(02-04-2020 11:27 AM)Fountains of Wayne Graham Wrote:  

(02-04-2020 11:09 AM)mrbig Wrote:  I don't think all your policy viewpoints are Fox News talking points. To the contrary, I realize (and you have done a good job pointing out) areas where you do not agree with mainstream conservative orthodoxy. My comment was limited to your discussions of impeachment, false dossiers, and lying to FISA courts (etc.). I find your comments on political discussions (as opposed to policy discussions) to be very similar to the blurbs I see on Fox News and being screamed at me by Lindsey Graham.

(02-04-2020 11:16 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I find it interesting to see dismissed, as "Fox News talking points," issue positions that I held long before I ever heard anything about them on Fox News, and in some cases long before there even was a Fox News.
I think Fox had a very interesting business concept. All of the other MSM outlets had a definite left bias, so why not start a niche business based on presenting news with a right-wing slant. As a cable network, they are limited in number of TV sets they can reach, although with the coming of satellite and cable, and now the advent of streaming, there are fewer and fewer people relying on on-air TV so that limitation is disappearing.
I'm still a bit surprised that one of the big four--ABC, CBS, NBC, or CNN--hasn't seen Fox's success and moved to fill the gap between hard-left and hard-right in mews reporting. That is a fairly wide gap, and I would think could be a lucrative one.

I think Big's comment was directed at OO, not at me, so not sure why you are juxtaposing them here.

And I was making a generic observation, not responding to any specific post. That's why I didn't quote any other post. More than once, I've had a comment dismissed as a "Fox News talking point," when I had never heard anything even similar on Fox, perhaps because I don't watch or listen to Fox very much, particularly since it has gone so far into te tank for Trump. I think there is a tendency among many leftists to dismiss as a "Fox News talking point" any statement with which they disagree. I don't think that fits in my case, and frankly not in OO's either.