Anonymous threatens to destroy Fox News on Guy Fawkes Day

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1. tylerarb at 1:43pm 31st October 2011 Ah yes. "We must stamp out by all means necessary those who oppose freedom of speech."
2. Benjamin Kubilus at 3:52pm 31st October 2011 Wake up.
3. Benjamin Kubilus at 3:51pm 31st October 2011 Study after study shows that it's 70-80% conservative-leaning - and that's not including FOX.
4. Benjamin Kubilus at 3:50pm 31st October 2011 Don't watch the news very often, do ya'?
5. James Phillips at 3:42pm 31st October 2011 @Benjamin: it's harder for conservatives to exist in an echo chamber because they're bombarded with liberal dogma from all angles.
6. Benjamin Kubilus at 3:31pm 31st October 2011 Oh, and conservatives don't? Psh. Tool.
7. JtruthC at 4:20am 31st October 2011 Whoa whoa whoa... Please read NINKENDO's comment to this story (and probably others I have not seen). It would be hugely unfair to deny Moore his place in this current Guy Fawkes revival. Jeez... basic Wikipedia "journalists!" Not to sound a comic snob, but the graphic novel is indeed way more radical then the movie (which was a good movie) and written in the 80s in response to Thatchers England, which is important when examining the current Occupy movement historically. Sorry if this is a ditto comment, but it is an important omission. Otherwise... Go Anonymous!
8. NinKenDo at 10:32pm 30th October 2011 I'd like to point out that V for Vendetta was not an adaptation of the story of Guy Fawkes by Warner Bros. It was the adaptation of a comic by that name written by Alan Moore and predominantly illustrated by David Lloyd.
9. nightrun at 9:04pm 30th October 2011 fox news is useless, if you want unbias news your best bet is first-hand research. any media outlet beit fox, msnbc or cspan will always have their own prerogative, assuming otherwise is foolish and simpleminded. as such, if you truly want to see both sides of the story, you're going to have to do your own research to find the truth -- staring blankly into the t.v. is a genuine waste of your time, regardless of which political party you subscribe to.
10. James Phillips at 3:57am 31st October 2011 @rush905 : Exactly. Leftists exist in an echo chamber - they surround themselves with other leftists and "political discourse" becomes nothing more than endlessly agreeing with each other about how outraged they are with corporations, the "military industrial complex," the rich and successful (except rich liberals and celebrities), Fox News, the police and anyone who owns a gun. One thing I have noticed about lefties is that they're woefully ignorant about the beliefs of the other side and the reasoning behind them. It's extremely rare to find a lefty who has made a serious attempt at reading pro-liberty classics like "The Road To Serfdom," "Economic In One Lesson," or "Socialism" by Von Mises. These books pretty much demolished the left's arguments for socialism and big government over 50 years ago (as if all the empirical evidence weren't enough), yet leftists are still rolling out the same moth-eaten arguments which are often nothing more than shopworn slogans and a grab bag of emotive catchphrases. Meanwhile, conservatives and libertarians have invariably, at some point in their life, read the classic lefty tracts like "Das Kapital" etc, often because they were leftists when they were young and naive. Plus they've been exposed to the liberal messaging of public schools and the media their whole lives. This gives them a more balanced and objective perspective which makes them better at winning arguments with reason, which is pretty much why most left/right debates culminate with the lefty screaming blue murder and accusing his or her opponent of being a fascist, a Nazi, a child-hating murderer of the poor, a racist or a (fill in the blank with something equally as shrill). Most political conversions happen from left to right as opposed to the other way around. It's usually a factor of age - as people get older they become more knowledgeable, more experienced with life and more aware of what makes humans tick. They become more cynical about the political and social fantasies they had as children, and begin to realize that their egalitarian dreams - far from being the utopia they once imagined - are actually a vision of hell. Plus the hard workers among them begin to get more than a little pissed off by the concept of freeloaders.....
11. RepublicanScum at 8:41pm 30th October 2011 James Phillips talks just like a typical conservative. Full of accusations with absolutely no basis. He is a walking talking fox news sheep. Baaaa James Baaaa.
