On Loving America

The thing is, I think most people "love America". But... an analogy.

We all love our children. We want the best for them. But if I live in an area with predominantly holistic doctors, and my child gets leukemia, and all of the information I'm presented with by the supposed experts tells me that the best thing for my child is to give them vitamins, acupuncture, chiropractic adjustments and some homeopathic treatments, I'm bound to believe it, even though unbeknownst to me, science has not shown any of those things to have any effect at all on leukemia.

Meanwhile, your child also gets it, and you live near M.D. Anderson or Sloan-Kettering, the recognized best experts on treatment of cancer in the nation, and so you get the up-to-the-minute state-of-the-art treatment advice for your child's treatment.

We both love our children, that's not at issue. Neither of us is trying to harm that child. But one of us is just WRONG. One of us got bad information from supposed experts we mistakenly put our trust in, and with the very best of intentions, consigns his child to an almost certain death, while the other obtains treatment and very likely gives his child a long and healthy life, after a short unpleasant round of treatment.

And that's what's wrong with Fox News, to me. They are the homeopathic "doctors" telling people to ignore the science because it's all "bought and paid for by the drug companies" and instead to follow this "natural" regimen, which is good for exactly nothing. But people eat it up and become convinced that black is white, up is down, and the best solution for your headache is to run head-first into a brick wall.