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fox is a joke, a tabloid medium, a pseudo-news outlet. i am not surprised that conservatives like it--since they cannot make their arguments fit the world, it is easier to watch a version of the world that is twisted around their arguments. it is a kind of long-term circle jerk with pictures.
what differentiates fox from other outlets is the singleness of their viewpoint. of course, the right likes to whine about a range of opinion and try to categorize even that as "extremism"--which i find both funny logically and sad empirically, to the extent that the claim has any validity attribute to it at all.
fox news then is a symptom of the wraparound media space the right has made to shelter its demographic from any unpleasant traces of opposing opinions.
good job, mr. murdoch---first you help your neocon cause by trying to evacuate the space for reasonable discussion across political positions by a wholesale conflation of ideology and image, and then you compound it by playing off the self-reinforcing nature of conservative pseudo-argumentation. quite a service you provide.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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