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fox news dumbing down for their audience
« on: January 17, 2010, 08:20:49 AM »

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2010, 09:10:04 AM »
Please!!!

You continue to generate excuses, as to why your favorite news network keep getting stomped into the ground.

Keep telling yourself the pitiful handful of MSNBC viewers are smarter than everyone else. Maybe someone will actually buy it.  ::)

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2010, 04:01:15 PM »
You continue to generate excuses, as to why your favorite news network keep getting stomped into the ground.

Keep telling yourself the pitiful handful of MSNBC viewers are smarter than everyone else. Maybe someone will actually buy it.  ::)

...are you arguing that intelligent people are; have been and always will be the majority?


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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2010, 04:15:51 PM »
...are you arguing that intelligent people are; have been and always will be the majority?


The Luke

No, I'm arguing the usual "They're all stupid" argument is nothing more than sour grapes from those on the losing end.

That's Blacken's tripe for why Fox keeps killing MSNBC.

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2010, 04:26:50 PM »
http://www.politicususa.com/en/Jon-Stewart-Carlson


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You're like TA, every time you start a thread, you get owned.

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2010, 04:53:08 PM »
No, I'm arguing the usual "They're all stupid" argument is nothing more than sour grapes from those on the losing end.

...dude, at least half the population have below average IQs.

Half the population don't understand that. Guess which half that puts YOU in?


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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2010, 04:56:37 PM »
I think Blacken fears Fox News.




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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2010, 05:11:01 PM »
...dude, at least half the population have below average IQs.

Half the population don't understand that. Guess which half that puts YOU in?


The Luke

It puts me in the half that's smart enough to take you to the woodshed, every time you come up with some silly post like this.

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2010, 05:19:29 PM »
It puts me in the half that's smart enough to take you to the woodshed, every time you come up with some silly post like this.

...you can't claim to rebut somebody, without a rebuttal.


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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2010, 05:28:53 PM »
...you can't claim to rebut somebody, without a rebuttal.


The Luke

Once again, your lack of comprehension rears itself.

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2010, 05:29:10 PM »
it's actually hard to shit on obama for his execution of the war on terror.

yeah, he's not grabbing his belt buckle pouting "bring it on" to a billion stupid arab youths.  He's polite and pronounces the titles of their countries in a way they prefer.

But facts are facts... he hasn't had a major attack like 911, he has spent MORE money on fighting terror than Bush did, etc.  

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2010, 05:30:48 PM »
it's actually hard to shit on obama for his execution of the war on terror.

yeah, he's not grabbing his belt buckle pouting "bring it on" to a billion stupid arab youths.  He's polite and pronounces the titles of their countries in a way they prefer.

But facts are facts... he hasn't had a major attack like 911, he has spent MORE money on fighting terror than Bush did, etc.  

The only reason he hasn't had a major attack is because the would-be assailant botched up the attempt.

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2010, 05:53:21 PM »
well, by those standards, it is gonna happen no matter who is in charge.

At this point in bush's presidency, 1 year in, there was already 911 and richard reid shoe bomber.  So if you want to use that yardstick, which I don't, you could say Obama faced 1 botched attack and Bush...

See, I hate to do that so I dont' want to.  I dont blame Bush for Reid near-attack.  911 was different because he admits he was handed intel, and he/condi/rummy/ashcroft passed it around and NEVER READ IT.

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2010, 05:54:01 PM »
...dude, at least half the population have below average IQs.

Half the population don't understand that. Guess which half that puts YOU in?


The Luke
interesting but id like evidence of this please post a link

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2010, 06:07:46 PM »
half the population has an IQ between 90 and 110.

http://iq-test.learninginfo.org/iq04.htm

IQ definition of MA/CA means that what it has to be.  (mental age/chronological age)





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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2010, 07:01:24 PM »
interesting but id like evidence of this please post a link
Last average IQ for America that I saw was 98.  Something like 18th in the world.  It's on the net, just search average iq America.

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2010, 07:19:50 PM »
interesting but id like evidence of this please post a link

basic statistics - the average falls right in the middle, always

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2010, 07:27:57 PM »
http://www.politicususa.com/en/Jon-Stewart-Carlson


 :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D i fuckin knew it

Hysterical.   I am still waiting for you to play the Mika B. clip saying that her favorite founding father is Abe Lincoln. 

Of course you wont play that clip jackass.

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2010, 07:49:31 PM »
basic statistics - the average falls right in the middle, always


No, it doesn't.  That's why statistics uses three methods for describing the middle of a data set:  the mean, the median, and the mode.

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2010, 08:28:49 PM »

No, it doesn't.  That's why statistics uses three methods for describing the middle of a data set:  the mean, the median, and the mode.

actually you're right the median would be in the middle - my bad - when most people say average they mean "mean"

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2010, 06:37:14 PM »
explain to me why Gretchen Carlson, valedictorian of her high school, and went to college at Stanford, graduating with honors, then spending time abroad studying at Oxford, plays dumb on fox and friends.it's to play to her audience , the halfwits that watch fox news, you know your MCWAY, tonymctones ,333386,dario73, jme,skip8282.what other reason would she do it

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #21 on: January 18, 2010, 06:52:55 PM »
explain to me why Gretchen Carlson, valedictorian of her high school, and went to college at Stanford, graduating with honors, then spending time abroad studying at Oxford, plays dumb on fox and friends.it's to play to her audience , the halfwits that watch fox news, you know your MCWAY, tonymctones ,333386,dario73, jme,skip8282.what other reason would she do it

Obviously to appeal to you since you watch these shows far more than I do.  It seems as though you spend all day monitoring Fox.  I dontevcen watch tv other than a little news, Yes Network, UFC, and now 24. 

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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #22 on: January 18, 2010, 10:13:52 PM »
explain to me why Gretchen Carlson, valedictorian of her high school, and went to college at Stanford, graduating with honors, then spending time abroad studying at Oxford, plays dumb on fox and friends.it's to play to her audience , the halfwits that watch fox news, you know your MCWAY, tonymctones ,333386,dario73, jme,skip8282.what other reason would she do it

How is Carlson playing dumb, again?

Fox News CRUSHES your Obama-worshipping-left-wing-gurgling MSNBC, bottom line.

Calling the viewers dumb as an excuse for the fact that MSNBC sucks is par the course for whiny folks like you.



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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #23 on: January 18, 2010, 11:17:50 PM »
How is Carlson playing dumb, again?

Fox News CRUSHES your Obama-worshipping-left-wing-gurgling MSNBC, bottom line.

Calling the viewers dumb as an excuse for the fact that MSNBC sucks is par the course for whiny folks like you.


And for a while there... Jerry Springer "crushed" in his ratings too.
I wouldn't exactly call the average or even above average Springer viewer a Rhodes scholar.   :-\
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Re: fox news dumbing down for their audience
« Reply #24 on: January 18, 2010, 11:53:38 PM »
And for a while there... Jerry Springer "crushed" in his ratings too.
I wouldn't exactly call the average or even above average Springer viewer a Rhodes scholar.   :-\

That "while" for Fox has been the better part of a decade.

It seems that, like Blacken, you can't seem to bring yourself to admit that Fox's dominance can't simply be reduced to the infantile claim that Fox's viewers are dumb and MSNBC's viewers (what pitiful few there are) are smart.