There seems to be a Faux “News” theme today, so while the specific ’toon is original and different, the concept of Trump’s incestuous ties to Faux “News” are the same, so instead of reinventing the wheel, will repeat what I have posted elsewhere:
Faux “News” is NOT a “real” news organization — it is a political POOPaganda machine CREATED BY REPUBLICAN OPERATIVES AS A MEDIA OUTLET FOR REPUBLICAN SPIN. It is FALSE ADVERTISING and FRAUD to be marketed as news when it was created for the stated, explicit purpose of being a media outlet to represent Republican party views.
In a 15-page memo from 1970, that had been in storage at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda and only released years later, it was revealed that Roger Ailes started planning “Faux Noise” while working for Nixon, though it was not practical in an age before cable made it feasible to establish entirely new media outlets. As a top Republican party strategist, Ailes engineered the election of Nixon, and later Reagan and George H.W. Bush before leaving his Republican party political role and establishing Faux “News” with the stated intent, expressed in his 1970 memo, of creating a Republican POOP-aganda machine disguised as a news outlet which occurred by the 1990’s.http://news.yahoo.com/report-roger-ailes-started-planning-fox-news-while-175511516.html
There has never ever been a similar instance where a former top political strategist of a political party was the head of a television news department. (ABC had Diane Sawyer [a deputy press secretary for Nixon] and George Stephanopoulos [media spokesperson for Clinton], but neither was actual head of the news department, and the two — Republican and Democrat — balanced each other out.)
Whatever other biases anyone may have, liberal reporters or conservative (very rich) corporate owners, no other news medium was specifically created by a political party and no other news medium has direct contact in coordinating source material.
As has been said by several people on several occasions, if you want to get Trump’s attention, advertise on Fox & Friends. Though, advertising the side of a fast food container or Diet Coke can would probably also get his attention.
I don’t think anyone is really surprised at this, hell, we’ve known it since the beginning. It just took Jane Mayer to find the evidence and make it official.
We all know Hannity tells Trump what to do and Trump tells the Republicans what to do and everybody is happy in paradise.
Trump likes to brag about his “base.” Only it is not his base; it belongs to FOX News. If Trump doesn’t do what Fox News tells him to do, he loses points with his “base.” Trump is just smart enough to play along.
This is not a conscious thought: Trump is incapable of rational thought. It works on a more primitive principle: conditioned reflex. It’s like Pavlov and his dogs, “Do what Fox says and I get a reward.”
It should be Fox as a puppet master and Donny Boy dancing at the end of their strings and talking their talk. Of course, one could say that about Putin as the puppet master also….
The entity known as “Fox News” was first envisioned by Nixon and his faithful toady, Roger Ailes, Nixon’s executive producer for television, as a means to circumvent the FCC’s “Fairness doctrine” and allow Nixon and other Republicans to spew propaganda without having to accommodate opinions from the other side.
Well, Nixon’s disgraced and dead, and Ailes is disgraced and dead, but the right-wing monster envisioned and brought forth by the Nixon/Ailes cabal lives on as a “mouthpiece of the Right”!
Every time I hear ’Fox News" mentioned, I hear, faintly and in the background, cries from the villagers of "It Lives! My God, it lives!
I do not know with certainty, what good was buried with EITHER man, But little Billy Shakespeare really ‘nailed’ it when he wrote, “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”.
The ONLY way a person should interact with ‘Fox News’ is with a hammer and a stake!
Faux news is just a continuation of the appeal to ignorance nearing perfection by Rupert Murdoch. Ya gotta hand it to ol’ Rupert; he really knows how to wind up the masses!
RAGs about 5 years ago
It should be “Fox Spews”.
DD Wiz Premium Member about 5 years ago
There seems to be a Faux “News” theme today, so while the specific ’toon is original and different, the concept of Trump’s incestuous ties to Faux “News” are the same, so instead of reinventing the wheel, will repeat what I have posted elsewhere:
Faux “News” is NOT a “real” news organization — it is a political POOPaganda machine CREATED BY REPUBLICAN OPERATIVES AS A MEDIA OUTLET FOR REPUBLICAN SPIN. It is FALSE ADVERTISING and FRAUD to be marketed as news when it was created for the stated, explicit purpose of being a media outlet to represent Republican party views.
