{"id":40827,"date":"2019-03-09T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T19:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40827"},"modified":"2019-03-09T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T20:09:22","slug":"fair-and-wtf-fox-news-insults-democrat-as-bird-brained-exalts-republican-as-modern-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40827","title":{"rendered":"Fair and WTF? Fox News Insults Democrat as ‘Bird-Brained’, Exalts Republican as ‘Modern Marvel’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week the media was abuzz over the “controversy”<\/em> about whether or not Fox News should be permitted to host a Democratic primary debate. That’s a pretty easy question to resolve considering Fox’s history of bias<\/a><\/strong>. And a few weeks ago, Tom Perez, the chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reversed his prior public statements on the subject and announced that Fox News would not be considered as a debate broadcast partner.<\/p>\n

\"Fox
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Naturally, this outraged Fox News and it’s forward flank of Storm-Trumpers who were appalled at losing their opportunity to disparage Democratic presidential candidates on national television. But their disingenuous consternation was a fraud from the start. They complained that they are a legitimate news enterprise with reputable journalists. Never mind that the vast majority of their airtime is dominated by rightist surrogates for Donald Trump who pretend to be nonpartisan reporters.<\/p>\n

When that argument failed to persuade anyone that Fox News was an appropriate platform for a Democratic debate, they accused Democrats of being afraid of Fox. Why Fox thinks that impugning the character of Democrats as cowards is a good way to convince the party that Fox is unbiased is puzzling, to say the least. That charge is both unfair and untrue. It isn’t fear, but intelligence, that drove Democrats to decline to assist Fox in sabotaging their candidates. It makes no sense to reward a network that spends twenty-four hours a day promoting Trump as their savior, while viciously maligning Democrats and others who dare to challenge Trump\u2019s divine right to absolute power.<\/p>\n

Now Fox News is helpfully validating the decision by the DNC by continuing to demonstrate their abject hatred for Democrats. On their website they posted two stories next to each other that tells the tale of of Fox’s blatant political prejudices. One story featured a favorite foil for Fox News, Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She was pictured with a caption that read “Bird-Brained”<\/em> and was accompanied by an article by an avowed climate denier who criticized her “Green New Deal.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The other story was about Republican representative Dan Crenshaw. He is also a veteran who lost an eye in Afghanistan. His story had a caption reading “Modern Marvel”<\/em> and was headlined “GOP Rep Reveals ‘Captain America’ Glass Eye to Avengers Star.”<\/em> The accompanying piece was a short, unnarrated video of Crenshaw meeting actor Chris Evans.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

So Fox News chose to juxtapose a story about a Republican they portrayed as a superhero with one about a women they maligned as ignorant and evil. And this is the network that has seriously tried to argue that they should be treated like a legitimate news operation that can fairly moderate a political debate by the party they so obviously despise. What a joke. At least we can be thankful that they are so profoundly stupid that they continue to provide these examples of why they should never be taken seriously.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week the media was abuzz over the “controversy” about whether or not Fox News should be permitted to host a Democratic primary debate. That’s a pretty easy question to resolve considering Fox’s history of bias. And a few weeks ago, Tom Perez, the chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reversed his prior public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40828,"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],"tags":[1339,218,633,554,33,1362],"class_list":["post-40827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-democrats","tag-dnc","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-tom-perez"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-alert-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aCv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40790,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40790","url_meta":{"origin":40827,"position":0},"title":"Top 10 Reasons the DNC Was Right to Refuse a Fox News Hosted Democratic Primary Debate","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/6\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"A few weeks ago the chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Tom Perez, was asked by Fox News anchor Bret Baier whether he would consider scheduling a Democratic Party primary debate on Fox News. 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