Fox News airs psychic to talk to Terri

Can you provide a link?

This isn't some belated April Fools Day hoax is it?

This is the best I could come up with, via Google. Not much:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200503250006

But let me tell you, in the process of the search I came across some unbelievable websites! There is some truly outrageous political crap online. Just can't believe it. Nuttersville!

Oh, I'm not blaming, roverroad. I'm just in shock, that's all. If I lived in the US I'd be very frightened, really ...

...You have more than 50% sane in the US - most conservatives are not like them!

But let me tell you, in the process of the search I came across some unbelievable websites! There is some truly outrageous US political crap online. Nuttersville! Twisted religious stuff/shocking lies & distortions ... & the HATRED spewing forth! Moma mia! I feel soiled. Aint going to those places again, no way! <shudder>

dlowan wrote:

...You have more than 50% sane in the US - most conservatives are not like them!

Of course not, Deb. Goes without saying ... And of course, roverroad was not being deadly serious in that statement, either, I'm sure. Sure the nutters are a minority, but a really scary, ugly minority. It's the combination of religion with hate & patriotism that's really disturbing.

You have more than 50% sane in the US - most conservatives are not like them!

msolga wrote:

But let me tell you, in the process of the search I came across some unbelievable websites! There is some truly outrageous US political crap online. Nuttersville! Twisted religious stuff/shocking lies & distortions ... & the HATRED spewing forth! Moma mia! I feel soiled. Aint going to those places again, no way! <shudder>

The Schiavo case is a tragedy in so many ways. Happily, for Terai, it's over.

As for "outrageous political crap online," Fox News certainly qualifies on a regular basis, but the cited source, Media Matters for America, also qualifies in that it arbitrarily determines what is and is not "conservative misinformation" and seems to have an unhealthy fixation with the Fox & Friends program.

MEDIA MATTERS' mission statement:
"Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the UA.SA. media.

Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation -- news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda -- every day, in real time.

Using the website www.mediamatters.org as the principal vehicle for disseminating research and information, Media Matters posts rapid-response items as well as longer research and analytic reports documenting conservative misinformation throughout the media. Additionally, Media Matters works daily to notify activists, journalists, pundits, and the general public about instances of misinformation, providing them with the resources to rebut false claims and to take direct action against offending media institutions."

With all judgments regarding hatred, religion, and patriotism aside, it would seem who is and is not a resident of Nuttersville is truly in the eye of the beholder.

Have you some urls, Msolga? I wouldn't mind a quick look.

What brought that point home to me was a simple web search. I mean, with a court order or two or how many more like the ones you and I just quoted, some issues would simply have been done with. One can still easily disagree with the final decision on principle [..] but individual allegations and assertions, at least, should have been resolved for good. But instead they kept on doing the rounds, unrefuted, confirmed and repeated time and again. The web search I did was on "Carla Sauer Iyers" Schiavo. Of the three nurses who spoke up on the family's behalf, Iyers was clearly the least reliable. And the court was quite unambiguous about that. Yet she was trotted out again and again, over a year later, as an important witness who was ignored, "never heard", on a trillion weblogs but also Fox News, without a single mention of how the court had looked at her affadivit and evaluated it to be wholly incredible. Check that Google link and discover how hard it is to actually find any mention of the court's evaluation of her! Page after page after page of right-wing websites that don't - that in fact deny it ever happened. The only other one mixed in for several pages is MediaMatters, which does quote it, but which I didn't want to rely on because it's a clearly partisan site itself, for the other side. I had to browse through to, I dunno, result #50 or something to find a link to the actual court document, or even as much as any news report from this year quoting from it.