{"id":10418,"date":"2013-08-22T16:42:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10418"},"modified":"2013-08-23T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T16:10:12","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-the-dead-gop-scandal-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10418","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Dead GOP Scandal Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News has been engaged in a protracted campaign of manufactured scandal mongering for most of President Obama’s term in office. They have attempted to connect Obama to numerous imagined controversies via innuendo and relentless repetition. But despite their best efforts, Fox, and their accomplices in the Republican Party, have utterly failed to produce evidence of any malfeasance on the part of the White House.<\/p>\n

However, that fact has done nothing to impede their obsessive quest to tarnish the Obama presidency. And now Fox Nation has posted a hysterical article that is so brazen in its prejudice that it’s hard to comprehend the level of stupidity required to have produced it.<\/p>\n

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\nSee Fox Nation vs. Reality<\/a> for dozens of examples of Fox’s disregard for truth.<\/center>
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It seems impossible to believe that even the Fox News audience could buy into the graphic messaging in this item. But after learning that more Louisiana Republicans blame Obama<\/a>, rather than George Bush, for the dreadful response to Hurricane Katrina, anything is possible, including the Fox Nationalist’s attempt to draw a line from the criminally corrupt administration of Richard Nixon directly to Bill Clinton and Obama.<\/p>\n

The cognitive failure necessary to produce the item above requires some obvious historical omissions. Ronald Reagan’s presidency was marred by scandals that included improper negotiations with the Iranian captors who were holding Americans hostage. Later, his program of selling arms to Iran in order to raise money to assist fascist rebels in Nicaragua resulted in prosecutions and convictions of top aides like Oliver North, now a Fox News host and contributor. Other scandals swept through Reagan’s Environmental Protection Agency and his Department of Housing and Urban Development.<\/p>\n

The administration of George W. Bush was also awash in scandal. The most horrific, of course, was his deliberate deception regarding weapons of mass destruction as an excuse to invade Iraq. That totally unnecessary war cost the lives of more than 4,000 American soldiers, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. It also cost billions of dollars that Bush purposefully kept off the budget.<\/p>\n

Then there was his unlawful firing of U.S. Attorneys for political reasons; and the outing of Valerie Plame, a covert CIA operative, as revenge against her husband, Amb. Joe Wilson, for not going along with Administration lies; and the aforementioned Hurricane Katrina, wherein Bush’s negligence resulted in horrendous suffering and nearly 2,000 deaths in the Gulf Coast; and warrantless wiretapping; and the near meltdown of the U.S., and world, economy.<\/p>\n

The scandals of those administrations that Fox Nation conveniently skipped over were far more serious than anything alleged in the Obama years. They involved numerous fatalities and criminal convictions, none of which have been associated with Obama. Yet somehow the Fox Nationalists managed to post a graphic tarring Clinton and Obama with the stain of Nixon, rather than Nixon’s Republican comrades. I would ask “How stupid do they think their audience is?”<\/em> But clearly the the answer is pretty goddam stupid. And sadly, they’re probably right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fox News has been engaged in a protracted campaign of manufactured scandal mongering for most of President Obama’s term in office. They have attempted to connect Obama to numerous imagined controversies via innuendo and relentless repetition. But despite their best efforts, Fox, and their accomplices in the Republican Party, have utterly failed to produce evidence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#FoxNation vs. Reality: The Dead #GOP Scandal Society","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[527,33,167,301,159],"class_list":["post-10418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-nation","tag-fox-news","tag-george-w-bush","tag-republicans","tag-ronald-reagan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2I2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13430,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=13430","url_meta":{"origin":10418,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Insignificant New Email Reignites Benghazi Tourettes On Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/1\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"No \"news\" network has been more committed to promoting rumors and conspiracy theories than Fox News. 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