{"id":1359,"date":"2009-08-10T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T23:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2009-09-20T00:02:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T07:02:46","slug":"as-fox-news-goes-up-the-gop-goes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"As Fox News Goes Up, The GOP Goes Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I published an article on how Fox News Is Killing The Republican Party<\/a>. It explored in detail how the embrace of lunatics and their demented ravings, along with a misunderstanding of the television marketplace, was literally dragging the Republican Party down to some of its lowest historical depths:<\/p>\n

“The more the population at large associates Republican ideology with the agenda of Fox News, and the fringe operators residing there, the more the party will be perceived as out of touch, or even out of their minds.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now Gawker has affirmed<\/a> my analysis with a chart showing the divergent prospects of Fox News and the Republican Party. I took the liberty of modifying their chart to spotlight the period following last November’s election (amongst other things, like the demise of the GOP logo).<\/p>\n

It couldn’t be much clearer. The post-election fate of Fox News is diametrically opposed to that of the GOP. The disparity has increased sinced November and shows no signs of letting up. Gawker sums it up nicely saying…<\/p>\n

“Fox News’ viewership is up 45% over the last year, and it’s easy to see why: The ascendancy of a charismatic black Democrat has driven frightened, paranoid, enraged, nativist zealots into the ideological embrace of an outlet that habitually reconfirms everything they already believe. Watching Glenn Beck’s spell-binding sermons<\/a> on Barack Obama’s racism is comforting to people who believe that their way of life-namely, one in which fatherly white Christians protect us from danger both internal and external-is under attack. So they do it more frequently. Tuning into Hannity et.al. becomes a life-affirming political act.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month I published an article on how Fox News Is Killing The Republican Party. It explored in detail how the embrace of lunatics and their demented ravings, along with a misunderstanding of the television marketplace, was literally dragging the Republican Party down to some of its lowest historical depths: “The more the population at […]<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[33,301],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-ratings","tag-fox-news","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-lV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28744,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=28744","url_meta":{"origin":1359,"position":0},"title":"What Republican Party? 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