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Ron Paul calls Glenn Beck a "demagogue". On what basis does he deserve to be called "demagogue"? The only pandering I see is done by Ron Paul.
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dem·a·gogue /ˈdɛməˌgɒg, -ˌgɔg/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[dem-uh-gog, -gawg] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, -gogued, -gogu·ing.
noun 1. a person, esp. an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.
That just defined every single political commentator and talk show host, so yes, Glenn Beck is a demagogue by definition. So is Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Matthews, Oprah, Jerry Springer, Larry King, etc.
Now, on to this sudden Fox News thing.
First, You Tubing Ron Paul gives unbalanced results because he has the largest You Tube channel of any of the political candidates. So, posting repeated You Tube clips of him on Fox News proves nothing other than Ron Paul does a good job of making sure that his information is available.
I cannot say how much air time he gets compared to other candidates, but judging by the fact that my in-laws are involved in politics and only one of them knew who he is says something. No one in my family knows who he is, even after I talk about him. Give them a week and they forget his name. I would think that if he was mentioned as often as Giuliani, Thompson, and Romney they wouldn't forget his name.
Now, on to the bigger Fox News bias issue. *sigh* Why do I have to constantly do this?
What are you (you being anyone calling them biased) judging that on? Programming after 7:00 PM? If so then you have judged a station based on roughly 4-5 hours of a 24 hour day. Try watching their normal news reports. They are fairly balanced there. But their prime time programming is where the money is, so that is where every news station sticks their commentary shows. Bill O'Reilly fires up his supporters and enrages his opposers. That means great ratings. Chris Matthews does the same for MSNBC and Glenn Beck does it for Headline News.
Every station is reporting mainly facts in their actual news segments, but their commentary shows are just that, commentary. Do you trash a newspaper for their editorials? No, because they represent one person's opinion, not the paper. The same goes for commentary news shows.
The fact is that if you don't watch a news station in prime time you will get mostly the same stories. I can tell you right now that a large portion of stories reported on all the news stations are nearly word for word the same because they are AP stories, which are then reported on air. I know because I have transcribed them. After the first story you can save a template and make minor adjustments for every other station.
The only time you begin to have bias show through is when you have interviews. Now, removing every commentary show interview posted so far and then you are left with Ron Paul being interviewed by Bill Hemmer and a very attractive anchor woman who lets him say what he wants and even takes up two full segments to get in as many questions from viewers as possible. She didn't interrupt and she let him answer in his own way.
Now many times you will see interviews where some bias on the part of the reporter shows through. The person will be given snowball questions or constantly asked how they respond to their critics, depending on which way the bias goes.
To sum up: All news stations' news reporting is roughly 90% equal and their commentary shows are, just that, commentary. If you are watching any of these stations after 7:00 you are not watching news. You cannot judge the quality of the news from any one station by their commentary shows.
