Help me will a CN weird contrarian grifter episode into being

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    I remember, back in 2007, when FOX spent a healthy chunk of network energy shilling for the Giuliani Campaign only to have it gutter and die before it even got to Florida.

    I remember, back in 2015, when FOX spent a healthy chunk of network energy bagging on Trump, only to do the Ted Cruz walk of shame when he won state after state after state.

    FOX was really great at banging the Racism gong and selling Mike Lindell's cocaine-pillows to geriatric farts. But they've always just been something of a warehouse for cranks and assholes. They carry water for this or that high profile shit bag. And they do hour-long reenactments of Ben Garrison cartoons. They don't seem to actually set policy in any meaningful way. Not even when they literally have the President ingesting their content eight hours a day. The network can grift, but it can't lead.

    • Invidiarum [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      I believe Adam would agree that fox doesn't have the power to single handedly pick the president, with trump they were towing emore or less the establishment republican line. But the purpose of propaganda is not to lead, but to... cheerlead.