"Fox News’ Decline": most retarded right-wing opinion I've ever heard

[theredpen]

...and that's a tough one to beat.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2008/01/fox_news_decline/

Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert notes that Fox News is getting much lower ratings this campaign season than in past years and argues that it’s their “comeuppance” for their ideological approach to news coverage.

I’d say the reason is far more mundane: Their inexplicable failure to offer a high-definition (HDTV) broadcast. As prices have dropped, millions of us have bought HD sets. Figures vary, but estimates have roughly a third of US households having HDTV and that number is rapidly increasing with every passing month.

As with previous technologies, like stereo records, CD, and DVD, this his quickly outmoded old technologies. How many of us still watch movies on our VCRs or listen to our 8-tracks?

It had been quite some time since I’d watched cable news, since I find the Internet much more efficient for information gathering, but I finally turned back to it for the New Hampshire returns and was shocked to find that Fox was still broadcasting in standard def, which looks especially bad on a large screen plasma. I switched over to CNN, which has a crystal-clear hi-def signal, and never flipped back.

None of the news channels that my area gets on Time Warner Cable come in in HD.

Where does the right wing get these retards?

[annabanana]

1. Yeah.. We're tuning out because we CAN'T SEE THEM CLEAR ENOUGH!

Oh hahahahahahahhahahahahaha

rilly rilly good one!

[lonestarnot]

6. OMG

:rofl: Now that is truly a really good one!

[wtmusic]

2. There is always an absurd explanation waiting in the wings

when the logical one contradicts GOP groupthink.

"The reason Iraq is a mess is poor war planning." Ad nauseum.

[johnfunk]

3. Well, it does allow us to snark: "FOX News Channel... now in COLOR!"

Mind you, I think the HD excuse is lame -- but hey, how can you turn down a punchline like that?

Interestingly, we get CNN and MSNBC in HD on Manhattan's alternative cable outlet, RCN. It does make a difference; Wolf Blitzer looks 5 years older, Kyra Phillips looks loopier and you can see how much makeup they slather on Tweety Matthews.

[KamaAina]

4. Please do not compare people with cognitive disabilities to repukes

I know a number of people with cognitive disabilities (in the movement, "retarded" is considered obsolete) who know a great deal more about the state of the world than your garden-variety repuke.

[whyzayker]

5. Could we ease up on "retards?"

I worked with that population for many many years and I have a major problem with people using the term "retard" as some sort of reference of inferior intelligence. It's just wrong.

[lonestarnot]

7. how bout rturd, that ok?

[theredpen]

10. Good point

I'm sorry to have smeared the many good-hearted mentally challenged individuals who are nonetheless too smart to be Republicans.

I should have said "fucknuts."

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

8. It's because all their viewers are now watching the Fox BUSINESS channel!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[tanyev]

9. I'm surprised that Fox News wasn't the first to get their micromini-skirted newsmodels in hi-def.