For those of you who missed it, another brilliant Daily Show takedown of Fox and Friends:
Anyway this show is regularly the butt of Jon Stewart’s jokes and from what I’ve seen on the Daily Show, this program look like a right wing, dumbed-down (if that’s even possible) version of every Today Show knockoff on morning TV.
Last night Jon featured a clip of them talking about some shady Saudi financier giving money to the Ground Zero mosque. But, what they failed to mention, as Jon pointed out, was said financier’s name, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, who owns seven percent of Fox News. Later on he had a bit with John Oliver and Wyatt Cenac arguing whether this was deliberate or just sheer stupidity and they showed clips of one of the hosts saying she had to Google the meaning of the word ignoramus, among other things.
Seeing as I how don’t watch TV in the morning, though, I’m curious. Is Fox and Friends really as dumb as the Daily Show makes it out to be.
My favorite story about Fox news comes from Baghdad.
A friend was chatting with this US Army captain and the captain was complaining that the only TV news he got was the BBC. My friend and I both said that we liked BBC, what’s the problem?"
Captain: “I’m tired of hearing how bad things are going, I want to be lied to. I want CNN.”
Friend: “If you want to be lied to, you want Fox news.”
Captain: “I’m not a moron! I don’t want to be lied to that much, I want to be lied to just a little bit, I want CNN.”
I discovered it accidentally a few years ago. I’d been up all night, and started flipping through channels, then came upon it. It was like one of those Morning Zoo shows, complete with sound effects, and occasionally Hooters girls doing the weather. My old man and I were watching it together, and if memory serves, both asked “What the hell is this?”* at the same time. It is easily the stupidest show on television.
*That probably didn’t happen, but we both did question what in blazes was going on.
If they’re not that idiotic, they’re very good comedy actors.
Other Fox pundits - O’Reilly, Hannity, Beck - may be hypocrites and occasionally outright liars but they’re not total morons. With F&F I’ve never seen such gibbering stupidity in television show hosts this side of reality television.
okay, first time I commented without watching the new clip. After watching it I have to say that is such an incrredible insult to any loyal Fox viewer. It took me two clicks on Google, Kingdon foundation , which immediately lists the name of the terror funder and then his name connects to NewsCorp.
It’s as if they’re saying to thier loyal viewers “We truly do think you are all such idiots we can even do this” Holy fuck. I feel compelled to share this with my sister who is a loyal viewer as well as other conservative friends.
I can’t stomach he show for more than a few minutes at a time, but from what I’ve seen, they really are that stupid. That Gretchen Carlson (the one who had to Google “ignoramus” and still got it wrong) is quite possibly the single dumbest person in all of cable news. Almost unbelievably vacuous at times, and incredibly self-righteous and smug at the same time. A living example of Poe’s Law.
Doocey is kind of a dumbass too, though not to Carlson’s level. The other guy, Kilmeade, I think is of normal intelligence, but no genius and he offers no insight. He’s just kind of a chair filler and guy to introduce segments and shoot them to breaks.
I really can’t tell if they are that freaking stupid or just such complete sellouts that they just don’t care how they appear as long as they get on TV and make money.
It’s hard; people on either side are eager to look for things to get outraged about. But when you know the facts things usually aren’t as they initially are reported.
I went to school a few years behind Gretchen Carlson. A guy I dated was in her year, hung out in her circle. He claims she was an idiot then, coasted by on her looks.
I remember there used to be a billboard on Highway 10 with her mug on it - the “We’re so proud of our Miss America!” Sadly, it was defaced.
Agreed. they are not dimwitted in the slightest. its just that while they style themselves as providing news, they are nothing of the sort. Fox is a finely-tuned revenue-generating machine.
If Rupert Murdoch decided on Monday that he could make more money if Fox was a network of tree-hugging, Obama-loving commie-pinko liberals, that’s what we would wake up to on Tuesday morning.
Everything about her fucks my mind. The dumbest woman on television, and one of the least attractive (bottom half percentile, easily, and absolute least attractive at Fox News aside from Greta VonWhatever) is a Stanford graduate and a beauty queen. At least Sarah Palin flunked out of Ohio State, or wherever she went.
