Discussion: Scientific American Editor Doesn't Plan To Appear On Fox Again

system1 · April 30, 2014, 3:43pm

Discussion for article #222223

teenlaqueefa · April 30, 2014, 4:13pm

“I didn’t realize that the drumbeat of conservative propaganda was so ubiquitous on the show.”

Talk about being out of the loop…

thunderhawk · April 30, 2014, 4:10pm

This kind of propaganda is worthy of North Korea or the USSR or Nazi Germany. It is positively unamerican. It should not be tolerated here.

manhattan123 · April 30, 2014, 4:14pm

This guy was surprised at the propaganda? By the way, how funny is the look of utter cluelessness on the faces of those three nitwits, trying to pretend they actually understand what he’s saying.

phd9 · April 30, 2014, 4:21pm

Just because you don’t want something to be true doesn’t make it not true."

Or as I like to say, nature is not a matter of opinion.

invitedguest · April 30, 2014, 4:20pm

I guess he’s never had to wait in the waiting room at a clinic, where I’ve always assumed you’re forced to listen to Fox news before going back for the examination so that getting an orifice probed doesn’t seem so bad.

EqualOpportunityCynic · April 30, 2014, 4:23pm

It’s a good reminder that not everyone follows US political discourse as much as we do. Sounds like news of the climate change denial had made it to him, but he didn’t know how clueless they were on other issues.

rob_beatty_walters · April 30, 2014, 4:34pm

Obviously, the guy doesn’t watch Fox News. Or the Daily Show. Or read TPM. Ok, I guess you’re right - out of the loop.

jsfox · April 30, 2014, 4:28pm

My guess now that you have called them out they won’t be inviting you back either However watch them either stay silent on your comments or call you a liar

jsfox · April 30, 2014, 4:32pm

Which puts him squarely in the middle of the vast majority of Americans. We are the odd ones not him.

commenterperson · April 30, 2014, 4:32pm

Well, to be fair, what intelligent journalist who reports on real science would spend 10 minutes listening to Fox?

sherlock1 · April 30, 2014, 4:38pm

He’s surprised that the FOX Spews is ground zero for the ‘deniers’ who people the Republican Propaganda Network?

commenterperson · April 30, 2014, 4:44pm

They will stay silent, they always do when there’s something very embarrassing about them.

commenterperson · April 30, 2014, 4:41pm

If my doctor’s offices had a waiting room with a TV machine in it tuned to Fox, I’d change doctors to one that understands scientific facts over Republican fiction.

mcbain · April 30, 2014, 4:47pm

Did Bill O’Reilly ask him about the tides while he was there?

commenterperson · April 30, 2014, 4:46pm

“appears to no longer be available” SPLIT INFINITIVES MUCH, TPM?

mcbain · April 30, 2014, 4:42pm

I went to a local barber shop owned by a guy now in his 80s and all he talked about was how Sean Hannity is the only guy that speaks the truth. Never went back again.

commenterperson · April 30, 2014, 4:46pm

I’d walk out in the middle of the haircut if that happened to me, McBain. I wouldn’t pay for it, either. I went to a motel once where they had Fox playing in the lobby, and I sat down, picked up my mobile phone and called the other motel down the street and made a reservation, right in front of the desk clerk. Then I went up to the desk clerk, and cancelled my reservation and told the desk clerk why I was doing that.

mwfolsom · April 30, 2014, 4:41pm

What did he expect? This is ground zero for the Climate truther campaign!

zippydk · April 30, 2014, 4:54pm

He probably made the mistake of thinking that Fox News was a news station.