If linking to Fox News, make sure you're FAIR
I appreciate the on-going, balanced dialogue with the Foreign Minister -- his links to Fox News are similiar to the links I post to op ed pieces in the LA Weekly. However, anyone who's going to Fox News for actual 'news' (tee hee), should also visit the Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting website, just to be safe.
While you're there, dig around a little and you'll find all kinds of intriguing stuff about Bush, the campaign, O'Reilly, even NPR, etc., etc. Here's a nice one on Bush vs Kerry media coverage (hey, hey, look at that -- Bush isn't as 'single-minded' and 'determined' as his publicists want us to believe), and here's one reaching back to Fox News coverage of the White House vandalism after Bush's election (Fox News still sucks).
But I digress. Given their reporting history and obvious bias, I'm not really convinced by a poorly footnoted op ed piece about gun control as evidence that gun control is a bad thing. I tried to do my own admittedly haphazard Googling on the International Crime Victimization Survey, but I couldn't find any evidence that the organization existed past June 2001. John Lott himself is a rabid gun advocate, much like our Foreign Minister (you can visit John Lott's site directly and decide for yourself).
Concerning the chemical weapons (again reported by Fox), even if completely true, the use of chemcial agents in Iraq is hardly evidence of the massive WMD program that we invaded the country to prevent. And even the Pentagon thought the release of that story was premature -- or perhaps they just don't want to get burned by inaccurate reporting, like with the bogus 'mobile weapons laboratories' from last year.
Bush is still a big liar.
Believe.
While you're there, dig around a little and you'll find all kinds of intriguing stuff about Bush, the campaign, O'Reilly, even NPR, etc., etc. Here's a nice one on Bush vs Kerry media coverage (hey, hey, look at that -- Bush isn't as 'single-minded' and 'determined' as his publicists want us to believe), and here's one reaching back to Fox News coverage of the White House vandalism after Bush's election (Fox News still sucks).
But I digress. Given their reporting history and obvious bias, I'm not really convinced by a poorly footnoted op ed piece about gun control as evidence that gun control is a bad thing. I tried to do my own admittedly haphazard Googling on the International Crime Victimization Survey, but I couldn't find any evidence that the organization existed past June 2001. John Lott himself is a rabid gun advocate, much like our Foreign Minister (you can visit John Lott's site directly and decide for yourself).
Concerning the chemical weapons (again reported by Fox), even if completely true, the use of chemcial agents in Iraq is hardly evidence of the massive WMD program that we invaded the country to prevent. And even the Pentagon thought the release of that story was premature -- or perhaps they just don't want to get burned by inaccurate reporting, like with the bogus 'mobile weapons laboratories' from last year.
Bush is still a big liar.
Believe.
posted by Anonymous at 5/22/2004 11:38:00 PM
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