Over the course of the last month I’ve spent a lot of time watching Fox News. Full disclosure: I am a committed progressive activist and, therefore, strongly disagree with most of what I hear and see in the conservative media. However, I believe it behooves liberal critics of right-wing ideology to take seriously its appeal to millions of its followers and to make a sincere attempt to understand the ways it resonates with many people, and even to emphatize with those people as we may deplore their political decisions.
The world according to Fox News invariably seems to involve some combination of the following seven deadly sins:
