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Thursday, March 02, 2023

 

FUX FOLLIES

Rupert, Tucker, Sean, and the bottom of the barrel

THE ABSURD TIMES

ILLUSTRATION

The last illustration Hugh Rallinasky did for us before his lamented death. On the bright side, he managed to escape almost the entire Trump administration.

What the Fox?

By

Dr. Faustus

So far as I can remember, we never did soil our pages with an analysis of FUX News, but somehow it keeps creeping in like an infectious slime that Capitalism can never cure, but sometimes reveal in its blatant absurdity. We can assure you that not one item here is false, each fact is substantiated by at least two, and sometimes thousands, sources. Believe us when we say that we have not the imagination to create this concoction of idiocies and fallacies on our own. We can accept the notion that sometimes a reaction occurs before an action, we can imagine multi-verses, we can accept the sudden creation of all existence as a sudden explosion with nothing before it, but the events of FUX News are completely beyond our imagination. Furthermore, we are not usual or routine FUX consumers, but we have had enough exposure now to say everything in one place (here) and then let the thing writhe to a deserved death. We will try to take a chronological approach even though factual documentation has been produced in the last couple of years or so. (The illustration above was done in 2016.)

Actually, any attempt to adopt a linear and straightforward discussion of Fox “news” is doomed to be agonizingly tedious and depressing. Furthermore, any sort of logical analysis of this bastion of buffoonery is doomed to confusion from the start. It would be like trying to put out a raging fire with kerosene. No, FUX must be approached, if at all, from a slight distance for fear of contamination and from a height looking downward into the pit of political purgatory.

Recently, a great deal of solid evidence has emerged to indicate how blatantly biased and brainless the organization is. It has become so rivetingly low, so obviously low, that their erstwhile hero, Donald Trump, is quoted as calling them (or it, not sure which we should apply here) “fake news,” a term previously reserved for CNN in general, and occasionally MSNBC, as especially for Jim Acosta at CNN. Acosta used to ask questions of who is now Governor of Arkansaw, and, after receiving the standard and glib response, would ask the same question again after pointing out that his original question had not been answered, and once again a third time. He was then passed by and someone from another news agency would re-ask the question. His White House credentials were revoked and news outlets protested. None of this was covered by FUX.

And that is one of the more serious problems with FUX, what it covers, as most of its viewers have no other source of information. They will not know a whit about the 1.6 Billion dollar lawsuit brought against FUX for defamation, a suit brought by Dominion computers. The propaganda foisted upon Dominion by FUX and its supporters is too ludicrous for anyone in their right mind to take seriously, yet many FUX viewers consider it sacred. For a slight example, Dominion was started by Caeser Chavez, the “Communist” leader of Venezuela, who died before Trump even considered running for any elected office. Chavez escaped a few assassination attempts (mainly by the Bush administration) and immediately helped Brazil escape the clutches of the IMF and Cuba to stabilize its economy. He died of cancer as did Fidel, and Lula of Brazil was put into prison by a Trump clone. In short, he died way before he could even imagine Donald Trump running for President here.

Strange paper was used and it can be identified by seeing stray bits of bamboo within. A crack team calling itself the “Cyber Ninjas” were hired to recount the votes in Arizona. Sure enough, the votes were miscounted – Biden actually got more votes than were recorded. No matter, the search for truth marches on.

What the lawsuit accomplished is much more to the point. Records of statements made by the three primary pimps of pomposity, the evening stars of FUX in the evening, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Engram (not sure of the correct spelling of that last name) show that the last interest any of them had for their ‘news’ shows is accuracy. We will take each of them, and then make a few comments and allow this mire to return to the sludge it is.

Tucker Carlson is somehow the highest rated (in viewers) of all the hosts at FUX, perhaps in American Cable. He failed miserably at CNN and MSNBC, but he has thrived at FUX. Now every time I see him, especially lately, he has looked bewildered and confused. He looks as though someone had threatened him with something, but he could not figure out what the threat was. Also, at one point, with the vaccination issue (he opposed it), he wondered if it took away potency from males. He also pointed out that one man got vaccinated at 10:00 am one day and was dead by 10:00 P.M. This was true, but he did not mention that the man was killed by a van that crashed into him.

