Many years ago I had been reading the blog of a young man at the end of his college career and seemed to have the potential to become a promising attorney. The last post of his that I read, I believe was the topic of Fox News and how he had gone so far as to use parental controls on his MOTHER'S television to block all Fox News channels. The majority of his posters were in agreement while I was appalled and no longer read his blog. Or perhaps I stuck around long enough to see if there was an explination.

I didn't exactly delve into this Fox News controversy then. At the time I thought he didn't want his mom watching shows that were gossip shows about actors. I had never paid attention to it really but for a new attorney didn't he understand his mother PAID for her television viewing. How on earth was it hurting her to watch it? And just when did the children tell the parents what television programming they could watch? And somehow freedom of speech was involved... and probably a slew of other freedoms he was denying his mother. You get the idea.. Just who IS this young man to determine what his mother can watch?

And I left it alone. Fox News became little more than .. "huh?" You mean that channel Judge Judy is on? Fox News is again being talked about. Just what IS going on with this news channel? I must see.

One thing that came up was Glen Beck. I watched it. I sacrificed myself. Insert considerable coughing here. Oh, very interesting. He's speaking of a green czar that is communist? Oh puh-lease.. now I understand why people don't like Fox News. Look at the trash they are allowing to be spewed. So I looked it up and I found information on Wiki's and other sites and found out that there was truth behind what this Glen Beck person said. Does the President know this??

In short order this man stepped down from his position and I continued to watch Glenn Beck and Fox News. I found a place where Obama isn't God.. he's a person that isn't perfect. However, he is president and those imperfections have a way of touching us and those we love.

I don't get all of my news from Fox. To get your information from one place is getting a rather biased view. I do watch other news, I do read from news sites on the internet. I do try to verify what I find to be absurd. However, I find it rather interesting that I never actually watched the Fox News station until this administration started to speak negatively about it. In fact, I had always thought, as in that person's blog that the Fox News they spoke of was the news on the Fox station that also ran The Simpsons and Judge Judy.

Glenn Beck can't be said to be news. He speaks his opinion. That's what columnists do, that's what WE do! It is not wrong, it is not bad and one could say that Glenn Beck's opinions aren't wrong.. they're HIS opinion and nobody has to agree. You don't have to believe him, you don't have to listen to him. And in fact, that is the stance people always took with someone merely speaking their mind. Right?
...Unless ..of course...
What that person, in this case, Beck, is saying is hitting too close to home. Then every time I hear something come out of the current administration that is negative about Fox I think of that old saying.. Shakespear.. okay, I just realized I can't remember it verbatum.. but .. "me thinks thou dost protest too much."