    1. Shooglechic at 2:16am 31st October 2011 @REBPUBLICANSCUM Well, everyone here also type just like typical liberals. Try to take Probability and Statistics. Every news outlet utilize statistics that can be easily altered. To trust any poll or statistical "fact" is unsound. I would greatly appreciate all biased news networks to be shut down. Granted, that equals a lot of jobs lost, but that makes every thing even across the board. Freedom of Speech is supposed to allow both sides of the spectrum to spew their biased views whether we like it or not.
       1. RepublicanScum at 4:00pm 31st October 2011 You should take a debate class. It will teach you to avoid red herrings and stay on topic.
12. James Phillips at 3:39am 31st October 2011 @Anman: Why, you epic failure you! http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2010/06/25/gallup-conservatives-outnumber-liberals-2-to-1/
13. Kurnskit at 8:35pm 30th October 2011 Conservatives are paedophiles. Its ok, its free speech.
14. roanhouse at 8:19pm 30th October 2011 You didn't research your article well. The police didn't throw an object at the Marine to fracture his skull they shot him with a gas canister gun at 20 feet. Then when protestors went to go help him another police officer behind there gates fences tossed a flash grenade in the middle of the crowd trying to help them up. If you want to see the event just google Marine Oakland Gas Grenade Flash Grenade and you will get more information and full length videos to show the shot of the marine and then the flash grenade toss into the crowd trying to help him. Do your job as a reporter and research it properly before you post BS half-arsed piece please Mike Flacy thank you.
    1. GreatGoodNormalPoor at 8:00am 31st October 2011 This makes it better how? Besides, the point isn't whether they shot him or threw something at him, but that it happened. When this kind of thing happened to protesters in protests around the middle east and north Africa, America saw it as unacceptable. Okay here, though. It is kinda difficult to figure out if you agree with the article or not, but it appears you do not. If you do, and would just like it to look more sensational ("oh they shot him!"), it might be the purpose of the wording to not make it so.
15. rush905 at 8:01pm 30th October 2011 Stuff like this really pisses me off, all the Liberals bash the right without even whatching them or giving them a chance.I for one can attest to the fact that Bill O'reiley is the most Independent man I've seen on these news networks. He does tend to sway to the right from time to time but. He always has on left wing people on his show to debate. The people who come on his show always plan on asking him a "Gotch-cha" question but he shuts them down every time. You Liberals always argue, demonize, and attack people with other views, then claim to be "defenders" of speach. It's rediculas at best. Liberals don't even try to sit down with the other sided view. When ever watching MSNBC or any Left winged network, they always bring on people with complimenting views, because they"re affriad of any oposition. They have this mob mentallity where they "go with the flow" and always have a need to be surrounded with people with similar views. And when someone with oposing views shows up, what do they do? Attack it and claim to be defending freedom of speach.
    1. Antman at 8:06pm 30th October 2011 @Rush905 a few corrections first. Ridiculous, afraid, opposing, and speech. These get underlined in red to let you know when you are wrong. How is a question a gotcha question? Because it is difficult to answer? Heaven forbid if anything be difficult to answer in politics.
       1. Sterno at 8:33pm 30th October 2011 @Antman Do you still beast your wife?
    2. Alex Ziebol at 12:29am 31st October 2011 Well then, maybe you shouldn't watch domestic news channels and try foreign media for a change. You people with "left did this!" and "right did this!" are like a bunch of kids going at it; drop the damn labels, think of the solutions to problems and put them into action. Politics isn't a sport people... it's real life that affects everybody.
16. Antman at 7:57pm 30th October 2011 @ James Phillips: Scumbag james phillips: complains about knee-jerk response, says there are twice as many conservatives in the US than Liberals. No facts, no way to prove either way reliably. In essence knee-jerk.
17. James Phillips at 10:48pm 30th October 2011 @Digital Jill: Fox has the biggest ratings of any cable news network. It is the liberal media which is circling the drain, probably because in America there are twice as many conservatives as there are self-described liberals. I fully applaud you for speaking up for the principle of freedom of speech, unlike your colleague Magginkat. However, I really don't understand the left's obsession with Fox News as some kind of fount of evil. It's a news station which also seeks to entertain, the same as every other cable news station. What many liberals don't understand is that it's not really any different from the left leaning channels like MSNBC (Keith Olbermann = Bill O'Reilly), it just flavors it's brand of entertainment/news with a different political seasoning.