At one time on social media, far before Elon Musk bought it and then begged Donald T. to return (he didn’t – it would have been an admission that his own operation was not a success). As I started to say, I noted someone on Twitter mentioning that the worst person on FUX was Sheppard Smith, who was the only one I ever watched. He was a newsman, he had a high salary (about 8 million a year back in 2009) and was in charge of much administration in the news department. It may have been one of his hires that called Arizona for Biden before any other network. The tweeter announced that he could not stand him and that he would turn to other stations while he was on. I looked at the thread and it was a long string of anti-fact posse members all irritated by him. While normal people were writing sponsors to warn of boycotts because of its support of FUX, Tucker kept getting higher ratings. As the three prime-time pimps kept moving against him, he became tired of the fight.

Shep talked at length with FUX and finally was able to leave, making his departure on the air as Neal Cavuto stared at the camera, stunned. Shep was now able to state that he was gay after he left, just matter-of-factly talking about his ‘partner’ so easily that one wondered “was he talking about another guy?” At any rate, he tired of the nonsense.

At this point today, perhaps the largest sponsor of FUX is Mr. Pillow (who declared martial law leading up to Jan 6) and Tucker still looked puzzled. His main concern lately was with the exodus from FUX after the Arizona call, pointing out that so many viewers left, many going to outlets more right-wing than FUX, stating “Shares are losing

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value”. I have only seen clips lately, but he still looks confused.

Hannity seems a bit more sane or adjusted, stating he didn’t believe any of the stuff he was saying on air for “one second”. He also texted that Trump would be better off giving up this idea of a rigged election. It seems clear that if the wind blew into his eyes and caused them to water, he would say the wind was rigged. He would appear on stage endorsing Trump during campaigns.

Laura Engram? I really don’t know what her story is. She does look a bit bored when I’ve seen her, but that may be a superficial observation. (I’ve made a few before.)

I think the entire deal was quashed when Rupert (his real first name is Kieth, but he chooses Rupert?) stated under oath that he endorsed the rigged election points, approve of Guliani, and so on.

The main point is that none of the FUX viewers, nobody in that entire group, will ever know about it because none of them will ever be caught dead watching another station except one further to the right. Rupert stated that it was all about money, his phrase was “it’s not blue or red, it’s green”.

Well, I cut this short because it is obviously not needed. No one who should know better will ever find out, and anyone who does know already does and has nothing to do with the drivel.

Monday, December 10, 2018

Yellow and Orange



THE ABSURD TIMES




I wonder who first said "the fat is in the fire".  Nobody knows.  It's a secret that nobody will care about, so we'll just say that it is and leave it at that.  At the same time, Trump proclaimed that all the pleas deals with his Russia connections had no "smocking gun" [sic.].  That's right, there is no smocking gun.  Are we back to "cofeffe" time?

The French know how to conduct a riot and we don't.  In 1968, our police stage a riot, swing and beating on skinny kids who had seen John Kennedy, Martin luther King, and Bobby Kennedy killed – all well-know people, establishment type people, who didn't think going over to this once French occupied oriental country to kill a bunch of the people there and to bee targets of people who had been fighting occupation for at least a thousand years.  Yes, the police rioted at the command of Dick Daley.  On the other hand, the French kids demonstrated violently and overthrew the government. 

After individual number one, Donald Trump, a (pardon the expression, Republican) had been exposed as a felonious thug who gave thugs a bad name, there are perhaps a few demonstrations, but then these days with a (pardon the expression, Republican) congress little will be done until January.  Meanwhile, in France, everybody that drives an automobile or truck started wearing yellow jackets and now duck tear gas and their President went back on the tax increase (the yellow of the jackets is a result, apparently, of a law requiring anybody driving a vehilcle to have one with them) and is even more under seige.  They want him to resign.  He had to shut down the Louve, the Eiffle Tower, and the famous arc with their tomb of the unknown soldier where all the real rioting is taking place. 

We can understand the French this time as we faced the same situation back in the 1964 election.  The (pardon the expression) Republican Party put Barry Goldwater, supported by the John Birch Society, up against Lyndon Johnson.  That group was the precursor to the Tea party and both were the products of the Koch family.  John Birch was some sort of right-wing Jesus freak who went to China and tried to force feed the people there.  The tea party was a protest against English taxes.  The modern versions of these were simply neo-fascist groups supported by the over-rich and the under-educated.  Macron was the alternative to a populist neo-fascist party.  Pick one, you people.  Well, the result was 1968. 

