shows sell better than conservative shows."

      Most content on Fox News is not "conservative", it's just Bush-friendly (just like it was Newt-friendly in the 90's). If anything, it's neo-conservative, but it's definitely not conservative in the traditional sense.

      Conservative TV shows like.... 7th Heaven? Jeopardy? Those were very popular but not raunchy. Raunchy has shock value, but doesn't tend to last. Married...With Children excluded :)
    • merreborn, on 10/11/2007, -6/+40You're right. Fox news isn't conservative. It's just anti-liberal, anti-abortion, pro-war, pro death penalty, pro-thinkofthechildren...
    • Elranzer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12"So you mean fox caters to beer chugging assholes as well as old crotchety bastards?"

      They want to install the name FOX into their minds, so those who enjoy the raunchy network will watch the news channel of the "same brand."

      Turning today's apathetic beer-chugging assholes into tomorrow's old crochety bastard conservatives.

      The thinking process goes like this:

      "Wow, look at the *****!"
      *chugs beer*
      "Yeah, I hate gays!!"
      *chugs beer*
      "The republicans will get rid of the gays?? I'm voiting republican!"
      *chugs more beer*
    • Nitrodist, on 10/11/2007, -6/+5Why is crimson being dugg down? I think he makes a very valid point in that the current programming isn't really conservative. It's a kind of neo-conservatism. Read up on it on wikipedia [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-conservative ].
  • dylansbeard1, on 10/11/2007, -36/+2the Simpsons are still on the air? zzzzzzzzz.....
  • surasshu, on 10/11/2007, -11/+5What I want to know is why isn't this a video link. This site is quoting the Simpsons like scripture! That's just weird.

    Here's the segment this guy is talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFtsfDjOGjs
  • NinjaBoy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17i wonder if it is possible to fit any more ads on that page?
  • myt29, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1That's the 400th or 401st or whatever episode of the Simpsons. The rest of the show is better than this.
  • DivisibleByZero, on 10/11/2007, -6/+33Fox News actually tried to sue Fox over one episode of the simpsons:
    http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C84353%7C1%7C,00.html

    The offending clip:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DMziefCrdc
    • bigfkncee, on 10/11/2007, -24/+4did you even LOOK at the posted clip?
    • DivisibleByZero, on 10/11/2007, -12/+16Yes, and this is a different clip, and a different story. What's your point?
    • dorkino, on 10/11/2007, -20/+7The clip you posted is from this thread's main story...
    • Alkali, on 10/11/2007, -6/+13@dorkino

      No, no it's not.
    • YumYumKittyLoaf, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Albeit not the same clip, it shows part of the same scene in the main article. That's what those two were pointing out.
    • GeneralGore, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14"We got away with it, but now FOX has a new rule that we can't do those little fake news crawls in a cartoon because it might confuse the viewers into thinking it's real news."

      Thanks FOX. I thought that everyone on the news had yellow skin and clowns ran for political offices.
    • Mike89, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4"I thought that everyone on the news had yellow skin and clowns ran for political offices."
      Only in Australia.
  • snurfle, on 10/11/2007, -15/+1Just like the differences between Hitler and Mussolini.

    Godwin's Law FTW!
    • Nija, on 10/11/2007, -2/+22You can't invoke Godwin's law just to have Godwin's law take effect.
      :-P
    • Tippis, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3Hmm... if you can't effect Goodwin's Law by invoking it because the Law says you can't, wouldn't it also be impossible to "un-effect" it by invoking the Law?
    • gutistg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I remember another guy who tried to tell people when and where they could invoke things. His name was Adolf Hitler, you jerk!
  • briLo, on 10/11/2007, -10/+0Me widdles what me sees.....and sometimes me sees the future.
  • billyfoxtrot, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4I think it's admirable that The Simpsons saved this funny critique of Fox and Fox News for their hour-long 400th episode, when they knew more people would be watching.
    • spyrochaete, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9It was two completely unrelated half-hour episodes.
  • noliberalbull, on 10/11/2007, -25/+4Dugg because its funny, not because its true. Come on people, its the Simpsons
    • JaySherman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Coming from a guy whose nickname is "noliberalbull"... You lost credibility from the very beginning of your comment, that's a new record
    • gutistg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Jesus...
      God...
      The Bible...

