don’t forget rush limbaugh
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DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 1 week agoFOX “News” has effectively divided, conditioned and massaged Republicans for decades to regurgitate the message disseminated by Rupert Murdoch through their favorite flavor talking heads (Bill O’Reilly, Tucker Carlson, Shaun Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and more recently Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters).
They went from Russia bad in the 1980’s to Russia good and America had it wrong. The viewers lack critical thought under scrutiny and regurgitate the talking points of their favorite broadcasters.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Yes thank you, and for some time Glenn Beck as well. Also a dishonorable mention to Jeanine Pirro.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yep, I lay the majority of our political insanity on Fox’s door. Look, we all know they’re the GOP’s propaganda arm, but how many of you have actually watched a good bit?
I was stuck with a week of it during the Snowden revelations. In the space of an entire week, I didn’t hear a single word on what was worldwide news. Stunning, and I still can’t explain it, but it happened. Point being, a lot of the lies are in what they don’t say. Early afternoon of 01/06, not a blip on the website. (Which BTW, is far more sane than the TV version.)
After hearing “Obama” thousands of times, over and over and over, I was sick of him! The whole time my friend’s step-mom was screaming at the screen, “The KKK ought to do their got damned JOB!” These people sat in their armchairs, 24/7 (never saw them go to their bedroom), and watched nothing but Fox. We tried to put on a movie or another show exactly twice and it promptly got switched back.
One time I was stuck with Fox at the doctor’s office, some kind of round-table show going on. A metric showing black people doing better under the Obama administration came up, something about pay I think. One of the hosts slams his fist of the table and shouted, “Obama’s a RACIST!” Constantly listen to crap like that and you are, eventually, getting brainwashed.