The new take on Trump – there was no collusion as he has been saying all along.  What there was we call "synergy"!  Yes, Synergy Now!  That's the Russian term for it, so we have to adopt it, I suppose.  To be more precise, no "political synergy," which means no smocking gun.  Nope. 

Our networks here have finally caught on and put the emphasis on what we have been saying all along – don't worry about "voter fraud" (maybe 4 case) but let's look at Election fraud.  The (pardon the expression) Republican party has been systematic on this, particularly in the south, but also in other places such as Wisconsin and Michigan.  Right now, the Wisconsin (pardon the expression) Republican Party is holed up in an emergency session to limit the authority of all statewide elected officials as they all are democrats, elected by a majority.  It will be worth watching to see what happens in January when Democrats take power in so many places.  Another example in North Carolina which was so bad that the official body has started investigation one race and may hold another election to take it's place.  We haven't even started on the voter suppression laws passed in many (pardon the expression) Republican states and we also hove investigations into the Georgia where the (pardon the expression) Republican candidate also supervised his own election.  Not surprisingly, he won. 

It seems that the bitter and frustrated Hillary fans are still at it which is why Bernie should not run for office as it will alienate these people.  After all, she listed among her qualifications for office that she was a Grandmother.  Beat that!  Of course, say anything negative about her is a sure way to incur wrath.  For her sake, of course, she should not run for anything either, but stay in Germany where she has some sort of house.  Bernie, on the other hand, is too busy with his work in the Senate and in advising other worthwhile political fugures to really consider running again.  He just put together a bill along with a right-wing Senator, Lee, for Utah to stop our part in the Saudi war against children in Yemen. 

Well, the Saudis, especially the weirdo called MBS (not the Mutual Broadcasting System) like the Zionist state continue to have the sympathies of the Trumps.  It is worth pointing out that, if you play with the accent on the vowel in Arabic, the name is pronounced "Tramp," not "Trump" and a newscaster, entirely by sloth, used that pronunciation recently.

Well, that's enough of this crap. 


Friday, March 07, 2014

Ukraine, Idiocy, Russia, Benghazi, and Sense


Ukraine, Idiocy, Russia




          Just recently, Lindsay Graham proclaimed proudly on Fox that Russia’s reaction to Ukraine was a result of Benghazi.  I heard this in disbelief.  Preposterous!  How could he get away with it? 

          Shortly thereafter, someone posted this survey of right-wing types, Fox news advocates, that shows where these people thought Benghazi was located.  As you can see, only 2% of them could even locate the correct continent!  There is no wonder these people would swallow that nonsense.  They know nothing else.  Still, I feel obliged to say I am not making any of this up, because what is to come is even more surrealistic.

          The question was asked whether or not the U.S. has any military agreement with Ukraine, asked of course by someone who wanted a nice little war.  The answer was that we did, of sorts.  There was mentioned an agreement between the California National Guard and Ukraine.  So, we might ask, what happens as a result?

          The answer is obvious.  Because of Benghazi, we send the California National Guard to Kiev (two syllables, idiots) in Ukraine and then to Crimea to rescue it from Putin who is oppressing the Tartars.  That makes perfect sense. 

          We will get back to this issue shortly, but meanwhile, Nitwityahoo was here visiting with Obama, the most hated U.S. President of all time in Israel and who has facilitated the most for it.  His, Nitwityahoo’s, speech to AIPAC was about BDS, boycotts, divestment, and sanctions.  If you are interested in boycotting goods that profit Israel directly, here is a product code strip, they thing they scan to ring up your purchases:


So, look at the first three digits.  This is solely done here for the purpose of giving Israel the attention it deserves during these busy times.

          OK, back to Ukraine.  There seems to be a contention that Crimea, a Russian speaking and Russian Ethnic section of Ukraine, can not vote to secede from Ukraine and join Russia as it wishes.  This is according to its constitution.  However, the constitutional president of Ukraine was overthrown in a coup engineered by the “West,” as conversations involving a U.S. Ambassador show.  Also, those gunmen or snipers you saw, allegedly Pro-Russian have now been forensically identified as members of the “Ultra-Nationalist” opposition.  Actually, Russia has every right to grant the request of the democratically elected President of Ukraine, who is currently in Russia, and take military action.

