“I’m also gonna die if I step in front of a bus going 30 miles an hour up 6th Avenue, so what do I do?
I don’t step in front of the freakin’ bus!
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—Fox News Channel’s Shepard Smith today, while interviewing a nanny-state apologist
Earlier today I wrote a quip about the nanny-state Nation of Quebec and its grand plan to ban ads for sports cars on the basis that they’re dangerous (or some damn-fool thing). Today while watching the Fox News Channel, I found an antidote to that stupidity, as I often do on FNC.
I always say Canadian news, on any of the liberalvision channels, is about the most boring news you could watch, and it’s true. And I also tell folks in Canada that unless or until you’ve seen Fox News Channel (now unbanned in Canada and available from your cable or satellite provider!), you have no clue how boring (or how hideously, abjectly biased toward the liberal-left and far-left) that it really is. Canadians who watch FNC are usually astounded at how there’s actually another, totally different way of looking at things.
And I often complain about how news anchors in Canada sit there and allow dumb things to go unchallenged. Of course the tactic most often employed by liberalvision in Canada almost always revolves around simply inviting guest “experts” with whom they totally agree—usually an über exciting left-wing or outright Marxist university professor—and then providing them with dumb, leading, fluffball questions, and then sitting there on their butts and allowing them a free national platform to espouse their liberal-left world view —with nary a peep from the fawning or just plain dumb anchor or reporter. And then it’s “…over to you, Lloyd!”.
But the fantastic Fox News Channel does it right. At noon (Pacific) we have Studio B with Shepard Smith. No conservative, “Shep” is no pushover either. He may not agree with FNC’s Bill O’Reilly on many things, but he shares O’Reilly’s distaste for overt spin and stupidity.
Today, he took to interviewing an apologist for far-left San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom and his wacky new socialist nanny-state idea to tax soda pop (it’s got sugar in it, and sugar’s bad for ya!). The expert he interviews is a “social policy expert”. That’s code for liberal do-gooder political-correctness policewoman and nanny-state apologist.
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