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Friday Fox Follies — Chasing the Great White Ailes
When his corpulence, Roger Ailes, died I had nothing bad to say about him that I hadn’t already said during his lifetime. In print.
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Friday Fox Follies – Ailes Whale That Ends Well
The new Fox “News” sans Roger Ailes looks and sounds very much like the sly old Fox. However, some Fox folks no longer talk to each other.
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Friday Fox Follies – For What Ailes You
As FFF is fond of pointing out, ratings is not truth. It’s ironic that Ailes compares Fox “News” to 2 fictional channels and a sports network, the models of which Fox resembles far more than a “News” channel.
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Friday Fox Follies: Fair & Balanced No More
Hell froze over this week when Fox “News” said it will no longer lie about the widely mocked, but totally empty slogan, Fair and Balanced.
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Friday Fox Follies: Comey Comedy Cavalcade
Let’s get the most important news out of the way first: Fox & Friends has a brand new 2-story set, new show opening, new curvy couch, but it’s the same old crap from the Three Stooges that sit thereupon. How can you tell it was the same lie-filled propaganda? Take it from an expert on…
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Friday Fox Follies – Climate Calamity
Odd that Fox “News” is not taking credit for Emperor Trump scuttling the Paris Accord. Yet it had more sway than the First Daughter Ivanka.
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Friday Fox Follies — Hannity Hates Honesty
The news continues to be bad for Fox: ratings keep sliding into the porcelain dumper with each Nielsen score. Are people tired of the lies?
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Friday Fox Follies – Putting the Comey in Comedy
Only in Bizarro World — aka the Fox “News” Channel — is the firing of James Comey a reason to salivate over the Hillary Clinton email scandal being reopened.
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Friday Fox Follies – Where the Bill Don’t Shine
The Fox sitcom provides laughs this week with new discrimination lawsuits, offers of immunity, & a comedy coda from Bill O’Reilly’s loofah.
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Friday Fox Follies – Family Vacation at Watters’ World
A normal week at Fox as new Roger Ailes and Sean Hannity accusations surface & Jesse Watters takes a vacation after a crude sexual innuendo
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Friday Fox Follies – A Great Disturbance in the Factor
Who will this reporter write about now that The Falafel King has been fired? There’s Tucker Carlson, Jesse Watters, and F&F. I’ll be fine.
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Friday Fox Follies – Schadenfreude Shuffle
The only story that really matters this week is who will replace Loofah Lad if he doesn’t come back from his [alleged] pre-planned vacation.
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Friday Fox Follies – Fox “News” Goes to War
True story: Emperor Trump defends Bill O’Reilly after NYT reveals $13 million dollars paid by sexual harasser & Fox to silence 5 accusers.
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Friday Fox Follies – Swamp Things
A swamp is “an area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects.” Just like the Fox “News” swamp, especially the lying part
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Friday Fox Follies – The Unfairness Doctrine
The Unfairness Doctrine will be Emperor Trump’s greatest legacy because it’s unfair to blame him for anything from the Fox “News†Channel.
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Friday Fox Follies – Brer Fox and the Tar Baby
These days the Uncle Remus stories are considered racist by some. Just like Fox “News†and Emperor Trump.
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Friday Fox Follies – The Muddy Waters Sessions
With Fox “News” spending so much time faking good news about Emperor Trump, there’s barely any time left to attack Democrats. Just kidding.
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Friday Fox Follies – Fake Friends
In yesterday’s press conference from Bizarro World, Emperor Trump gave a tip’o’the toupee to the most insidious morning show ever devised.
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Friday Fox Follies – Putting the “Liar” in Familiar
Twenty years of Fox “News” Fakery and claiming only it tells the truth, created an Emperor Trump and an audience, both impervious to facts.
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Friday Fox Follies – Everything Old Is New Again!
We’ve now had 20 years of presidents to judge what FAIR & BALANCED really means and Fox is prepared to help Trump gaslight the entire country
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Friday Fox Follies – Trump Comedy Gold
In a week when Der Googalizer taught ‘Merka about golden showers, another sexual harassment suit against Bill O’Reilly almost disappears.
