David Gerard’s June 8 column about Fox News was right on target.

“Fair and balanced,” “We report, you decide,” Fox is basically the video version of Hate Radio. Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity — all of them presume to label who and what is un-American. In another age, these fascists would’ve worked for Joe McCarthy.

Correspondent Bill Crystal recently said Clinton supporters were the dregs of society. Where do hatemongers fit into that particular totem pole?

Mr. America O’Reilly regularly judges who’s a “good” or “bad” American. When a Jewish caller once complained that since 9/11 his Christian friends had intensified their efforts to convert him, O’Reilly responded, “If you don’t like it, move.”

What a wonderful America it would be if only the fascists lived here.

Anyone old enough to remember the Cold War knows that when Soviet Russia disseminated information through the Communist Party, it was always through the official news agency Tass.

Well, meet the new Tass, folks. Fox has been nothing but the mouthpiece for Bush administration lies and propaganda, so much so that during the illegal invasion of Iraq, flag-waving conservatives began calling it the Stars and Stripes Channel.

I’ve been in homes and businesses where people refuse to watch anything but Fox. They might burn in hell if they didn’t. They have to watch in the morning, get their marching orders and see who they’re supposed to hate that day. Because if it’s one thing conservatives do, it’s get behind someone and march. (Goose-stepping is optional.)

The fascist Rupert Murdoch, who said that the Iraq invasion would produce $40/barrel oil, started Fox as a counterpoint to “liberal” CNN.

But really Fox News provides that warm, fuzzy, back-in-the-womb feeling that conservatives crave because these people, for the most part, are babies in need of enhanced nurturing.

When Texas Republicans held their convention recently, a vendor sold pins, which read, “If Obama wins, will we call it the White House?”

I can guarantee you won’t hear a condemnation of that on Fox. They’re too busy telling women how to dress.

Larry Parsons

Warner