{"id":35192,"date":"2017-07-17T13:53:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T20:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35192"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T20:55:12","slug":"dumbfuks-at-fox-news-want-to-know-whats-a-bigger-threat-to-america-fake-news-or-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35192","title":{"rendered":"Dumbfu*ks at Fox News Want to Know: What&#8217;s a Bigger Threat to America: Fake News or Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fair and balanced couch dwellers at Fox and Friends are suddenly very concerned about threats to America. Not the ones posed by hostile foreign adversaries disrupting our elections and hacking our politicians and candidates. Nor the ones saber-rattling about war with a crackpot dictator in North Korea. And certainly not the one that puts the entire planet at risk of becoming uninhabitable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-prager-threat.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Dennis Prager\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35195\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1808034129211374\" 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>Nope. What Fox News is worried about is whether what they call <em>&#8220;fake news&#8221;<\/em> has surpassed Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Russia as an imminent threat to the United States. Bear in mind that the issue that&#8217;s throwing Fox News into a tizzy is actually real news reporting of Donald Trump and his crime family&#8217;s collusion with Russia. But just the suggestion that Trump is anything less than divinely pure qualifies as fakery to Fox.<\/p>\n<p>In Monday morning&#8217;s episode of Fox and Friends, host Steve Doocy introduced a segment with sanctimonious radio talker Dennis Prager. He pretends to be a paragon of virtue and mentor to all of us inferior heathens. Prager tweeted his opinion that the media is America&#8217;s preeminent enemy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The news media in the West pose a far greater danger to Western civilization than Russia does.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dennis Prager (@DennisPrager) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DennisPrager\/status\/885920697708564480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And that led to Fox&#8217;s featured segment on the subject (video below):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Doocy:<\/strong> What&#8217;s a bigger threat to America: Fake news or Russia?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prager:<\/strong> This may sound odd to you and many of the viewers. I don&#8217;t understand why this tweet is controversial. Putin does not threaten Western civilization. Western civilization is a set of ideas and values. When students remove the American flag from their campuses, that&#8217;s not Putin. All of the things happening in the West to undo Western civilization have nothing to do with Putin. The only thing I regret about the tweet is that I didn&#8217;t write that the universities and the media in the West are a greater threat to Western civilization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to agree with Prager&#8217;s first point. It definitely sounds odd. Prager is making some sort of vague differentiation between Western civilization and the government and political institutions that uphold it. His babbling about our ideas and values being separate from Putin&#8217;s election tampering is pure gibberish. And yet he thinks that a cloth flag is a more tangible part of what makes America than democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Prager went on to complain that <em>&#8220;Half of American millennials think socialism is preferable to capitalism. That&#8217;s a result of the media and the universities.&#8221;<\/em> It&#8217;s also the result of critical thinking and independent analysis. For one thing, socialism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive. In fact, the United States is a working example of a hybrid of the two concepts. Social Security and public education have not hampered the economic success of Ford, Starbucks, or Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Prager whined that <em>&#8220;The media have gone from news media to opinion media in the guise of news. That is extremely dangerous.&#8221;<\/em> I can&#8217;t argue with that. But the irony is that he said it on Fox News &#8211; the indisputable champion of blatantly biased pseudo-journalism. Fox News practically invented the modern practice of opinion media. And, in closing, I&#8217;ll agree with Prager again. Fox News is extremely dangerous.<\/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><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5510174552001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fair and balanced couch dwellers at Fox and Friends are suddenly very concerned about threats to America. Not the ones posed by hostile foreign adversaries disrupting our elections and hacking our politicians and candidates. Nor the ones saber-rattling about war with a crackpot dictator in North Korea. And certainly not the one that puts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35195,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[554,879,33,134,1072],"class_list":["post-35192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-steve-doocy","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-prager-threat.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-99C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38518,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38518","url_meta":{"origin":35192,"position":0},"title":"Bad Propaganda: Trump Tweets Fox News Clip Showing He Lied About Russian Election Hacking","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/19\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In one of the worst weeks for Donald Trump since his election (aren't they all?) 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