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Todd Rundgren and Daryl Hall: Sweet

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Dark_Falcon8/05/2011 8:43:37 am PDT

Let me try to sort this out for good and for all:

The Huffington Post (HuffPo) has serious problems as a site. It’s posters and commentators sometimes indulge in biased speech which runs down people they don’t like unfairly. When it comes to Israel, this often spills over into outright bigotry, and on occasions its commentators will say ugly things on other issues. It is better than it was pre-2008, but it still has too many haters.

Fox Nation (FN) is much worse though. HuffPo kicked out many of its haters, while FN has actively courted its own crop of haters. They actively post headlines that play to the haters bigotry and then fail to delete openly racist comments. FN also does this more often and on a much wider range of issues than HuffPo.

Thus, while HuffPo has serious problems, those problems are not equivalent to those of FN and cannot be used to counter FN’s bad actions. Just to close things out I’ll use the words of Fox News star Bill O’Reilly: “You cannot excuse bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior.”