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Jack_Burton
08/27/09

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Blurred and a "CENSORED" bar? What are these producers, in 4th grade or something? Makes me think of Loony Toons, where it's a joke.
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Lymed
08/27/09

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They make this sound like they are breaking this secret story nobody knows about. This isn't news. DC residents know about this. It's just that prior to the gentrification of Logan Circle, it was on 13th Street not 11th Street.
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telecomic the thoughtful red panda
08/27/09

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Fox 5 is, by any measure, the most reactionary, panic-inducing TV station in the DC market. They are the first to send 20 reporters on to "the treacherous, deadly roads" when we get an inch of snow. They will put up graphics like "Blood on the Streets" if a little white girl gets bumped on Connecticut Avenue, but if four black folks are found dead in Southeast, they merely say something like "Another violent weekend in Anacostia; here's Sue Palka with the five-day weather forecast, with rain in the future, here's how to keep your kids safe." They tie *EVERYTHING* to your kids, as though ADULTS don't need to be safe too? Every time there's some new illness - swine flu, perfect example - they will do a three-part expose' on how the city schools are not prepared for pandemic flu, but how wealthy Loudon and Montgomery Counties are ready to combat the threat. After the Metro crash, they had a story on "How to Keep Your Children Safe on The Metro." What about the ADULTS who pay the gawd-damned fares and taxes to run the stupid trains, ass? Screw your whiny spoiled cabbage-headed toddlers named after random Western towns like Cheyanne and Jasper and Austin, ya yuppie pricks - just tell me how bad the Nationals lost tonight, when the Caps season starts, how long Gilbert Arenas is going to be out this time, and the gnashing of teeth that comes with the drama of the Redskins. Oh, and if it's going to rain tomorrow.

Then again, would you expect anything less of the station that gave Maury Povich his first on-air gig?
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sybann
08/27/09

@telecomic the thoughtful red panda: standing O 4 U baby - I thought only I got this angry at Fox stations.
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wordinedgewise
08/27/09

@telecomic the thoughtful red panda: Good lord I am dying of laughter. You are so spot-on. And do you love the news "EDGE" before the news? They should probably just call it "SHOCK AND HORROR (and a little bit of hollywood gossip!)"
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telecomic the thoughtful red panda
08/27/09

@wordinedgewise: Tune in next week when I do my five-minute rant about Holly Morris.
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KiddyKat
08/27/09

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"The sidewalks are littered with prostitutes" because that's what they are, clearly. Human litter. That was some poor f*ing diction, Fox 5.
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Lymed
08/27/09

@KiddyKat: Instead of f*ing, I think you can just write foxing.
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KiddyKat
08/27/09

@Lymed: Seriously. I mean, what the fox were they foxing thinking? What a bunch of foxing assholes. They can just go fox themselves.
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BeckySharper
08/27/09

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And yet so many Fox watchers--the politicians at least--are customers...
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
08/27/09

@BeckySharper: *snerk*
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FrostyTempleton
08/27/09

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I just found out last night that my parents have been watching Fox News. What do I do?!
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winner
08/27/09

@FrostyTempleton: My cable automatically turns on to Fox so I can watch TMZ and then the Simpsons when I get home. But if I get home too early, Fox News is on and it's a good 20 minutes before I realize what I'm watching.

Maybe they're just waiting for TMZ?
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greengrey
08/27/09

@FrostyTempleton: Ignore it. My parents watch Glen Beck. And listen to Rush Limbaugh.
There should be a support group for people like us.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
08/27/09

@FrostyTempleton: Grill 'em. Find out if they were doing opposition research.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
08/27/09

@winner: "Maybe they're just waiting for TMZ?"

