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This Just In: Fox News Is Dumb

Posted on Monday, June 27 @ 17:09:11 Eastern by Josh_Laddin

Ok, I think we can all agree that regardless of your politics, Fox News is full of retarded retards. If not, then I hereby revoke your GR privileges for all eternity (or at least until you learn how to breathe through your nose). Expect your account deleted within 24 business hours.

Here's an interview of a doomsaying Fox News Editor conducted by an utterly vapid token ethnic anchorwoman about the...

End of Console Gaming!!! [emphasis added]

Man. Where to begin? With the interviewee starting his idiotic piece before being properly introduced? Maybe with the geniuses in the studio who give him the vaunted title of "Scienct and Technology Editor"? Or the anchorwoman, who is so clearly behind the technology curve that the best she can do is be like "oh yeah, the Atari! Remember that?"

But then of course, there's the guy's whole argument: "Recent changes indicate that console gaming may be going away, and I think it's a lot because of the iPhone and Android." Really? Man, you're fucking brilliant. I mean, you must be the first person on the planet to have made the connection between smartphones and casual gaming. Someone get this guy on the phone with NASA, quick!

The whole smartphone angle may have made this interview relevant, oh, I dunno, maybe 3 or 4 years ago when the rest of the world had already started to figure it out. He goes on to mention the Wii U controller, which "basically looks like a smartphone—it's got a built-in screen there." Holy shit, Mr. Scienct and Technology Editor! You mean I've been playing a smartphone ever since I had a fucking Game Boy? Wow, I've been clueless this whole time.

And then there's the claim that console gaming is going to disappear, because "who really wants that extra thing cluttering up their home entertainment system?" I can answer that: gamers do. Just because casual gaming is growing doesn't mean there won't always be a demographic who's looking for a huge, surround sound, big screen, HD extravaganza to play in their living room. We may not always be the majority, but we'll always be there.

When will mainstream "news" networks learn to just stay out of the tech world? They only embarrass themselves each and every time.

Comments

danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jun 27th, 2011 at 5:27 pm
There's a ****ing typo IN THE VIDEO EVEN... How often does this happen over there?

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Nick_Tan
Joined: Jul 2006

Posted: Jun 27th, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Phones, no matter how smart, can never cure stupidity.

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devaldogz
Joined: Apr 2011

Posted: Jun 27th, 2011 at 6:49 pm
Faux news...of course those morons ran a story like this. I wish I didn't read it though, hearing anything from them makes a person "more dumber".

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De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Jun 27th, 2011 at 6:50 pm
If I ever got bored enough to watch this crap, I'd start cutting myself.

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Jessica_Vazquez
Joined: Sep 2010

Posted: Jun 27th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Your "sex" box should help prevent that from happening.

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MrrClean
Joined: Aug 2010

Posted: Jun 27th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Is it just me, or does the woman doing the interview sound like she is totally hammered?

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Eyebrowsbv31
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jun 27th, 2011 at 11:01 pm
Watching any cable news is retarded enough. Making posts about it is a little bit more.

*cough*

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Josh_Laddin
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
So is commenting on posts about it even more, then?

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tinymhg
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jul 10th, 2011 at 11:00 am
So is commenting on posts about it even more, then? I win the retarded award!

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Tyrranis
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 at 3:12 am
I've made the conscious decision to not click that link, as I'm trying to minimise my exposure to stupid.

I commute on public transport daily, so a total removal of exposure isn't exactly possible.

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Daddio
Joined: Nov 2008

Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 at 4:37 am
wtf is "Scienct" ...

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Daddio
Joined: Nov 2008

Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 at 4:37 am
wtf is "Scienct" ...

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Daddio
Joined: Nov 2008

Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 at 4:45 am
Look what Fox did! Double post causing stupidity ...

"there USED to be games like call of duty, that took MONTHS, YEARS to develop."

so many 'good' quotes from that video!

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acdibble
Joined: Jul 2007

Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Back in the day of Call of Duty...

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usaglory
Joined: Mar 2009

Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 at 6:17 am
The mere mention of Fox News always makes me chuckle.

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SweetHat
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 at 7:27 am
Whats funny is my uncle swore by faux news (pun intended) he would defend them like a rabid badger. Then one day i showed him the ammount of idiocy and shere Brilliant stupid mistakes they made and he changed his mind really quickly. My uncle is a former Teacher and he told me the words i will never forget.

"You may be able to bring fair and balanced news to the masses, but if you dont have a grasp on at least a High school English understanding, then your just a bunch of retards discovering their private parts for the first time."

Needless to say this went in the "cool **** my uncle said" book.

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Masterwabbit
Joined: Mar 2009

Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 at 9:20 am
Give this man's uncle a medal. Also, nominate this comment for the weekly People Speak.

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Eyebrowsbv31
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 at 9:58 am
I say denominate. Any news show has to do this; daniel, as a journalist, can tell you. News has to be done at a 8th grade or lower level, because that's how dumb the average American is. Never mind the politics; keeping it simple is keeping it real.

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MrrClean
Joined: Aug 2010

Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 at 11:48 am
I beg to differ. Any news does not have to dumb itself down to cater to the sad state of the average American, because thankfully, there is a huge world out there that isn't American. Like Canada. While there are a lot of f*cktards here, if what the TV displays is anything to go by, then the average here is much higher than the average down south.

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xxmrcyanidexx
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Jun 29th, 2011 at 10:19 am
The advent of the 24 hour news service is one of the worst things that has happened to our society.

Huxley feared that "Truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance" and this fear becomes more pertinent everyday.

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Josh_Laddin
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jun 28th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
While I think the rest of your uncle's comment is awesome, the part where he said "bring fair and balanced news to the masses" in reference to Fox pretty much nullifies the rest of it for me.

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Kese_Arcade
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Jul 2nd, 2011 at 6:56 am
Did this S.O.B just say "who even want's a big console cluttering up their home?" "Sony and Nintendo are through, you're just going to chuck them out like your old cellphone" oh my favorite "Hardcore gamers are over we're all gamers now"

REALLY? NO SIR "WE" ARE NOT "ALL GAMERS".

You're shmuck in a dentist office hurling bird faces into bricks.

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tinymhg
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Jul 10th, 2011 at 10:56 am
If there is a demand for something, it will be sold! Thus if some one wants a "time waster" they can have one. PC's have been pronounced dead as a game platform many times, yet many developers still make PC as well as console versions of thier games. And some make only PC versions (Sid Meier's Civilization V). So, please, don't let fools make you into Angry Gamers.

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