{"id":7877,"date":"2012-08-27T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T20:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7877"},"modified":"2012-08-27T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T20:47:10","slug":"hbos-newsroom-fake-anchor-makes-more-sense-than-real-anchors-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7877","title":{"rendered":"HBO&#8217;s Newsroom: Fake Anchor Makes More Sense Than Real Anchors &#8211; Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will McAvoy, the anchor on HBO&#8217;s Newsroom, is frequently more honest and ethical than most television journalists in the <em>&#8220;real&#8221;<\/em> world. In the season finale of the program McAvoy does it again with an editorial that enumerates the characteristics of the Tea-publican Party:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ideological purity<\/li>\n<li>Compromise as weakness<\/li>\n<li>A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism<\/li>\n<li>Denying science<\/li>\n<li>Unmoved by facts<\/li>\n<li>Undeterred by new information<\/li>\n<li>A hostile fear of progress<\/li>\n<li>A demonization of education<\/li>\n<li>A need to control women&#8217;s bodies<\/li>\n<li>Severe xenophobia<\/li>\n<li>Tribal mentality<\/li>\n<li>Intolerance of dissent<\/li>\n<li>A pathological hatred of the U.S. government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And McAvoy concludes by saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They can call themselves the Tea Party. They can call themselves  conservatives and they can even call themselves Republicans, though Republicans certainly shouldn&#8217;t. But we should call them what they are. The American Taliban.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s never been said better. Here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vH1gJESvfbc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will McAvoy, the anchor on HBO&#8217;s Newsroom, is frequently more honest and ethical than most television journalists in the &#8220;real&#8221; world. In the season finale of the program McAvoy does it again with an editorial that enumerates the characteristics of the Tea-publican Party: Ideological purity Compromise as weakness A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism Denying [&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],"tags":[1032,1033],"class_list":["post-7877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-newsroom","tag-will-mcavoy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-233","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9308,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9308","url_meta":{"origin":7877,"position":0},"title":"Shades Of Murphy Brown: GOP Operative Clashes With Fake News Anchor","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/18\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the most widely mocked skirmishes in modern politics was the battle royale between Vice President Dan Quayle and Candace Bergan's sitcom muckracker Murphy Brown. 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