Fox News' five stages of election grief

[trotsky]

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/177701171.html

In Fox News' election coverage Tuesday night, there was little pretense of fairness or balance. What there was, from the start, was a glum tone that turned downright funereal by the time Mitt Romney finally conceded, near 1 a.m.

To watch the network's anchors and guests work through the dawning realization that their candidate was doomed was to witness a textbook case of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' five stages of grief.

1. Denial: With the early returns breaking badly for Romney, Karl Rove points to an exit poll suggesting that Democratic turnout was low in Ohio's Cuyahoga County. Everyone basks in the critical importance of Ohio's Cuyahoga County. Anchor Megyn Kelly asks, "Is this just math you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?" Rove assures her it's real.

Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, is counting on rural voters to turn things around: "I still think Mitt Romney wins when it is all over."

[marasinghe]

1. :D

since these primitives don't appear to be entirely human, perhaps Ms. Kubler-Ross' 5 stages could be slightly modified to better describe them with: "denial ... denial ... denial ... denial ... & denial".

somewhat along the lines of their happy time thought processes: "lie ... lie ... lie ... steal ... kill some foreigners".