In a 15-page memo from 1970, that had been in storage at the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda and only released years later, it was revealed that Roger Ailes started planning “Faux Noise” while working for Nixon, though it was not practical in an age before cable made it feasible to establish entirely new media outlets. As a top Republican party strategist, Ailes engineered the election of Nixon, and later Reagan and George H.W. Bush before leaving his Republican party political role and establishing Faux “News” with the stated intent, expressed in his 1970 memo, of creating a Republican POOP-aganda machine disguised as a news outlet which occurred by the 1990’s.http://news.yahoo.com/report-roger-ailes-started-planning-fox-news-while-175511516.html
There has never ever been a similar instance where a former top political strategist of a political party was the head of a television news department. (ABC had Diane Sawyer [a deputy press secretary for Nixon] and George Stephanopoulos [media spokesperson for Clinton], but neither was actual head of the news department, and the two — Republican and Democrat — balanced each other out.)
Whatever other biases anyone may have, liberal reporters or conservative (very rich) corporate owners, no other news medium was specifically created by a political party and no other news medium has direct contact in coordinating source material.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr about 5 years ago
https://66.media.tumblr.com/22e5f903cdd73d37fcb72cdede519a0a/tumblr_pgoyitMt1P1u6ww01_400.jpg
braindead Premium Member about 5 years ago
Of course Trump Disciples also believe there is NO COLLUSION between Trump and Fox “news”.
• Thomas about 5 years ago
Tojo had Tokyo Rose
Hitler had Axis Sally
Stalin had Pravda
Castro had Radio Rebelde
Trump has Fox
What’s all the fuss about? Every dictator gets their own propaganda stations. Look it up — it’s in the rules.
Jason Allen about 5 years ago
As has been said by several people on several occasions, if you want to get Trump’s attention, advertise on Fox & Friends. Though, advertising the side of a fast food container or Diet Coke can would probably also get his attention.
NRHAWK Premium Member about 5 years ago
I don’t think anyone is really surprised at this, hell, we’ve known it since the beginning. It just took Jane Mayer to find the evidence and make it official.
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
How rude!
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
The problem is all the dumb twits who believe Fox lies.
Masterskrain Premium Member about 5 years ago
That SHOULD be coming out the other end, since they are BOTH full of s***!
DanFlak about 5 years ago
We all know Hannity tells Trump what to do and Trump tells the Republicans what to do and everybody is happy in paradise.
Trump likes to brag about his “base.” Only it is not his base; it belongs to FOX News. If Trump doesn’t do what Fox News tells him to do, he loses points with his “base.” Trump is just smart enough to play along.
This is not a conscious thought: Trump is incapable of rational thought. It works on a more primitive principle: conditioned reflex. It’s like Pavlov and his dogs, “Do what Fox says and I get a reward.”
sandpiper about 5 years ago
Who’s feeding whom?
mourdac Premium Member about 5 years ago
It should be Fox as a puppet master and Donny Boy dancing at the end of their strings and talking their talk. Of course, one could say that about Putin as the puppet master also….
wellis1947 Premium Member about 5 years ago
The entity known as “Fox News” was first envisioned by Nixon and his faithful toady, Roger Ailes, Nixon’s executive producer for television, as a means to circumvent the FCC’s “Fairness doctrine” and allow Nixon and other Republicans to spew propaganda without having to accommodate opinions from the other side.
Well, Nixon’s disgraced and dead, and Ailes is disgraced and dead, but the right-wing monster envisioned and brought forth by the Nixon/Ailes cabal lives on as a “mouthpiece of the Right”!
Every time I hear ’Fox News" mentioned, I hear, faintly and in the background, cries from the villagers of "It Lives! My God, it lives!
I do not know with certainty, what good was buried with EITHER man, But little Billy Shakespeare really ‘nailed’ it when he wrote, “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”.
The ONLY way a person should interact with ‘Fox News’ is with a hammer and a stake!
Bobbers Premium Member about 5 years ago
Faux news is just a continuation of the appeal to ignorance nearing perfection by Rupert Murdoch. Ya gotta hand it to ol’ Rupert; he really knows how to wind up the masses!