At $50 thousand a year along with health benefits, Wisconsin’s teachers are overpaid spoiled brats…at least according to the state’s governor and most of those fair and balanced folk over at Fox News. Jon Stewart helps put it all into perspective. (Readers outside the U.S., watch video here.)
There is no way you can stop Fox from making a mockery of truth and honest journalism but you sure as heck can mock them. Here’s how a bunch of dummies do it.
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The irony is that the dialogue writes itself. As outrageous as it all is, the clowns actually say this stuff…which is fairly easy for them to do since dealing with scruples is never a concern.
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Fox News is determined to make every one of their viewers despise immigrants, illegal or otherwise, by every corrupt means possible.
Fox & Friends displayed an on-screen graphic promoting a ridiculous Family Security Matters estimate that “2,158 killed by illegals every year.” But that statistic is derived from completely baseless assumptions about immigrants’ crime rates. Actual studies have found that immigrants in general are less likely to be incarcerated and that there is no evidence that undocumented immigrants commit a disproportionate amount of crime.
The number ’2158′ comes from a 2005 cooked up analysis by a nutcase named Mac Johnson. Here’s how it came about.
After admitting that “the murder rate among illegal aliens in America is unknown,” Johnson assumed that the rate at which “illegal aliens” murder would remain consistent with murder rates from the immigrant’s home country. From his 2005 Human Events article:
I assumed that 3,871,912 Mexicans in America kill at the same rate as 3,871,912 Mexicans in Mexico, then did the same for 336,717 Salvadorans, 77,000 Brazilians, 226,886 Chinese and 39 other categories of illegal alien — as totaled in a Census Bureau estimate of the illegal alien population in 2000. The report’s total figure was that 8.7 million illegal aliens are in our country.
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Using the above method, I estimated that illegal aliens kill 1,480 people in America every year. This assumes that the 8.7 million illegal aliens in America have a population age structure and a sex ratio similar to that of their homelands. Most murders are committed by young males. If the illegal population in America is skewed toward young males, as most believe, the murder total is actually much higher. Comparing the age structure of the population of illegal aliens that applied for amnesty during the Reagan administration…
What a pile of crap! And Fox has no problem interviewing some guy who throws around this number as if its scientific fact. Now every intellectually challenged jackass who has made Fox their source for news has one more item to support their bigoted views. And of course, the number will be used on right-wing blogs and be cited by every crackpot conservative talk show across the country. Let’s see how soon some Republican congressman uses the number to justify Arizona’s racist immigration law.
If illegal immigrant’s home country murder rate is a fair indicator then it should equally apply to legal immigrants. Applying the logic used by Johnson, all immigration should be halted immediately. The borders should be closed and a giant plexiglass dome built over the entire country.
A solid argument could be made (and should be made) for controlling illegal immigration. But it should not be done using contorted numbers which have no basis in fact.
I don’t know. With the degree of idiocy out there, on some days it all seems so freaking hopeless.
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When Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade is the voice of reason in a discussion, you know that someone has gone way over the line.
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At the next Tea Party rally, you just know that some moron will be holding up a sign reading “OBAMA IS A RACIST”. He’ll be the guy standing beside the person with the “OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST” sign…who is beside the guy with the “OBAMA IS A MUSLIM” and “OBAMA IS AN ILLEGAL ALIEN” signs…
FOX News, where the motto should read…
“if you believe a tenth of the shit we say, then you’re a bigger idiot than we could ever have hoped for!”
Might be time again to play Beck’s ‘Get Off My Phone‘.
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Reason #4892 as to why Fox is the “news” network for people who just don’t know any better. Here’s the setup for the video below.
Kilmeade and two colleagues were discussing a study that, based on research done in Finland and Sweden, showed people who stay married are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s. Kilmeade questioned the results, though, saying, “We are — we keep marrying other species and other ethnics and other …”
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This is the #1 rated cable morning show? Who are the people watching this crap? I love HuffPo’s description of the ‘Brown Haired Guy’.
He is like a murder of idiot crows, stuffed into an anthropomorphic flesh bag, that somehow successfully filled out a W-4 form and wandered onto a soundstage where he was adopted as a pet.
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