The last place concerned with President Donald Trump’s attacks against Fox News is, well, Fox News.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1247063
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1247063
Fox News can lay no claim to journalism or anything fair and balanced. It is utterly corrupt propaganda without shame or ethics or any shred of integrity.
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Fox News is absolutely certain that they will be here long after Rump and the regime are gone. And when this regime is no longer is power, Fox News will still have their audience that they will play to and reminisce about the halcyon days when White, Christian men ruled victoriously over everyone. Rump serves their purpose not the other way around.
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Trump needs Fox more than Fox needs Trump.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if this is some sort of coordinated “attack” to try to say, “See, Fox isn’t really a right-wing propaganda outfit. We’re real journalists. Why even Trump attacks us.”
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Fox will not be concerned with his attacks until one of two things happens…advertisers leave the Fox network for greener pastures or Trump establishes a network of his own. (Indeed, I’ve read his initial interest in running for the Presidency was to to do exactly the latter. But who knows what goes on with him or any members of his family. They’re all modern day P.T. Barnums in search of someone to fleece.)
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FOX is no more than a contrived & scripted reality-tv drama to gather viewers and serve advertisers’ needs and fellate the egoes of two major malignant narcissists*. What a Biz Model!
- trump & murdoch the elder
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They are what they claim everyone else is.
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They aren’t going to report anything bad about themselves true or not, are you kidding?
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Takeaway:
The murderous Murdoch clan are already positioning for a post-Donald world. This means that Mercers/etc have so instructed them.
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Left unsaid in this article is the real reason for Fox News’ apathy: Trump only attacked people who are part of the side of Fox News providing the fig-leaf of actual news reporting. Whereas the real point, the only point, of the existence of Fox News is of course the hugely-more-popular propaganda apparatus: Hannity, Fox & Friends, Tucker Carlson, etc.
Did any of those people get attacked? No. Of course not. So everything will go on, business as usual.
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Fox News knows their Business Model and their audience and is not worried about Trump’s tweets.
They sit at the intersection between bigoted assholes, frightened old people, Bible-Thumping Hypocrits and Reality and they know it. They control that intersection and are in no danger of losing their iron grip on it any time soon.
They are the “Go To” place for Reich-Wing Propaganda and they are smugly confident about it.
Trump needs them, not the other way around.
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Fox News never worked for Trump. Trump worked for Fox News.
Without their pandering and pimping, Trump wouldn’t have even lasted past the primaries in '16. All his notoriety is based on his appearances on Fox & Fiends, along with general fellatio from his various primetime hosts.
But the minute Trump loses in 2020, they will act as if they never met the guy. They made him… and they could break him.
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Officially not wasting any of my time on Faux News anymore. Not. One. Minute. (Starting right now, of course.) LOL