He, after all, takes great pride in cultivating the jerk persona. Some of what he does is funny, other things he does is not. However, I believe South Park did a 'blame Canada' segment with considerably less hue & outcry, you can still rent it for a buck at the local corner video shop, and nobody's complaining about *that*. Seriously, free speech, offensive or not, gets protected. It's a sad fact of life that free speech doesn't necessarily have to be intelligent or useful.
I don't understand the continuous ripping on Fox, though. It feeds a ratings troll, and most of the feeding is usually prefaced with a "I hate 'em because it was my ox that got gored this time (or with pretty much everything they do)", and neglects to consider when other peoples' oxen were gored on other venues. Gutfield tries to gore every ox he can find -- the more this gets passed around, the better his ratings. It's just like an old opinion column writer said. Worried about all the hate mail she got, she went to her editor to resign, but her editor told her that he didn't care if it was love or hate mail -- it was *all* publicity, and that sold papers. Something the NY Times has forgotten, IMO.
In this case, feeding the troll feeds it in a real-ratings-based mode, thanks to the controversy, and Gutfield gets thousands of new viewers at one of the crappiest time slots in TV. You want him to go away? Stop talking him up every time an ox gets gored. Then again, the other news outlets should get ignored in the same way, as they're all pretty much all ratings trolls -- just not as adept at it as Fox.
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