Fox Nation is a website that traffics in the most pure form of propaganda the American news media has ever produced. On a daily basis they disseminate lies and slander aimed at their ideological enemies (which is anyone to the left of Attila the Hun). Which makes it all the more ironic that they are now hyperventilating over a piece of historical art that was hung in the kitchen of Press Secretary Jay Carney’s home.
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A fluffy human interest piece in the Washingtonian Magazine profiled Carney’s wife, journalist Claire Shipman. The feature included a photograph of the Carney’s at home making breakfast. But lurking in the background was evidence of the nefarious associations that everyone in the Obama administration has to the dark evil of communism. So, of course, Fox Nation posts an item that points the bony finger of accusation and bellows that “Jay Carney Decorates Home With Soviet Propaganda.”
In fact, the artwork in question is a classic example of Russian Constructivism from the 1930’s. It is a historically significant period style that is collected by art connoisseurs and museums. The specific piece was created by a well known Russian artist, Dmitry Moor and was used as a recruiting poster in Russia’s war against Hitler and the Nazi regime of Germany, in much the same way the United States used its “Uncle Sam, I Want You” posters.
As usual, Fox Nation leaves out all of the relevant context that might inform their readers about the subject on which they pretend to report. That’s because the mission of Fox News is never to inform, but to indoctrinate. In this case, Fox omitted the fact that Carney and his wife first met while on assignment in Moscow for their respective news agencies, Time Magazine and CNN. Adding that factoid to the story makes the presence of the poster less ominous and more romantic. Also, Fox chose to only publish a version of the Russian artwork (and the wrong version at that) rather than the actual photo from the Washingtonian that reveals a rather charming and thoroughly American family enjoying their morning at home.
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Frightening, aren’t they? And notice that they are engaged in some sort of witchcraft, cackling as they mysteriously levitate chicken embryos.
For Fox Nation to get so flustered by this innocent display of artwork is typical of their efforts to take the most petty trivialities and blow them up into subversive acts of villainy. And while the Fox Nationalists froth at the mouth over art of a bygone age that offends no one, they are never bothered in the least by present day American Tea Party rightists who wave the Confederate flag that still represents slavery and oppression to millions.
[Update 4/13/2014] Not surprisingly, the Kiddie Crew on the Curvy Couch of Fox & Friends regurgitated the inane criticism of the Carney family’s decor. But host Tucker Carlson inexplicably made an argument that implied his frustration at not being able to display his Nazi posters saying, “Why is it OK to put Soviet propaganda posters up but not Nazi propaganda posters?” Poor Tucker. He will probably have to keep his KKK posters locked up in the garage too.
So having a “communist” picture in their house is really bad but publicly stating you admire the communist president of Russia who happens to be the ex-chief of the KGB, that’s OK?
Excellent point. I covered that in an article that revealed the profound infatuation that the right has for Putin:
St. Vladimir: The Putin Worship Continues On Fox News
I remember a wealthy Texas Romney donor, whose home Romney stayed at during the 2012 campaign, who had a collection of Adolf Hitler painted and signed artwork. I don’t recall, but I am going to assume that Fox Nation never reported on that and for good reason, art-work is art-work. These things are collectibles and probably a good investment. Isn’t that the American way? WTF are these people going on about?!
Sorry to be that jerk, but in this case, it is traffick not traffic.
I’m laughing seeing liberals try and defend this stupid move by Carney. WOW what a moron having those posters AND displaying them in a photoshoot! Absolutely amazing. Good luck liberals defending as red commie soldier in a kitchen pointing at ya. A most tacky poster for a kitchen. And what a message from a press secretary of a president. WOW. Try U.S. posters? Thanks. This Jay guy, his wife and his kids are entirely RUINED. Just retire and go live in Europe. I just can’t believe the level of stupidity.
Ruined meaning he will be fired, she will be fired for whatever she does and the kids will be teased for a long time. Stupidity level of Jay and his wife? 10 stars out of 10.
I’m laughing too — at right-wingers like you whose minds are so small that they can’t wrap around a simple historical poster. And if you think that anyone is going to get fired over this (or should) you are both naive and a McCarthyite. Thanks for posting here so we all can see the commie-phobic point of view of censorious conservatives.
Seems like you righties will believe anything that you think is bad for the Obama admin.
Tell me, if a collector of historical artifacts has both Nazi and American paraphernalia in his collection, do you call him a Nazi? Pr a patriotic American?
There is nothing to defend, because who cares except for fascists such as yourself and the other Foxies. Case closed.
You rail against conservative “lies” but state that Tea Party rallies feature the confederate flag? I must have missed those rallies, and missed any photographic evidence of them as well. But we all know it’s ok for liberals to lie.
The photographic evidence of Confederate flags is abundant, just Google it. It took me a whole ten seconds to find this. So not only is your name-calling about lying liberals patently false, you proving that you are too stupid to do even ten seconds of research to support your BS.
Seem to remember Keith Olbermann commenting a couple of years ago on one of O’Reilly’s feverish rants that Rockefeller Square had all this communist propaganda all over it, then Bill-O in the same breath commented that he had some kind of paperweight with a Russian symbol on it. Which, once again, proves if WE do it, it’s all well and good – and almost honorable, but if YOU do it, it’s a crime against America and you should be destroyed for having this communist infiltration taking all our precious bodily fluids. Or something…
(O’Reilly, of course, was proud of his paperweight, saying that “very beautiful things” can come from “very ugly places.” If Olbermann had one of those paperweights, Bill-O would have accused NBC of treason. The man remains an idiot…)
In the 20th century Communism murdered over 100 million. 1934, the Ukraine forced famine, over 7 million died. I wonder if Jay has told his children those facts.
I don’t think progressive Mark would want you to state those kinds of facts due to the close relationship between his political ideology and communism (he denies it relentlessly, but it’s unmistakable) – but that really has nothing to do with the ridiculous Fox Nation attack on one person’s choices in art – which shows why today’s republicanism, as represented by Fox News, is so NOT good for conservatism.
Typical that you would attempt to use a post which has NOTHING to do with the topic of the article to attack the author.
Your vendetta against him has been fairly obvious, but, as I have also mentioned to others in similar situations before, letting that get to you doesn’t do you any good as far as your image is concerned.
Unless looking stupid is your goal, if so you’ve accomplished that brilliantly.
You’ve got his number. I don’t even bother responding to him because his comments make him look so stupid without any help. So thanks for your response.
I’ll tell you what – change progressive ideology so that it’s not all about solving the problems of society with MORE government control of our lives or more restrictions to individual freedom and we’ll all get along soo much better – that is probably too much to ask from those who have so little self respect that you would subjugate yourself and all others to obtain your version of the perfect society.
The vendetta idea is a bit much – don’t you think? Just trying to pull back the curtain so the blind followers here know what their signing up for – a waste of time, I know. I’m not so blind as to not see the bad from Fox News, you seem to be so blind you can’t see past your own “good” intentions. You and your ilk are much like the Fox News viewers you so gleefully attack as being blind followers and uninformed boobs.
Further food for thought concerning your lame but completely unoriginal attempt to link liberal ideology with communism:
http://www.earlhamsociologypages.co.uk/fasccom.htm
That last line had me chortling…
One thing though, Fox is just one form of propaganda, CNN, MSNBC et al are as much propaganda as Fox, just variations tailored to different sectors of the empire, confuting all truth and serving an ultra national narrative.