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EEO

(1,620 posts)
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 10:36 AM Aug 2015

Fox News Losing Control of Hateful, Paranoid People It Created, Who Created Trump

Fox News seems to be losing control of the dangerously angry, paranoid, and ignorant people it has created. And now that monster has created the Donald. That's what happens when you go full right. You never go full right.


Fox News Losing Control of Hateful, Paranoid People It Created, Who Created Trump

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK (The Nil Admirari): Fox News President Roger Ailes announced today his fantasy-peddling organization was "at DEFCON 3 and likely losing control" of the misinformed, hateful, and paranoid people it has created over its nearly 19 years of terror. Ailes stated Fox News feared it may have reached a saturation point where its almost exclusively Republican audience could no longer absorb any further distortions of facts or outright lies, which is exactly what Fox News has been feeding them while also telling them they are the informed people.

And...

"Trump keeps falling into the orchestra pit and nothing seems to be able to destroy him. Fox News may lose containment of these ignorant, hate-driven, and paranoid people we are responsible for creating with our alternate reality in as little as two or three weeks," said Ailes. He continued, "Our Trump stunt has already begun to show cracks of disloyalty in our usual viewers.

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The body of the most powerful man in the GOP shook, as he stated. "If Trump becomes the Republican nominee or runs as an independent candidate we project at least a 68% chance of losing containment of Fox News viewers, which will be a national disaster of proportions I cannot even dream of."
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EEO

(1,620 posts)
8. Someone on Discussionist (yes, I know) told me he didn't like Fox News anymore because they were too
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 06:22 PM
Aug 2015

LIBERAL and should be called MSFOX.

I replied that it was the scariest thing I have read in a while.

TlalocW

(15,388 posts)
3. I had that exact book
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 10:59 AM
Aug 2015

Back in college. Walmart at the time was selling, "The Classics," for like a buck each so I bought a lot of them - around 30. I still have, "Last of the Mohicans," because I was never able to get enough interest up to read it but will some day.

TlalocW

Kablooie

(18,637 posts)
4. I checked over on Free Republic and they are turning against Fox.
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 10:59 AM
Aug 2015

they are also turning against the Tea Party leader who rejected Trump.
It seems even the Tea Party has lost control of them.
They really are a mob of angry peasants.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
5. "If Trump becomes the Republican nominee ....
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 12:13 PM
Aug 2015

I'd expect more centrist Republicans to run a 3rd party candidate.

eppur_se_muova

(36,279 posts)
7. It didn't create them, it just fed and pampered them ...
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 01:58 PM
Aug 2015

... nothing makes a bunch of nuts more dangerous than validating their nutty ideas.

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
10. Yes, accurate IMO. Corralled and enfranchised them beyond their actual relavancy
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 01:24 AM
Aug 2015

Talk/discuss/argue with them and you see definite dichotomy: They think they're under-represented and yet swear they are a microcosm of the real "what's what" just needing to coalesce into the majority of like-minded types that can "take our country back".

I see and hear this so often.

EEO

(1,620 posts)
11. No conservative family member can ever give me a coherent explanation for what...
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 12:02 PM
Aug 2015

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"take our country back" actually means.

 

Cal33

(7,018 posts)
12. Could Roger Ailes have really said all this? Could THE ROGER AILES OF FOX NEWS be this open,
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 03:45 PM
Aug 2015

frank and honest about himself and what he had done? Is that possible at all?

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