Fox News will always have its revenge! Back in March, news of a bedbug infestation in Fox's newsroom surfaced, and the huge PR firm Fleishman-Hillard took advantage of it to promote one of their pest control clients—offering a free de-lousing to any Fox guests. You just knew that Fox wouldn't let that insult slide. Today, the fair and balanced station got its on-air vengeance against the PR firm [PRNewser], with a little of Fox's trademark gratuitous humiliation:
Fox & Friends anchor Steve Doocy used the made-up news peg of his son telling him about a new service from AT&T, a Fleishman client. "I started looking around for it and there was absolutely no publicity on it, no press," said Doocy. But in the course of his perfectly innocent investigation, he happened to discover that Fleishman was the PR agency behind it, which naturally led into a rehashing of some old criminal charges against the firm, and a chance to mock pictures of its CEO on air. Naturally! Let's just say we're going for both sides here. Your move, Fleishman. The very worthwhile video clip is below.







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I bet the prison has less bedbugs... and you don't have to watch Fox News. Win-win.
Doesn't that guys mouth move in a really weird way?
The Karl Rove School of Journalism.
My enemy's enemy is my friend. Team Fleishman.
I wish I could think of a really clever way of saying that Fox News makes me sick on so many different levels.
@Hiphopopotamus: All they show in prison is fox news. Haven't you heard?
Low blow... only on Roger Ailes' network
That effeminate guy is so bitchy.
Fox News in the morning: "Special" journalism.
Wow. This is actually appreciably less interesting than the content on real tv channels' morning shows, and scientists had believed those were the most boring and vapid substances in the universe. (Denser than dark matter they are actually necessary to keep the universe from falling apart and that is why they are allowed by public health authorities to exist. You will note that "Today" began airing on January 14, 1952 in anticipation of the "Ivy Mike" test, that is, the first firing of a Hydrogen Bomb, on November 1, 1952. Without 10 months of morning programming preparing the ground the explosion would have torn space-time from its moorings and we'd all be living in either the Al Capone world or the Nazi world from Star Trek, depending on which time zone you lived in originally, on what scientists call "Earth Sub One." The possible future existence of Star Trek and these worlds was well-known to Axis atomic researchers, but not the Allies, before the Trinity test, at which time, I don't need to tell you, it became painfully obvious to all.)
@dortmunder4: just say falafel
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I don't know why I still get surprised by the length Fox News will go to in order to be evil.
I'd love to see Fleishman-Hillard go after them with both popguns blazing!
Sauce for the goose, and all that.
is it just me, or does the dude look a little like he's about to cry? the tight facial muscles, the hint of a quaver in the voice, the way he sort of keeps losing the train of it, like an 8 year old about who knows he's going to get caught for telling his parents a whopper he doesn't even believe himself.
you think they've all lost their souls, but the fox soul is almost infinitely divisible, and the longer they've been at it, the tinier the shreds of humanity that you can, every now and again, catch in the act of escape from the now thoroughly dessicated shells of the "personality" they once belonged to.
the gentleman on the right used to host a regional saturday morning soccer show on MSG network. he was an alright guy when his material consisted of agility drills and interviews with tony meola. now he laughs on the side - a pinochio to doocy's gepetto.
With 'Fox & Friends', you don't need 'Fox & Enemies'.
@LoveHandles: *shudder* That explains soooo much.
@Hiphopopotamus: I just wanted to say that I'm loving your username. A Flight of the Conchords reference, I assume?
Making fun of the PR guy's appearance seems a bit like shooting themselves in the foot. After all, if there's a FNC Viewer 'look', that guy's got it.
Smug, well fed, feet up on the desk, and happy after yet another PR Mission Accomplished. Bring on the carrier.
Only Gawker can get away with so openly making fun of its audience.
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