Pic Of The Moment: Fox News: Making America Dumb Since 1996

[EarlG]

Fox News 'terror expert' says everyone in Birmingham is a Muslim: Twitter reacts with #foxnewsfacts

UK Prime Minister on Fox News 'Expert:' "Clearly a Complete Idiot"

Birmingham voted top event destination in UK outside London

[Fred Sanders]

1. PM Cameron chokes on his porridge when told of Fox News lies.

“When I heard this, frankly, I choked on my porridge and I thought it must be April Fool’s Day,” Cameron said. “This guy’s clearly a complete Idiot".

[Botany]

2. But to Fox News listeners this would make total sense.*

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln

Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abraham_lincoln.html#trPywoS0mcHHMY3z.99

* http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026075138

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Birmingham-it's better than it used to be....

I like the place, and it is in fact better than it used to be. It's an underdog town, and I always like the underdogs.

[Iliyah]

4. fake news viewers - dumb, dumber, dumbest, pathetic

fake news commentators - the same in that order.

[47of74]

5. If I could move there tomorrow I would

If for no other reason than to put thumb in the eye of Fox "News" blowhards.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. Waiting for FOX "News" to issue a correction...

[ananda]

7. What, no Peaky Blinders any more either?

..

[Kevin from WI]

33. lol, that's what I was thinking

[SoapBox]

8. Fuck Murdoch and Fuck this lying scum.

Filthy liars.

[Fred Sanders]

20. Free speech......free to spread hate and xenophobia, with malicious intent.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

9. B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-Birmingham.

http://www2.b3ta.com/birmingham/





P.S. I needed some humor to counteract how badly I HATE Fux.

[Initech]

10. These so-called experts fail at being experts.

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. I loved my time in Birmingham.

Locals thought I was a touch mad. As soon as they found out I actually chose to be there on holiday, they treated me like royalty in the pubs and wine bars. They were flabbergasted someone would pick it as a vacation spot. LOL!

(Reality: I had chosen to tag along while my husband was there on business, but I figured they could use the nice warm feeling of being truly wanted.)

Birmingham makes a great base to explore the midlands. The city itself has wonderful things to see and do and The Heart of England rail pass is awesome! I explored from Stratford to Shrewsbury while I was there.

I have been thoroughly enjoying the #foxnewsfacts on Twitter. I think my favorite is "The weather in Great Britain changes from Sunni to Shi'ite."

[yuiyoshida]

12. HERE BE DRAGONS!

https://twitter.com/BigAlexJones/status/554723651753635840/photo/1

[MyOwnPeace]

17. OMG!!!!

I would make a wall poster of this!!!

[yuiyoshida]

18. I was thinking of posting it in

General Discussion, what cha think?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026077228

[underpants]

21. Hilarious

[dgauss]

28. I will be expecting this in some of our elementary school textbooks sometime soon...

[Kevin from WI]

35. It will be right next to the section on creationism

[The Wizard]

13. Normal people don't watch Pox News. (NT)

[oberliner]

14. This probably came from the BNP

Like maybe from here:

Christians Warned Not to Preach in Birmingham’s Muslim No-Go Area

http://www.bnp.org.uk/news/christians-warned-not-preach-birmingham’s-muslim-no-go-area

This idiot probably extracted that to mean what he wanted it to mean.

Warning: Link is to crazy RW extremist site - click at your own risk.

[easychoice]

30. wow,that site is like diving in a grease trap

at your local truck stop.

[Kevin from WI]

36. They use the term patriot over there too

I clicked on the link and one of the stories started out with "dear fellow patriot" or some such nonsense. It was like reading something off of a tea party website here in the states.

[chknltl]

15. Cool, can we get Congress to schedule the Liberation of Birmingham debates....

... for sometime after the Super Bowl? (GO HAWKS!)

[hunter]

16. I live in a city that is "totally Mexican" according to a few people...

... and they truly are afraid to visit here, much less live here.

40% of the families in my city don't speak English at home. The kids who were born here usually do, but the older people don't. That's been the history of humanity since the beginning of language.

It's mostly older, English monolingual, and I dare say Fox "News" watching fearful sorts, who remember with nostalgia when the boundaries of white neighborhoods were clearly defined and strictly enforced by law enforcement harassment, redlining, and many other means of U.S.A. apartheid, both formal and informal.

