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Horror of Being Governed by Fox &
Friends
During the early days of the Obama administration, I did a few appearances on Fox & Friends.
The conversations were predictably shallow, tilted and exploitive. The hosts had a particular knack for asking the idiotic with chipper earnestness, spewing venom through simpering smiles. There was, I felt, maleficence at work with a pretense of positivity.
I knew well that I was swimming in a shallow intellectual pool, and yet I told myself that I was doing yeomans work, doing my small part to try and correct misinformation and to reach those lost in Foxs fog.
But I soon discovered that the show, and indeed the network, was beyond redemption.
snip - (focuses on how trump is essentially running the country on what he hears each morning - sorry about the paywall issue - this is worth reading.)
Botany
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"But I soon discovered that the show, and indeed the network, was beyond redemption."
Trumps Fox fixation isnt benign or inconsequential because, like him, the network has an aversion to the truth.
According to PunditFact, a project of the Tampa Bay Times and The Poynter Institute that checks the accuracy of claims made by pundits, of the statements on Fox that have been fact-checked, only 10 percent were rated true, while a full 60 percent were rated either mostly false, false or pants on fire, the worst possible rating.
dalton99a
(81,678 posts)genxlib
(5,547 posts)But if I could encapsulate the galling absurdity of it all in one fact, it would be this; They think so highly of Steve Doocy that they gave his idiot son a job straight out of college.
It turns out that being an idiot sycophant has a nepotism benefit.
It's just as well. He probably saved a more deserving graduate/applicant from crashing their career into the iceberg that is FOX news.