A Message to Fox News about "Russian Collusion"

Hello everyone.  Just the other day I was thinking about how I did not want to post about politics, because I see it as something I SHOULD be paid for (for those who don't know I have lots of education on the topic).  However, there occasionally comes a call from the bowels of the internet, and I decided to answer it.

Fox & Friends gleefully claims that "nobody cares-- absolutely nobody cares" about Russian collusion-- so certain that they challenge viewers to e-mail them if they actually care.

It'd be a real shame if that backfired: friends@foxnews.com pic.twitter.com/if4RWbh1zs

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) January 27, 2019

In response I sent friends@foxnews.com an email with the subject line "Russian Collusion" and the below text.
Feel free to copy this message and email it to them yourself.  Or hell, maybe you don't care, in which case edit this to tell them they are doing a great job smoke screening the US.  Either way.  Tho, if you go with the second option there I will have to ask you to go rethink your life.

Message:

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Hello,

This message is in response to a statement made on your morning show, a clip of which is featured in this tweet.

I care about and am deeply concerned about the various investigations into Russian Collusion and other white collar crime surrounding the Trump Campaign and administration.

It is entirely possible that President Trump is not a criminal, that he merely surrounds himself with criminals, but to dispel such concerns a thorough investigation into such activities, individuals, and entities involved is key to maintaining the health and sanity of the United States.

To state otherwise is comically irresponsible and stupid.  After years spent baying for more and more investigations into far less suspect scandals and government oversights, to so nakedly shill for corruption and criminal activity is shameful.

You should be ashamed.

Please, be ashamed, and channel that shame into self reflection.  Grow as people, grow as an industry, and please, stop being irresponsible and stupid.

(My Name), M.S.P.S. M.S.P. M.S.I.A.

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Political Language and Children

            This is just a random thing that shows how learning worked for me as a kid.  I was born in 1985, and don't have to many memories before 1990, and the three strongest memories I have from that year was my brother falling and hitting his head at a house we lived at in Bradenton, moving into our house in North Port (I actually remember saying something like, "I turn 5 next week", in our soon to be living room that was completely devoid of furniture), and a conversation I heard between my parents about the first Gulf War (I remember my dad explaining how little military Iraq had and my Mom being concerned that the war was going to get out of control, I believe she was concerned because my uncle John was 17 at the time and a draft would have been a hard thing for our family).

Yeah, looks pretty bleak.

             The thing is I had no conscious memory of a presidential election, and I had always heard President Bush referred to as a Republican, and when he ran for reelection in 1992 I heard Republican and Democrat a lot, but did not really know what they meant, but I assigned them a definition in my head that I wasn't consciously aware of, I was 7 and really didn't care at the time so it was not something I really labeled out loud.

            Cut to 4 years later and President Clinton was running for reelection against Senator Dole and Ross Perot.  At some point I said this, "So now President Clinton is the Republican." and my dad responded with, "No, son he is a Democrat."  Which confused us both really so I explained my definition of Republican, "I thought Republican meant the guy who was in the office, and Democrat meant challenger."

            I had never heard the word incumbent, and had heard President Bush referred to by party so frequently as a child that I had come to think of the word in those terms.  Conversely, I had never heard anyone refer to President Clinton by his party, he had always been called President Clinton.

            I didn't really realize why that was until I read the book "Bias" Freshman year of college, that this is the sort of thing you don't notice until it is pointed out.  The major networks refer to Republican Presidents and other Republican office holders as Republicans, but they don't do that for Democrats, Fox News refers to Democratic officer holders as Liberal or Democrats, but just refer to Republican office holders by name and title.

            My family didn't have cable and watched ABC nightly news, so my mind had this engrained into it without noticing.  And since read "Bias" I have noticed something more, people in news who are not aligned with the President of the time, Bush or Obama, don't refer to them as President Bush or President Obama.  When Bush was President, ABC would call him Mr. Bush, while Fox would refer to him as the President.  Now things have flipped, Fox calls the President, Mr. Obama, and ABC calls him President Obama.  I am starting to wonder if these things are intentional slights or not, because it is rather consistent, and these "journalists" are reading from a teleprompter.

            Regardless, right now, lots of kids who don't chose what channel their parents watch are hearing either directly or indirectly the President getting referred to a certain way, and it is changing the way they understand the language of civics in the country.  changing the way they understand the words Socialist, Muslim, and Liberal.  I wonder how this will shape them.

Might make them all a bit cynical.