[Civicsman]

I agree that one party rule will not be healthy for the USA. Unfortunately, with the GOP trending even more towards extremist positions, the likelihood of their recovery in near term is questionable.

Perhaps there is some hope in Charlie Crist running as an independent in Florida. Crist is pretty far right, but not far enough for "the base". To them, he's a moderate, and being a moderate is almost liberal, gol-durn it! So Crist is considering dumping the GOP and running as an independent, where, IMHO, he's got a fair chance of taking all the marbles. The far right will go with Rubio, but the moderate Republicans (formerly called the "silent majority"), will go with Crist, along with a percentage of independents. If that happens, perhaps it will be a wake up call for Republicans, although "learn slowly" seems to be a plank in their national party.

The link in Bob Kern's post pretty much says it all. Fundamentally, they are using the Joseph Goebbels philosophy that if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The problem for the congressman is that he didn't come to the show fully prepared to defend his statement, and O'Reilly showed him how it's done on FOX.

I say that all the on-air staff at FOX should wear big red rubber noses. That way, viewers would have a better chance of understanding what they are watching, although there is a good chance a fair percentage would still fail to get it.

That's because the problem isn't really FOX, per se. They are only taking advantage of the natural order of things, once stated as, "A sucker is born every minute". For some people, thinking for yourself is considered a good thing. For far too many others, a few sound bites with Glenn Beck is all the "thinking" they need to do.