The Bucknuts Hot Spot

Polls also indicate Fox News watchers are the most ill-informed. Popular doesn't equal correct. Many people are lazy and only want to be told what they want to hear. It's interesting that you accuse liberals of throwing a hissy fit during your hissy fit but it isn't our fault that lots of people are stupid and like Fox News. We didn't make them that way and they have ample chance to change. It's called learning.

What do you mean imagine if??? They are on the payroll of the worlds most richest conservative right winger...Rupert Murdoch! It is one thing for an organization to have influence on a channel, I agree, Ed shouldn't take the money because it does raise eyebrows. Even though I agree with Ed and his stance on unions...I mean people, the only reason you have a "workweek" or vacation or benefits is because of UNIONS! Are they perfect, NO, but they have their place, Yes! And to support a party that wants to destroy that means that they are destroying one of the only remaining middle-class levers of power, the Unions!

So yes, Ed does look a bit shady, but thats completely different than an entire news network being developed and put in place with the only purpose of providing and promoting the conservative point of view. Even thought everyone has a right to their own opinion, we dont have a right to make up our own facts...Thats NOT news, thats opinion journalism. Thats why FOX was created.....its NOT NEWS. It is the editorial page for 24 hrs a day. I would like to see both it and MSNBC ended. Because even though I am a progressive democrat, I think it hurts the country when an outlet calls itself news when it is not. That includes MSNBC. News should be just that...news...just the facts only. No opinions! Walter Cronkite was asked recently what was his biggest regret...he said..."my generation of newsman not passing on our vision of journalistic integrity". We have Americans who literally hate one another right now because of the all the stuff they hear on channels that bill themselves as news, when they are NOT! All these channels do is incite anger and frustration by people that watch them.

We are missing the real point people! Both of these channels are run by corporations who have perspectives. We need to realize that none of these entities have our best interests in mind. The real people who threaten us are not fellow republicans, conservatives, liberals or democrats...I think we all mean well, in general. It is these companies, the extreme wealthy, and corporate elite who want to build a world where they have all the advantages, power, control, and levers of power and we have to basically meet their needs in order to survive. The other issue is a government that takes money from these powers and does their bidding instead of ours. We preoccupy ourselves by hating each other, but its not each other that are the problem. Its scary, but we are no longer represented by anyone in reality!

Since when are Liberals "smart and rational"? The "Occupy" people sure must have done you proud. The nation laugh at and mocked them.

I believe grade school is elementary school.... just saying.

I honestly feel sorry for anyone that accepts the bias they hear on either MSNBC or FOXNEWS, they both have agendas and just give their side of the story...duh... neither are news... they are either one as much news as "reality tv" is reality.

The truth is always somewhere in the middle.

You need to reevaluate your facts. Halliburton actually was harmed by the Iraq War. Their profitability declined during the height of the war due to their involvement in less profitable war-related activites. In addition, the "no-bid" contracts that people who lack knowledge love to rail about nearly put Halliburton into insolvency. The nature of those contracts was that the government could withhold payment until the final cost was agreed upon, and United States was in debt to Haliburton for so much money because of these delayed payments that Halliburton ran out of cash. Halliburton was effectively financing a large part of the war effort out of their own pocket.

So please, don't mention Halliburton when trying to make any points against Cheney or the Bush Administration's war decisions - it simply is not true and shows a lack of knowledge on the subject.

It also looks like NBC News got caught AGAIN editing tapes (Hello Keith Olbermann!): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/nbc-news-trayvon-martin-internal-investigation_n_1396442.html

Any financial difficulties Halliburton has had was not the intent or the fault of Dick Cheney or the Bush Administration, which is the whole point. Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton until he quit to run for VP. He got something like 36 million at the time. He received hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred compensation while he was VP. Halliburton was awarded a multi-billion dollar no-bid contract.

Dick Cheney and the Bush Administration tried to help Halliburton all it could. However the company was run or whatever profits they made were not under the direct control of Bush and Cheney. They did their part. If you can't acknowledge that this conflict of interest could have been a more serious issue than Ed Schultz taking a few thousand dollars from unions and doing a talk show, there's no point in discussing it further, because this is the typical conservative tactic- never admit anything, never concede a point. It doesn't make conservatives anything but hard to take seriously. I have issues with plenty of what Obama has done, but I don't think I've ever heard a conservative say GWB was ever wrong about anything.

Fox sucks for the same reason the moon orbits the earth. It just does. Millions of morons watching doesn't make it journalism. I would expect Fox to be the most trusted- Fox News viewers are challenged, not challengers. Not questioning the veracity of anything you hear might make you trust it more, but doesn't make any of it true. People are capable of believing all sorts of nonsense (i.e. Obama is a Muslim, GWB is smart, the bible, etc.).

have never seen that poll...........

Seriously, your dreamy little idea of what a liberal should be is so far away from the reality of what they truly are. Libs are like an outcast on the playground. One day, that outcast gives himself a nickname (in a libs case, progressive) then proclaims to everyone that they are smarter than everyone else, yet fails every test taken, blaming it on things like bias, discrimination, racism, etc. But that little outcast never stops beating his little drum, even in the face of reality, no matter how much he defies logic and reason.

If you believe Fox and all its paid republican talking head are any different you are crazy. To me it is worse when a news organization as a state goal is to be partisan and is paid for fully by major political party. Why has every republican presidential candidate been, still or is a paid contributor to Fox.Where are former Democratic candidates if its fair and balanced. It is a propaganda machine never seen before. This is not news and should never be confused as such. News has one truth, not a slant to fit your agenda. Worse yet facts that are truly made up. When has fox ever reported anything positive about our President. Hasn't happened and never will. You have a better chance a sharing the lottery with that woman from Maryland. And you call Fox a new source! PLEASE!!!!

Show me proof how Cheney and the Bush administration "tried to help" Halliburton. It is all rumor and feelings about the subject, not fact. The company performed weaker during the war because war related activities are not as profitable as it's other businesses.

You also don't understand the nature of no-bid contracts. First, Halliburton was the only company that could fulfill the needs of the contracts offered by the government, so the government had no choice. Secondly, no-bid doesn't mean you can charge whatever you want. No-bid means we need your ass in there now and we'll decide on payment later. The provider invoices the government afterwards, but the government has to agree that the charge is reasonable. If not, they withhold payment until the amount is agreed upon. This means the provider has to charge reasonable amounts otherwise they won't get paid. If Cheney and Bush were simply signing off on the Halliburton no-bid contracts (your avowed "tried to help all they could") then these payments would never have been withheld, and they would have been higher enough to maintain Halliburton's profitability. That didn't happen. Your whole premise is based on hate and not on facts that indicate the opposite. Stop trying to dance away from it.

As far not hearing conservatives saying that GWB did anything wrong - well, you just refuse to listen. Conservatives led the charge when Bush was in office saying he was overspending too much. That's why Liberals look like idiots when they defend Obama's extreme overspending. They say Conservatives never complained about Bush when Conservatives did, and that's why Conservatives are even more upset with Obama's Bush-busting deficits. The hypocrisy is that Liberals whined about Bush's deficits but when Obama runs about 4times as much in the red they don't seem to think it is too bad. Intellectual dishonesty on vivid display.

And just for the record, other things other than deficits that Conservatives complained about in regards to Bush while he was in office: The Farm Bill, the Education Bill, steel tariffs, not allowing pilots to carry guns in cockpits, the prescription drug program, signing McCain/Feingold.....need I go on?

You may think you are an independent, but you don't evaluate facts. Your statements are full of partisan falsehoods.