Now, I was all excited to get into TPM's Exclusive club of Elite Bloggers until I read the fine print. Specifically, I want to know WHY Fox News is being protected from my animus? Can someone answer that one for me? 

Fox News--the TV version in particular since the online version is much less pugnacious and obnoxious--is the one Infotainment outlet that sticks in my craw on a regular basis. A very good friend of mine says it's because "I cain't handle the Truth" every now and again. Well, that's not true. Fox News has been so successful capturing ratings because it has copied the Limbaugh Template on how to run a show on real events but determine what the "truth" is from the beginning of the show when the host, no mere talking head or bubble-headed bleached blond, states His omniscient and omnipotent OPINION from which the Truth of the Day is Divined. Why else would everyone, and I mean every single fan of Rush's radio show, enter His Realm by first Pledging Allegiance to the Almighty. In this case, all one has to say is, "Ditto, Rush." 

Now, I don't begrudge anyone's right to listen to whomever they choose so long as no children or innocent people are harmed in the process. But, in the case cited above, any sort of free thought, contradictory idea, or fact pattern that spoils the proverbial applecart that holds His Opinion, i.e. the Truth, is summarily, often harshly, dismissed out of hand by The Host. As he reminds his "Dittoheads" several times every broadcast hour, there is no room for independent thinking, or any thinking for that matter, because He has already instructed His listeners, The Dittohead Collective as it were, to take note of the Truth that He and He alone can discern.  

Fox News, eager to increase revenue at the expense of responsible journalism, has borrowed Herr Limbaugh's template (entitled How to command sheep and makes LOTS more $$$ than a shepherd) and neatly applied it to several prime time news shows. Unfortunately, my childhood in the South did not prepare me for automatic dogma, where my simple mind could take a holiday and let someone else do the heavy lifting. In that way, I could redouble my efforts to ensure that every white person in 5 counties would know about the dastardly plots to: 

• destroy Christmas
• destroy European America (this is not a typo)
• coddle terrorists by speaking out against an Administration that circumvented or outright broke pesky laws and international treaties that forced the Chief Executive to follow the laws and policies sacrosanct since George Washington proscribed torture years before we had a working Constitution
• et al 

 Here, read the bolded "rules" shown below to see what I'm talking about:

You agree not to use the TPM websites or the Service to:

1. upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available ("Post") any Content:
   
    - that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, false or inaccurate, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
   
   - that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements); or
   
   - that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party;
   
   
2. harm minors in any way;

Do you see the problem? How can we possibly cover the practices or statements of Fox News if our hands are bound by the Draconian laws imposed on us by TPM? How many times, in a single news cycle, does Fox find ways to defame innocents, hurl epithets and shaded racial references in order to appease my fellow Red Staters and the Stockholders simultaneously, or are generally hateful to socialists, liberals, and actual Europeans?                 

I'm outraged.*

* ;-)