Fox Derangement Syndrome
Fox Derangement Syndrome is the acute onset of paranoia and the loss of rationality in otherwise normal people in reaction to the news, opinion shows, and very existence of the Fox News Channel. An early example of FDS occured on the December 1, 2003 broadcast of Hardball with Chris Matthews, in which liberal Democrat political commentator Chris Matthews asked liberal Democrat politican Howard Dean, "Would you break up Fox?". To which Dean replied, "On ideological grounds, absolutely yes."[1]
Political commentator Michelle Malkin mentioned the condition on her website on February 16, 2006[2] and there is a brief article on the subject on the website of U.S. News & World Report.[3] Journalist Bernard Goldberg devotes and entire chapter of his book, Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve to FDS. As a result, the book has been attacked by liberals such as blogger Scoobie Davis[4]
People afficted with the condition: