{"id":6676,"date":"2012-03-17T10:55:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T17:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2012-03-17T10:55:25","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T17:55:25","slug":"fox-news-in-touch-with-america-of-the-1940s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6676","title":{"rendered":"Fox News: In Touch With America &#8211; Of The 1940&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives have been clamoring for the past three years or so that they want to <em>&#8220;take America back.&#8221;<\/em> The problem is that they want to take America back 50 years &#8211; or more. Evidence of their fixation on yesteryear was poignantly exhibited this morning on Fox and Friends when the hosts featured a segment about a fundraiser for President Obama.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pq8kTJyb-SY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Male Host:<\/strong> We&#8217;ve heard a lot about civility recently , and that&#8217;s why we maintain only the highest standards of civility on this program. But there&#8217;s a kind of a crazy moment at one of these Obama fundraisers. An entertainer named Cee Lo Green I believe, who must be very popular and hip because I&#8217;ve never heard of him ever before.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n<strong>Female Host:<\/strong> It makes you long for the days of Sinatra, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cee Lo Green, of course, is a Grammy-winning artist whose novelty song <em>&#8220;Fuck You&#8221;<\/em> was a huge hit. It&#8217;s hard to grasp how anyone not living in an underground bunker waiting for Armageddon could have never heard of him. And why Frank Sinatra, a known pal of Mafia kingpins, is morally preferable to a guy who harmlessly and humorously cusses, is not readily apparent.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Fox is intent on demonstrating the highest moral standards by featuring this story at the top of their Fox Nation web site, as if it were the most important news item of the day. And in their coverage they seem to have no problem with posting, uncensored, the very language that they are condemning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Donors at one of President Barack Obama&#8217;s fundraisers in Atlanta on Friday received at least one message loud and clear from the Obama campaign: &#8216;Fuck you.&#8217; Singer Cee Lo Green, best known for his solo career and his work in the musical duo Gnarles Barkley, was entertaining guests at the $500-per-ticket event at Tyler Perry Studios when he prepared to launch into a performance of his song &#8216;Forget You.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>There was only one problem. Green decided, apparently at the last minute, to sing the uncensored and decidedly unpresidential version of the song \u2014 titled &#8216;Fuck You&#8217; \u2014 instead.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Note to Fox News:<\/strong> The song is not called <em>&#8220;Forget You.&#8221;<\/em> That was a sanitized version that Green recorded after the song unexpectedly raced up the charts. And if you&#8217;re so incensed by the use of foul language, why did you subject your hypersensitive readers to it &#8211; twice?<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness we have Fox News monitoring the moral fitness of society&#8217;s art and entertainment. We know that they can be relied upon to uphold the values that all Americans share (because we all think alike), while keeping up with contemporary culture (as long as it stops at 1950).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives have been clamoring for the past three years or so that they want to &#8220;take America back.&#8221; The problem is that they want to take America back 50 years &#8211; or more. Evidence of their fixation on yesteryear was poignantly exhibited this morning on Fox and Friends when the hosts featured a segment about [&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":[9,1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture","category-general","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1JG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8633,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8633","url_meta":{"origin":6676,"position":0},"title":"Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Rules Of Civility: From The Magistrate Of Pinheads And Loons","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/11\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night on the O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly delivered his nightly Talking Points Memo on a subject with which he has profound familiarity: Incivility. 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