Fox 's relative silence on McCain's life and death indicates how bad this really is and can get!!!

[skip fox]

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Before Trump, Fox & Friends, on the Monday after McCain died, would have devoted segments to his memory, as MSNBC and CNN did. (These two even had full page "in memory" introductions and segues)

We have seen the Republican congress warm to Russia, tariffs, needless walls, a break with traditional allies, and embrasure of traditional enemies, and look the other way as our democracy might be in the process of being drastically compromised. (And some may even be aiding in the latter.)

We have seen evangelicals condone child separation, sexual assault ("grab them by the p*ssy&quot , child molestation (Roy Moore), etc.

Now even the rabid, right-wing press as turned on one of its own heroes immediately after he died after spending (or mis-spending) a lifetime of service on behalf of what he thought was best for this country and Republican Party.

This mental and emotional abandonment of their traditional values and ideas not only exposes the paucity of those original ideas, but the attraction to their new idol: the unvarnished, petulant, vindictive, self-congratulatory, incurious, militantly ignorant ego, or rather, the Id run riot.


There's no soft landing, no simple waking from this.

[maxrandb]

1. Eventually, even the Wicked Witch of the West

will lose control of the Flying Monkeys.

Fox News and Hate Radio MUST BE DESTROYED, or in another 10 years we'll have another fucking breed of hate-mongers that they can no longer control.

[get the red out]

3. Absolutely

They put the Miracle Grow in the soil Trump was planted in. Trump is their fault, period. The man is a buffoon, he could have gotten nowhere without years of preparing Republicans to accept someone like him.

[Pepsidog]

7. Agree. Throw Facebook in the mix and we are doomed

[underpants]

2. Very well said

No mention that I can see of McCain on the Fox News website.

[oasis]

4. Who would have thought Fox News would downplay the passing

of a famous American hero and patriot?

[skip fox]

5. And not only a mmajor Republican

but one who ran for the presidency as a Republican.


Can short-term self-interest explain all this?

[oasis]

6. The 2018 election is our immediate remedy. Explanations to follow.

The truth will be ugly as hell.

[Pepsidog]

8. Eliminating the Fairness Doctrine and media ownership rules has destroyed our country.

[Mr.Bill]

9. Add Citizens United and it's a Trifecta.n/t

[Pepsidog]

11. Absolutely correct

[pangaia]

10. ".......This mental and emotional abandonment of their traditional values and ideas ...."

What we see now ARE and ALWAYS HAVE BEEN their values and ideals....

[ThoughtCriminal]

12. Remember the Political Commissar from "Dr. Zhivago"?

The one who said, "...all men will be judged POLITICALLY - regardless of their military record!"

That's where the GOP is today. They LOVE our military service personnel and veterans... as long as they worship the Party line. And Donald Trump is "The Party".