Frank Rich: Stop Beating a Dead Fox

[LiberalElite]

http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/fox-news-2014-2/

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“There ain’t no sanity clause,” Chico Marx told Groucho. There is also no Santa Claus. And there was no sanity in the Santa fracas that became an embarrassing liberal-media fixation just before Christmas. For those who missed it, what happened was this: A Fox News anchor, Megyn Kelly, came upon a tongue-in-cheek blog post at Slate in which a black writer, Aisha Harris, proposed that Santa be recast as a penguin for the sake of racial inclusiveness. After tossing this scrap of red meat to her all-white panel of prime-time guests, Kelly reassured any “kids watching” (this was nearing 10 p.m.) that “Santa just is white.” (For good measure, she added, “Jesus was a white man, too.”) Soon and sure enough, Kelly’s sound bites were being masticated in op-ed pieces, online, and especially on cable, where a passing wisecrack best left to the satirical stylings of Stewart and Colbert became a call to arms. At CNN, one anchor brought on Santas of four races to debunk Kelly. BuzzFeed reported that MSNBC ­programs hopped on the story fourteen times in a single week.

Of course what Kelly said was dumb. But the reaction was even dumber. Every year, Fox News whips up some phantom “war on Christmas” plotted by what the network’s blowhard-in-chief Bill O’Reilly calls “secular progressives.” This seasonal stunt has long been old news, yet many in the liberal media still can’t resist the bait. You had to feel for the NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker, who was drafted into filing a Kelly-Santa story on the Today show for no ­discernible reason other than that she is not white.
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[elleng]

1. 'The conservative news channel’s only real power is in riling up liberals,

who by this point should know better.'

If only this were true. They edumacate the 'voting' public, and we suffer from it every day.

[catbyte]

2. If only that were true. Fox-PAC poisons minds on a daily basis.

[elleng]

3. Exactly.

[daleanime]

4. Translation....

pay no attention to the people pouring poison down the well, you're not allowed to stop them anyway.

[Leith]

5. Exactly

I don't think that I will take Frank Rich's advice. Fox Propaganda channel (along with all the other hate media) has had free rein to poison the discussion for nearly 2 decades now and giving up on telling people about that will not do any kind of good. We know that the loyal zombies don't care and won't listen because they are too far gone.

There needs to be someone to counter the vitriol and lies spewed 24/7 and that someone is is US. We can not go silent now. Waiting for those who don't pay much attention to pay attention has never worked. How often do you see a writer or pundit advising Fox to stop being so mendacious, loud, and obnoxious? Reichwingers jump up and down and insist even more loudly that the lies are true.

Ignoring this is not the answer. Countering it does good, one person at a time.

[daleanime]

6. Amen....