The loonies are coming back to bite FOX News

Check out the video at (http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=2706277).  It shows FOX News' Shepard Smith discussing the issue of crazies doing crazy things.  "They are scary," he declares.

Well... what goes around, comes around.  FOX has fed these loonies for years.  And they are coming to Canada.

Fox News. Is it an oxymoron? Or just moronic?

Fox News thinks that it needs to educate Canadians by coming onto our airways. Maybe Fox News needs to better spend its time educating its hosts.

In a recent Red Eye segment (run at 3 AM for those who are up all night worrying about Obama, no doubt), four FOX "celebs" squared off at Canada's military.

At argument was the comment by our General Andrew Leslie that our forces needed some time off after the pull out from Afghanistan in 2011. The General's argument was that we need to rearm and retool after eight years of front line action that has resulted in 116 deaths so far.

But what do these sorry excuses for commentators say? One mocks General Leslie's name as girlish. Another suggests that Canadian soldiers will use the break for a romp on the beaches in white capri pants. A third suggests time of for manicures and pedicures. But the biggest dope of all stated that he was not even aware that Canada was in Afghanistan.

Fox News. What a joke.

In a sea of change, some things stay the same

I watched and listened to the US election last night.  I couldn't be more enthusiastic for the decisions taken by a majority of Americans.  They listened to their hearts rather than to the pundits and press and they voted for change.

But in the midst of all this change the rabid right wing in the media just continues along spewing their invective as if nothing is happening around them.  On CFRA last night, Rob Snow and John Counsell, those bastions of enlightenment that they think they are, pontificated that the talk show hosts like Limbaugh were going to have a field day with the Obama win.  The truth is that Limbaugh doesn't care if Republicans win or lose, he is a simple showman not a studied analyst.  The same goes for Snow and, to a lesser extent, Counsell.

The rabid right doesn't care about facts - if they need facts - and none exist - they just invent them.

Take for example a headline on Fox News today.  "Obama Victory Resounding, But a Landslide?"  Obama's electoral college totals were 349 versus 144 for McCain.  This result, they assert, does not qualify as a landslide compared to some past election.  One election they cite as comparison was the landslide win of Roosevelt over Parker in 1904.  The electoral count then?  336 - 140.  That was a landslide but the 2008 results were not?  Give it up, Fox News.

I was at the hockey game last night when results were pouring.  Twice during the evening a message went up to let the crowd know what was happening in the election.  The cheers for the lead of Obama drowned out the cheers when they flashed that Toronto was losing to Carolina.  The people of Ottawa spoke.  One exception was that guy standing behind when I went for water.  I overheard his buddy ask him who he liked in the US election.  His answer, I fear, almost made me swallow my dentures.  "The choice is clear," he stated.  "You can vote for a true war hero or for a guy who hates Canada."  Seems this guy listens too much to CFRA and Fox News.

Change is good.  Embrace change.  Change brings new idea.  New ideas bring change.  (That's enough of the Chi.)

That's a good message to remember during the next municipal election, when change is needed.