Watching Them Squirm: Is Fox News Abandoning the Mob It Created?

[bridgit]

'A huge schism develops between Fox's post-election attempts at "civility" and its pitchfork-wielding audience. Tools

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 2000."'

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/106234/watching_them_squirm%3A_is_fox_news_abandoning_the_mob_it_created/

[MNReformer]

1. Yeah, this Newsweek poll confirms she isn't preferred for 2012

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/poll_palin_hasnt_done_herself.php

[Lumpsum]

2. Great article, thanks OP. nt

[Why Syzygy]

3. Hangover.

These are the folks who are most likely mulch for our progress. Decayed.

[murielm99]

4. Didn't they KNOW?

Did they honestly think they were going to win? I've seen stupid, especially on Fox. But how could they not know? Do they believe all their own lies? Is it possible?

[jules1962]

5. This was the calm before the storm

The joyous storm of people all over the world celebrating the win for Obama/Biden.The win for our country. The win for the world. I will never forget seeing the world unite right before our eyes. Beautiful sight to behold.

[Kolesar]

6. Kristol 's grotesque Stewie-shaped head?

[JCMach1]

7. Palin was Kristol's creation-- yet another neo-con disaster

[Kipper58]

10. I think he means Stewie from the cartoon "Family Guy"

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=family%20guy%20stewie&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

[Kolesar]

11. You just ruined that show for me

:lol:

[bridgit]

12. hehehe, "Stewie-shaped head"

:rofl:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Hey ya know that kid we used to beat up after school??? Well

he's the boss now.... Fox Lose.

[Lil Missy]

9. I'd sure like to see a video of that.

[yellowcanine]

13. Any day Kristol and Barnes are downcast is a good day for us.

Barnes so deluded he was one of the few pundits who predicted a McCain win on election eve.