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The comment Friday Fox Follies most often gets is how I can watch so much Fox “News” Channel and not have gone off on a wild killing spree. I’ll let you in on my secret: I watch Fox “News” as if it’s a Drawing Room Comedy. There are people always rushing in and out to say absurd things.
Occasionally, Fox “News” transcends verbal comedy with slapstick. Back to the Future Day is already in our collective past, but at the time those Foxy Friends on Fox & Friends were downright giddy. It all led up to the money shot at the end of the show, when for 24 excruciatingly painful seconds — which is an eternity in tee vee — A Fox News Host Got Trapped In A DeLorean As Huey Lewis Looked On Helplessly. However, not as painful as what came next when the vast home audience Watch A Fox News Host Accidentally Slam His Head Into A DeLorean Door.
That’s going to leave a mark.
People also ask why I would write Fox “News” criticism for the last 7 years if only to make fun of it.
I’ll let you in on a secret that smart people have already figured out: Fox “News” is dangerous. It’s dangerous because of the Torches And Pitchforks – The Insanity Of Fox News Lies In Their Rabid Fanbase. Maybe that’s why Donald Trump Woos Republicans By Speaking at a 4th Grade Level. It’s the same audience that watches the Fox “News” Channel. They need each other as Donald Trump Hands ‘Fox News Sunday’ Its Biggest Crowd In 6 Years.
It is to laugh.
SHOULD WE FEAR THE NEXT GENERATION? Pulling back the curtain The Hollywood Reporter has James and Lachlan Murdoch in First Interview Atop Fox: Politics, Roger Ailes, Dad and Plans for the Future (Exclusive). According to Mediaite’s take, Murdoch Sons Talk Fox News and Dismiss Trump Feud in New Interview:
He and his brother James talk a lot about movies and broadcast TV before getting around to Fox News. There was some reporting on whether Fox News chairman Roger Ailes would continue reporting to the elder Murdoch or not.
The younger Murdochs touted their good relationship with Ailes, but did not provide much detail on that front.
As for the elephant in the room, this is what they had to say about Donald Trump feuding with their network:
LACHLAN: We’ll always support our editors and news producers, and certainly our journalists. If someone wants to have a feud with any of them, not just Donald Trump, we’ll always support our really hard-working and decent journalists. Part of our job is to protect them.
JAMES: The strongest thought that I had when I saw the beginning of that [Trump’s attacks following the Fox News-hosted GOP debate] was just how awesome Megyn Kelly was.
LACHLAN: Yeah, she was great.
Yeah, she was great. /sarcasm
Make no mistake. Even Brain Brian Kilmeade’s benign idiocy is dangerous. During his regular phone call to the Curvy Couch Fox’s Kilmeade Encourages Donald Trump To Blame Bill Clinton For 9/11 Attacks. If it wasn’t true it would be funny when Fox’s Kilmeade Blames Hillary Clinton For Time And Expense Of Benghazi Committee. No, really! Watch:
Or the time he, as Fox Host, Takes Hillary Clinton Out Of Context To Push Debunked Benghazi Myth?
However, the entire Curvy Couch is pathologically unstable. Witness Fox & Friends freaks out over black Captain America: It’s a plot to ‘target conservatives.’ One would almost think it’s another meta-joke from The Onion when Fox News Blasts Captain America: Sam Wilson for Being Very Captain America. It took Salon, yes, Salon, to come right out and say Sorry, Fox News: Captain America has long been a liberal, anti-nationalist character.
DANGEROUS LOOFAHS: Serial liar does it again as the “Linchpin” Of Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Reagan Was Published 27 Years Ago, making it the worst scoop in the history of scoops. However, what makes The Falafel King dangerous is how he’s “watching out for you” as you can Watch O’Reilly Issue His Marching Orders To The Benghazi Committee as Bill O’Reilly Threatens GOP Sen. Kirk To ‘Wise Up’ And Support ‘Kate’s Law’ Or ‘I’m Coming After Him.’ While he expunds endless Bill O’Reilly wants San Francisco official arrested after she rips Fox and ‘hateful’ conservatives. No First Amendment for you!!! O’Reilly Argues The San Francisco Official Who Challenged Fox News On Immigration Policy Needs To Be Arrested – “If I Were The Attorney General Of The United States, I Would Immediately Place Her Under Arrest!” Watch:
Glad he’s not the AG. However, all of Fox News Is Furious That Bill O’Reilly’s “Kate’s Law” Failed To Pass The Senate, because FAIR & BALANCED.
A reminder: The only person who gets to bloviate in the No Spin Zone is the ultimate Spin Meister himself:
O’Reilly Cuts The Mic Of Guest
Defending #BlackLivesMatter
O’Reilly Cuts Mic of #BlackLivesMatter
Advocate: ‘Your Time is Done!’
