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So from what I've gathered from our resident Trump fanatics and some diehard conservatives, is that it is the intolerant and regressive left that are guilty of inacceptance of criticism or others' views.
This isnt the first time either. Literally every single time a host on FOX news hasn't spent time gobbling up Trump's yummy genitals people have called for them to be fired or even sent death threats.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...rump/98023272/
So to my conservative peers, how do you justify this? Fringe element? Just some lunatics online? You wholeheartedly agree with them? Or could it be that perhaps both parties have issues and trying to pretend yours isn't just as guilty of the things you accuse the other side of isn't doing anyone favors.
A Fox News Host Attacks Trump, and Some Viewers Bristle - The New York Times
https://apple.news/A_3S2jTNqRPa-GNFbcD62rQ
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2017-08-17, 01:01 PM #1The Lightbringer
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FOX news host gets hate mail for daring to voice her opinion.
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2017-08-17, 01:09 PM #2Void Lord
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I like how the comments interchange between saying he needs to go to the fake news channels and that they will stop watching fox if he isn't removed. That's the shittiest ultimatum ever... 'You are the only real news, but we will watch fake news if you don't get rid of him.'... your threat is that you'll watch news that are all fake, because Fox airs one fake segment? I think they'll see through the flaw in that plan...
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2017-08-17, 01:09 PM #3Brewmaster
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I think that's on par for Fox lately isn't it?
Originally Posted by Dr Assbandit
I hear avid Fox watchers that are Trump loyalists, kick and scream and demand they be fired, when they hear;
Shepard Smith
Chris Wallace
(When she worked there) Megyn Kelly
Say anything that might resemble criticism.
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Oh, didn't know we were talking about Shepard Smith. That happens all the time to him, happened to another one the day before yesterday, for disagreeing with his pro-White Nationalist rant. They were demanding she be fired and spamming her email and twitter with hate.
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Here it is Kat Timpf has been the last 48 hours as well.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/enter...=.5de4e9b1a16b
Wrote one critic on Twitter: “I thought I was watching MSNBC.” Another suggested, “get rid of the snowflakes. Your (sic) turning into another liberal news channel.” Some messages were unprintably vile; Timpf retweeted one.
Timpf, in an interview, said she was particularly chilled by one tweet that called her “a disgrace to the white race.”
“I’ve gotten some positive things, but the negativity I’ve gotten is incredibly disturbing,” she said. “I’ve seen enough to know just how disturbing the climate is right now. I’m fully aware of it and don’t need any more bringing me down on a personal level.”
She said that “it doesn’t seem like it’s too difficult to do the right thing and respond by saying ‘Nazis are bad.’ I can’t believe that my stance is a controversial stance, or something you need to even take a stand on at all these days. It’s really upsetting.”Last edited by -Nurot; 2017-08-17 at 01:17 PM.
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2017-08-17, 01:21 PM #4Brewmaster
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Your forgetting, surveys have shown that most of Trump's supports are from the lower educated. Expecting them to make sense might be asking for too much. Originally Posted by Felya
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2017-08-17, 01:32 PM #5The Lightbringer
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Oh didn't know about Kay Timpf. Originally Posted by -Nurot
I posted Smith and Eboni Williams. So that makes 3 now and if I recall a few others. Good for them to speak out when they see something wrong."It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum... and I'm all outta ass."
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2017-08-17, 02:39 PM #6DeletedThere is idiots on both sides. Im shocked. Originally Posted by Dr Assbandit
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2017-08-17, 02:40 PM #7The Insane
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The people sending hate mail, are also voicing their opinion.
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2017-08-17, 02:53 PM #8Void Lord
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Death threats are not an opinion. They're a crime. I know you weren't defending them, you were specific, but I did want to draw a line in the thread in general. Originally Posted by Kujako
Well, FOX News has a choice to make, don't they?
a) Keep things as they are, provide a startlingly more fair-and-balanced approach than I would have guessed a couple weeks ago (gosh, kind of a lot has changed, huh), and risk losing audience
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b) Fire the people getting hate mail, in theory keeping their viewership up, but becoming further right and offering no balance at all.
I can't help but notice there don't seem to be a lot of articles about advertisers dropping FOX News, not like they were with, say, Bill O'Reilly. So I think they'll go with Option A.
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2017-08-17, 04:30 PM #9Moderator
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But...what about the nice Nazi sympathizers and nice KKK sympathizers?!
Also, fuck those people in general, and especially for going after Shepherd Smith. He's probably the only person at Fox News who has maintained any credibility and dignity over the years, and consistently dealt with fact and reality instead of rhetoric and fantasy like most of their other hosts.
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2017-08-17, 04:31 PM #10The Insane
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Well it is, just not a valid or right opinion (in my opinion). Originally Posted by Breccia
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2017-08-17, 04:59 PM #11The Patient
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A threat is not an opinion. A threat is a hostile action. Hostile acts like death threats are illegal. They are not protected free speech and that should be obvious my pal Originally Posted by Kujako
Originally Posted by Adam Jensen
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2017-08-17, 08:04 PM #12The Unstoppable Force
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So, the people that watch Fox want to fire the only people there that tell them the truth? Seems about right.
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2017-08-17, 08:25 PM #13The Insane
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There's a distinctive lack of the usual fauxlosophers in this thread.
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2017-08-17, 09:34 PM #14Void Lord
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It is not possible for a reasonable person to defend death threats against a journalist. Originally Posted by Garnier Fructis
Granted, Trump suggested jailing them but that's not the same thing.
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