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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
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.
