# Good job, Fox News...you almost kept a straight face! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 1, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989 "2008-10-01T13:18:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BlueOhio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BlueOhio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueOhio)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/41 "2008-10-01T16:18:48Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > In all fairness, I can see how a McCain voter (or several) might pretend not to be one given that nobody else was raising a hand for McCain… But he asked for McCain voters first. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/42 "2008-10-01T16:19:38Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > The reporter was certainly aware of the irony, but I don’t think he was sarcastic. I think it was just that in setting up the piece everyone had assumed that a diner in PA would be split and had given the reporter a script to read rather than letting him report what the people _actually_ said. (Or else he thought the guy whose wife tried to keep his hand down was sincere about voting for McCain!) That’s what I saw, too. The story he went to report was that Pennsylvania is split, and by god, that’s the story he was going to file! It didn’t make a lick of sense, but that’s what he he’s paid to do, so… ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/43 "2008-10-01T16:28:14Z")
In the absence of other evidence, I’m gonna interpret it as a straight-faced joke. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/44 "2008-10-01T16:30:50Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > That’s what I saw, too. The story he went to report was that Pennsylvania is split, and by god, that’s the story he was going to file! It didn’t make a lick of sense, but that’s what he he’s paid to do, so… At least he had the sense to realize that what he was saying was absurd. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/45 "2008-10-01T16:36:13Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > In all fairness, I can see how a McCain voter (or several) might pretend not to be one given that nobody else was raising a hand for McCain… Did you even consider the possibility that the McCain supporters were keeping their hands down out of respect because he can’t raise his? You _do_ know that he spent years as a POW, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/46 "2008-10-01T16:41:48Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > What this “we” shit, paleface? > > I fucking hate this collective guilt thing, and Democrats do it all the time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/47 "2008-10-01T16:43:34Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Did you even consider the possibility that the McCain supporters were keeping their hands down out of respect because he can’t raise his? You _do_ know that he spent years as a POW, don’t you? That’s nothing - Obama has spent _his entire life_ being black. 'S true. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/48 "2008-10-01T16:46:40Z")
Ooh, a new Reality Show - Who’s the Bigger Martyr? Except Obama ain’t playin’! ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/49 "2008-10-01T16:49:49Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Did you even consider the possibility that the McCain supporters were keeping their hands down out of respect because he can’t raise his? You _do_ know that he spent years as a POW, don’t you? You dont say. Really? I didnt know that. (why is Johny Carson always quoted when somebody says that?, also, who is Johny Carson?, sometimes American pop culture throws me for a loop, i remember wondering what the heck “GOP” was for years until i saw it spelled in a wiki article) ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/50 "2008-10-01T16:53:47Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > You dont say. > > Really? > > I didnt know that. > > (why is Johny Carson always quoted when somebody says that?, also, who is Johny Carson?, sometimes American pop culture throws me for a loop, i remember wondering what the heck “GOP” was for years until i saw it spelled in a wiki article) Johnny Carson was “I did not know that.” He didn’t use the contraction when he was conveying surprise. Just FYI. ETA: Don’t ask for explanations of pop-culture anymore than you can ask for explanations of language or idiom. It doesn’t make sense. It will never make sense. It just growed. ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/51 "2008-10-01T16:55:32Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > You dont say. > > Really? > > I didnt know that. > > (why is Johny Carson always quoted when somebody says that?, also, who is Johny Carson?, sometimes American pop culture throws me for a loop, i remember wondering what the heck “GOP” was for years until i saw it spelled in a wiki article) Not to hijack the thread, but to answer the Carson question (risking being whooshed, but not everyone knows what “everyone knows”). Johnny Carson was the host of the talk show The Tonight Show for just about 30 years, from 1962 til what? 1991? I forget just when it ended, and Jay Leno took over. Dana Carvey did a nearly spot on impression of Carson, and said, “I did not know that”. Carson was much admired as a genuinely nice guy, much like Paul Newman was, and Carvey made the line his. So people are really quoting Carvey doing Carson. Carson died a few years ago, from emphysema I think. He was a heavy smoker. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/52 "2008-10-01T16:57:15Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > Not to hijack the thread, but to answer the Carson question (risking being whooshed, but not everyone knows what “everyone knows”). > > Johnny Carson was the host of the talk show The Tonight Show for just about 30 years, from 1962 til what? 1991? I forget just when it ended, and Jay Leno took over. > > Dana Carvey did a nearly spot on impression of Carson, and said, “I did not know that”. Carson was much admired as a genuinely nice guy, much like Paul Newman was, and Carvey made the line his. So people are really quoting Carvey doing Carson. Carson died a few years ago, from emphysema I think. He was a heavy smoker. Sorry, I guess I’m old, because I don’t remember Carvey doing Carson. I remember Carson doing Carson. 😃 ETA: Didn’t even know Carvey did Carson. Thought Carvey did Bush 41 and the Church Lady. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/53 "2008-10-01T16:57:48Z")
When he asked who was voting for Obama, I saw a nearly perfect split. Half of the hands (+1) in the room were up. Half of the hands (-1) were down. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/54 "2008-10-01T17:00:41Z")
That’s very biggardly of him. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/55 "2008-10-01T17:04:44Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > That’s very biggardly of him. 🙂 What’s very biggardly of whom? ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/56 "2008-10-01T17:11:58Z")
The “bigger martyr” thing. Darn thread moved too fast before my comment posted. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/57 "2008-10-01T17:16:13Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > The “bigger martyr” thing. Darn thread moved too fast before my comment posted. 🙂 It’s the quick and the dead around here! ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/58 "2008-10-01T17:35:26Z")
> [@Oy](#): > > Sorry, I guess I’m old, because I don’t remember Carvey doing Carson. I remember Carson doing Carson. 😃 > > ETA: Didn’t even know Carvey did Carson. Thought Carvey did Bush 41 and the Church Lady. [http://www.danacarvey.net/carpics.html](http://www.danacarvey.net/carpics.html) Scroll down, and there’s an audio of Carvey/Carson saying, “That is some weird, wild stuff…” Which can apply to the Faux News bit we were discussing (he said, trying to stay on topic). ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/59 "2008-10-01T17:52:40Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > Not to hijack the thread, but to answer the Carson question (risking being whooshed, but not everyone knows what “everyone knows”). > > Johnny Carson was the host of the talk show The Tonight Show for just about 30 years, from 1962 til what? 1991? I forget just when it ended, and Jay Leno took over. > > Dana Carvey did a nearly spot on impression of Carson, and said, “I did not know that”. Carson was much admired as a genuinely nice guy, much like Paul Newman was, and Carvey made the line his. So people are really quoting Carvey doing Carson. Carson died a few years ago, from emphysema I think. He was a heavy smoker. Thanks!, no wosh here, i truly didnt know :). ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989/60 "2008-10-01T17:59:49Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I thought my mom’s response was even funnier: she asked if I knew he was black. > [@shantih](#): > > Well? Did you? > 😛 “He says the sheriff is near!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-job-fox-news-you-almost-kept-a-straight-face/465989.md?page=4)