We Distort, You Resign

I hate Fox News. This is well-established. Though I felt his movie Outfoxed was poorly constructed and unengaging, Robert Greenwald has said it best: Fox News is not a news organization. They spend money on high-priced on-screen "talent" like Sean Hannity, not on reporting and investigating. Have you ever even seen an investigation on Fox News? It's always a brief report on some random issue followed by 20 minutes of the loudmouth host dithering on about why the Republicans are right and liberals are stupid. All editorializing, no actual journalism.

So, it's not surprising that the Fox News coverage of the Asian tsunami disaster sucks. They're not prepared to cover actual stories. They only know how to sit around and praise The Great Leader, and tear down all who oppose his worshipfulness.

But this tidbit, from an article on Fox News in today's Salon, goes so far over the line, I'm at a loss for words. Well, not literally. I'm writing words right now. But you know what I mean. This is an actual quote from Fox News anchor John Gibson:

This is the travel industry, major big hotel companies. How is it that United States taxpayers are going to be convinced you have to build hotels in Phuket? Thailand, Indonesia, India, the countries that got hit [will] say, "We need dough and we need buckets of it to fix all this so Swedes can go on vacation in Phuket again."

I know this isn't physically possible, but I wish the entire nation of Thailand could all get together, come to America, and one-by-one, kick John Gibson's ass. Like, have them elect a Minister of Ass-Kicking to give everybody a number, and then line up in an orderly fashion, and just give him a solid roundhouse to the head. Plus, we can have face painting.

These countries are fucking buried beneath water, entire villages are dead, and we're all driving around in SUVs with 22s on them. I don't think it's going to break the bank to save some lives. Those people you see in the photos coming back from Phuket, John? Does it look like a fabulous resort destination? No, it looks like a war zone. And I know Fox doesn't like using war zone footage, but this stuff doesn't even reflect poorly on The Leader. Powerful and evil though he may be, he does not yet hold sway over continental drift.