Fox News Obituary Trashes Kurt Vonnegut

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The Fox News obituary of Kurt Vonnegut airing the day after his death seemed particularly harsh to me, but I may be especially sensitive because I’m a big Vonnegut fan. I’ve uploaded some clips from the Fox News obituary for you to see and decide for yourself. FYI, I tracked down the origin of the ancient Greek admonition “Not to speak evil of the dead” to Diogenes Laertius quoting Chilon (pictured at the beginning of this video) quoting Aesop at: www.classicpersuasion.org The photo of Chilon itself comes from Nicolas at www.greecetaxi.gr and can be found at http Finally, this video also qualifies as the latest addition to my YouTube playlist titled “Fox News Bias” at: www.youtube.com

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Comments

  1. August 8th, 2010 | 5:44 pm

    FUCK FOX NEWS!

  2. August 11th, 2010 | 9:55 pm

    1. No. It would not be in their nature. Fox News = Faux Spews.
    2. Vonnegut!

  3. August 14th, 2010 | 7:10 pm

    I clicked on this video not really thinking it was going to be much….. But that is simply ridiculous. I mean if anything Fox News, and i use “news” lightly, just proved KV right about so many things. Especially his view of major politics, major parties, and the overall nature of human beings.

  4. August 17th, 2010 | 3:42 am

    “Vonnegut, who failed at suicide 23 years ago…” WTF?

  5. August 19th, 2010 | 1:47 am

    your attitude sucks….you sound like a teenager

  6. August 22nd, 2010 | 3:51 am

    disgusted . fox is scum- - -

  7. August 24th, 2010 | 10:32 am

    Wow.

    Fuck Fox News.

  8. August 26th, 2010 | 9:04 pm

    when i clicked on this video, i didn’t expect such a disrespectful, chauvinistic, and tasteless bashing of a great literary mind. i mean, sure, he did do some…strange things. but fox did NOT have the right to publicly berate a deceased man who made a huge impact on satirical and comical literature. I expect better than that from fox and i am deeply disappointed.

  9. August 29th, 2010 | 7:28 pm

    So Fox News will trash on a great American Author like Kurt Vonnegut and they’ll defend a piece of racist shit like Jerry Falwell…

    This just goes to show you Fox News’ agenda. They are liars. “Fair and Balanced” my ass. This should be a fuckin crime, lying to the public this bad. False advertising? Something! Scumbags.

  10. August 31st, 2010 | 7:57 pm

    Kurt was amazing! RIP

  11. September 4th, 2010 | 2:21 am

    Kurt is up in heaven now.

  12. September 5th, 2010 | 9:15 am

    Even Kilgore Trout would be upset about this.

  13. September 7th, 2010 | 3:15 pm

    June 2nd 2010..how is it possible that they just keep getting bigger and more influential
    It was another month on top of cable news for Fox News. How much? On all of cable, FNC was 4th in prime time, MSNBC 24th, CNN 30th and HLN 34th.

  14. September 10th, 2010 | 7:18 pm

    Ugh, I feel ill watching that

  15. September 12th, 2010 | 1:24 am

    everybody knows fox news is a joke, this is just disgusting though.. fuck television, fuck fox news, R.I.P. KURT VONNEGUT!

  16. September 15th, 2010 | 6:24 am

    I am conservative mostly but i do agree with some liberal terms and i am a fan of vonnegut’s way of showing how things are in life through (please don’t take offense) somewhat random ideas. All I need to say is this: THAT WAS AN AWFUL WAY TO DISTINGUISH A GREAT AUTHOR!

  17. September 18th, 2010 | 8:33 am

    fuck fox news

  18. September 19th, 2010 | 5:44 am

    god dam fox, there so fuckin ridiculous

  19. September 20th, 2010 | 10:17 pm

    kurt vonnegut stood up to the nazis, witnessed the horrors of ww2, and served his country honorably, received a purple heart, and fox news is a fault for not reporting that. for this i apologize, and will always honor his memory. RIP.

  20. September 22nd, 2010 | 3:44 am

    So Fox loves to talk about how great the military is and how all soldiers are “heroes,” but when it comes to Kurt Vonnegut, a soldier in WW2, a war prisoner of the Nazis, they make no mention of it. Fuck Fox News and their constant hypocritical bullshit.

  21. September 25th, 2010 | 2:19 am

    what the fuck. i’m so glad you posted this..

  22. September 25th, 2010 | 7:42 am

    Wow that was horrible. I’ve never even read any of his books, but there’s no excuse for that. That could hardly even be called an obituary, just an opportunity to drag a dead man’s legacy through the mud.

  23. September 26th, 2010 | 11:02 am

    fuck you foxnews….

  24. September 29th, 2010 | 3:09 am

    kurt was a socialist who praised and respected the terrorist as heros struggling with the evils of western civilization. RIP

  25. October 1st, 2010 | 4:22 am

    @ldaccardi
    psh