johnny dollar's archive: mar-apr 2008

Maybe it's because we are approaching a full moon. Or perhaps someone is spiking the Alpo. For whatever reason, things have gotten increasingly surreal over at the newshounds (another fine product of the Outfoxed gang).

We noted the increasing lunacy when the newspoodles came up with a shocking revelation: Fox News is using crypto-Christian symbolism to bamboozle its viewers!

FOX borrows Huckabee's flying cross for latest promotion... FOX has apparently borrowed the premise, with some tweaking, for their latest false advertising campaign.... Subtle as a Mack truck, as my dear old mom would say.

Most of the kennel-dwellers lapped it up, but some are starting to get wise:

• After four years of watching FOX I can safely say I'm wise to their tricks, large and small. This is classic.
• wait for fox to float muslim symbols everytime they speak of Sen Obama.
• I think you're looking for patterns where none exist.
• Wow, someone's paranoid. This blog entry reminds me of the Saudi authorities banning the letter X because it too strongly resembles the Christian cross.
• Wow, you all are that paranoid about the use of + instead of &? This is the most pathetic rant i have seen in some time.

What exactly was the fuss all about? The Fox slogan being written as "fair + balanced", and using the plus sign in the manner of a cursor. No, we're not making this up. Oh and the cover shot the mutts used as "proof" of this scurrilous Christian propaganda? The plus sign next to Alan Colmes...who is Jewish!

If you think that's off-the-wall, then try to diagram the impenetrable "logic" behind this:

Neil Cavuto, Fox's "Business News" Guru, Ignores an "Emergency Move" by the Federal Reserve... The Federal Reserve cut rates in an EMERGENCY DECISION on a Sunday?! What the hay? So, what did Neil Cavuto, the managing editor of business news for the FOX News Channel say about that big, breaking (this is a FOX NEWS ALERT) news? Nothing.

Where to begin? Neil Cavuto is not on Sundays. His next broadcast is Monday afternoon. (Hey, Lou Dobbs and Jon Stewart were silent too!) So what in the wide world of sports is Melanie talking about? Oh wait, maybe this is it: she links the word "nothing" to the Your World web page. Meaning what? That's not a news page. It's a promotional page for a television show. They don't do breaking news on a promotional page. Is Mel trying to hoodwink her readers into believing Fox didn't report this story (which would be a lie), or is she just incurably dense? After all, how hard could it be for her to to find Fox's coverage when her own page sports a huge ad for foxbusiness.com with an invitation to "click here"?


But for our big finish: a gem from Ellen, feigning outrage over a comment in a forum at Sean Hannity's website. A poster was ruminating about the grim possibility of an assassination attept on Barack Obama, noting that "I hope for it not to happen". That was all the biased bassets needed:

Hannity's Website Speculates About Assassination Of Obama... the next time Hannity goes on one of his Hanctimonious rants about the hate-filled leftwing blogs, we can pull this one up quicker than he can say, "Louis Farrakhan."

Of course Ellen has to adopt the facade of being shocked that the topic would even come up, even though it has been raised thousands of times, by people ranging from a nobel prize winner to CBS News. Our comment to that effect was swiftly deleted. In doing so, Ellen again threatened to shut down J$P by complaining to our ISP (whose identity she published) about "harrassment" (i.e. posting comments on a public thread). We responded thusly:

• Ellen, I have kept a record of the "harrassing" posts I have made. I also have a copy of your "rules" for posting, as well as the haloscan operating procedures which, of course, permit you to block any poster you choose. Not to mention all the times I have posted and nobody at all told me to stop.... I know the law. If you attempt to tortiously interfere with my access to the internet based on nothing more than your "request" that I not post comments...if that's your game plan, I am ready.

With that, Ellen erased her earlier threat, but made sure to erase our statement as well. For whatever reason, she replaced the comments quoted above with these words now appearing above the name "johnny dollar":

• I have been repeatedly asked to leave and refuse to do so. This speaks volumes about my character.

The irony is rich. Last month youtube suspended the newshounds account. The doggies insisted youtube would "correct this mistake immediately". But that hasn't happened. So what did the anti-Fox terriers do? Signed up again under a different name! Yes, after having been asked to leave they refuse to do so. This speaks volumes about their character.

Oh, and so does this. Spotted in the comments at newshounds.us, this gem, on the occasion of Bush's visit to Iraq:

• Here is the chance for your soldiers to put some of that "friendly fire" that we brits have suffered at their hands to some good.

Not enough? Just hours after Ellen's "outrage" over the Hannity forum comment, this from the hounds' own forum, encouraging violence against Republicans:

• At what point in time does a violent assault against these unAmerican [sic] neo-fascist rats become patriotic?

Even a full moon isn't sufficient explanation for such diseased derangement.