What were FOX news like when Obama was in charge?

[nac386]

Look at this.



How is that any different than someone looking at a MEME, knowing it isn't exactly real, and laughing at it? The different is that someone like Oliver has an entire production staff to help him. How is this any different? Couple it with some out of context remarks

You can also youtube lots of people breaking down his segments and pointing out the holes in his argument. I don't watch his show either, and don't want to watch it more than I have. So do you own research. If you are saying a piece like I just posted doesn't damage someones reputation in a similar way that a picture with fake statistics and a sarcastic comment, then there is no point in discussing this with you.

edit: do the viewers know Mitch, live in his state, know the issues his state deals with, etc. Probably not. But it does change their view of the republican party in a negative way.

Because John Oliver literally introduces that segment as a comedy bit, and the memes that are circulated are often taken 100% seriously and are not comedy.

Can we please move past the memes are just jokes nonsense? Yes, we get it. Some memes are jokes. But for some reason, people also call them memes when they are not jokes at all. You can't just make shit up and then call it a meme, Lol.

Is this a joke? This has been used as evidence by posters on this site and the United States president.

Where is the joke? There's no joke, it's propaganda called a "meme" for some reason. That is what I'm referring to. The President of the USA believed it to be true to the point where he actually shared it with all of his followers, who STILL believe it is true. I had to just correct somebody again like a few weeks ago who still thought that meme was a real set of statistics.

 

[Jack V Savage]

I'm not arguing for or against any of it. I like to play devil's advocate and be a contrarian, thinking of reasons why others would be against it. I'm pro-diversity, but not for diversity's sake. I think a lot of people would agree with that.

Couple of ways to look at it. The conservative idea about representative gov't (as expressed by Russell Kirk) is that you're entitled to have your interests represented, but not your opinions. So someone should be looking at for manufacturers, and someone else for manufacturing employees, etc. There's a debate from that perspective about which groups require direct advocacy and which are inessential groupings. And then when there's a distinctive lack of diversity that raises (doesn't answer) questions about whether the game is rigged.

 

[Jack V Savage]

hi all,

i voted for Nixon, Reagan, HW Bush, W Bush, McCain, Romney, and Trump. oh and i voted for Obama. twice.

Yeah, I'd think that the fact that @Steve-French voted for Trump over Clinton is a clear sign that he is biased.

 

[Ultra O’Dia]

FOX News is a million times worse than the worst thing CNN does. FOX News would throw up pure bullshit, Chump would tweet it like fact, dumb inbred hillbillies would eat it up and beg for more.

The thing CNN does that I hate is when they regularly feature Chump cocksucker panelists who spew out ridiculous bullshit.

I see video of these hot young blondes in the background at Chump rallies and can't help think they are dumbshits and the little white kid in background is a future white supremacist.

bad times we live in when this shit post gets 19 likes.
I assume you are referring to Trump. I didnt know he was such a big political player from 2008-2014. Maybe ‘Chump’ refers to someone else? Either way it is childish and stupid and delegitimizes any point you might be trying to make. Also, you are a racist.

 

[HomerThompson]

i voted for Nixon, Reagan, HW Bush, W Bush, McCain, Romney, and Trump.

 

[Hog-train]

just to clear things up, if you voted for both Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump, it may show you lack bias. it also may show you lack any convictions, as far as policy based legislation is concerned.

- IGIT

Not necessarily. You have to remember what Trump ran on - he ran a populist message very similar to Bernie Sanders.

And then turns around and only represents rich people. So essentially, Trump voters got tricked.

 

[IGIT]

allo, President Homer,

i'm joking, of course - though i did vote for HW, once.

- IGIT

 

[HomerThompson]

allo, President Homer,

i'm joking, of course - though i did vote for HW, once.

- IGIT

LOL, I was about to excoriate you.

 

[Ultra O’Dia]

hi all,

i voted for Nixon, Reagan, HW Bush, W Bush, McCain, Romney, and Trump. oh and i voted for Obama. twice.

so i don't have any bias either.

lol.

this is all tangential to the OP, but i find it funny that people often say they voted for "fill in the blank Democrat" along with "fill in the blank Republican" and declare that this innoculates them being biased.

it does not.

just to clear things up, if you voted for both Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump, it may show you lack bias. it also may show you lack any convictions, as far as policy based legislation is concerned.

