I mean, does it really matter? Aren't all the same hickadoos that attended the rallies the same basement anarchists that attended that book-o-nonsense gathering last night? Should we really split hairs here between the actual color of flannel and size of trucker hat?
Hey as long as you can fool your core audience you're golden. The dumb will stay dumb and the wiser will just have more reason to back their distrust of Fox.
@UGAdawg: I interacted just the other day with someone who sincerely believes that Fox News is the only fair and balanced news source that doesn't spin the news. Oh, and a slightly less stupid friend who made the slightly less stupid assertion that "they all have a bias", as if Fox's bias were the problem, rather than its lying outright on an almost constant basis.
@UGAdawg: Yep. Some people just tune into FOX and leave it on all day. Seriously, I've been in households like this. Not sure if it's even possible to reach those people without doing a SWAT Team-esque invasion of their houses and forcing them to watch some sort of FOX expose (if only a decent, comprehensive one existed).
@Steverino Begins: When my father was in the hospital in Amarillo, Texas with a stroke, I spent day upon day in the waiting room of the neuro ward. There was one TV in there and it was kept on FoxNews 24 hours a day. This was during the height of the Obama/McCain election, and other family and friends in the waiting room would constantly make "ain't that the truth"-type comments in response to things the Fox News talking heads would say (e.g., "Obama is un-American"). How I escaped without ending up a patient in the neuro ward myself, I'll never know. I still have nightmares about the size of Sean Hannity's noggin'.
(And I can joke about this now because my father pulled through okay).
@Atilla the Bun: Ha, FOX in the waiting room of a neuro ward. Was it trying to be admitted as a patient?
Yes, things get scary when friends and family are watching FOX together. The weirdest thing is the way the channel takes any outside criticism and turns it into their they don't want you to know the truth crazytalk.
@Steverino Begins: These are the same people who believe that we didn't really land on the moon - because Fox did a special that "proved" we didn't land on the moon.
After all, if it's on Fox, it has to be true, right?
@Atilla the Bun: You can always request that they change the station. I've done that. Just tell them you're a psych patient and Fox makes you homicidal.
@MissNormaDesmond: When questioned on this topic my father parrots: 'Fox News is Fair and Balanced.' like Bill O'Reilly has been training him with crackers.
These sorts of "mix-ups" are planned, the copy editor thought it would be some inside baseball for his friends...he got caught and now he will be punished with a high-five and a manly slap on the ass.
In all honesty, how can you get footage mixed up? I mean, ostensibly one you've had for a year and the other you had for a few minutes...it seems like they'd be in different places.
@mamacrass: They should be. I don't know how Fox runs things, but I interned at CNN back in '02 and any footage from that day or the day before was on tapes in stacks near the feeds in the main newsroom. Anything older than a week went into the tape library. Of course, this may all be digital now, in which case it would still seem like they'd be in different folders on a computer somewhere or something.
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(And I can joke about this now because my father pulled through okay).
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Yes, things get scary when friends and family are watching FOX together. The weirdest thing is the way the channel takes any outside criticism and turns it into their they don't want you to know the truth crazytalk.
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After all, if it's on Fox, it has to be true, right?
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Works like a charm.
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