Prayers filled with gossip, and Fox News Porn.

There is a certain kind of prayer (or prayer request) that makes me mad! It is the kind of prayer where a person actually doesn't want to pray for the other person, or persons, rather they simply want to gossip! Have you ever heard prayers of that nature? I sure have! "Oh Lord, please help sister Mary, she is drinking again today, and she hasn't pad the rent, but she could afford to buy those new shoes I saw her wearing when she was dodging work on Tuesday afternoon...."

These prayers are quite easy to spot, since their focuss is all wrong! The focus is not on care, concern, or God's help, but rather on the juicy details of someone else's life...

Well, Fox News has just been busted for something similar. Here's the story:

Fox News Porn is a collection of raunchy outtakes from the Fox "News" Network, where hypocritical prigs like Bill O'Reilly revel in prurience while condemning it. This condemnation is largely indistinguishable from a celebration -- as when Sean Hannity visits a brothel and asks snotty, explicit questions of the workers there while his camera lovingly pans across their bare flesh.

The site is the creation of filmmaker Robert Greenwald, whose documentary Outfoxed is a masterful takedown of the Murdoch empire. Fox News Porn created a brief but spectacular net-storm when an overzealous moderator for Digg took the site off the Digg front page and threatened to suspend Greenwald's account for violating Digg's Terms of Service. However, a day later, Digg management reversed the decision. In founder Kevin Rose's words, "Our fault. Digg on." Link (Thanks, Kevin and Pete!)

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