so wait....now finding fox news contemptible is another example of how the big bad Other victimizes conservatives? that's hilarious.
this following on a spirited defense of ones god-given right to be stupid from the ultra-right punditocracy.
this conservo-tempest just gets better and better. hopefully there's a kind of maximum velocity of stupid that it'll achieve such that the right eats itself before the midterms.
and no, ace. that's not even close to what i was arguing.
private ownership should be eliminated from broadcasting.
the airwaves (and cable-waves) are a public good.
information is fundamental to a democracy.
information relay is too important to be left to the likes of rupert murdoch or roger ailes.
private capital is the blight at the center of the american media apparatus.
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