{"id":32456,"date":"2016-08-30T12:32:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T19:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32456"},"modified":"2016-08-30T12:39:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T19:39:05","slug":"fair-and-balanced-my-ass-fox-news-goes-full-propaganda-factory-for-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32456","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fair And Balanced&#8217; My Ass! Fox News Goes Full Propaganda Factory For Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News was never <em>&#8220;fair and balanced&#8221;<\/em> and was never meant to be. The slogan itself is a backhanded slap at every other media outlet that implies they are neither. It&#8217;s the same type of messaging <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\">that cults use<\/a><\/strong> to insure that their disciples believe only their dogma and reject all others as deceivers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Campaign-2016\/foxnews-memes-featured.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32458\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1419344828080308\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the debate over whether Fox News is biased ended before it even began. However, there is a much more interesting debate over who is in charge of the Republican Party. Is the GOP running its own show, or are they merely a vehicle to carry out the agenda of Fox News? Several years ago former Bush speechwriter David Frum recognized a power shift and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/video\/2010\/03\/23\/frum-republicans-originally-thought-that-fox-wo\/162116\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a><\/strong> that <em>\u201cRepublicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox.&#8221;<\/em> This question became even more complicated when Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32352\" target=\"_blank\">taken over by Breitbart News<\/a><\/strong> (Fox-on-Steroids).<\/p>\n<p>One thing that is unmistakable is that Fox News devotes all of its resources to pushing the conservative Republican political agenda. Throughout their broadcast day they provide vigorous support for right-wing candidates and policies. Their most prominent anchors are personal friends of Donald Trump, and Sean Hannity has even <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32385\" target=\"_blank\">endorsed him<\/a><\/strong> on the air. And now they are literally creating pro-Trump memes to boost his campaign on social media. These are graphic advertisements that are either promoting Trump or bashing Hillary Clinton. Their are no pro-Clinton memes at all. Have a look (Slideshow):<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/newscorpse\/albums\/72157672116719372\" title=\"Fox News Memes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/8\/7476\/29324692455_70b10c5c35_o.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" alt=\"Fox News Memes\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Could this be any more brazenly partisan? Fox News is hyping some of the most ridiculous attacks on Clinton and many are purely opinions that have no basis in fact. In other words, it isn&#8217;t remotely news, it&#8217;s propaganda. When they resort to quoting Larry the Cable Guy saying that <em>&#8220;Hillary will be the end of the country,&#8221;<\/em> it&#8217;s safe to say they have crossed a line into the surreal.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has created a pro-Trump meme factory to spew GOP talking points in support of their chosen candidate. The fact that they are creating these graphics with only a single, ultra-rightist point of view should satisfy any lingering doubts about the partisan objectives of Fox News and their management. Continuing to pretend that there is an independent Republican Party is a fool&#8217;s exercise. There is now only Fox News and their political subsidiary that is marketing a racist, misogynist demagogue to its glassy-eyed congregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News was never &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221; and was never meant to be. The slogan itself is a backhanded slap at every other media outlet that implies they are neither. It&#8217;s the same type of messaging that cults use to insure that their disciples believe only their dogma and reject all others as deceivers. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,684,8],"tags":[982,637,554,33,31,301],"class_list":["post-32456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","category-propaganda","tag-breitbart","tag-david-frum","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-memes-featured.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-8ru","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41964,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41964","url_meta":{"origin":32456,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Smears Democratic Debate Host Rachel Maddow in a Fit of Hysterical Hypocrisy","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/27\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The first night of the 2020 Democratic primary debate was a refreshing departure from the infantile politics of the Donald Trump era. 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