Comments on: Fox “News” Channel

By: daniel rotter

daniel rotter — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:45:53 +0000

“You know, for whatever that’s worth.”

Which is nothing.

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:21:00 +0000

All the wingnut’s reports claim that it opened ‘recently,’ as in post-shitstorm. You know, for whatever that’s worth.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:01:19 +0000

Is it at all possible that this alleged KFC was in Iraq before the war?

By: Dkelsmith

Dkelsmith — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:50:33 +0000

True enough Fallujah is not that bad anymore. But, only a fuckin’ idiot would buy food off the street. I bought “Metro Bars” from time to time, but not often. The only KFC I saw was at Camp Liberty….and it sucked.

By: Repack Rider

Repack Rider — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:48:42 +0000

Why is this even a story in the first place?

Ask FOX News. They’re the ones who pretended that it was.

We expose, you decide.

By: daniel rotter

daniel rotter — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:56:43 +0000

Why is this even a story in the first place? Since when did the presence of a friggin fast food joint indicate the stability of a city?

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:01:55 +0000

Maybe that’s part of the plan! Get the insurgents so fat and lethargic on trans fats and addicted to HFCS, they won’t have the will to fight!

Profit! and Victory! are at hand!

By: bryan

bryan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:49:08 +0000

SpiderJ, I’m with you, but I think obesity is now big enough to be a (frying) pandemic. Don’t knock the obese, they have enough on their plates. I don’t like bulimic people protesting either; “Keep it down!” is what I say to them.
(sorry, could not resist).

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:10:37 +0000

First we get the chicken.
Then, we get the baseball.
Then, we get the Ozzfest!

By: Jaim

Jaim — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:03:41 +0000

Maybe if we get another 4,000 Americans killed we get a Starbucks.

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:57:20 +0000

Fair enough, although my concern is that we overvalue the appearance of the chicken bucket.

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:38:37 +0000

That’s a good point, but we also have to remember that progress is relative. Bloody anarchy to chicken bucket is a pretty sizable jump.

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:17:56 +0000

My point is that these things seem to be hoisted as a flag to declare proudly that America Is Here, and we have so much more we could offer the world besides KFC.

Play a secure professional baseball game in Baghdad and I’ll admit we’ve made progress. Get a music festival going in Fallujah (Lollafallujah!) and I’ll admit we made progress. Knowing what KFC and its ilk have managed to do to our national health situation, how can we be overjoyed to unleash it on the Iraqis?

By: buma

buma — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:15:25 +0000

Maybe the KFC strategy is like McCain’s strategy for exporting cigarettes to Iran. It’s another way of killing ‘em.

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:11:01 +0000

our cheapest, unhealthiest food options

I’m hard-pressed to think of a restaurant chain that doesn’t generally offered generally cheap unhealthy crap. But that’s what living with a nutritionist will do to a guy. Can’t just enjoy my Arby’s in peace anymore…

And I think they may see it a bit differently than us, Spider. It’s not as if KFC and Dunkin’ Donuts forced their way into Mecca at the barrel of a gun. In my travel experiences most things American tend to be greeted with curiosity. The Fijiians I met, for instance, were pretty excited they were getting a new McDonalds.

But then I’ve never been to France, or the Middle East.

By: PD100

PD100 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:01:09 +0000

FOX is to news is what KFC is to chicken.

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:51:59 +0000

There’s nitwittery on both sides here.

Why is anybody touting the opening of a fast food restaurant as a sign of (a) increasing stability or (b) progress, when one considers that there are fast food restaurants open in parts of American cities rife with gang violence and when fast food has contributed significantly to America’s obesity epidemic?

American-style democracy and society has much to offer the world, but if we keep sending over some of our worst elements–felons and sadists that we allowed into the military as well as our cheapest, unhealthiest food options–then no wonder the only thing we can think to use to get respect is the barrels of our guns.

By: Gravypan

Gravypan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:56:58 +0000

Yes, Fox should have done their homework and verified with KFC International that this was franchised by them.

The point that a fast food restaurant opened up in a notoriously violent city still stands. And it’s yet another pathetic Gotcha attempt by Josh Marshall’s nitwits.

By: aw

aw — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:25:26 +0000

Wow Duh, you really are fucking stupid.

Really really fucking stupid. How did you get that way?

By: midderpidge

midderpidge — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:48:42 +0000

Fox recently got caught trying to make McCain look younger and more energetic by using campaign footage from 2000.