    1. Digital Jill at 9:42pm 30th October 2011 James, If you were to look up the definition of the term "liberal" you would find: "favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms". Ultimately, this is not about your opinion or mine, but about mutual respect. It makes for a kinder, more respectful and civilized populace. The more varied our opinions on issues that affect us all, the higher the level of discourse where stooping to primitive ad hominem (look it up) attacks is a pointless exercise in conduct unbecoming. Unproductive, too: exhibit A - US Congress. That is why I sincerely hope that Anonymous has nothing to do with this announcement. Fox is an irrelevant form of gutter entertainment on a par with the likes of the Enquirer. An organization that had to stoop to illegal phone tappings to get "information" for its "news" outfit. One more reason why I expect this announcement is a Fox Hoax. For Anonymous this would be a short-lived upset unworthy of an organization which identifies with OWS and the 99%. Furthermore, such a stunt would do enormous harm to OWS which is seeking consensus among all of us, while remaining respectful of our differences, i.e., real, not faux, democracy. Oh, and about the Nielsen ratings. I don't put too much faith into an organization that has repeatedly been criticized for its iffy methodology. It's more important that advertisers of consequence are departing with their ad funds because they do no longer wish to be sullied by being conflated with a company of dubious distinction.
18. James Phillips at 10:34pm 30th October 2011 @Magginkat - it does not sound to me as though you're adept at any kind of serious political debate. You're just regurgitating the standard line of hysterical college-age, shopworn liberal bromides and to be honest it's just sad. I mean come on..."Faux News"?I say, how original and mature. Perhaps you'd like to explain how Fox news or "the corporations" are using physical force to "shut up We the People"? Give me one example. You won't, because it was just a shrill, knee-jerk statement which doesn't have any basis in objective reality whatsoever. You bash Fox but admit you never watch it. Well isn't that just typical of a liberal. A head full of cliched knee-jerk opinions but without any real world insight to back it up. You know what? I read news sources that sway to the left and the right. I read the New York Times every day and I am intimately familiar with their liberal bias, which at times could be labeled "propaganda." I'm familiar with the columns of "economist" Paul Krugman and know that the NYT has never and will never give regular column space to anyone who has a conservative or libertarian economic bent. Ditto with MSNBC and the rest of the liberal media. I watch them, because I'm interested in what the other side has to say and how they think. It also helps me understand exactly what it is I dislike about leftist ideology and left wing thinking. Yet liberals very rarely expose themselves to the other side of the argument, not seriously. They bash Fox in unison, but don't watch it. They frequently caricature anyone who is even remotely conservative or libertarian as "evil" and "deranged" and "hateful" etc. We hate the poor! We hate minorities! We hate gays! Etc. Same old, same old. Fox News is quite literally the only TV news station which could seriously be described as "conservative" and that makes liberals so flaming mad they want to tear it down and attack it and make it their bogeyman. Liberals have virtually the whole of TV news and most of the broadsheet newspapers as well. They have their views parroted in public schools and by virtually every public institution in America. And yet still it isn't enough. Any broadcasting outlet which is even remotely conservative is demonized and attacked. It doesn't even occur to you that diversity of opinion is an essential part of democracy and that freedom of speech is something to be celebrated. No - you hoot, bray and cheer at the slightest thought of someone bringing it down. But of course if anyone took issue with Digital Trends and shut IT down for a couple of days, that would be a fascistic attempt at censorship and a sad day for free speech, wouldn't it?
19. Digital Jill at 3:09pm 30th October 2011 I have decided several few years ago that Fox news is a waste of time and stopped watching. I have no idea who Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, or Bill Reilly are, and I don't care. This "destroy Fox" is not a good move for Anonymous: it plays fast and loose with the Constitution's Freedom of Speech. Bottom line: Fox is irrelevant. What they fear most is the slowly growing lack of interest. An attack on Fox is just what they need to boost their sagging ratings. Or is this announcement a Fox Hoax?
