Toronto Globe and Mail has a laugh at FOX and O'Really

[JohnyCanuck]

Found this on a thread at www.smirkingchimp.com


John Doyle, daily TV columnist for the Toronto-based Gobe and Mail, wrote a hilarious bit the other day (first one below) about the possibility of FauxNooz being offered on Canadian cable. Well! I had thought of posting that, but I was better off waiting: apparently Bill O'Reilly took exception to what was written, bloviated against the heretic Doyle on his program, and called for the legions of Right-wing flying monkeys to unleash a torrent of semi-literate emails upon yon snowy capital. Doyle (a native Irishman--you'd think O'Reilly would have known what he was getting into) receives our morans with glee (second column). I ask you, Chimpsters: is there a better description of FoxNews than "barking mad"?

More at www.smirkingchimp.com/viewtopic.php?topic=39506&forum=13

[AndyP]

1. link doesn't work

it says the boards are only available for members. :(

[Minstrel Boy]

2. From today's Globe: "Fox News. Not here yet, but already hilarious"

Reacting to my column, which cheerfully suggested that the proposal to bring the Fox News Channel to Canada should be acted upon promptly, so that we can all take a look, and get a laugh, O'Reilly gave us a Fox-style whacking. In his segment The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day, he quoted from my column (which called him "pompous"), dismissed The Globe as a lefty outfit and said, "Hey you pinheads up there, I may be pompous, but at least I'm honest."

Right. But the very idea that The Globe and Mail is "far left" only proves my point that the Fox News Channel is the most hilarious thing on American TV since Seinfeld. When we get to see it, we'll decide if, like Seinfeld, it's about nothing.

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The people who support Fox News must be the most uncivil and foul-mouthed creatures on the planet. This is an informed opinion. They'd give English soccer hooligans a run for their money.

I lost count of the number of times I was called "an a**hole." It was at least 43 times, anyway. I was called "a pussy," "a wussy," "a pr**k," "a jerk," "a hack" and "a creep." A man in Cleveland not only called me "an a**hole" but also wished me a "f***ed-up day." A lady -- and I use the term advisedly -- in Colorado wrote to say that all Canadians are "a**holes" and then ordered me not to visit her state. I was also called a Canadian numerous times, as if that were an automatic and withering insult.

In an nice touch, a man from somewhere-in-the-USA opened by cheerfully calling me "sonny bub" and, after some confusing name-calling that involved the word "intellectual," he rose to a great rhetorical flourish -- he asked if I had served in Vietnam! Nothing of the sort has ever come from viewers of Newsworld, CTV Newsnet, CNN, MSNBC or, indeed ROB-TV. My point was that we have a great deal to learn from the Fox News Channel. And I am proved right. Talking to Americans is always a tonic. Bring on Fox News and bring it fast. Let's see this thing that has so many ardent and incredibly aggressive viewers.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040421/DOYLE21//?query=Fox+News

[JohnyCanuck]

4. Here's a link to the first story that got O'Really's knickers in a knot

Who's afraid of the big bad Fox? Certainly not us

By JOHN DOYLE

The other day I read in this newspaper -- an abidingly reliable source -- that some honchos in the cable-TV racket are applying for permission to offer the Fox News Channel in Canada.

Beauty. Bring it on, I say. We're all in need of a good laugh. The barking-mad Fox News Channel is something that most Canadians have only heard about. It's time we saw it for ourselves, and made up our own minds about the phenomenon. We'll find out if this Bill O'Reilly fella is as stupendously pompous and preening as he appears to be in the rare clips we see of Fox News.

Me, I've seen the Fox News Channel on visits to the United States. It is a splendid thing entirely. You have no idea how funny it is. The Fox News Channel is a kind of live theatre of the airwaves, with right-wing pundits playing journalists in an ongoing soap opera. In this soap opera there are good guys and bad guys. The bad guys are the Democratic Party and a dark force that is sometimes known as The Liberal Media Elite and sometimes known as The Loony Left. <snip>


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[lefty_mcduff]

3. O'Reilly was ranting about this the other night

Called the Globe and Mail a 'Far-Feft' paper. What a maroooon!
The Globe and Mail is a RIGHT-leaning, CONSERVATIVE paper.

Course, to figure that out O'Reilly would have to do some research and actually get some facts straight. Couldn't have that.

[JohnyCanuck]

5. It's the closest thing we have to the Wall Street Journal

If the Globe and Mail is a far-left publication, I hate to think what that makes the Toronto Star (That's the newspaper the Canadian wingers really love to hate)

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Maybe it was calling Fox News 'camp'

that really got O'Reilly riled?