Watching Them Squirm:

[raysr]

Is Fox News Abandoning the Mob It Created?




A huge schism develops between Fox's post-election attempts at "civility" and its pitchfork-wielding audience.
The first polls had just closed when the Republican Right's "Agony of Defeat" moment arrived. It was just after 8 p.m. -- right as Fox's "America's Election HQ" show returned from a commercial break, and Brit Hume welcomed viewers back to his "Fair and Balanced" network.

But something wasn't right: There was a strange lack of background banter, none of the golf-buddy joshing that comes with overconfidence. There was just Bergman-esque silence between every one of Brit Hume's dramatic pauses. The Fox cameras wandered over an incredible scene: the cream of right-wing/neocon punditry -- William Kristol, Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke -- were caught slumped in their chairs during the commercial break, deep in a state of hopelessness and depression. They didn't see the camera train on them, or maybe they were incapable of faking it, as if they'd been on a three-day Ecstasy roll at Burning Man, and now they were paying the horrible serotonin-deprived price. Kristol looked like he was suffering the worst: He was slouched over the table, his grotesque Stewie-shaped head sulking down to his navel, his glazed eyes staring down at the floor. He strained to lift his head when Hume called on him to comment -- and when Kristol spoke, it was in a raspy, slow voice, not his usual smirking, energetic arrogance. To quote a sympathetic right-wing blogger, "Will Collier e-mails to tell me that he hasn't seen Bill Kristol look this bad since his man McCain get stomped in S.C. by Bush in 20

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[BlueManDude]

1. There are some really great lines in this piece - a good read.

[pretzel4gore]

2. they're sub human, not just thwarted neocons

look at the results of what they wanted, schemed at, over decades! Nevermind the cost or the suffering or even the danger of future bloodshed: the rightwing tapeworm INTENTIONALLY destroyed mass media as a trusted purveyor of news/info in democratic society, falsified factual history asap after it occurred, and for what? Because the people must be defrauded politically in order for the 'conservatives' reactionaries to affect the radical changes threatened by an active, aware and well informed populace, such as the 2nd world war winners, with its 'greatest generation' who saw what collective humanity was capable of, ie: not only winning the war, but using such socialist ideas as GI Bill to educate US veterans and; well, later go to the moon and create a really fun society where freedom really reigned, where injustice was tagged for easy identification/elimination and where hope was normal, all amid popular law and order. But the lying bastards of the reactionary right set out in the 60's/70's to ruin it, and 40 years and after too many murders to mention- they finally have! They act put upon by having a young idealist/achievment oriented lefty like Obama take their victory away from them, but.... We should round them up and put the entire lot away forever. They are scheming as we speak, to destroy the human race....using every character flaw in the mob trying to do it!

[kentuck]

3. Entertaining.

reading.

[Kind of Blue]

4. It was an absolute thing of beauty to watch. But it wasn't worth the wait of 8 long agonizing years.