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Introducing The Friday Fox Follies

Welcome to The Friday Fox Follies, a new weekly feature at PoliticusUSA. Each week Headly Westerfield will wrap up the Fox “News” tomfoolery and shenanigans (as the dictionary defines those words) into one neat little package with a bow.
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Friday Fox Follies: Trump Tee Vee

If Fox “News” didn’t spend so much time defending Emperor Trump — and attacking his detractors (of which there are many) — there might be enough time to actually broadcast some real news. No matter, because Fox & Friends — his favourite show — quintupled down, airing another another softball interview with him this morning, which I’ll get to eventually.
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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 – 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 – 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 – Talking Terror & Trump

While Friday Fox Follies could fill every week’s column with variations on the concept that Fox News is divisive and stupid, often there are bigger fish to fry. This week that includes how Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly: [is] A Marriage of Convenience, the fact that “People Expect It”: Media Downplay NY Times Report On…
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Friday Fox Follies – Defending the Indefensible

Good news, loyal readers! There will be nothing about the Fox “News” love affair with Donald Trump this week. APRIL FOOL!!! Don’t blame me; blame Fox & Friends. While I loathe Fox & Friends, I still watch it every morning. Maybe because I was a News Writer on the highest-rated morning in Toronto for a…
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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 – 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 – Coincidental Comedy Cavalcade

Two weeks ago, in Facts Fear Fox, I admitted I watched Fox “News” as comedy. Now I learn that Fox News May Soon Be A Bigger Joke Than Ever because Kal Penn Is Developing Sitcom for ABC About a ‘Fair and Balanced’ News Channel. Remember that Penn also worked in President Obama’s White House, so…
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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 – Truth Trumps Trash

Every week Friday Fox Follies documents 7 days worth of Fox “News” shenanigans, tomfoolery, and pettyfoggery. As The Phony War on Christmas season is almost upon us, FFF noticed that Fox “News” is also engaged in phony wars on The President; Women; The Democrat [sic] Party; The Supreme Court; Hillary Clinton; The Blacks; The Gays; The First Amendment; Working People; and, as always, the Truth.

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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 – Islamophobia On Parade

As the country marks the anniversary of the attack on 9/11 with somber memorials — vowing to NEVER FORGET — this is a very good time to remind people how Fox “News” was the Bush Administration’s biggest cheerleader for taking the country to war against Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with the downing of the World Trade Center.
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Friday Fox Follies – Fox Lies Matter!!!

If Fox “News” has not been trying to foment a Race War, it’s doing a pretty good imitation. The negative way it portrays Black folk, as opposed to the respect with which it gives White folk, has been a cornerstone of the station since it went on the air.
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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: 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 – Dysfunctional Duggar Defense

This week, Friday Fox Follies has been thinking about the golden days of Yellow Journalism when newspapers took circulation wars to new heights with lurid stories. Proving only the technology has changed, Jim Bob, Michelle Duggar Open Up to Megyn Kelly About Their Son Josh Molesting His Sisters is fishing for ratings, as opposed to any truth.
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Friday Fox Follies – Fox & Frenzy

Standard weekly operating procedure for Friday Fox Follies is to wake up at the crack of Fox and Friends First (no pun intended) to collate the notes that will make up this week’s laugh riot. As I sort and give it shape, I also sit through Fox & Friends to see what venom is being injected into the body politic today.
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Friday Fox Follies – Comedy Club Crisis

The news that Fox’s Greg Gutfeld To Host His Own Comedy Show has caused crisis of confidence. Heretofore Friday Fox Follies treated all of Fox “News” as a meta-comedy/reality show — a cross between The Colbert Report and the short-lived The Joe Schmo Show. Maybe only Greg Gutfeld is in on the joke.
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Friday Fox Follies – Oh, Those Obamas!

Friday Fox Follies was sure this week’s column would be a slam dunk after Michelle Obama’s forceful speech on race at Tuskegee University, aka Speechifying While Black™. But then her husband had to open his big mouth: Obama Swipes at Fox: Pushing Narrative That Poor People Are ‘Leeches’. No biggie. Add a few words here and there and — voila! — an All Obama!!! All The Time!!! column. However, that plan was dashed as Conservatives Quickly Try to Turn Stephanopoulos into the ‘Next Brian Williams.’

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