{"id":5396,"date":"2011-09-13T09:05:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2011-12-27T10:10:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T18:10:33","slug":"fox-nation-plays-to-the-stupidity-of-their-audience-mocking-bill-maher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5396","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation Plays To The Stupidity Of Their Audience By Mocking Bill Maher"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can tell a lot about an enterprise by the way it engages their own audience. For Fox News it is imperative that they talk down to the morons who watch in order to perpetuate the lies and disinformation. And their web site, Fox Nation, is no less bound by a confederacy of dunces. Here is how they routinely portray comedian Bill Maher:<\/p>\n

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Repeatedly calling him Pig Maher is the Fox Nationalist’s way of demonstrating their maturity and devotion to ethical journalism. It’s all you can expect from an organization whose audience was obsessed with idiotic notions about death panels and birth certificates.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time Fox Nation has plumbed these depths of daftness. A couple of years ago the Foxies thought they were hilarious as they skewered Senator Al Franken<\/a> as Stuart Smalley (the name of a character he played on Saturday Night Live ten years prior). At that time I wrote…<\/p>\n

“I suppose that, in order for Fox Nation (and Fox News) to be successful, they have to cater to the diminished mental capacity of their audience. And after reading some of the comments posted on their site, I’d say they still have some ways down to go. Remember, this is a community that reveres ignorance, as illustrated by their adoration of Sarah Palin, and college dropout Glenn Beck. They proudly display their overt disdain for people with demonstrated intelligence.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We can now add to the list of Fox’s idols the current front-runner in the GOP presidential primary, Rick Perry. His college transcripts<\/a> reveal that he barely graduated with a 2.2 grade-point average. This presidential hopeful received C’s in U.S. History; D’s in Principles of Economics; and for someone who doesn’t believe in evolution and discounts the peer-reviewed research of hundreds of scientists affirming Climate Change, Perry failed Organic Chemistry.<\/p>\n

Still, Perry and Fox may be too advanced for the Fox audience and Tea Partyers. It is, nevertheless, comforting to see them at least trying to communicate at a level their audience can understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can tell a lot about an enterprise by the way it engages their own audience. For Fox News it is imperative that they talk down to the morons who watch in order to perpetuate the lies and disinformation. And their web site, Fox Nation, is no less bound by a confederacy of dunces. 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