I watched 15 minutes of Fox News this morning for the first time in six months. I am not sure if they have gotten worse, or if I am now less tolerant of their ignorance.
There were two stories covered in the time I watched. The first was about the MIT freshman student that was arrested for wearing a 9 volt battery-powered LED name tag to an airport. Apparently airport security thought it was a bomb. The Fox News anchors kept referring to the girl as stupid. They were saying things like, "How does someone like this get into MIT?" and "This just goes to show even smart people do stupid things." I like to imagine the TSA when they saw her: "Look at that Clevus! That's one of them there Muslims (she was Hawaiian) with a suicide bomb (there was a battery with wires)! Let's arrest that godless freak at gunpoint."
The second was about Columbia University allowing Ahmadinejad to speak there today. Here's how they introduced the story: "Here's another place with a lot of smart people, Columbia University, but the president of the school is making a stupid decision by allowing the leader of a terrorist nation address the students today."
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