wiki said:It was announced in September 2009 that Stossel would be leaving ABC News and joining Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.[6] He currently hosts a weekly one-hour show, Stossel and appears weekly on The O'Reilly Factor.
I'll agree that the one guy who was like "I don't know any actual numbers, but it's OBVIOUS that violence in video games, TV, and movies is making children more dangerous!" was pretty much owned by Stossel who said he HAD seen the numbers and would bring them on his show that expressed just the opposite (that youth crime & violence are declining). Most of the others made decent points about other aspects of free speech though. It was just that one person that showed his idiocy front-and-center.Those Fox talking heads are morons! I can't believe the crap they were saying.
I'll agree that the one guy who was like "I don't know any actual numbers, but it's OBVIOUS that violence in video games, TV, and movies is making children more dangerous!" was pretty much owned by Stossel who said he HAD seen the numbers and would bring them on his show that expressed just the opposite (that youth crime & violence are declining). Most of the others made decent points about other aspects of free speech though. It was just that one person that showed his idiocy front-and-center.[/QUOTE]Those Fox talking heads are morons! I can't believe the crap they were saying.
This is the same Stossel that just stated that private business owners should be allowed to discriminate on the basis of race or sexual preferenceI like John Stossel. His reports are always good.
Yes John, the free market would've allowed for minorities to have the same rights as everyone else. The centuries of discrimination in privately owned businesses where the free market was allowed to do whatever it wanted clearly didn't exist.
STOSSEL: Because eventually they would have lost business. The free market competition would have cleaned the clocks of the people who didn't serve most customers.
KELLY: How do you know that, John?
STOSSEL: I don't. You can't know for sure.
KELLY: That then was a different time. Racism and discrimination was rampant. I'm not saying it's been eliminated. But it was rampant. It was before my time, before I was born, but obviously I've read history, and I know that there is something wrong when a person of color can't get from state to state without stopping at a public restroom or a public lunchroom to have a sandwich.
STOSSEL: But the public restroom was run by the government, and maybe at the time that was necessary.
KELLY: But that's not what Rand Paul said. Rand Paul agreed that if it's run by the government, yes intervention is fine. He took issue with the public accommodations, with private businesses being forced to pony up under the discrimination laws.
STOSSEL: And I would go further than he was willing to go, as he just issued the statement, and say it's time now to repeal that part of the law
KELLY: What?
STOSSEL: because private businesses ought to get to discriminate. And I won't won't ever go to a place that's racist and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.
The guy is an idiot b/c he isn't Progressive or b/c from that one comment that makes him a racist? You can take a footage from anyone in the media and find something dumb they've said. I agree there was a better way for him to say what he was trying to get across, but I wouldn't label him an idiot.The guy is an idiot, stop listening to him.
The guy is an idiot b/c he isn't Progressive or b/c from that one comment that makes him a racist? You can take a footage from anyone in the media and find something dumb they've said. I agree there was a better way for him to say what he was trying to get across, but I wouldn't label him an idiot.[/QUOTE]The guy is an idiot, stop listening to him.
You do realize that the last few posts have, specifically, taken issue with something he said, right?The last few posts result in "we don't like John Stossel, so we're going to ignore anything he says."
I'd like to say very few people go on TV (and certainly not on the 24 hour channels) other than to promote, even passively, their view points. Now chicken vs egg, would these people be allowed frequent air time if they weren't at least slightly more leaning one way or the other than moderate?I used to like Stossel, then I realized everything he does is to further his Libertarian view point. EVERYTHING. Much in the same vein as Penn and Teller, he starts with a conclusion and works his way backwards to support it.
I give him and Penn/Teller a lot of credit. They are very good at being convincing- until, of course, you look past the simple solutions they offer and realize there is a whole lot more to the discussion than what they are delivering. As it is, Stossel is the King of Strawmen.
You do realize that the last few posts have, specifically, taken issue with something he said, right?[/QUOTE]The last few posts result in "we don't like John Stossel, so we're going to ignore anything he says."