MSNBC vs. FOX NEWS

After watching two different political shows on TV it opened my eyes to a whole new level of politics. One of the shows I watched was the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC and the other show was the Glenn Beck show on FOX news. Both shows were very opinionated and had completely different views on politics. Maddow's show was a liberal based show and she talked about the issue on immigration especially in Arizona. In my opinion she seemed to have a good argument because she backed her opinion with facts and stats that she acquired from the border patrol bureau. I found her show really interesting because she raised some really good points about why the immigration law in Arizona isn't effective and how it ha actually caused more of a mess than do any good. For example, she showed a bar graph that showed illegal immigration is down 20% from the year 2000-2005. She also showed us that some of the Arizona governor's partners were heads of immigration correctional facilities, which means that the Governor not only is trying to pass this law to keep immigrants but is also doing it to keep her partners happy. The other show I watched was the Glenn Beck show on Fox news. Beck's show was much more conservative and was the complete opposite of Maddow in every way possible. Beck was criticizing President Obama for pretty much everything that has gone wrong in the past year. Beck also called Obama a Muslim and was warning us that if Obama wasn't impeached that the US would be heading for some serious trouble. It seemed to me that Beck had some pretty outrageous ideas about politics and I found them to be kind of crazy, but he did have video to try and back his opinion but even then I still wasn't convinced that what he was saying was true. Overall both shows were very informational and I really enjoyed watching both of them. Hopefully one day we can see the two sides of the political spectrum become closer in ideals and see eye to eye about issues going on in the world and US.