You are truly hilarious. One more LOL induced by you and I will put you on my conference call so you can explain to these people why I sound so strange.
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wordinedgewise
08/27/09

@greengrey: You think that's bad, my parents are divorced. My dad watches nothing but Fox News (he claims otherwise, at least he sees the problem) and my mom watches nothing but Lou Dobbs. *sob*
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winner
08/27/09

@Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Ok! And then you can explain to my people why my project is so un-finished!
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linnyt is a walking cliché
08/27/09

@FrostyTempleton: Parental control to block the channel. Set the code to Obama's birthday or something subversive like that.
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FrostyTempleton
08/27/09

@greengrey: Sign me up!
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greengrey
08/27/09

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To the neighbors who have issues with prostitutes: Why don't you argue that we legalize it so that way they don't have to be on "your street corners".
Or you can move...
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LaComtesse
08/27/09

@greengrey: Honestly, I don’t blame people for getting upset there are hookers roaming their corners. 1) With hookers come other unsavory elements that I wouldn’t want around me or my family (drugs, violence, etc.) 2) I get annoyed when ANYONE is just kinda loitering on my block, making noise and causing a fuss. If what they were doing was also illegal, maybe even forcing police and their loud sirens to the scene, I’d be annoyed.
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LaFemme
08/27/09

@LaComtesse: I second that. It is not the just the prostitutes, it is the unsavory elements that having a whole bunch of prostitutes on your block could attract. I think of myself- a young woman who has lived in DC- and quite frankly, if I rented an apartment around there (where there are a bunch of new condos) without realizing that there were going to be men trolling for sex around my place 24/7 I would be PISSED.
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DutchessOfDork
08/27/09

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It's all about what the prostitutes are doing, not about the climate that makes SOME women do this profession.
By the way Fox, now the Johns know EXACTLY when and where to go for their poonanie.
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andBegorrah
08/27/09

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Sex workers are the last people in DC I would criticize as whores.
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wtfox?!
08/27/09

@andBegorrah: Yeah. And sadly, you'd never see a lobbyist full-body pixelated while he's chasing down a lawmaker.
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greengrey
08/27/09

@andBegorrah: ZING!
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SarahMC
08/27/09

@andBegorrah: You shut up about me!
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LaFemme
08/27/09

Don't you HAVE to pixelate these women if you are going to call them prostitutes and want to avoid risking slander charges?
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wtfox?!
08/27/09

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Oh behalf of all foxes of good character (myself included), I would like to say that not all foxes share in the backward, sexist, demeaning mindset espoused by Fox 5, and further, respectfully ask that Fox 5 stop making other foxes look bad and simply STFU.
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CaligulaSanchez
08/27/09

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As a sex worker this is INCREDIBLY offensive. I'm not unsavory (just the opposite, really), unnerving, and my crotch is rarely pixelated.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
08/27/09

@CaligulaSanchez: I imagine it would be hard to seal the deal if your crotch were pixelated. Seems like it would take a lot of guess work and good aim.
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cand86
08/27/09

@Grim Reaper of the Forest: I don't know about that . . . the Japanese have been doing a good job, lol.
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LaComtesse
08/27/09

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"they are shown with their entire bodies, save their high heels, blurred."

And yet the whole Fox crowd is adamantly against the burqa because they dehumanize women and WE would never do that to OUR women.

I swear to god it's only a matter of time before Beck, O'Reilly, & Co. push their viewers to write to Congress to outlaw having a vagina.
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schweppes
08/27/09

@LaComtesse: Eh, the blurring doesn't bother me. Par for the course with all sorts of Faces of Illegal Professions.
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LaComtesse
08/27/09

@schweppes: Faces=fine. Bodies are the issue.
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schweppes
08/27/09

@LaComtesse: I don't know when this was aired, but it's entirely possible that they were blurry out some inappropriate bits. No one knows, cause it was blurred - but I don't think it was like "these people are really disgusting" blurring. They show plenty of minutes of faceless bodies that the producers clearly think are disgusting (I'm looking at you, stock footage of overweight folks)
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greengrey
08/27/09

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I bet most prostitutes find Fox totally gross.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
08/27/09

@greengrey: I had a comment, but I decided to refrain b/c it would be disrespectful to the prostitutes.

(But I bet you could guess what it is.)
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