with Larry King (CNN) and Beck it took 6 months or more, as did Colmes leaving Hannity and Colmes
and Freedom Watch gets 2 shows to finish? they even pulled the last week?
the web site of FBN still lists Freedom Watch as a program
http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/freedom-watch/index.html
this was no business decision.
First off, everything is a business decision...even if it's based on nothing but bias. If a man decides his business isn't going to serve blacks because he hates them...that's still a business decision.
Secondly, FBN's website still lists
Freedom Watch as a show because
Freedom Watch is still a show. They may not be filming new episodes, but they are still airing the program so there website still has it listed. Your accusation that this was not a business decision and that it was a hurried bias decision made so fast that the website can't react fast enough is ludicrous--to put it kindly. If they really were biased against
Freedom Watch, they would have scrubbed it from the website immediately; they haven't. Beyond that, Eric Bolling's
Follow The Money was cancelled just as fast as
Freedom Watch and is still listed on FBN's website just like
Freedom Watch. If your implied accusation regarding
Freedom Watch is sound, then that accusation should also hold true for
Follow The Money; but I doubt seriously that you are proposing Fox has a problem with Eric Bolling's politics, which means you're the one who is being blinded by your own desire for a scapegoat. You, like most in our movement, are on a Salem witch-hunt because you can't yet recognize reality as it is; so, in an effort to make sense of the world around you, you assume there must be witches.
Thirdly, yes, there have been lots of shows that were cancelled faster than
Freedom Watch. Do you remember
Countdown with Keith Olberman? That got cancelled without any advanced notice. He simply announced in the last minute of his show that it was his last show. I could name hundreds (or even thousands) of shows with far higher ratings that were cancelled faster than
Freedom Watch.
It's threads like these that hurt our movement. We accuse the world of being out to get us, then we fashion whatever facts we find to fit our own narrative. We reinforce our own wrong-headed thinking, then make that into our new reality. But what we pretend is reality is not reality. The reality is: the world doesn't think much of us. We're an oddity to them, a curiosity. They look at us as naive, as dangerous, as misguided. All these people we're fighting in the media aren't conspiring against us. Instead, they're viewing us (like most people do) as crazy because we're challenging the status quo, we're challenging all of reality as they know it.
Were the people who called Christopher Columbus crazy conspiring to hide the Earth's roundness from the world? No! They were just living in a time when the status quo said the world was flat; and the status quo said it, not because of some uber-conspiracy against round-Earthers, but because a flat Earth made the most sense to the majority of people who were operating with limited knowledge.
That's what's happening now. It's not a conspiracy like we're pretending. This conspiracy talk only damages us because it keeps us from recognizing reality and using the tools of reality. The reality is: most people believe Ron Paul's foreign policy is crazy, because they can't imagine how not interfering with Iran's nuke program would make us safer. It's not a vast hidden media conspiracy against Ron Paul's foreign policy; instead, the majority of people (including and especially the press) are operating with limited knowledge and their guts says that if Iran gets a nuke, we're in danger. Their view of the world, which is the view of the status quo majority (just go ask your neighbors what they think), is that terrorists hate America for its values and will do anything, including suicide and genocide, in order to wipe our way of life off the map. That's their sincere view of the world; there's no conspiracy.
They don't talk about our views much, because they honestly don't think our views are valid. Like the flat-Earth people who were operating with the limited knowledge that "the earth beneath my feet is flat...therefore the world is flat," so too today's status quo is operating with the knowledge that "these terrorists want Sharia law, they want women in burkas, they view Christians as infidels, they hate Jews, they oppress their own people, and they're willing to kill themselves in order to kill us...therefore terrorists must hate us because of our way of life is antithetical to theirs." That's how the they-hate-us-because-we're-free narrative started. Not because there was a conspiracy planning it but because individuals recognized certain true things about radical Islamist and came to sincere conclusions based on their limited individual knowledge; then these individuals each found that the majority agreed so it became the self-reinforcing, status quo narrative. (Like the ancient Greeks assuming the gods must be fighting when they saw lightning in the sky; it wasn't a conspiracy against science, it was just individuals attempting to explain reality and generally coming to the same overwhelming conclusion because their pool of information was so limited at that time.) Your OP fits the imagined narrative of our movement (i.e. that there's a conspiracy against us), and that narrative was wrongly created by individuals who were each trying to understand the world based on very factual information. (There is lightning in the sky, and the media does ignore Ron Paul; but there are not gods waring on a cloud, and there is no conspiracy against Ron Paul.)
While we say the world would be safer if America minded its own business, the majority (including and especially the media) see a different reality. And they don't see it because of some conspiracy against the truth, they see it because that's what their own limited knowledge tells them. And when they get together and share their sincere views based on their limited individual knowledge, they recognize that most of them agree; so they assume that that is the correct view. The fact that our views get talked about at all is what is remarkable; normally ideas as challenging as ours don't get talked about in any group. How long do you think children would spend considering if tofu is better than candy? Not long. Just like the media doesn't spend a lot of time talking about the views of those who think God is using terrorists to punish America for its loose sexual morality. The press avoids those extreme views, not because they are conspiring against them, but because they don't see them as valid arguments. Flat-Earthers didn't think round-Earthers had a valid argument. The majority (both in the press and in the general public) don't think we have a valid argument.
We may be very right. But our views don't fit their narrative of the world, so we must keep trying to reach out to them or do something remarkable (like sailing around the globe and coming back with gold from Indians in the New World) that opens their eyes. That's what I'm trying to do in this post, I'm trying to open your eyes and communicate with you. It's not a conspiracy. It's just a bunch of independent people who all happen to think alike because people with similar views naturally get together and they naturally re-enforce each other's ideas till it becomes their own warped view of the world. Flat-Earthers did it, the witch-hunters did it, the neoconservatives are doing it, and now we're doing it too by imagining phantoms where there are none.
