From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Brooke Gladstone is away this week.

I'm Bob Garfield.

We will momentarily address a devolutionary change, but first, what you already knew, namely that for 20 years, Fox News channel has been a right wing blast furnace

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a terrorist fist jab

the gesture everyone seems to interpret

differently we keep marrying other species in other ethnic

the swedes have uh... pure genes

i'll say marry other swedes because that's the role fin Finns marry other Finns, so they have a pure society.

In America, we marry everybody.

You're a Muslim, so why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity?

Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament.

Fox News Channel does boast a relatively straightforward news operation,

but as with its competitors, actual news is more fuel than product.

Indeed, the daylight news reports are mainly just window dressing.

The channel's big audiences, its clout, and its very raison d'etre,

as counter-programming to the supposed liberal agenda of the mainstream news, have always resided

in the morning and primetime talk shows. On such programs as the O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and Fox

and Friends, the channel has spent two decades as a de facto

house organ for the Republican Party, sparing no amount of bile, bellicosity, and distortion

in the process. This evil, evil man, this comes out of Louisiana State University. A professor

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