Skinner on O'Reilly talking Jon Stewart vs Fox.mpg

Nancy Skinner walks into the spitball fights between Jon Stewart and Fox News on the O'Reilly Factor. Bernie Goldberg is reacting to Stewart's 4-20-2010 hilarious comedy skit about Fox News. "It's called satire, and it's only funny when you take a kernal of truth and you take it over the top", says Skinner. But to the larger point. "We have two dominant (and very different) worldviews out there, and those beliefs shape your reality. So when someone challenges your worldview, you say they are out of touch with reality, and they are - yours!" Skinner writes more in depth on this at her blog on www.nancyskinnerlive.com.

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News & Politics

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• Nancy Skinner
• Jon Stewart
• Bernie Goldberg
• Bill O'Reilly
• Fox News Channel
• The Daily Show
• Comedy Central

[Froward69]

Throughout History when society's did not listen to their Fools (comedians) They did so at their own peril.

Faux dismisses out of hand Jon Stewart BECAUSE he is a comedian. yet satire and ridicule is the ONLY sane response to propagandist insanity.

[TheSirJecht]

Jon doesn't want criticism of Obama? Does Bill even actually watch Jon's show?

[Ladiesman1447]

There's a difference between criticising Obama, and running a 24/7 anti-Obama propaganda machine employing fear tactics and misinformation, which is what Fox has been doing.

[soda1yes]

Republicans are frauds who have no interest in governing ... their only interest is power and using the power to pursue their agenda. Epic Consevaturd Fail.

[uniteagainsthumanity]

bill o'riley doesn't like to hear any opinion that even slightly disagrees with his own opinion. He just yelled right over those other two women because they disagreed with him. What a jackass.

[Flipper79able]

This is the first time Bill has told the truth. John is offended by FOX News. A lot of America and the world is offended by them because they pretend to be a real news organization when they are just full of lies and propaganda. This lady that says Jon is not offended is either lying or completely out of touch with reality.

[asalmog]

I have watched many clips from shows of MSNBC presenters like Olberman or Matthews. I have not seen them either engage respectully with conservatives (and with Olbermann you can leave out the "respectully" part) nor give any credit to the conservatives's honesty.

Here, O'reilly lets the two liberals speak, and even says that while he obviously disagrees with Stewart, he belives in his intellectual honesty. Is that so much to ask for from all sides, really?

[upinflamesfedup]

Republicans are a bunch of whinners. Jon pokes fun at every one

[Atheeizm]

Jon thinks the fox news channel is doing a disservice not because he is a liberal billo! There are thousands of clips readily available for view on you tube to back up his statement.

A better statement would be that some non liberals are blind to the crapola emanating from fox.

[plunderpunk]

Skinner nailed it.

[aguuled]

The average Fox viewer would not know the basic fallacies of an argument (Psychology 101), zero critical thinking skills. Fox News presenters know this, they are not as dumb as the people they mislead.

Any argument they use to present a point would be thrown out of a court if it depended on someone going to jail, but it is fine for political misleading.

[buffalosabres91]

I think O'Reilly is the last somewhat sane person on that news channel, that said he still can't accept the truth that everyone he works with is crazy and twists fact into horrible, distorted and insane things they present as "news". Also, maybe someone should show all the clips of Stewart making fun of the left and Obama to O'Reilly so he can stfu?