      (see it's not that hard to lose credibility at the beginning of your comment)
    • revenge7, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I love President Bush.
  • spyrochaete, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Hooray for the ScriptBlocker extension. I've never seen so many script hosts on one page before - and it's HTML, not a dynamic page! Majorly shady.
  • g0dfather0, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Haha, "Landing Strip"... Simpson's is the best.
  • thedarkrabbit, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8I love the ticker on the news:

    90% of Democrats are gay.... JFK posthumously joins Republican Party...
  • MaximegalonInfo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10Why all the guessing, we all know it's because conservatives are hypocrites. i.e. they preach the sanctity of marriage while producing "Who wants to marry a millionaire". Really, come on.
  • JamieBarrows, on 10/11/2007, -8/+4I didn't realize there was any debate over why they are so different. It was always pretty obvious to me. Fox is in the business of making money. Not of furthering one agenda (conservative or liberal) over another. They really don't care about either side.
    Since CNN and most of the other major news networks slant towards the left, Fox news realized that there was a largely untapped market of viewers who wanted news slanted towards the right. So they catered to them. Not a big shock. The Fox entertainment divisions get most of their viewership from less conservative viewers. So the entertainment divisions cater towards them. Again, not a big shock.

    You have to remember that the media corporations are in business to make money, and only to make money. Once you do, it is clear that there is no contradiction or disparity between the two seemingly opposite positions of the networks.
    • nevesis, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22I read your post until you claimed CNN slanted to the left.

      The truth is that CNN is biased, but not on either side of the (inaccurate/incomplete) one dimensional political axis.

      You are on to something -- Fox saw an opportunity to make money and took it with Fox News, but the concept of heavily biased TV news was new and based on the success of talk radio, not on the inaccurate view of CNN.

      In fact, the entire concept of liberal media only arose as a red herring argument from Nixon to distract from (and discredit) Watergate stories. The concept then went comatose until the 90s, when Fox News was launched and realized they could use the concept to their advantage. Starting in the 2000s, there have been numerous best selling books written on the subject.

      The truth is that American commercial media encourage controversy within a narrow range of opinion, in order to give the impression of open debate, but do not report on news that falls outside that range. That is why we're all on Digg. :)
    • JamieBarrows, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11I'm not sure you are looking at this logically. I personally can't stand most of the mainstream media, but I generally prefer CNN if I am going to watch mainstream news. But I am not fooled into thinking any of the network news is not biased. They are all biased. Some, like fox, are more blatant and obvious about it. Others like CNN try to reign it in a little but they are all biased one way or another.

      In my experience CNN tends to be biased towards the left, but perhaps you see it as more towards the right. It doesn't really matter which way you or I think they are biased, as long as we recognize that all news will contain the bias of the reporter and/or his editors. The better reporters and editors will try to keep it somewhat in check, but it will come through either way.

      The only difference between Fox and CNN, is that Fox doesn't try to keep its bias in check. CNN does for the most part. Though in the past few years that seems to be changing. Which is sad, but was bound to happen. Fox showed that there was a strong market for news that didn't try to hide or temper its bias. So since CNN is also in the business of making money, it isn't surprising that they are beginning to follow suit.

      There are logical and intelligent people on both the left and the right who have strong reasons and beliefs for why they take the positions they do, but sadly the majority of people on both sides only parrot what they are told. They don't want to hear unbiased news. And they certainly do not want to hear anything from the point of view of the other side. It's those people who the mainstream media are catering to and always have. Since the nation is becoming more polarized, with fewer and fewer people in the center, our news media is also becoming more polarized to meet the needs and desires of its audience.
    • Jaymo89, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2@jamiebarrows (#6817840)
      I agree, Sky News in Australia does tend to lean slightly to the left. Rupert Murdoch doesn't have an agenda, he just goes with whatever thinks will make the most profit.
      Sky News in Australia is owned by News Corp, the parent company of Fox.
    • grazie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I don't think SkyNews leans to the left at all.

      The argument about it being all about Money is a good one, and at the end of the day - correct. Any business exists primarily to make money.

      The danger is that in making money, news outlets forego impartiality and objectivity in favour of catering to a wide audience - who don't want their views challenged, but want their views confirmed. FOX News is an extreme example of this. So in making money, they actually ARE in the business of favouring one side of the other.

      Murdoch, traditionally, ends up in bed with whoever he thinks will be in power. I know in Australia he has supported the Howard government through his newspapers very very strongly over the past 5 or 6 years (to the point of printing blatant lies about other parties) because he wanted to get changes to the Cross Media Ownership Laws introduced. Those changes were introduced recently, and now that it looks like the Howard Government may be voted out, Murdoch has publicly come out criticising the Howard Government. His newspapers are now attacking them heavily.

      Everything has an agenda. There is no such thing as true objectivity. It's impossible. But there are varying degrees of bias. This is why we need classes for children as young as 5 or 6, teaching them how to view media critically - all media. Sure we may raise a generation of cynics, but I think we need to. There's just too much ***** out there. Teach them how to view it for what it is.
    • nevesis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1@jamiebarrows

      In your address to my post.. you didn't address my post.

      My first argument, which I also revisited in the end, is that there is no right/left axis. That is an inaccurate, simplistic view. Instead, these stations simply choose bias on individual issues, as to avoid real discourse.

