There was a day when if you were to say "balanced" does not equal "fair", folks would respond with

[Atticus]

"DUH!" Now, many would consider the statement blasphemy, because "FOX".

There may be "two sides to every argument ", but one side lately is often transparently silly.

No, there are not two sides that deserve consideration in a disagreement about racial equality. I don't want to and have no obligation to listen to rants about litter boxes in schools, cannibalistic pedophile rings or Jewish space lasers starting forest fires.

FOX is not a news station, January 6th was an insurrection and Donald Trump should die in prison.

None of those statements need or deserve "balance".

[MiHale]

1. Agreed, well stated..

Q…proudly lowering the quality of discourse in America since 2020.

[uponit7771]

2. K&R, too many M$M accept absurdism as a standard

[niyad]

3. Exactly.

[C_U_L8R]

4. One side is truth and the other is lies.

And in between is a whole bunch of fabrications, whatabouts, gaslighting, fearmongering, etc. All for profit.

[marble falls]

5. It's all over. Some of it is laziness and part of it is free movement and ESL ...

... sometimes it feels like sophistry, sometimes like ignorance, sometimes like evolution of the language.

I find myself on the front porch shaking my cane at the world more and more every day. So far, however, my belt-line is still beneath my navel. But comfort in shoes has become more of a goal these days and a topic of conversation at the 5:00 senior special at Denny's.

[wnylib]

7. ESL? As in English as a Second Language?

If so, I don't understand. If not, then what is ESL?

[marble falls]

12. My English is much bad.

[Irish_Dem]

6. "Balanced" is code for information warfare.

[Backseat Driver]

14. Exceptional (twisted) divisive duality

[The Wizard]

8. My response to "Both sides are the same."

Dick Cheney would say go fuck yourself.

[SharonAnn]

9. Often there are more than two sides. Not just one or the other.

[Backseat Driver]

15. Seasonal game example?

Coin toss - participating team 1 OSU
Coin toss - participating team 2 MI
Coin toss - participating referee in the black & white?

Well, the camera never seems to zoom in on that coin and participant spectators do have to accept the outcome of which gets the ball first - who says? I demand verification and a rumble because I bought a ticket should that coin just keep spinning on its edge?

Now, please tell me which one will win the game at the end of four quarters - the one that won the toss? the one that allows one of those participating teams to cheat and target best? The one with the most yards running? passing? control of the field? The home team? Whoever has the ball when the clock stops? Spectators' choice?

[sop]

10. "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of

our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” ― John Adams

[CCExile]

11. We have just heard that having a horrific, painful, slow death is bad...

next we'll hear fron someone who says it is good, right after this message from our sponsors!

[peppertree]

13. I know one who likes to say "fair and balanced, just like me"

The man's like a rabid weasel. A tax cheat too (imagine that).

[TigressDem]

16. Facts VS Fantasy in the mind of MAGA

[TigressDem]

17. One "FACT" about the litterboxes. Active Shooter Preparation, no cat identiy issues involved.

BECAUSE the REICH won't restrict gun laws that allow insane people to go shoot up schools, the schools are preparing to protect children in active shooter events.

The kitty litter is because, well, when you gotta go, you gotta go. Shooter or not.

So Boebert, the litter is on you, not on the DEMs.

B-atch.

You want kitty litter out of the schools?

DO YOUR JOB AND PROTECT CHILDREN FROM HAVING TO DEAL WITH ACTIVE SHOOTERS IN SCHOOLS AS A PART OF BEING AN AMERICAN.



https://www.insider.com/colorado-teachers-get-human-litter-boxes-for-lockdowns-2019-8