Not a problem with Fox News, but with Fox followers

So, I will respond to Louis Wacker’s letter of July 27th about “Bashing Fox News.” I really don’t have a problem with Fox, since our Constitution affords us the right to free speech. My argument is that the “blind followers” repeat the falsehoods and hate rhetoric and present them as fact with never any substantiation.

You see, I was a dedicated listener to Rush, Sean and Bill some 20 years ago. But I discovered they were not really news people, they were “preaching to a choir” of angry listeners that served only to polarize our great country, with never any solutions. As Stephen Colbert said about the Republican charge that the Affordable Care Act was a “job killer” ... “I have not read the report — therefore I can say anything I want about it.”

Anyone interested in the evolvement of Fox News should read the recent biography of Fox guru Roger Ailes. The title is “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” a three-year work by author Gabriel Sherman, with more than 100 pages of footnotes and bibliography. The subtitle reads “How the brilliant, bombastic Roger Ailes built Fox News and divided a country.” It’s a great read for both Fox followers and for those who really would like to see the polarization in our country ended. —Wes Higgins, Kalispell