Fox News Trades Toe-Sucking Dick Morris For Goat-Fucking Erick Erickson

The mediasphere is buzzing tonight with the news that Fox News is not renewing the contract of the world’s worst pundit, Dick Morris. Shortly after last November’s election Fox announced that he and Karl Rove would not be permitted on the air without special permission from the network brass. Since then, Rove’s contract was picked up, but until today no one knew what the fate of Morris would be.

Well, now we know. Morris has been thrown out in the cold along with Sarah Palin. This development has caused some analysts to ponder whether Fox is rethinking their signature news model of fabricating scandals and fomenting fear. But fear not. Any notion that Fox would alter the formula that earned them the disrespect of actual journalists everywhere can be set aside.

The fact is that, while Fox is jettisoning Morris (the former Clinton adviser who was caught sucking the toes of a prostitute while they both listened in on calls to the Oval Office), Fox has also hired recently dumped CNN contributor Erick Erickson (who honored retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter by calling him a “Goat-fucking child molester”). So as you can see, Fox’s reputation remains in tact.

Dick Morris

Dick Morris did become somewhat of an embarrassment for Fox after insisting that Mitt Romney would win a landslide victory over Barack Obama. However, that was only his most recent exhibition of idiocy. Morris has been making an ass of himself for years. Particularly notable was his book, “Condi vs. Hillary,” in which he predicted that they would be the candidates in the 2008 election. But Morris got the Democratic nominee wrong; he got the Republican nominee wrong; and the Republican who Morris said could win if he were nominated (McCain) actually was nominated and lost. Is there any way Morris could have been more wrong?

It is nevertheless curious that Fox thinks Erick Erickson will somehow be less embarrassing. He is a vulgar and ignorant ultra-rightist partisan whose observations are shallow and factless. On second thought, he should fit right in at Fox. CNN’s decision to nix him seemed, momentarily, to be a possible sign of redemption. However, CNN just announced that Morris would be a guest on this Wednesday’s episode of the Piers Morgan show. Hopefully that is a one-time booking for the purpose of grilling him and then casting him back into the garbage where he belongs. But with CNN it’s hard to tell where they might be going with this. After all, they did employ Erickson for the past three years.

The cable news wars have been in a state of flux lately, with MSNBC overtaking Fox in parts of primetime with important audience segments. CNN just hired the former NBC/Universal chief, Jeff Zucker, and is beginning to shuffle their programs and people. But Fox still has the most stagnant schedule in cable news with old timers like Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Neil Cavuto, and the Fox & Fools in the morning. So anybody expecting to see much of difference in the future for Fox is likely to be proven as mistaken as Morris has been.

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6 thoughts on “Fox News Trades Toe-Sucking Dick Morris For Goat-Fucking Erick Erickson

  1. Fox news seems to be, if I am to believe what is written here, going the way of the establishment republicans – down the drain. Someone hasn’t figured it out yet that the people who are registered republicans don’t like where these establishment types, like Dick Morris, want to go (in my opinion) and since Fox appears to push that same message, they are finding themselves in the same bad position. And if history is a lesson, they won’t figure it out until it’s too late. This is just my opinion of course – but with Karl Rove threatening the average voter with his super PAC because we just won’t get behind their chosen candidates, it’s going to be an ugly few years.

  2. The fact that Morris is wrong on everything should actually increase his stock at Fox because they are wrong on everything and seem to be proud of it.

  3. One thing that never gets mentioned about Erick Erickson–his “job” at CNN was due largely to the fact that he lives in Georgia and can do in-person appearances at CNN’s broadcast headquarters in Atlanta. Other than that, there was virtually no real reason to hire him, other than to let him troll for the network.

  4. I was unaware that as a pundit, any description on this blog requires reference to his/her sexual exploits or proclivities. I agree that instead of the shallow minded Erickson, FOX might have considered that deep thinker and provocateur, Touré.

  5. “…goat-###ing Erick Erickson…”

    Mark reminds everybody yet again that Mark has no class and nothing worthwhile to offer.

    • You obviously aren’t paying attention. I’m simply quoting what Erickson called Justice Souter.

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