          Putin has already gotten permission to do just this, to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine from his own Parliament.  That sounds legal enough to me.  All we have to do is identify which parts are ethnically Russian and which not.  Fortunately, we have this map:


So, it seems quite clear.  Russia should get the red places and Poland the yellow or green (whatever that other color is).  Or to make it easier, everything east of Kiev should be part of Russia or the Russian Federation and west should be part of NATO.

          Now, we have not mentioned NATO.  Article 5 of the agreement allows any member of NATO to have all of NATO act as if it has been attacked.  Russia has been surrounded by enemies for a couple thousand years, at least, while the U.S. is safely surrounded by two oceans.

          Another fact is that Europe relies on Russia for a great deal.  The energy supplies are only one factor here, but they are critical. 

There is one more idiocy I would like to clear up.  Our press, 90% owned by 6 corporations, tells us that Russia forbade American adoption of its orphans because of Georgia (the one over there, stupid, not Atlanta).  Actually, that ban went into force after a woman here, in one of our southern states, sent back an orphan she had adopted.  She just put him on a plane to Moscow, put a note on him saying something like “he’s a pain in my ass,” and then forgot about him.  Russia decided that Americans are not very reliable so far as adoption is concerned and it would rather take care of its own orphans. 

Some people say that Ukraine first saw humans as far back as 32,000 B.C.  The people who think this is important are the same people that think the world is only 6,000 years old. 

I did not make any of this up!

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

IDIOTS


THE ABSURD TIMES




Illustration:  Just one of the many birth defects in Fallujah which has a defect rate about 32 times expected.  I seem to remember something about our being "protected" from the evil lurking in that city.



One of you sent me this:

If a tree is dying, you don't pour water on the dead branches to revive them, you cut the suckers off and burn them so new sprouts take hold and grow. At the same time, you put the water on the roots so they can support the new growth. The workers are the roots - the ordinary people. You have bought in and followed the old way and supported the damn corporations like they are too big to fail, instead of giving support to the workers and the ordinary people, so what you have done is bound to fail. And you wont get another 4 years to try to fix it.



Of course, the problem is that the Obama Cabal already knows this.  The problem is that the electorate, such as it is, screams against any sort of movement towards helping them as they are carefully brainwashed by corporate agents. 

Take healthcare, for example.  People are convinced that having the government, instead of insurance companies, provide for our right to healthcare, it will make paupers of them all.  They fail to realize that Health Insurance Corporations are not in the business of insuring anything but higher quarterly profits for their stockholders.  It makes no sense to criticize them for this, as it is what they were designed to do and will continue to do so long as we allow them to exist.  In fact, if they are concerned with health care at all, it is that people be sick so the they give them more money.  It is ludicrous for usw to expect anything different from them.

Actually, if we really believed that having the government provide for our health would make us paupers, it is also quite true to say that having the government provide for defense against terrorism makes all of us cowards.  We should, by this logic, pick ourselves up by our own bootstraps, buy flame throwers, and be on the lookout for Jihad Jane and her type, not that anyone below the Mason-Dixon line has a thing to worry about.

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Another sent along this article.  Since I was not aware of this site, some of you might not be as well, and so I pass it along:



