{"id":5961,"date":"2011-12-15T12:21:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5961"},"modified":"2011-12-15T12:21:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:21:32","slug":"fox-news-debuts-the-rush-limbaugh-hyperbole-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5961","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Debuts The Rush Limbaugh Hyperbole Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fox News web site for <em>&#8220;those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship,&#8221;<\/em> Fox Nation, generally exhibits the same calm, thoughtful, and reasoned demeanor in its presentation of the news as its TV parent. For example, this morning the Fox Nationalists posted this headline story:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Caps\/foxnation-limbaugh-greta.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Nation\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who didn&#8217;t tune in to the interview of Rush Limbaugh by Greta Van Susteren yesterday (which was 99% of the country), what you missed was seeing Van Susteren turn over almost half of her program to Limbaugh. She asked a couple of questions and then let Limbaugh ramble on incessantly in his trademarked hyperbolic manner. And in all of the time he consumed he said nothing more than <em>&#8220;Obama sucks,&#8221;<\/em> over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of hyperbole, notice the Fox Nation headline saying that <em>&#8220;Limbaugh Shatters Obama Into a Million Pieces.&#8221;<\/em> Really? Because the last time I looked Rush is still hosting an AM radio program with an audience of self-described <em>&#8220;dittoheads&#8221;<\/em> and Obama is the leader of the free world. But this is typical of Fox Nation. Here is a small sampling of prior headlines that have graced this alleged <em>&#8220;news&#8221;<\/em> site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Newt <strong>Obliterates<\/strong> OWS: &#8216;Go Get A Job Right After You Take A Bath<\/li>\n<li>Allen West <strong>Obliterates<\/strong> Obama Official at Hearing<\/li>\n<li>Flashback: Bill O&#8217;Reilly <strong>Obliterates<\/strong> Barney Frank<\/li>\n<li>Bush Official <strong>Obliterates<\/strong> Code Pink Founder Over Krugman Column<\/li>\n<li>CBO Director <strong>Obliterates<\/strong> Obama Budget<\/li>\n<li>Limbaugh <strong>Demolishes<\/strong> Warren Buffett<\/li>\n<li>Laura Ingraham Completely <strong>Demolishes<\/strong> Matt Lauer on &#8216;Today Show&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Wow! McCain <strong>Demolishes<\/strong> Boxer<\/li>\n<li>O&#8217;Reilly <strong>Demolishes<\/strong> Liberal Hypocrisy<\/li>\n<li>GOP Ad <strong>Destroys<\/strong> Obama with His Own Words<\/li>\n<li>AP Fact Check <strong>Destroys<\/strong> Obama&#8217;s Libya Speech<\/li>\n<li>FLASHBACK: Herman Cain <strong>Destroys<\/strong> Bill Clinton in Hillarycare Debate<\/li>\n<li>Paul Ryan <strong>Destroys<\/strong> Reid Bill in Blistering Speech<\/li>\n<li>Krauthammer <strong>Destroys<\/strong> Obama&#8217;s &#8216;Spike the Football&#8217; Analogy<\/li>\n<li>MUST WATCH: Gov. Christie <strong>Destroys<\/strong> &#8216;Thin-Skinned&#8217; Reporter<\/li>\n<li>LISTEN: Howard Stern <strong>Destroys<\/strong> Dem Senate Candidate<\/li>\n<li>WATCH: Trump <strong>Destroys<\/strong> Mosque-Loving &#8216;Morning Joe&#8217; Panel<\/li>\n<li>O&#8217;Reilly <strong>Destroys<\/strong> Eminem and Media Matters<\/li>\n<li>Politifact <strong>Annihilates<\/strong> Harry Reid<\/li>\n<li>Must See! Cheney&#8217;s Daughter <strong>Annihilates<\/strong> MSNBC Anchor<\/li>\n<li>O&#8217;Reilly <strong>Crushes<\/strong> Atheist Richard Dawkins<\/li>\n<li>Palin <strong>Crushes<\/strong> TIME Magazine Over Their &#8216;Lies&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>George Will <strong>Crushes<\/strong> ABC Panel<\/li>\n<li>SHOWDOWN: Rubio <strong>Torches<\/strong> Kerry on Senate Floor<\/li>\n<li>Risqu\u00e9 GOP Ad <strong>Torches<\/strong> Harry Reid for Vegas Blowout<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Fact Checker&#8217; <strong>Nukes<\/strong> Pelosi<\/li>\n<li>CEO GOES <strong>NUCLEAR<\/strong> ON OBAMA<\/li>\n<li>Ann Coulter Goes <strong>Nuclear<\/strong> on Scott Walker<\/li>\n<li>Mark Levin Goes <strong>Nuclear<\/strong> Over Obama Destroying the Country<\/li>\n<li>Trump Goes <strong>Nuclear<\/strong> on CNBC<\/li>\n<li>Levin Goes <strong>Nuclear<\/strong> on Trump<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By Fox News standards any time someone criticizes someone else they are either obliterated, demolished, destroyed, annihilated, crushed, torched, or nuked. Particularly if the criticism is directed to President Obama or a Democrat. And I didn&#8217;t even check my thesaurus to come up with other histrionic synonyms Fox might have employed.<\/p>\n<p>The one thread that runs through all of this is how overtly hostile and violent their editorial rhetoric is. Clearly Fox regards their mission as one of war against their ideological adversaries. And given the fact that their audience consists of an inordinate percentage of fairly unbalanced and well-armed individuals, this is irresponsible and potentially dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1625\" target=\"_blank\">Newt Gingrich once said<\/a>, the Tea Party is <em>&#8220;the militant wing of the Republican Party.&#8221;<\/em> And Fox News is their Clarion Caller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fox News web site for &#8220;those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship,&#8221; Fox Nation, generally exhibits the same calm, thoughtful, and reasoned demeanor in its presentation of the news as its TV parent. For example, this morning the [&hellip;]<\/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":[1,16],"tags":[527,608,71],"class_list":["post-5961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-fox-nation","tag-greta-van-susteren","tag-rush-limbaugh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1y9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1342,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1342","url_meta":{"origin":5961,"position":0},"title":"All You Need To Know About Rush Limbaugh","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/26\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In another in a series of Fox News PR events for Republican dickwads, Greta Van Susteren hosted Rush Limbaugh, giving him two days of airtime on her show. 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Limbaugh: Barack Obama is running a re-elect ad against Sarah Palin\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1475,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1475","url_meta":{"origin":5961,"position":4},"title":"If You&#8217;re Afraid Of Fox News&#8230;","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/24\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Conservative blowhards on Fox News and elsewhere have made a mantra out of taunting President Obama for avoiding Fox. They have repeatedly implied that if you're afraid of Fox News how can you stand up to Iran or Al Qaeda. 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