      My second argument, which you obviously disagree with, is simply that CNN is not biased in the opposite of Fox News. Since you made the claim of "CNN having a liberal bias", the burden of proof is on you. (I'll help you though... warning: the only studies showing liberal bias were both commissioned by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.
    • JamieBarrows, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@nevesis
      I don't see any reason why I should have to "prove" that CNN has a left bias. If you read my second post, which is more of a clarification of my first post than a response to your post, I clearly state that it is my opinion that CNN is left biased. This is my personal opinion, not necessarily a fact. Your opinion may differ from mine, which is perfectly reasonable.
      The only fact is that all of our news stations are biased. Some, like Fox, are more blatant and obvious about it. Others like CNN try to hide or keep it in check.

      I do agree with you that the simplistic, right vs left, is not a good or even accurate view of our politics. But since that is how political views in this country are classified, that is the terminology that I am using. I didn't address this in my post, because I really don't disagree with you.

      My opinion, is that CNN is left biased, but that opinion is not based on an exhaustive study and is only based on my personal experience while viewing them. So my opinion that the CNN network is overall left biased, may be wrong.

      It doesn't really matter whether I think a particular network is biased one direction or the other. What matters is recognizing that all news is biased so that in any single news story you can identify the particular bias of the reporter or editor. Don't just assume that a news story from fox will have a right bias, or that a news story from CNN (in my case though obviously not in yours) will have a left bias. I've seen stories from both networks with right and left biases. DO assume there will be a bias.
  • SundayBrunch, on 10/11/2007, -7/+5I believe 15 strippers can run their own airline, the only reason they're stripping is to put themselves through college, they're probably very smart.
  • knighter, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0The fox news "ticker" made my day... hilarious!
    Easily the best show ever made.
  • ElbridgeGerry, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5I wish we had a video section for things like this.
  • krakkinem, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5"You make a very ADULTEROUS point."

    I wish I could say that The Simpsons is exaggerating this, but...
  • nevesis, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6

    I tried to do some research last night to determine where FCC fine money went to.

    I had no success.

    If anyone could find this information and elaborate on it -- to either debunk or shed truth to the Simpson's claim -- it would be much appreciated!



  • shakingfist, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Murdoch and his gang are just contract workers for British Intelligence. The Economist magazine was one of the UK's first forays into this type of propaganda, and since the inception of that magazine, they've only gotten better and more elaborate at it. Still, they gave us the Simpsons so maybe the overlords aren't that bad.
  • Ramenhood, on 10/11/2007, -16/+2Fox News is pretty balanced actually. You know which views are who's. Alan Clomes and Greta Van Sustren(sp) are liberals, yet they appear the same amount of times as Hannity and O'Reilly. They are also friends with each other. Anyway, all The Simpsons does these days is play out popular media stories and make semi-comidic jokes about them. What happened to shows that had nothing to do with what's going on now, episodes like Bart The General, etc. I haven't liked The Simpsons since their 13th season. I still buy the old DVDs though.
    • Hazardc, on 10/11/2007, -6/+19"fox news is pretty balanced actually"


      AHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHA
    • akerasi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Greta? A liberal? What are you smoking, and where can I get some? Mostly, Greta reports on "beautiful well-to-do white girl is murdered/kidnapped/vanished", ignoring completely any similar stories about someone of any other race and or economic status, regardless of their relevance. Sounds pretty conservative to me...
  • cebbs, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3yeah I mean I think Fox is just as biased as CNN
  • igdrasa, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1I'm glad we refer to the Simpsons for news now. This is a sad indictment on the current state of news.
  • joegibes, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Hahaha I saw this episode on Sunday (I think it was the 400th)... It was cool.
  • johnnybeegood, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3i had no idea the 2 fox channels were different, i have always thought they are both total and utter *****
  • DisposableRob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1They aren't all that different. Like that time when Fox News had story about campus rape and the accompanying footage was straight out of Girls Gone Wild. Just the other day, they interrupted Neil Cavuto's recap of his interview with porn star Mary Carey with real actual news. It was bizarre.
  • EDViNNY27, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1is that true. or is it just a joke?
  • willgill, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Fox news isn't really conservative, it's mid to slight right. Bill O'Reilly, Brit Hume, Sean Hannity are right-wing, Greta Van Susteren, Alan Colmes and Sheppard Smith are left leaning. People think it's conservative because all others are so left.

    I can't figure out why anti-Fox-ites can't get it that Fox New's ratings kill all others because it's balanced news.

