Discussion: Conservative Senator: 'There Are Some Shows On Fox I Can't Watch' (VIDEO)

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So Fox is too liberal for you?

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“There are certain shows on Fox I can’t watch because they’re totally not fair and totally not balanced,” Coburn told the crowd Wednesday at Tulsa Community College.

Did I wake up in an alternate universe?

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Well, the truth does have a liberal bias.

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That’s his brain tumor talking…

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In his last few months in office, a small nod to the truth.

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What? I do not agree with everything he said, the NYT is not that liberal to be honest. The WSJ is usually fine outside of the editorials. Fox is crazy though.

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So, with this “earth-shattering” admission, is he hoping to “come back” as a media critic? One Howard Kurtz is one too many.

PS, That Coburn and David Vitter and the whole C-Street “The Family” bit was very, very creepy.

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Not funny.

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Soon he will catch up with most people with a functional brain who find virtually all of the programming “unwatchable”

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Short Answer…Yes
Long answer…He’s not pimping for votes.

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But , you’ve got to admit Coburn did make a good bagman for Ensign.

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When a show on fox news comes on that Coburn doesn’t like, he logs onto the Daily Caller or Blaze to get the facts.

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“There are certain shows on Fox I can’t watch because they’re totally not fair and totally not balanced,”

And what’s a weird coincidence is that all those shows are ones where I am making a horse’s ass out of myself.

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Even in this statement, he calls the New York Times “very liberal.”

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Tom, is this part of the GOP outreach? If so I remain unimpressed. any thinking human should easily come to the conclusion that anything on Fox (excepting sports coverage) is garbage.

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What the headline of this story doesn’t tell you about Sen Coburn’s dissertation, is that his one fleeting moment of clarity (Sean Hannity is a cretin), is preceded with and succeeded by winger drivel.
Immediately preceding the Fox statement, Coburn bemoans the ‘50 economic improvement bills’ passed by the House that Harry Reid refuses to act on (deregulation, tax breaks for the wealthy etc…).
And immediately following the Fox statement he blatantly lies about how many have benefited from the ACA, while banging the drum for a return to the nirvana that is the “free market” health system that has served us so well.

All this is immediately prior to fielding the follow 2 (paraphrased) questions from the audience of Okie octogenarians -

  1. Why can’t Congress force austerity on Obama while at the same time prevent him from cutting our precious military budget (Okla gets lots of DOD money).
  2. Why can’t we impeach the usurper!
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“There are certain shows on Fox I can’t watch because they’re totally not fair and totally not balanced, And so what I want is I want all the information in which I can make the best decision.” ~Tom Coburn

Hell has frozen over and cats are sleeping with dogs!!

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Impressive…

I wonder which ‘certain’ Fox programs he can’t watch…

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And he’s wrong about both papers. The NY Times has some liberal op-ed writes, but then it also has complete chuckleheads like Friedman, Brooks and Donut. And the WSJ is a great newspaper, but it’s op-ed page is mostly vitriol, lies and fantasy.

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