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  • My Life and Times

    I was born in 1939 BC.
    That’s ‘Before Computers’.

    Luckily I survived the following events in my life, such as

    World War II, The London Blitz, Rationing, and worst of all… Archbishop Temple’s School.

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    During the mid 1950s I was enjoying Rock ‘n’ Roll and being a first generation teenager, when suddenly, just like Elvis, I found myself in uniform during ‘The Cold War’…and then

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    I became ‘a family’. Which meant that I sort of missed the ‘swinging sixties’, but still managed to look a complete prat in the 70s, just like everyone else.

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    During the ‘Thatcher Years’ I lost my hair and a lot of people lost a good deal more. My career fluctuated to say the least as I was demoted, promoted, fired and hired a number of times, but still I managed to stagger on into a welcome retirement and to celebrate 60 years of happy marriage.

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“Fair and Balanced” … Umm ?

Posted by Big John on July 31, 2012

Want to know what chicken sandwiches have to do with gay marriage ? … Want to learn new words like “textualism” or “originalism” ? … Want to know about New York’s Mayor Bloomberg and his ‘nanny state’  ?  … Want to know about the Brooklyn Bridge Monster ? … Want to know about the man who was charged with feeding an alligator after he lost his hand ? … or perhaps you just want to know what the weather is like in Kansas City ?

Well you can find out about all this, and much more, if you tune in to watch ‘Fox News’, which I have resorted to only because of the non-stop Olympic coverage on all the British news channels. You may not get much news on what is happening in the rest of the world, but you will see what seems to interest, at least some of, our American cousins. 

In the past I’ve read that, politically, you needed to lean slightly to the right of Genghis Khan to appreciate this news programme, which is probably a bit of an exageration, although they sure don’t seem to be big fans of President Obama. However I was surprised to see ‘foot in mouth’ Mitt get a bit of a hammering from one presenter after he recently ventured abroad. 

Speaking of TV presenters the ones I’ve seen on ‘Fox’ mostly seem to be of the ‘plastic’ variety having spent too much time in ‘makeup’ having their bags camouflaged and their ‘syrups‘ adjusted, and I have to say …

… Edward R. Murrow or Walter Cronkite .. they ain’t !

This entry was posted on July 31, 2012 at 1:49 pm and is filed under humour, rant. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to ““Fair and Balanced” … Umm ?”

  1. Gabbygeezer said

    July 31, 2012 at 9:07 pm

    Amazing that “Faux News” actually allowed any criticism of the Mittster. Had you not mentioned that, I wouldn’t have known. We studiously avoid watching what passes for news reporting on Faux. Maybe they are responding, however slightly, to all the charges of extreme bias. Tune into MSNBC if you want bias from the other side. Mr. Cronkite, where are you when we need you so badly?

  2. Ginnie said

    July 31, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    “Fox News” is an onymoron if there ever was one !

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