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I saw this this morning…. Isn’t it ridiculous? Did you see Rush Limbaugh’s commentary?
He’s unbelievable.
I was watching FOX yesterday for a while. Every once in a while I like to think that maybe I’ll get some alternate views, but it’s usually just crazy.
Yeah, I’ll flick by it and hover for a bit, but it’s never anything but outright reactionary craziness. I’d love to talk to someone who watches it, but I haven’t met a fox news watcher who isn’t also a reactionary crazy.
I’ve always figured that there were savvy businessmen running Fox News that did a lot of calculation and realized that making crazy news appealing to far-right nutjobs and curious, smirking liberals brought in more viewership than just making regular conservative-slanting news that appealed to normal right-wing people.
Justin’s got it partly right. There’s no doubt in my mind that at least 50% of the people who make their living as crazy right wing reactionaries, are actually putting on what amounts to 75-80% of an act, knowing that there is such a rock solid and profitable base of support for the kind of bile that they spew and that as long as they continue to put the stuff out there, they will never be poor and they will never be unemployed.
The fact is that the pool of “Poor, poor pitiful me, I’m an unsuccessful white person who is willing to believe that my failure in life is someone else’s fault” is much larger than the more fractionalized, segmented and somewhat similar victimology audience of the left, and that side has also proven themselves far less willing to actually pay to hear how shitty they have it because of what someone else has done than the right wing base of the same.
My grandmother watches the FOX News all day long, and she honestly thinks it’s real.
I had the naive hope that after the election, I wouldn’t have to hear the fear mongering, but after seeing that clip, I dread the weekly call to grandma…
It makes me feel rotten to tell an 86 year old woman ovr and over again how “you can’t believe what you see on TV.”