Right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s empire is about to extend to an unexpected realm this fall: Weather news.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1380047
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1380047
Glaciers suck. Everyone agrees.
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So, not only did Murdoch not listen to Preston Padden, but Murdoch did the exact opposite of toning things down. Nah, let’s just double down. Fox News viewers must be very excited that they won’t have to tune in to the Weather Channel or the National Weather Service any more. And it makes sense, for Murdoch’s world view…one more service his audience won’t have to go elsewhere for.
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I wish he would just go away…but someone worse will probably fill his shows.
So goes the march towards totalitarianism and the “voice of the state.”
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“Antifa The FBI CRT Migrant Caravans Extended Unemployment Benefits are responsible for hurricanes!”
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The media tycoon has described himself as a climate change “skeptic.”
Hmm, yeah, I’m skeptical that the propagandist doesn’t know climate change is real.
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He’s creating a job for Sharpie Donnie. Donnie knows weather.
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You can imagine stories with weather in the blue states blamed on the weather underground.
Will they have a meteorologist like Tex Antoine drawing funny cartoon characters and making offensive rape jokes off camera?
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Lawsuits?
Coming next …
The FOX - Bleach as a Beverage Channel !
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No one knows more about weather, also geography, but also knows how no one knows how difficult these topics are.
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Oh, just ducky.
Wonder if Sham-mity or Bow Tie Boy will have guest spots.
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Incoming!
Seems like we should be pretty close to the point where Murdoch and his enterprises could legitimately be considered active agents of a hostile power. Just say’n.
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action” ― Ian Fleming (Goldfinger)
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I say let them waste their money. It’s gotten to the point where it’s almost impossible to deny climate change without looking like an absolute hack.
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Shorter Fox weather - It’s snowing somewhere this winter.
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*¹ See Katrina.
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To be fair, tornadoes are inordinately attracted to trailer parks in Bible-Belt Red States, so there’s something to be delved into there.
Probably Soros and his Jewish Space Lasers ginning them up to hit God-Fearing Patriots.
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NEW !!! - - FOX Channel
Geocentric Space Science !
… endorsed by Aristotle
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The Fox food channel. “Tonight at Paula Deans plantation.”
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Best preview
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