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Friday Fox Follies – Newsical Chairs
2017 opens on a high note for Friday Fox Follies. Now that she’s NBC bound, Tucker Carlson, the personality I take the most delight in skewering, has been given Megyn Kelly’s show on the Fox “News” Channel. Here’s the GRAND announcement from the whiny man/boy himself, with my [partial] transcription: We began this show at…
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Friday Fox Follies – The Faking of the President, 2016*
When Russian Hacking is outlawed, only outlaws will defend Russian Hacking. OH! WAIT! Never mind.
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Friday Fox Follies – Fighting Fake News With More Fake News
Fox “News” knows when it layers fake news on top of fake news it becomes real news to a brain-dead, incurious audience that doesn’t Google.
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Friday Fox Follies – The Fox “News” Administration Shapes Up
After president elect Donald Trump finishes his Fox “News” hires, will there be anyone at the Fake News Network to lie to the Right Wing?
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Friday Fox Follies – Happy Trumpsgiving!
This week Friday Fox Follies exposes the 2 biggest lies told on Fox, interesting internal internecine insurgencies, and the usual hypocrisy.
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Friday Fox Follies – Fake News, Fox “News” and News
As the media looks at the scourge of Fake News, Fox “News” pretends it does not traffic in mendacity and blames Macedonian teens instead.
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Friday Fox Follies – The Politics of Political Correctness
With the election over and the Politically Incorrect President Elect choosing his cabinet, Fox “News” now calls for Political Correctness.
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Friday Fox Follies – FBI Fumbles
With 4 days before the election, Fox falls for poorly-sourced FBI leaks, elevates Tucker Carlson, and becomes fodder for Megyn Kelly’s book.
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Friday Fox Follies – Megyn & Murdoch’s Money
As Megyn Kelly garners headlines for her feminism or lack thereof, Rupert Murdoch seems desperate to keep her.
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Friday Fox Follies – All Joking Aside
Finding the funniest things on Fox “News” in any given week is the top challenge for Friday Fox Follies. That and not using 20,000 words.
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Saturday Fox Follies – The Anniversary Waltz
The Fox “News” Channel was under no obligation to confirm that it is racist to the bone during its 20th Anniversary week, but it did.
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Friday Fox Follies – D’bate, D’polls, and D’fense of D’onald
Donald Trump has no better friends on Fox than his Foxy Friends, unless you count Bill O’Reilly. Or Sean Hannity.
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Friday Fox Follies – Birthing The Birther
The biggest Folly this week (even though it happened last week and Fox has been trying to ignore it ever since) is when Donald Trump dropped his quixotic Birther conspiracy. While Fox “News” was the Birther midwife, it was ex-CEO Roger Ailes that knocked her up. This week Full Frontal gave Samantha Bee 2 delicious…
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Friday Fox Follies – Curvy Couch Conspiracy
Donald Trump took heat for alleging a conspiracy by the Flint pastor who shut him down, but Fair & Balanced Fox & Friends put him up to it.
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Friday Fox Follies – Satan Catches Cold! Fox Issues Rare Apology!
Hell officially froze over when Fox issued an unprecedented apology for having treated Carlson like garbage.
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Friday Fox Follies – The Quarterback Sneak
49ers QB Colin Kaepernick has given the Fox “News” Outrage Machine a rare two-fer: Patriotism and Race. What could possible go wrong?
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Friday Fox Follies – Is Fox “News” Imploding?
The steady drip, drip,drip of the Roger Ailes sexual harassment scandal is now a flood as Andrea Tantaros drops the juiciest lawsuit yet.
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Friday Fox Follies – The Donald Trump Non-Apology Tour
A non-apology from Donald Trump, more hilarity from Hannity, and another look inside the Fox “News” boardroom, rounds out this week’s FFF.
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Friday Fox Follies: Hack Hannity Humiliates Himself . . . Again & Again
How many times did Sean Hannity humiliate himself this week? SPOILER ALERT: You don’t have enough fingers to count them on one hand.
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Friday Fox Follies – All The Trump; All The Time!
If the Fox “News” defense of Donald Trump’s gaffes doesn’t work, they are already helping him blame his loss on the mythical voter fraud.
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Friday Fox Follies – The Same Old Same Old
The meat puppets at Fox News are breathlessly fomenting anger and resentment at Islam, President Obama, and Gretchen Carlson
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Friday Fox Follies – Trump Trashes Truth & Fox Follows
Was Donald Trump’s meltdown at the press just a tactic to avoid bad Trump University news? It sure changed the topic in a hurry. Read on…
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Friday Fox Follies: Comedy, Cuckoldry, & Clinton Cash
“Bill O’Reilly: Cuckold” is a strange chapter in Loofah Lad’s sex life. The Falafel King must admire King Henry VIII by now. Read on . . .