20. Magginkat at 2:55pm 30th October 2011 Mr. James Phillips.... you don't have a clue. Faux spews is nothing more than pure propaganda for the right wing. They don't even try to disguise it otherwise. We don't want to ban anyone.....just enjoy the hell out of seeing them shut down for a day or two. The people using physical force to try to shut up We the People are nut jobs like those who run or work at Faux Spews and their Corporate whiny-guys. I don't particularly care for any of the Network news channels as they try to pass off crappy entertainment as news. I do what I have always done when looking for news. I read lots of sources every day and I never watch Fox so I could care less if they are shut down. I wouldn't particularly miss any of the others as I seldom watch them anymore. So quit your whining. We're tired of you loud mouths trying to shout down everything that confronts your lies and Propaganda.
21. James Phillips at 8:34pm 30th October 2011 "Ronald Justice" (& Digital Trends): Yeah, let's just go around using physical force in order to silence media outlets that broadcast views different from our own. That's a real healthy attitude. God some of you lefties make me sick. You walk around with the fraudulent self-imposed titled of "liberal" and yet your views are anything but. You know what? I don't particularly like MSNBC and I think some of its presenters are downright offensive. It's a hysterically biased left-liberal news channel which, like Fox News, broadcasts output of a particular political slant, and just like every other news channel has been caught twisting and outright lying on occasion. But I completely and utterly respect their right to broadcast whatever views they like. We live in a country in which freedom of speech is a cornerstone. Give you liberals half a chance and you'd be banning every freaking journalist and TV station that isn't "progressive" enough for you. Just like the closet Marxists you are. /rant over.
    1. Scaraban at 9:50pm 30th October 2011 Fox News has dedicated it's entire life to telling "The other side of the story" while remaining "Fair and balanced". Almost everything Fox News does is aimed as an attack on those who don't agree with them. "The Left" networks are dedicated purely to sensationalism they want viewers, that's all they really care about, it is a great delusion of the Right, and specifically Fox News, that there is some grand conspiracy of Liberals designed to keep them down.
       1. Shooglechic at 2:00am 31st October 2011 ........Someone has been too influenced by Keith Olberman a little too much.
    2. Shooglechic at 2:04am 31st October 2011 I agree. Liberal propaganda and spins are on CNN, CBS, MSNBC, ABC news networks. To be blind to that fact is ridiculous. If they shut down one media outlet, then shut down all. If a person should feel that all the world are sheep and are easily influenced by what appears on television, then perhaps one should consider banning shows such as "Kardashians," "Jersey Shore," and "Girls Next Door."
       1. Spartacus Khan at 10:38pm 4th November 2011 It's hilarious when people are so polarized by fox news that they think real news agencies who actually report the truth are spreading "liberal propaganda" and they mistake facts for "spin". Put down the kool-aid already.
    3. jakeh at 3:48am 31st October 2011 The problem is that these TV stations are owned by the companies that have bought Congress. Simplest solution would be to make undeclared donations illegal.
22. Robert TheException Moreland at 6:51pm 30th October 2011 WOW
23. Ronald Justice at 11:32am 30th October 2011 more power to them they should do it permanently
24. Zackery Brown at 6:19pm 30th October 2011 I hope they do. Fox is such a bad news network. They're like a bunch of stupid teens. My opinion.
25. James Phillips at 6:16pm 30th October 2011 The left standing up for freedom of speech as usual /s
26. Tom Suzuki at 5:50pm 30th October 2011 make the unemployed work at jails and see if they really like working
    1. jakeh at 3:46am 31st October 2011 That's a really stupid suggestion.
27. Okay Altinisik at 5:45pm 30th October 2011 Police should kill the protesters and unemployment is solved.
    1. jakeh at 3:47am 31st October 2011 Take it easy Hitler.
28. Yannis Zervos at 5:35pm 30th October 2011 sounds good
29. Chad Feanny at 5:31pm 30th October 2011 Fuck fox news biased trash channel
30. Danny Carter at 5:29pm 30th October 2011 Looool quality.
31. Patrick Crook at 5:09pm 30th October 2011 Nobody would miss Fox.