More Idiocy From Fox 'News'

Mickey Spillane's son has died after falling from the sixth floor of his apartment building. In other news, Fox "News" thinks that Mickey Spillane was an "infamous monster." Here's the screen shot to prove that I am not making this up: And yet, there are still people who receive the majority of their current events information and, indeed, a good deal of their historical background and civics lessons, from this shoddy "news" organization. I made fairly light the other day of Glenn Beck's weird and quite serious insistence that it was somehow conspiratorial that there's no tape of the late Sen. Robert Byrd filibustering the Civil Rights Act. You've seen the tape, folks. He's not kidding. But the fact is that Beck and his cronies at Fox "News" are constantly exposing themselves as people who don't even have a handle on the most rudimentary concepts in historical matters and civics. If you sincerely don't know that C-SPAN is a fairly recent phenomenon, then you have no business being an information leader on the complex and difficult issues that comprise public policy. None. And yet, many such "leaders" reside over at Fox "News," where they think that one of the great American authors, whose stories and lead character were quite visibly produced as network television during the late 1950s and in the mid-1980s, they have now categorically stated that Mickey Spillane was an "infamous mobster." For fucking gravity's sake, Spillane became a Jehovah's Witness in 1951. Mobster? This is where you get your news from? Really?