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Friday Fox Follies – Facebook Fibs & Trump’s Taxes
If it’s not defending Donald Trump on tacos, it’s defending him on taxes. Meanwhile, they’ve got the nerve to accuse Facebook of bias. Rich!
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Friday Fox Follies — Watters, Watters, Everywhere, But Not A Brain To Think
The highest ratings — and therefore the biggest lies — on the Fox “News†Channel belong to that of Bill O’Reilly
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Friday Fox Follies – Spoiler Alert!!!
Worst! Cliffhanger!! Ever!!! Trump signs onto Megyn Kelly’s prime time special. Will she hold his feet to the fire? Don’t make Follies laugh
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Friday Fox Follies – Fox Fails At Fair
Fair & Balanced??? No matter the topic, free-thinkers know that Fox “News†will take a side — just as they know it will be the wrong side.
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Friday Fox Follies – Donald Detente
Megyn Kelly met with Trump, which almost broke the Internet, and It looks more and more like Fox “News†has chosen its candidate
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Friday Fox Follies: Blackmail & Backstage Buddies
Backstage blackmail? Is vanilla milkshake a secret BFF code? Is Megyn Kelly stirring the pot? Who went to Cuba? More drama than a soap opera
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Friday Fox Follies – Blaming Brussels Bombs on Obama
Fox “News” finally hits back at Trump, then attacks President Obama’s Cuba trip and for not rushing home when the bombs exploded in Brussels
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Friday Fox Follies (Saturday Edition) – The Trump News Network
As Fox “News” morphs into the Trump News Network, one Fox personality after another scrambles to jump into the Trump Dunk Tank
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Friday Fox Follies: Presidential Private Parts Politics
Roger Ailes rejects Marco Rubio, so Fox turns back to Donald Trump. Then Mitt Romney demolishes Trump before the debate. Hilarity ensues!
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Friday Fox Follies: The Human Race vs GOP Race
Fox “News” Channel plays the Race Card while it promotes the GOP Race over the entire Human Race. More White Privilege on display.
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Friday Fox Follies – Atheists In A Fox Hole
According to a new Poll: Fox News Most Trusted Source for ‘News or Commentary’, a finding that makes intelligent people shake their heads. Yet, the same poll has Donald Trump leading all other GOP contenders, which speaks to the innate stupidity of those polled. However, according to the cheeky reportage at AdWeek: ‘Undecided’ Toppled as…
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Friday Fox Follies – Bubble, Bubble, Trumpian Trouble
IRONY ALERT: The Trump that Fox “News” built is bursting the insular bubble that Fox “News” took the last 20 years to build.
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Friday Fox Follies – It’s Megyn’s World, We Just Live In It
Celebrating a dubious anniversary this week, FOX News Channel announced 20 years ago. Adweek would like to tell you How a ‘Half-Baked Little Operation’ Turned Into a Billion Dollar News Channel, but nothing was said about #FoxLies. Whenever I point to a lack of honesty at Fox “News” people respond with, “But…but…but, RATINGS!” as if…
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Friday Fox Follies – Trump Trumps Chumps
Megyn Kelly, the GOP debate, and Donald Trump as the elephant in the room as the frenemies just can’t get along
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Friday Fox Follies – Fear & Resentment on Tee Vee
Is the Fear & Resentment net taking particular delight as the National Review trashes the Conservative cred of Fox creation Donald Trump?
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Friday Fox Follies – Funny Is As Funny Does
There’s are so many unintended laughs on the Fox “News” Channel that maybe it’s not just comedy but meta-comedy because the laugh’s on you.
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Friday Fox Follies – A New Year’s To Remember
Now that the Fox “News” Phony War on Christmas is over for another year, let’s look at the network’s War on New Year’s Eve.
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Friday Fox Follies – Hating Obama, Muslims, and Truth
This is the week we finally learned what lines cannot be crossed at Fox “News” when trashing President Obama. Who knew?
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Friday Fox Follies – Guns, Gutfeld, and Geraldo
Compare and contrast how two mass murders, less than a week apart, were treated by the Fox “News” Channel.
