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Borsellino: Weaning myself away from Fox News
Some people actually take this network seriously. They really believe Fox News is fair and balanced.
By ROB BORSELLINO
REGISTER COLUMNIST
July 21, 2004
I've got this Fox News problem. I'm hooked.
I've always thought it was kind of a personal thing, sort of like a victimless crime. I'd only watch it in my room with the door closed or when I was home alone. I never talked about it in public and - most important - I never took it seriously.
But then it got ugly.
The other night my wife and I came home unexpectedly and we caught our kids - two boys under the age of 18 - watching Sean Hannity.
Naturally my wife was pretty upset. She grabbed the remote, switched to Iowa Public Television and then got in my face and blamed me for the children's behavior.
"What next, Rob? Are they going to be quoting Cal Thomas? Or picketing Planned Parenthood?"
My first instinct was to get back in her face and tell her to shut up, call her a left-wing nut case who is weak on defense and refuses to acknowledge that the Bush tax cuts are fueling an economic recovery that will benefit all Americans, not just the wealthy.