    Oh, and Simpson's Rock!
    • lpetrazickis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0US doesn't have a single left-wing or even neutral network. This can be demonstrated by comparing your networks to BBC, CBC, or print coverage in the Guardian. Even moderate outlets like the Scotsman, International Herald Tribune, and Al Jazeera are to the left of any allegedly left-wing US network.
      • willgill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Did you know over 80% of the press are registered Democrats. Fox does have slightly more conservatives that liberals. However, when Fox does a story, they have one of each come on and debate. CNN and NBC bring on liberal after liberal telling you what's right. It's a sneaky bias. Please, don't take my word for it. You can judge for yourself.
  • ThreeDee912, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1And they also own MySpace. MySpace≠Fox News definately.
    • kerouac906, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3MySpace DOES = Fox News in that it gives the seriously brain damaged a place to feel like they fit in and they are right. Click on some random profiles on MySpace and tell me the future of this country is not in serious trouble.
  • sexydarin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0And all the rest of the tv networks are really far left. The leftists dominate the networks and yet they can't take one network that has a slight right bias. commies don't want freedom of speech, they want all dissent banned. We should have as many right wing networks to match what the far left has: abc,nbc,pbs,cnn,cbs. What a bunch of leftist freedom haters
    • brister, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1leftist freedom haters? LOL! Do you want some freedom fries with that load of bs?

      If you seriously believe that all other networks are being critical of Bush because they are "commies" or liberal loving satan worshipers then you should really try and get out more, read some newspapers or books. If you don't trust the news from our country then read news from other countries. If 95% of the western world thinks Bush is an idiot and the Iraq war was a huge mistake then do you think maybe it could be your view that is wrong?
  • coolyfooly88, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is what I want to see from The Simpsons. I hoping with the movie, the writing will get a boost in talent.
  • noyakopi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0The original AND in the video section:

    http://digg.com/videos/comedy/The_Simpsons_FOX_News_and_the_Liberal_Media_2
    • polyGone, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If it's the 'original', what is that number 2 at the end?
  • Neobot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Yes, it's true that the corporate leaders of Fox are really liberal capitalist, not conservatives even though their viewership tends to be conservative. They are first and foremost capitalist and opportunist; unscrupulous ones at that.

    There are really three main types of conservatives:

    1) The Business man; money is his god; Wall Street; support military as long as it's profitable.
    2) The Traditionalist; beer drinking WWE/NASCAR viewer; NFL fan to the core; love the military for personal reasons. Many of their kids have joined.
    3) The ultra-religious; evangelical; bible belt; mid-west yokel type (Don't drink, don't swear, don't sleep around, don't watch smut tv...until some of them are caught. But that's another story). Adhere to the simplistic concept of good and evil; some support military power; They see the military as an extension of the right-hand "power" of Jesus. Mix nationalism and religion. Some of their kids join the military.

    The 1st guy doesn't care about the truth (CNN or FOX). As long as it makes him money and his busniess grows.
    The 2nd guy doesn't care about the corporation; just wants others to leave him to his WWE/BEER/GUNS/NFL and NASCAR.
    The 3rd guy doesn't care about the coporation or WWE/NASCAR or NFL. Just wants religous values spread; Will support the bombing of other conoutries if they are seen as "evil" and will claim it's justified based on those religious views; Rush listener; love right-wing relgious radio.

  • Neobot, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Yes, it's true that the corporate leaders of Fox are really liberal capitalist, not conservatives even though their viewership tends to be conservative. They are first and foremost capitalist and opportunist; unscrupulous ones at that.

    There are really three main types of conservatives:

    1) The Business man; money is his god; Wall Street; support military as long as it's profitable.
    2) The Traditionalist; beer drinking WWE/NASCAR viewer; NFL fan to the core; love the military for personal reasons. Their kids have joined.
    3) The ultra-religious; evangelical; bible belt; mid-west yokel type (Don't drink, don't swear, don't sleep around, don't watch smut tv...until some of them are caught. But that's another story). Adhere to the simplistic concept of good and evil; some support military power; They see the military as an extension of the right-hand "power" of Jesus. Mix nationalism and religion.

    The 1st guy doesn't care about the truth (CNN or FOX). As long as it makes him money and his business grows.
    The 2nd guy doesn't care about the corporation; just wants others to leave him to his WWE/BEER/GUNS/NFL and NASCAR.
    The 3rd guy doesn't care about the corporation or WWE/NASCAR or NFL. Just wants religious values spread; Will support the bombing of other countries if they are seen as "evil" and will claim it's justified based on those religious views; Rush listener; love right-wing religious radio.

  • ximenes, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Fox News is a privileged insight into the "mind" of Rupert Murdoch. We should all be humble before his mastery.
  • seraph82, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1/yawn

    The simpsons haven't been funny in a decade or so. Learn2southpark.
  • bsiviglia9, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Given that they're both pOwned by Rupert Murdoch, and filtered by the same management and advertisers, how can they be so "different"?
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