The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

So, I was just recently exposed to a website called Red Alert Politics. Yeah, take a wild guess which way this site leans... I guess this is a site generated by young conservatives - conservatives under the age of 30. Judging by some of the articles I've read off the site, I'd guess that the average age of Red Alert Politics members are 14.29 years old, with a margin of error of +7.22 years (no, there's no minus). Some of the recent articles go by the following names: "Bob Costas Continues To Bury Himself Over Anti-Gun Comments," "Anti-Obama Pizzeria 'Hate Crime' Allegation Has No Sauce," "Obama Expected To Push Gun Control In Second Term," "O'Reilly To Stossel: Most College Profs Are Liberal, We Need 'Affirmative Action For Conservative' Profs," etc. For their "Liar of the Year" award, take a gander at Red Alert Politics' ten nominees: "Harry Reid David Axelrod Joe Biden Barack Oba...

Okay, I have to ask this, why do so many people trust "Fox News" as a credible source for news? Why? I'm not saying there aren't other biased news networks. MSNBC, especially in their late night programs, have an obvious slant to the left of center. However, they also carry with them Republicans Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan. That's not much, but that's still better than Fox, whom carries with them Shepard Smith and that's about it as far as "fair and balanced" reporting is concerned. Infotainment, as I like to call it, is huge in this day and age. It's like an extreme version of a creative non-fiction book, where an individual takes facts and adds attractive fictional elements to make it more exciting and entertaining. In filmmaking, we have Michael Moore, but even Mr. Moore can't equal the level of "infotainment" that transpires at Fox and does so in a very slanted fashion. There's: Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity, Glenn ...