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Friday Fox Follies – Facts Fear Fox
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.
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Friday Fox Follies – Massacring The Truth
The only thing keeping the Donald Trump and Fox “News” detente from leading this week’s Friday Fox Follies, is the school massacre in Oregon
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Friday Fox Follies – Trump’s Timely Tirade
As a certain xenophobic and racist presidential candidate felt himself slipping in the polls, Donald Trump Says He Will Boycott Fox News “For The Foreseeable Future,” which ensures his xenophobic and racists supporters will continue to trash Fox “News,” further fracturing the audience.
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Friday Fox Follies – Morning Media Murders
No sooner had Friday Fox Follies resigned itself to another column about the dust-up between Donald Trump and the Fox “News” Channel that a murder and morning television changed everything. Naturally while Fox accused the Left of politicizing these murders, it did everything in its power to politicize these murders.
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Friday Fox Follies – Fibs, Frankenstein, and Fabulosity
There was a great synchronicity in the Cable Tee Vee Firmament this week. As Jon Stewart stopped climbing Bullsh*t Mountain, an avalanche called Donald J. Trump proved — once and for all — that “Fair and Balanced” is nothing but an empty slogan covering for all the other lies Fox “News” tells. Adding to the schadenfreude on the Left? Trump is the Frankenstein monster built in the birther boardroom of the Fox “News” Channel.
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Friday Fox Follies – Donald’s Demagoguery Dilemma
Back in the day, before television, one of this country’s greatest demagogues was Father Charles Coughlin, broadcasting from a studio in the tower at the Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Michigan. At first he espoused a Social Justice platform and supported President Roosevelt’s New Deal. However, as the years went by, Coughlin…
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Friday Fox Follies – The Trump Bump
Is Donald J. Trump the Manchurian Candidate, here to assassinate any semblance of an orderly election process? If so Fox “News” can proudly say, “We built that.”
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Friday Fox Follies: Foxy Friends’ Fibs
There’s so much going on, but this week’s Friday Fox Follies starts with How “Fox & Friends” became the most repugnant show on Fox News, which is saying a lot considering the competition.
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Friday Fox Follies – Charleston Church Charade
Each week Friday Fox Follies’ biggest challenge (aside from too much crazy for one column) is creating humor from the Fox “News” tomfoolery and shenanigans, with varying degrees of success. However, the news this week broke my heart.
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Friday Fox Follies: Murdoch Media Machinations
They say to kill a snake, you must cut off its head. Which is why less-informed Fox Haters cheered at the news Rupert Murdoch to Step Down as CEO of 21st Century Fox. Meanwhile, Megyn Kelly defended sex abuse and attacked a child over the “indefensible” actions of a police officer.
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Friday Fox Follies – Facts, Fibs, And Folderol
What depresses me is Fox ratings versus a Truth-O-Meter. Once again the Tampa Bay Times Pundit Fact is checking in on our TV network scorecards.
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Friday Fox Follies – Tucker? Don’t Even Know ‘Er!
Last week Tucker Carlson proved he isn’t a real journalist (which may be why he’s on Fox). This week he proved he’s running a frat house, a topic in the news lately for systemic sexism, not to mention racism.
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Friday Fox Follies – ‘Merkin Sniper Edition
For the umpteenth year in a row, Fox News more wrong than ever: New Politifact review finds pundits spewing mostly lies.
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Friday Fox Follies In Black And White
If the last 2 weeks of reporting and punditry tell us anything, Fox “News” is willing write off one side of the racial divide for generations; the same way the Republicans have written off the Latinos that Fox “News” is hypocritically trying to attract.
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Friday Fox Follies – The Midterm Election Edition
The recent midterm elections has Fox “News” as giddy as Sarah Palin in front of a microphone.
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Friday Fox Follies – Diseased Central
What’s more contagious than Ebola with absolutely no cure? As we head into next week’s election, Fox “News” has been stricken with a near-fatal form of Obama Derangement Syndrome. Worse: Quarantines won’t work against it — unless you switch off your tee vee.
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Friday Fox Follies – A Shakespearean Festival
The death of Ben Bradlee got me thinking about what passes for the sorry state of journalism these days. Watergate reporting may have been the high-water mark, but that should also remind us that Richard Nixon’s media architect was Roger Ailes, current president of the Fox “News” Channel, the low water mark.
