The Malignancy At Fox News, Can It Be Cured?

[Eric]

Better late than never?

It seems like a split in the party is inevitable at some point to somewhat normalize and get themselves back to their core values, which they've basically thrown out the window to placate a megalomaniac madman, they've been on the fringes for quite a while now.

 

[Yoused]

When the site posts headlines like Kyle Zimmerhouse reveals his first meal after being released from prison, you know there can be no hope for them.

(The lad was never in "prison". Jail, perhaps, not prison.)

 

[GermanSuplex]

Watching little Tucker's rewriting of January 6 has been a sight to behold. On one hand, they try to keep themselves the more respectable of the Big Three Trump Brown-nosing Networks (the others being OAN and Newsmax), but their primetime lineup is about as racist and full of white grievance as you can get. If people showed up to Fox headquarters doing the same thing they did January 6, you'd see them change their tune pretty goddamn quick.

 

[JayMysteri0]

When you just completely lean into disinformation.

Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 'Agent Provocateur' Is A Big Tucker Fan And An Amateur Cardinals Mascot

“If I’m wrong, so be it, bro," Carlson's guest said after he'd told Fox News viewers that the St. Louis baseball booster was "clearly a law enforcement officer."

www.huffpost.com

Viewers of Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show were presented this week with a very explosive charge: that a man in red face paint and a “Keep America Great” hat at the front lines of the U.S. Capitol attack is “clearly a law enforcement officer” and an “agent provocateur” who infiltrated the Jan. 6 mob to make Donald Trump’s supporters look bad.

“Let’s put his picture back on the screen,” Carlson said Monday on his show as an image appeared beside him. “Who is this person? Why hasn’t he been charged? That’s a very simple ask.”

Carlson has repeatedly and falsely suggested that the Capitol riot was actually a false flag event, meaning it was staged by shadowy government authorities in order to persecute Trump fans.

“Rally Runner” is somewhat of a local celebrity in St. Louis. A photo of him was featured in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch in October 2013, when the Cardinals reached the World Series. The man, who did not provide a name, told the paper his running “strengthens the spirit for the Cardinals to get the energy to win.” (They lost to the Red Sox in six games that year.) He also told St. Louis magazine in 2016 that running around the stadium was “spiritual,” that his “memory is horrible” and that he’d like to publish his journal as a book.

“Rally Runner” has built up a decent Facebook following, and, like millions of his fellow Facebook users who supported the former president, he also got swept up in lies that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from Trump. He documented it all online, including his trip to Washington for the Jan. 6 rally that became a riot. He appears in many pictures taken that day — standing out in his signature red face paint, with a red “Keep America Great” hat standing in for his usual Cardinals cap. Online sleuths investigating the U.S. Capitol attack have nicknamed him #RedFace45 and tipped HuffPost off about his identity after Carlson’s show Monday.

McBride, contacted by HuffPost and informed about the man’s actual identity, at first stuck with his claim.

“I don’t believe that at all,” he said at first. “Amateur mascot or not, we maintain our position.”

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

I just realized something. Some people say Fox is fine with straight news and it’s their opinion show hosts that are the problem, but plenty of people get all their news online. Unless there’s a real news story they can’t avoid, the top stories on the site are nearly 100% propaganda and spin. This isn’t to say that no other news source does this type thing, but they really go out of their way to add “radical” “socialist” or “extremist” descriptors in headlines whenever possible. They're also big fans of minority mug shots. They might as well start every headline with “This is really going to piss you off!” because that is the seed they are planting before you even know what the article is about.

 

[lizkat]

When you just completely lean into disinformation.

I just realized something. Some people say Fox is fine with straight news and it’s their opinion show hosts that are the problem, but plenty of people get all their news online. Unless there’s a real news story they can’t avoid, the top stories on the site are nearly 100% propaganda and spin. This isn’t to say that no other news source does this type thing, but they really go out of their way to add “radical” “socialist” or “extremist” descriptors in headlines whenever possible. They're also big fans of minority mug shots. They might as well start every headline with “This is really going to piss you off!” because that is the seed they are planting before you even know what the article is about.

Yeah the Fox execs disgust me for doubling down if they're caught out on misstatement of facts or simply on one of their Big Lie gigs.