I grew up in a +99% white community where I was an outsider, not because I wasn't white, but because my parents are artists, LGBT friendly pacifists and humanists, and in no way white conservative Christians. Location was an accident of their employment. My parents fled when they retired, and me and my siblings fled apartheid U.S.A. just soon as we could. I've been a minority white guy for most of my life now. No problem. Communities where most people are white seem strange to me.

In my experience there are far too many violent exclusionary extremist racists-ideologues-religionists-nationalists of every flavor.

But all good people desire to live in peace.

[MADem]

31. Madawaska ME is "totally French." Well, pretty much.

84 percent of the inhabitants speak French at home!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madawaska,_Maine

[Johonny]

19. How much has FOXnews dumbed down the conversation in America?

If you listen to GOP candidates that live in Fox world, you can't understand a thing they are talking about. FOX news destroys your brain.

[allan01]

22. hrm

friend of mine ( democrat ) gets all bent out of shape that the " Muslims have taken over detroit" . hem.
trying to whip up " anti muslim hysteria again eh fox news

[Frank Cannon]

23. ELO and the Moody Blues are from Birmingham

I would not have even known that there was a place called Birmingham in England if I weren't a fan of both those groups.

I had no idea that Birmingham was such a hotbed of... whatever. Maybe that's why Jeff Lynne wears sunglasses all the time.

[DonCoquixote]

24. so are

most of your British heavy Metal groups, like Balck Sabbath and Judas Priest.

[Denzil_DC]

26. John Oliver's from a suburb of Birmingham.

He may make hay out of this on his next show.

[ND-Dem]

29. not the only b'hm bands per wikipedia. seems like the city is pretty musical.

maybe because it's a working class city?



During the 1960s Birmingham was the home of a music scene comparable to that of Liverpool.[153] Although it produced no single band as big as The Beatles it was "a seething cauldron of musical activity", and the international success of groups such as The Move, The Spencer Davis Group, The Moody Blues, Traffic and the Electric Light Orchestra had a collective influence that stretched into the 1970s and beyond.[153]

The city was the birthplace of heavy metal music,[154] with pioneering metal bands from the late 1960s and 1970s such as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, and half of Led Zeppelin having come from Birmingham.

The next decade saw the influential metal bands Napalm Death and Godflesh arise from the city.

Birmingham was the birthplace of modern bhangra in the 1960s,[155] and by the 1980s had established itself as the global centre of bhangra culture,[156] which has grown into a global phenomenon embraced by members of the Indian diaspora worldwide from Los Angeles to Singapore.[155] The 1970s also saw the rise of reggae and ska in the city with such bands as Steel Pulse, UB40, Musical Youth, The Beat and Beshara, expounding racial unity with politically leftist lyrics and multiracial line-ups, mirroring social currents in Birmingham at that time.

Other popular bands from Birmingham include Duran Duran, Fine Young Cannibals, Ocean Colour Scene, The Streets, The Twang, Deluka and Dexys Midnight Runners. Musicians Jeff Lynne, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward, Geezer Butler, John Lodge, Roy Wood, Joan Armatrading, Toyah Willcox, Denny Laine, Sukshinder Shinda, Steve Winwood, Jamelia, Fyfe Dangerfield and Laura Mvula all grew up in the city.

Since 2012 the Digbeth-based B-Town indie music scene has attracted widespread attention, led by bands such as Peace and Swim Deep, with the NME comparing Digbeth to London's Shoreditch, and The Independent writing that "Birmingham is fast becoming the best place in the UK to look to for the most exciting new music".[157]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham

[Kevin from WI]

37. BSA motorcycle's and bicycles came from there

Interesting labor history there. I really like old bikes, anyone up for a tweed ride?

[Denzil_DC]

25. Sky News interviewed him. He said listening back to his words was "like waterboarding"!

Posted about it here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026077984

[Gothmog]

27. This is great

[ReRe]

32. K&R

Back in the day, this "expert" worked for CNN. Anyone remember that?

[blkmusclmachine]

34. Radicalizing the rightwing since Day 1

[JDDavis]

38. That's the job Fox News has always been about.

Without Fox News, we would have no crazy right wing. So they have a job to do: making sure idiots become "experts" or elected politicians.

[countryken]

39. What to do about Birmingham

This radical ideology cannot be tolerated. We need sanctions against Birmingham - and, in fact, the entire state of Alabama!