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Why the Right should not champion Fox News

Says Billy Beck:

I expect the mindless appeal to sensations that you can find on CNN or MSNBC, essentially because their politics are so stupid. There is a great deal of stupidity in conservatives, too, but their intellectual heritage is a lot richer -- and a lot more true -- than the Left, and it's too bad that its principal popular media presence in America exists on the level of things like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly.

I can stand the disgust of putting up with specimens like Wolf Blitzer and that fucking stupid cow Mika Brzezinski: I don't expect a thing in the world from them except cheerleading for more of the whip, and they let me know just how that project is going from day to day. What I can't stand is the pretense of intellect from people who make cheap noise about freedom and blow it at me with the hokey-ass tastes of Fox News. They're really just insufferably pathetic.

This is where my co-blogger Rammage and I might diverge. He seems to enjoy (with a hearty guffaw) the antics of partisans like those on Fox who are more concerned with teasing and taunting the American Left than with either just reporting the news, or providing a consistent and coherent philosophical basis for analyzing and criticizing policies and organizations in our political system.

Personally, I have no stomach for it. Like Billy, I think it does more harm than good to hear those commentators on the Right spew their drivel in the name of "freedom". They are overall every bit as bad as their counterparts on the Left. I'd just like to hear more people recognizing how little value either side is contributing to the actual cause of freedom when they play these games.