Fox Cuts To Commercial When Schiff Starts Asking Questions At Open Hearing

Fox News interrupted its live coverage of the public hearings in House impeachment investigation on Wednesday with a commercial break the moment when House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) began to speak to the witnesses.


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Fake Truth!

Fantastically, hilariously petty. I love it so much.

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Why bother televising at all, Fox?

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It’s all they’ve got left.

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What did you expect?

“Well, looks like Trump did it. Chris, what’s the mood in the West Wing?”

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I may have to remove my brain tonight and watch Hannity because I wonder how he’s going to spin this.

The guy with plates spinning on cue sticks on the Ed Sullivan Show was a rank amateur by comparison.

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Why do these fools carry water for Trump? He doesn’t carry water for no one.

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Most of Trump’s hard core base are not going to be watching these hearings anyway. They’ll be at work or it will be so far over their heads they will get bored in 5 minutes. These are the people the GOP are aiming those stupid (and undignified) poster boards at and they won’t even see them.

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WE REPORT!!

what we want you to know

YOU DECIDE!!!

based on what we’ve said

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I was gonna say, they will need to cut for a 45 minute commercial break…

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We’re forgetting, this is the week FUX is allowing the High School Mean Girls Association to handle all programming decisions…

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Someone remind me: how many Fox employees has Trump appointed to the most senior levels of government? Is it 5 or 6?

Also, what’s that one show that determines Trump’s agenda every day he’s not golfing or doing crime meetings? Is it Meet the Press? I can’t remember…


Under Trump, the federal government has all-but fellated Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda outfit. When he’s not literally handing them the keys to the state, he’s parroting their talking points, recommending their programming and promoting synergies between Fox and the “Trumpire”. On at least two occasions he appears to have made major policy decisions as a direct, real-time reaction to Fox content. And more generally, Trump has shifted the Overton window by his constant embrace of crazy from the extreme lunatic fringe, which makes Fox’s lunacy seem almost reasonable by comparison (that is, when Fox itself isn’t playing the part of the lunatic fringe).

Fox is getting plenty out of the traitor they helped Putin install in the White House. Trump is the most useful of idiots.

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Topo Gigio made more sense than Hannity.
As far as Ed Sullivan is concerned his politics and attitude about the arts were fairly conservative, witness his chiding of the Doors and Rolling Stones.

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Today, all of us are the guy sitting behind Castor.

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Are you sure you feel strong enough? Take plenty of vitamins and drink a whole glass of plain water an hour before. Remove sharp objects from the room.
Good luck kid.

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I hope Fox viewers are alert enough to recognize this is Fox putting its finger on the scales in broad daylight, likely because it fears Dems have compelling evidence.

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And OBTW, screw you, Humana.

Of course, they did. Just another day on Faux News.