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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
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30 Apr 2007 06:39:56 AM |
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Wanna know just how completely and utterly irrelevant FUX News is? |
Want to know just how completely and utterly irrelevant Fox News is
these days?
Take it away, Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/27/fox-parody
On Tuesday, Fox News morning show "Fox & Friends" aired at least eight
segments on a purported "news" story that was actually a parody
article written by a publication similar to The Onion.
The backstory: Last week in the town of Lewiston, Maine, a group of
Somalian Muslim middle school students were the subject of a cruel
prank when their peers placed a ham steak next to them in order to
personally offend the students.
School officials filed a report because the students considered the
act to be a hate/bias crime.
This actual story was then spoofed by a parody site called Associated
Content, which made up quotes and details, such as the school's
intention to "create an anti-ham 'response plan.'"
On Tuesday, Fox & Friends reported these parody quotes and details as
actual news. Poking fun at the students, hosts asked whether ham was
"a hate crime...or lunch?" and showed screen shots of ham sandwiches,
starving Somalians, belching, animal noises, and mock "reenactments"
of the incident.
Ironically, the hosts assured viewers several times, "We're not making
this up!"
You know, I really don't have anything to add to that.
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
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| User: "Citizen Jimserac" |
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| Title: Re: Wanna know just how completely and utterly irrelevant FUX News is? |
30 Apr 2007 06:50:26 AM |
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On Apr 30, 7:39 am, Harry Hope <riv...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
Want to know just how completely and utterly irrelevant Fox News is
these days?
We already know. They DON'T have a Lou Dobbs.
Many thanks for the website,
Democratic Underground ,
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
there is GOOD stuff here that everyone should read.
I was an independent with strong leanings towards
conservative republicanism - except one day I awoke and
there were no more conservatives in any recognizeable
form, and no more republicans either - just these
neo-con men assholes who seem to have gone a long
way into stealing my country and turning it in something
else.
Thanks again.
Jimserac
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