Wk 4 Sunday Test Day 7
Daniel [Danny] R. Lehrman
CRT205
2/10/13
Dr. Laurene Madern

FOX News 2/8/13 8:00 PM-9:00 PM.
MSNBC news 2/8/13 10:00 PM to 10:45 PM.

Note: I watched at my neighbor’s house. We only buy TV during the football season, and we only get the basic package so I can buy the NFL package. Basic Dish TV does not have FOX or MSNBC. I focused to focus on these two segments from each channel.

On FOX News, The Bill O’Reilly Factor segment, the discussion of gun rights laws is clearly slanted toward legal ownership of guns. I don’t enjoy hate type of humor or information. Bill attempts to substantiate the Conservative parties views toward gun control with the standard NRA-Conservative argument that Americans should bear the right to own arms, arms of any type. Not limited to sporting guns or collectables. His comments are sarcastic and confusing because they are vague, with no clear and factual point made. The fact is that Bill O’Reilly said nothing new as far as conservative views and gun rights are concerned. He continued to justify his argument by saying “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. His argument is specious in design because it is a rationalization. People, in fact, use guns. Bill went as far as mentioning Hitler, and Nazi Germany’s very strict gun control laws. German soldiers took the guns from the Jewish people, and then turned on a defenseless people. Gun laws said to be made with “good” intentions that took guns out of the hands of the people Hitler wanted to persecute. Hitler was deceptive and outright dishonest about his intentions. His intentions were to disarm and exterminate a certain race and religion of people. I don’t find anything about Hitler funny; in fact I’m sensitive to the subject because all four of my grandparents were Holocaust survivors. MSNBC has a similar program called Politics Nation