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“ There’s an old saying that I’m a big fan of: Never try to teach a pig to sing — it wastes your time and annoys the pig. I think of this every time I get the urge to lash out at Fox News for some irresponsible, grossly unethical thing or other that the network has done or has had the gall to broadcast under the guise of being a real news organization. My criticism, like everyone else’s, won’t matter one bit — the attack will just bounce off of Roger Ailes’s prodigious belly like he was Kung-Fu Panda. Not only does Fox News not fret over its many detractors and their grievances, it generally welcomes the outrage as an opportunity to once again let its pit-bullish media relations department off the chain to maul the crap out of the poor bastard with the bad sense to hassle its master… It’s with all of this in mind that I sit here wallowing waist deep in what I know is the futility of saying a damn thing about Fox News’s latest nakedly obvious and indefensibly biased attack on Barack Obama. If you haven’t seen what I’m talking about yet — the four-minute video clip that Doocy the Clown and the rest of the crew of local news rejects on Fox & Friends aired earlier this week, benignly calling it a “look back” at the last three years of the Obama presidency — then I’m not going to go into detail for you. Suffice it to say that you really do need to see it with your own eyes to both believe it and — eventually, after it sinks in that you really are watching what you think you are — appreciate the sheer scope of its horribleness. It’s not news. It’s not even news by the very flexible standards of Fox News. At the risk of violating Godwin’s Law, it’s 1939-style propaganda and nothing more — not a thing more — and it quite frankly stands as Fox News’s darkest hour. It’s honestly so freaking shameless that even I wasn’t sure Fox was capable of creating and disseminating something like it, despite the fact that anyone as cynical as I am should’ve understood fully that it merely represents the Fox model taken to its logical conclusion. ”
Chez Pazienza for the Huffington Post, in Fox News Doesn’t Care About Your Outrage. (via reallyfoxnews)
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