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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFOX News and Right-Wing talk radio hosts are in deep, deep denial.
And they are angry.
They refuse to believe the facts that are squarely in front of their eyes. If the intelligence agencies, including the FBI, found evidence of Russian interference in our elections, they had no choice but to investigate. But Trump supporters cannot accept that little necessity. The FBI is part of the "deep state" that is out to get their President, Donald J Trump.
In their world, they were illegally spied upon and the Mueller investigation is illegitimate and should be ended. All the evidence and facts, and indictments, should be discarded as irrelevant and meaningless.
It doesn't matter if Robert Mueller was a Vietnam War hero with a sterling record in law enforcement, or that he is a Republican, he is an "enemy of the people". He is an "idiot", in the words of right-wing talk radio hosts.
As more and more facts become undeniable, they become more angry. They are so deep into denial that they cannot think in any rational manner. They make up excuses and lie to themselves. It's a sad pit they have fallen into.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)Most of these people arent fooling themselves, they are simply following the script of their billionaire and corporate masters.
They know they are lying, so they arent in denial, theyre just liars following a script.
calimary
(80,686 posts)not fooled
(5,791 posts)their audience is in denial.
YessirAtsaFact
(2,064 posts)skylucy
(3,734 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)How many of these mass shooters are RWNUTS?
spanone
(135,627 posts)they would be holding parades for robert mueller.
awesomerwb1
(4,256 posts)You're being way too kind to those scumbags.
They are paid propagandists. They know exactly what they're doing and they get their talking points and angles -every day- before they go on the air.
kentuck
(110,947 posts)They are very good at faking sincerity.
Botany
(70,281 posts)... agent(s) working inside Fox News itself?
kentuck
(110,947 posts)I'm not sure?
I think they are mostly brain-washed ideologues.
Ligyron
(7,592 posts)Putin and co. couldn't possibly improve on the script anyway.
awesomerwb1
(4,256 posts)for the amount of money those scumbags get paid to do it.
Watch the documentary Outfoxed by Robert Greenwald. It's an oldie from 2004 but it's only gotten worse since then.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)With Trumps acquiescence, Mitch McConnell is performing his masterpiece. They are scurrying to get it done while they are unrestrained and the public is distracted. Their media friends are co-conspirators.
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Orsino
(37,428 posts)They want their audience angry. Different animal.
Golden Raisin
(4,599 posts)rarely spend more than a minute or two watching Fox News --- mostly to see what the "opposition" is hawking to their audience of deplorables. However, if you ever watch with the sound off it is absolutely astonishing just how angry many of their anchors and commentators look. Hannity and Tucker Carlson in particular frequently look like steam is coming out of their ears or they are ready to explode.
Golden Raisin
(4,599 posts)work for a formal, one-sided Propaganda Network dispensing nothing but right-wing opinions and views, despite their calling it a "News" Network; let alone "Fair and Balanced", which was their ridiculous and patently false slogan for many years.
Permanut
(5,436 posts)Right wing evangelical nutjob cult radio host Barbara Carmack, for example, talks every day about the "deep state" and the "shadow government" that are on a witch hunt for that wonderful man that God gave us in the White House. She has no clue what those terms mean, of course, but Jesus told her what to say.
underpants
(182,270 posts)I wouldn't say I've really MISSED them just that I haven't been listening.
They were sticking with the "overturning an election" theme for a while. Going to "stupid" smells if desperation. Anything that actually happens will be a lightning strike in Foxworld - the dashboard believers won't see it coming, it will be a total shock. Typically all they here from the dashboard is that this is over and settled. Of course it will play directly into the victimization that is in their veins by now. They are completely in the dark about what has already happened.
Remember too that they exulted Putin over Obama for years specifically his manly leadership. After a few days of voluntary brainwashing the believers will buy into any pivot in rhetoric but for now they still BELIEVE in Putin and Trump.
UCmeNdc
(9,589 posts)Only illegal activity should be pursued and punished if the activities involved a Democratic Politician.
Al Franken is a prime example.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)That group knows what happens when enough Americans decide to get off their asses and vote...We retake America..and no more playing mr. nice guy this time
gordianot
(15,226 posts)dalton99a
(81,062 posts)mwooldri
(10,291 posts)Even its website. International news is hidden away. I trust the UK's Daily Fail... err Daily Mail... more than this fake news operation.
Every major news organisation was leading or had fairly prominently on their website an article about the massacre of Gazans by Israeli defence forces. Not a word on Fox "News" website. What is #2 right now? Hillary Clinton. I can't find any other news organisation leading with this.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)If they need to make it deeper I have a few shovels out in the garage they can use, of course they wouldn't know which end to hold them by or what to do with them.
I've always just kept my mouth shut when I encounter a person that voted for or continues to support dumpf, no longer.
I just got back from a cruise to Hawaii, there was a Canadian woman on board that I overheard stating that she "loved" the dumpf because "He can't be bought like Hillary Clinton was"
I asked her that question.....
"Do you get all your facts from the "national enquirer"?
She got snarfy after that, especially after I laughed at her statement.
I've had enough of being nice to these people, I always thought that maybe some of them could come around to normalcy if treated nicely.
Fuck that.
kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)To them. Whenever I hear a right winger say they are a patriot I laugh in their face.
They are all dirty and liars.
pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)they will DO EVERYTHING TO MAKE IT LOOK THAT WAY.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)The damage they have done since Reagan paved the way for them is incalculable. It has been mass brainwashing for the easily led.
People say MSNBC is the same for the left. WRONG! If a democrat gets himself Or herself in hot water MSNBC will not ignore it.
Fox, Limbaugh, are nothing but pure propganda the vast majority of the time. They function like Goebbels did in WWll.