COMMENTARY Last Updated: Mar 8th, 2010 - 00:48:41


Perpetual fraud
By Jim Miles
Online Journal Contributing Writer


Mar 8, 2010, 00:38

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For historians who like dates and bookends for their events, the “global war on terror” started with the destruction of the Twin Towers and the attack on the Pentagon (9/11).
The idea of perpetual war provided large benefits to a few and pain and terror to much of the world, and to the rest of the world an increasing disbelief in the intents, means, and rationales for the war. Unfortunately, for the academic writers of history, history itself does not operate within the confines of given dates -- the flow of actions and counter actions never ceases. The 9/11 attacks were by any real accounting only another incident in the fraud that the imperial powers of the world have ‘perpetuated’ on the citizens of the world.
Rather than speak of war, which is an act of violence with many differing excuses and exercises, it is rather a perpetual fraud perpetrated by these self-acclaiming empires -- fraud that goes beyond acts of war into the daily lives of citizens around the world -- that is the basis for the crimes against humanity (and the environment as a whole). ‘Fraud’ is defined as “Criminal deception, use of false representations to gain unjust advantage; dishonest artifice or trick” with the addition of ‘pious fraud’ as a “deception intended to benefit those deceived, and especially to strengthen religious belief.”
Both of these definitions need to be applied to our current global situation. Criminal deception has been used by various governments, notably the U.S., Great Britain, and Israel, with the support of various sycophant allies, to try to gain advantage militarily and economically over much of the world. This is combined with pious deception as those deceived to a great part are the citizens of those countries, with the aspect of religion being used to reinforce and support the overall criminal fraud.
The big lie
The big lie is simple, that there really is a global war on terror. The truth is more realistically that there is a global war of terror. Those self-righteous countries that proclaim against terror are themselves the greatest sources of terror around the world.
The United States has an ongoing history of occupations, invasions, covert and subversive activities against any nation that dare raise a voice that contradicted U.S. wishes and desires, most of which reflected the corporate agenda to control the natural resources and economies of the world.
Great Britain’s empire (along with most of the other European empires of Spain, France, Germany, Russia, the Netherlands) produced terror and war wherever It was established. In spite of its many proclamations of civilizing the savages of the world, the real intentions were the same, military and economic control of global wealth. Its only ‘success,’ at least from the eyes of the invaders, were the colonies of Australia, New Zealand and North America (U.S. and Canada), successful in that they eliminated any opposition from the indigenous people through the violence and terror of war and genocide.
Israel’s empire is much more modest when considered in terms of occupying and settling territory for their own advantage. All they have endeavoured to gain has been the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan river, a desert land empty of people that they wished to make bloom with the fruits of their civilization and religion. That ‘empty land’ however contained a significant indigenous population that was already successfully cultivating the land and had for millennia a distinct cultural environment. The occupation of Palestinian territory fits both definitions of fraud, as a criminal activity against international law and most certainly as a pious deception based on an arguable fundamentalist belief that they and only they should occupy Palestine.
All three of these states, apart from the historical frauds of claiming lands and resources that were not their own, have extended this fraud into the much larger global war of terror.
Nuclear terror
A recent comment by Obama highlighted this fraud: “Iran is not just a challenge for Israel. I believe it is a challenge for the whole world. I can hardly think of a stable world order with a nuclear Iran.” This fraudulent claim only extends the previous fraudulent claims that led to invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan (okay, only aerial invasions so far, plus a whole bunch of covert operatives) -- for the U.S., the list is almost endless, but I will stay with current events for now -- Lebanon, and Gaza.
“A stable world order” will never exist with countries carrying nuclear weapons. The U.S. and Soviet Union perpetrated their lies and counter-lies for decades while maintaining overwhelming arsenals of nuclear weapons. I for one did not feel any stability concerning international affairs during that period of my life -- at any given moment of carelessness or rhetorical stupidity one country could easily have triggered a civilization ending war. That situation still exists.
Nuclear weapons are a grand deception for a ‘stable world order.’ The U.S. is the main rogue state in this regard, maintaining its superiority in all areas of their nuclear arsenal. India developed nuclear weapons outside the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the U.S. has recently worked with them in developing their nuclear industry and weapons even more. Pakistan similarly developed weapons outside the NPT, and with its mainly Muslim population, and a government in conflict with India on many issues and subordinate to -- yet resistant of -- U.S. influence, is hardly stable. Israel has an arsenal of an estimated 200 nuclear weapons (estimates can be made from the kind of reactors used and the availability of materials to fuel it) that have never been questioned by the U.S. or its allies, even though they are outside the NPT’s bounds. Somehow all this makes Iran the greatest threat to a ‘stable world order’?
But nuclear weapons, as catastrophic as they may be, are really just another part of the overall deception. The deception is there to hide the reality of U.S. corporate-military intentions to contain and control the majority of resources and peoples of the world as they can, to accumulate as much of the wealth and power as they can for the benefit of their own elites (as part of the deception involves deceiving their own population.)



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