- IGIT

how old are you? where were you in 76? I thought i was old for Sherdog and i was born in 76. you have to be at least 64? remarkeable.

 

[nac386]

Guys, IGIT was joking. You can't vote for Romney and McCain and Obama twice, lol.

 

[IGIT]

Not necessarily. You have to remember what Trump ran on - he ran a populist message very similar to Bernie Sanders.

And then turns around and only represents rich people. So essentially, Trump voters got tricked.

hello Hog-train,

which populist message was that?

i think you'll find if you dig just a little deeper, and take a look at actual policy proposals, Bernie and Donald are similar in that they both have hands and feet and legs and arms.

but that's about it.

- IGIT

 

[HomerThompson]

Guys, IGIT was joking. You can't vote for Romney and McCain and Obama twice, lol.

I wasn't paying that close of attention, Nac.

 

[HunterSdVa29]

it was pretty damn hilarious (reference: I work on a USMC base, it's generally the only thing on TV, or ESPN) most of the time

they always hyperbolized everything, but not to the extreme 'racist/Nazi' shit the mainstream/left Media is doing now w/ Trump.

Fox, under Obama, was more like the other media under W except not funny really......

 

[Rational Poster]

Guys, IGIT was joking. You can't vote for Romney and McCain and Obama twice, lol.

Yes you can if you vote illegally.

 

[Jack V Savage]

Guys, IGIT was joking. You can't vote for Romney and McCain and Obama twice, lol.

You could if you count primary votes.

 

[nac386]

You could if you count primary votes.

Depends on the state.

 

[Jack V Savage]

Depends on the state.

What do you mean?

 

[nac386]

What do you mean?

In some states you can only vote in the primary for the party which you are registered with. So if you're a registered democrat, you can only vote in the democrat primary. But I think I overlooked the fact that he could be a registered republican, voting in the republican primaries, then choosing Obama in the presidential election.

Either way, he was joking.

 

[LMP]

The major news stations just suck. Mostly they are just political commentary. Opinions that they blast as being truth. Talk radio is even worse.

 

[cottagecheesefan]

Because John Oliver literally introduces that segment as a comedy bit, and the memes that are circulated are often taken 100% seriously and are not comedy.

Can we please move past the memes are just jokes nonsense? Yes, we get it. Some memes are jokes. But for some reason, people also call them memes when they are not jokes at all. You can't just make shit up and then call it a meme, Lol.

Is this a joke? This has been used as evidence by posters on this site and the United States president.

Where is the joke? There's no joke, it's propaganda called a "meme" for some reason. That is what I'm referring to. The President of the USA believed it to be true to the point where he actually shared it with all of his followers, who STILL believe it is true. I had to just correct somebody again like a few weeks ago who still thought that meme was a real set of statistics.

Please tell me where in that segment he literally said it was a joke and not in the same spirit of their actual adds.

As for the tweet, and "all of his followers believing him", how does he only have 2370 retweets and only 3042 likes out of over 50 million follows? That is a lot different than you saying that all of his followers believe him and trust that 100% That is literally not even 1%

You are just seeing what you want to see, just like you literally just thought that clip opened with him saying it was it was a joke. You heard what you wanted to hear. You assuming a lot about the 60 million people who didn't vote for Clinton based on a Karate forum.

You are assuming all that traffic about stuff like pizza gate was 100% being believed by the people viewing it? How much traffic was created by sites like this retweeting, and getting thousands of views, just being discussed on this forum. Do you not see the errors in these metrics? How many people viewed that stuff, just to follow the fallout of the Clinton email scandal, because they dislike her so much. That doesn't mean they believe all of it, it is just rage porn, because they dislike Clinton. I never believed Pizza gate, but I did come to threads about all that stuff during the election cycle. Didn't you view the threads, which in turn give traffic to the tweets and stuff? Does that mean you believed it as well?

How do 12 researchers at Oxford really make that call with 15k unique people, and analyze over 50k posts/tweets/pages, and how all of those posts are generating traffic? Over just a couple months? It is laughable.