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AtomWednesday, September 2, A.D. 2009
Another Reason Leftists Hate Fox News
When I was in Saint Louis last month on vacation, my mother insisted that we watch Fox News when we returned to the hotel every night. I think that she must watch no other channel. I normally never watch televised news, and so it was interesting. I am not complaining; I allowed the darker parts of my soul to feast upon some Schadenfreude as I watched the Democrats in their August disarray. I do not know how bad it is for them (and correspondingly good for the republic), as the Fox News folks may have allowed their jubilation to disturb their journalistic sensibilities. Still, the socialists’ pain is my pleasure.
Nonetheless, Sean Hannity began one of his shows with an absurd “rally the troops” speech by a man who was supposed to be portraying Thomas Paine. At the end, Hannity’s Paine invokes God’s blessing on America. It strikes me as bizarre, ignorant, and/or dishonest for the “conservative Christian” Hannity to have chosen, from among the many American founders, a man who was one of the most extreme radicals of his age. Paine may have assisted in the American rebellion, but he was also an inveterate enemy to religion in general and to Christianity in particular. He despised tradition, sought revolution, and found an individual’s human reason so sufficient enough by itself to answer the questions of life that we should cast away all the accumulated wisdom of previous ages as irrelevant and regressive. What, may I ask, is conservative about Paine? He incarnated in himself all that was foolish about the soi-disant Lumières. He is the ancestral strain that still runs in MoveOn’s veins today. Paine even traveled to France to participate in the French revolution! Hannity finds such a man worthy of channeling to modern Americans? And his Thomas Paine asks God to bless America?
It is no wonder that smug Leftists despise Fox News as the populist and ignorant fodder that it is.
on Wednesday, September 2, Anno Domini 2009
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