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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust FYI, Faux News Did NOT Play The "Herd Mentality" Clip.
(I watch Fox News so you don't have to. And believe me, you don't want to.)
We all know that Fox 'News' is a propaganda network. Nothing to do with journalism at all. Their job is to spin everything in Trump's favor. But I like to watch it, and take note of just HOW BADLY They have to SPIN to put lipstick on this pig. That's usually quite a tell.
One of their most obvious tricks is to play EVERY SINGLE ONE of Joe Biden's malapropisms, almost on a continuous loop, in keeping with the Russian-assisted propaganda campaign to smear him as being senile. Meanwhile, they absolutely can't play ANY of Trump's uncountable multitudes of malapropisms, run on sentences, word salads, and general mixtures of senility, mental instability, paranoia, malignant narcissism, and various combinations of drugs.
So, whenever they're re-capping Trump's press conferences, or town halls, they really have to get creative with the editing. When he gets asked a question, you really have to fight hard to find even ONE coherent sound byte. But they try!
That's why it was so amusing to see Brett Baier play SHORT CLIPS of his answers to last night's Town Hall. And then, after it was all over, have Baier MENTION that "the President also talked about herd immunity. What is that?" In the form of a question to John Roberts. There was NO WAY they were going to play the clip of this overgrown pumpkin salad talking about HERD MENTALITY. LOVE IT!
Well, don't worry about it. They can play with their propaganda toy for another two weeks, and make the expectations of Joe Biden's debate performance as low as possible. And then, Biden will BLOW THEM OUT OF THE WATER. Frankly, when you're sharing a stage with a clown, who's juggling pineapples, and playing the trumpet with his ass, all you have to do to win the debate is speak in complete sentences!
I can't wait to see them scramble, during the last month of the election, to find some new, and totally DIFFERENT smear to throw at Biden. That mental acuity one is only going to last long enough enough for both Biden and Trump to appear on the same stage in a LIVE DEBATE, that Fox News can't selectively edit. At least not for the people who watch it live.
rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)...he actually BELIEVES the Russian propaganda his campaign is spinning about Biden being senile.
But then, after Biden beats him like the cheap, tawdry, polyester rug that he is, he'll find some excuse to skip the other two. He'll hold another fake 'fundraiser' for veterans (complete with fake veteran's charity, that funnels the money back to him somehow), on board a rented battleship museum; and claim it was more important. That's how he slithered out of the GOP primary debate in 2016.
rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)and hibernate until the late evening of 11/3. I have outrage fatigue.