It may well say "News" on the tin, but that is definitely not a Ronseal style indication of what you're going to get. Indeed Fox News is the diametric opposite of a news channel. It is a single point of view impersonating the news, and that single point of view belongs to Rupert Murdoch, or Beelzebub as I like to call him. Sir Harold Evans, the editor of The Sunday Times between 1967 and 1981, described Murdoch as "evil incarnate" in his evidence, under oath, to the Leveson Inquiry. The playwright Dennis Potter named his cancer after him. Roger Simon, the chief political columnist of Politico, recalls a conversation with Murdoch after he had purchased the newspaper he worked for. I dont understand anything about American sport, confessed Murdoch, but I know the coloureds like it. Murdoch was able to buy The Times and The Sunday Times in 1981 without the purchase being referred to the Monopolies Commission having had Woodrow Wyatt act as an intermediary to fix matters with Margaret Thatcher. He expanded his media empire further when he bought 20th Century Fox and Metromedia Television in the mid '80s, and then in 1996 he founded the Fox News Channel in reaction to what he perceived as a liberal bias in the U.S. news media. The channel's tag lines "Fair & Balanced" and "We Report. You Decide" have become an ironic shorthand for ultra right-wing propaganda. In the lead up to the illegal war in Iraq Fox News relentlessly talked up 45 minute threat from WMDs, the non-existent link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, and cheerled for the invasion and occupation because Murdoch believed that: "The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy... would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country." As I said, Beelzebub. Rupert Murdoch's emissary here on earth is Bill O'Reilly. He is the host of the popular show The O'Reilly Factor (I've just checked the ratings and his audience is three or four times the size of Piers Morgan's show on CNN) and is the puppet through whom Murdoch speaks. O'Reilly is the primary reason why Fox News is referred to as Faux News. He is a world-class ranter and rhetorician who deals almost exclusively in controversy. Whilst he is as narrow-minded, purblind and bigoted as Murdoch, he has a hair-trigger temper which makes his interviews completely absorbing because in addition to always being in the wrong he is perpetually on the verge of exploding with rage. Bill O'Reilly is so over the top he eliminates the need for sarcasm when discussing his work, so I won't bother. Instead here are just five of his most shockingly offensive moments.