JONATHAN CHAIT APRIL 8, 2010
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Everything you need to know about Fox News is captured in this screenshot: the American flags, the fear-mongering image in the upper-right corner, the blond anchor with a facial expression that somehow combines sneering with absolute terror.
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How is it all of their female actors, er, anchors all look like genetically engineered images from a supposed beauty contest? I mean *all* of them. It's creepy. Give me an ugly, battle-hardened anchor any day. Call me prejudiced, but I don't believe most pretty people when they open their mouths. The mere sight of them says "stupid liar with no brains". Ugly wins the honesty contest hands down. And what's with the frequent "Site Temporarily Unavailable" stuff lately? Is there that much trouble keeping the servers running?
- tnmats
April 8, 2010 at 1:01pm
America's News Channel. Cue mushroom cloud. Cue archival footage of Neville Chamberlain, fade to Osama Bin Laden. Cue cliche "duck n' cover" 50's footage. Cue Obama. Cut to Dentugrip ad.
- dubyadoubte
April 8, 2010 at 1:32pm
tnmats, what are we going to do then with Rush Limbaugh? Maybe we could call Fox "the Stepford Channel"?
- timteeter
April 8, 2010 at 1:36pm
Oh, I forgot. Rush is mostly on the radio. That explains it.
- timteeter
April 8, 2010 at 1:37pm
Limbaugh is ugly but not battle hardened. He would be more believable than the androids on Faux News though.
- tnmats
April 8, 2010 at 1:48pm
tnmats is right. In a debate between Rush and any given blond-girl or chiseled-boy newsdroid, I would unconsciously take Rush's side. But in a debate between Rush and any similarly non-beautiful person who was not pasty and fat, I would unconsciously tend to believe the non-Jabba. There's this whole category of pudgy, prematurely balding men with soft faces who haven't done a day's honest work in their lives who make up at least one-third of the population of the conservative movement, and they are the most annoying people in America.
- rhubarbs
April 8, 2010 at 2:51pm
You all do realize where the Faux News gets it's anchors like in the image above, don't you? If you don't, watch the Star Trek (original series) episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?". It's the only rational explanation I can figure out.
- tnmats
April 8, 2010 at 3:53pm
"sneering with absolute terror." Nah. She looks as if Rush was goosing her behind the desk. And the "mushroom cloud" ... isn't an explosion the Hays Code equivalent of an orgasm? Here are the dots; you draw the connecting lines.
- icarusr
April 8, 2010 at 4:01pm
Damn you icarus! I was going to say Hannity, but you beat me to the punch.
- Geoff G
April 8, 2010 at 4:03pm
But, but, androids don't have feelings. Do they?
- tnmats
April 8, 2010 at 4:05pm
Geoff: come on, now. Hannity is as queer as a three dollar bill; the only "woman" he knows is TrAnnY Coulter, and it is entirely unlikely that "she" would let Hannity goose "her"; their sex tape would be called, "TrAnnY facks Seannity." tnmats: not emotions, but they can still "feel", and react to, being goosed, I think.
- icarusr
April 8, 2010 at 5:44pm
Chait you need to watch a little less TV
- AlSmith80
July 30, 2010 at 2:28am
Chait you need to watch a little less TV
- AlSmith80
July 30, 2010 at 2:28am
What the hell is wrong with this rinky-dink site? I only pressed submit once. "Anything worth doing is worth over-doing"
- AlSmith80
July 30, 2010 at 2:30am