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Pluvious

(4,313 posts)
Tue Sep 4, 2018, 08:18 PM Sep 2018

Excellent post describing how damaging Fox News has been normalizing racism, lying, scapegoating...

... And corruption.

Really spells it out starkly:

No. Fox News has normalized racism, lying, scapegoating and corruption. Trump is just another rich, narcissistic sack of shit that has gleefully embraced Fox News' weaponization of propaganda and managed to coast into the presidency because he simply emulated at the podium the type of bullshit that Republican voters were accustomed to hearing on the television 24/7.

For fuck's sake, I remember during the Obama administration when Fox News would have Donald Trump call in all the god damn time and talk about global fucking warming, and they would treat him as if he was in any way, shape or form qualified to talk about that fucking subject. Or when they'd let him call in to talk about Obama's fucking birth certificate, and nod along when he was talking about all the evidence he had that Obama was born in Kenya that he never produced and never will because he fucking lied and made it up.

Fox News acted like that was an actual news story, instead of the horribly transparent publicity stunt of this imbecilic, racist man child. And do you think for one fucking second Fox News would have ran that story if, say, Joe Biden were President? Fuck no, they ran it because they're racist and they give their viewers racist scraps of raw meat.

Fox News was created to function as a machine to make up the deficit for the terrible policies and reprehensible behavior of Republicans by keeping the voter base distracted, cripplingly misinformed, and angry at everything except for the real problems and the real enemies.


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