Bill O’Reilly On Black Lives Matter:
‘It’s Like The Ku Klux Klan, Alright?’
TAKING HIS CUE FROM O’REILLY, FOX “NEWS” CHANNEL’S MOST DANGEROUS RACE-BAITER SAYS:
Hannity Likens The Black Lives Matter
Movement To The Ku Klux Klan
Hannity Furious Over Black Lives Matter
Town Hall, Asks If DNC Will Host The KKK
Hannity On #BlackLivesMatter Town Hall:
‘Why Don’t You Let the Klan Host a Party?’
Some of his best friends are racist. Just ask Hal from North Bergen.
BENGHAZI!!! BENGHAZI!!! BENGHAZI!!! However, the most dangerous aspect of Fox “News” is how it has managed to promote a non-scandal into a national crisis. It’s even clear to partisan James Carville: Benghazi Committee Is A ‘Creation Of Rupert Murdoch And The Koch Brothers.’
Watch: Three Years Of The Benghazi Hoax In Five Minutes.
Even after the yesterday’s hearings proved — once again — there is no there there:
Fox’s Chris Wallace Complains About
Benghazi Partisanship – From The Democrats!
Fox’s Gretchen Carlson Looks For A
‘Smoking Gun’ In Benghazi Hearing
Despite salivating for the hearings, Fox News First to Cut Away from Benghazi Hearing as CNN, MSNBC Continue Live Coverage, to cut to The Five, producing the HIGH-LARRY-US, but accurate headline: Fox News Stopped Covering Clinton’s Benghazi Testimony In Order To Bash Her.
Another dangerous Fox “News” tactic is to float a conspiracy theory when the news starts to go the wrong way. Nobody does it better than The Tarantula:
Fox Host: Biden’s Announcement Was Timed
To Cover Up An “Administration-Wide Scandal”:
ANDREA TANTAROS: And we saw today Harris, he did take a slight shot at her during his announcement. But I think ambassador’s right, he is going to be policing the triangulation of the Clintons, to make sure that Bill and Hillary don’t go off-message, like they did in 2008 to protect the legacy. But when you look at the two scandals that we’re facing, that all eyes are going to be on tomorrow, Benghazi, and the email scandal — these are administration-wide scandals. All three of them, President Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton were there that night, this is their scandal as well. This email scandal is their email scandal as well. There is no way, there is no chance, that Joe Biden, and President Obama, and their national security team did not know that she was using a private server, breaking the law. There is no way, this is why this is an administration- wide scandal that they are covering up, they are all in on this, and they are circling the wagons, I cannot stress this enough. This goes all the way to the west wing, both Benghazi, and both the email scandal, and you’re watching it play out exactly today. The timing is not a coincidence!
HARRIS FAULKNER: If what you’re saying is provable and true, then it would be really interesting.
Yes, if it were true and provable it would be interesting. Otherwise it’s just another path to the top of Bullsh*t Mountain.
PASSAGES: Because even recovering addicts should have dignity, FFF was gratified to see CNN hires jolly Islamophobe Bob Beckel, formerly of Fox News. The fans of The Five might also be glad that Former Fox News Host Bob Beckel [was] Hired By CNN because on Fox “News” comment threads he’s greatly missed . . . now that they have to listen to Geraldo Rivera.
FOX BYTES: New Data Debunks Years Of Fox News Paranoia About The Federal Budget Deficit • Howard Kurtz Excuses Fox For Repeatedly Booking Fake Ex-CIA Agent Wayne Simmons • Fox Pundits Salivate To Get Rid Of Social Security • Marco Rubio’s Interview With Fox News May Have Violated Ethics Rules • Kelly File Guest Calls ‘Illegals’ A ‘Voter Base For The Democrats’ • Fox Guest Pushes Back Against Bill O’Reilly’s Shaming Of Poor Parents • Fox Figures Applaud Trump As “A Great Negotiator” After CNBC Caves To His Debate Format Demands • Fox Still Promoting Founder Of Anti-Clinton Hate Group’s Book Of Dubious Smears • Fox News Runs With Misleading LA Times Story On Wildfires And Climate Change • On Fox, Julie Roginsky Debunks Myths Surrounding Paid Family Leave • FLASHBACK: Fox News Reported 3 Sources Confirmed VP Biden Expected to Announce Candidacy • Did White House Punk Fox News’ Ed Henry On Biden Run? • Fox Host Likens The Democratic Debate To ‘A Hostage Tape’ • Kelly File Guest Calls ‘Illegals’ A ‘Voter Base For The Democrats’
Headly Westerfield laughs at Fox “News” to keep from crying.
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