At most they'll brush it off, the way they did in 2009 when called out on a wildly incorrect set of labels on a map of the Middle East: the aired map was a masterpiece that "disappeared" Iraq from the region entirely, and relocated a hapless Egypt from the (intentionally left blank?) hinterlands of North Africa to lie instead squashed into Iraq's actual location between Syria and Iran. Called out on it, they hemmed and hawed and finally landed on something along line of "Nothing in our license requires us to broadcast factual information". OK then, thanks for letting us know...

Meanwhile imagine if one of the traditional networks went down that road. Or the mainstream print papers. The latter get called out on stuff all the time even though meticulously responding to demands for corrections as minute (and not to suggest they're trivial) as the misspelling of someone's middle name in a particular piece.

 

[Hrafn]

I just realized something. Some people say Fox is fine with straight news and it’s their opinion show hosts that are the problem, but plenty of people get all their news online. Unless there’s a real news story they can’t avoid, the top stories on the site are nearly 100% propaganda and spin. This isn’t to say that no other news source does this type thing, but they really go out of their way to add “radical” “socialist” or “extremist” descriptors in headlines whenever possible. They're also big fans of minority mug shots. They might as well start every headline with “This is really going to piss you off!” because that is the seed they are planting before you even know what the article is about.

OMG. You _seriously_ _just_ realized that Fox is _not_ a _valid_ _news_ _source_??@#*&(#*&%(

1+1+1 equals 47

 

[JayMysteri0]

 

[Huntn]

delete

 

[GermanSuplex]

So when will Fox News fire their folks for being cozy with the Trump White House staff? Why would Meadows be texting with Fox News people during an insurrection?

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

This man lives in the paranoid alternate universe of Fox News — so you don't have to

Researcher Andrew Lawrence marinates daily in the racist terror and apocalypse porn of Tucker Carlson and friends

www.salon.com

 

[SuperMatt]

So when will Fox News fire their folks for being cozy with the Trump White House staff? Why would Meadows be texting with Fox News people during an insurrection?

They are scrubbing the texts to see who else was texting Meadows and then hire them to replace Chris Wallace.

 

[JayMysteri0]

So we are getting closer to proof positive that Faux can't be cured.

Geraldo made the choice to confront Hannity over the leaked texts, and has become public enemy #1 with the base.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1470792271058644994/

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1470945535771262977/

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1470896755214635014/

Bonus:
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1470832605016768521/

 

[Huntn]

So we are getting closer to proof positive that Faux can't be cured.

Geraldo made the choice to confront Hannity over the leaked texts, and has become public enemy #1 with the base.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1470792271058644994/

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1470945535771262977/

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1470896755214635014/

Bonus:
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1470832605016768521/

Ultimately Fox under current ownership has packed itself with a basket of deplorables who will defend the Republican Party no matter what it does.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Ultimately Fox under current ownership has packed itself with a basket of deplorables who will defend the Republican Party no matter what it does.

I think it's impossible to rise in the ranks at Fox without first passing a test proving that you are a sociopath. It’s one thing to have a difference of opinion politically. It’s quite another to have a business model that’s entirely and knowingly making people unhinged to the point of violence. Not a segment can go by without this goal in mind.

 

[Thomas Veil]

...a basket of deplorables...

Remember when this was thought to have been a supremely unwise thing for Hillary Clinton to say?

In retrospect it reads more like laser-focused accuracy.

As far as the goon squad at Faux News, this is a new nadir for them. They are craven, reprehensible propagandists, and anyone suggesting they resemble anything close to journalists should be, in the words of Scrooge, boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Just trying to keep it seasonal here.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

At least Fox is consistent with their invasion of privacy outrage over their leaked texts showing them being less than 100% loyal propagandists. It’s not like they’ve ever used leaked texts or emails against anybody. Oh wait.

We all know “lock her up!” was the result of Hillary going “I did everything you accuse me of and you can’t do anything about it. Eat a bag of dicks.” It was a stunning moment of transparency and honesty.

 

[Yoused]

Eat a bag of dicks

There are people in the Seattle area who

Spoiler: might take that wrongly

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1471284444275298306/

 

[Yoused]

Well, this is interesting: they were actually making an effort to defray the Betty White booster shot nonsense. There might be a glimmer of hope after all.