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SayItLoud

(1,701 posts)
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 03:49 PM Jan 2021

I watched FOX after Biden's speech.

Their divisive rhetoric was couched in mashed potatoes but still there.

Karl Rove: "Biden gave a very good speech BUT there were no memorable lines like Lincoln, or Kennedy had". (give me a fuckin break)

If the primary sources of info for those who are in the Cult or believe all the lies don't change their reporting & opinion shows and focus on honesty, nothing, NOTHING will change.

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I watched FOX after Biden's speech. (Original Post) SayItLoud Jan 2021 OP
Headline: KKK Rove Says Biden Gives 3rd Best Presidential Inauguration Speech, Behind Lincoln & JFK sfstaxprep Jan 2021 #1
That's pretty good company actually soothsayer Jan 2021 #3
I'm Surprised Rover Didn't Include FDR's Pearl Harbor Speech sfstaxprep Jan 2021 #7
Rover VA_Jill Jan 2021 #4
Well they didn't really listen then because Joe said in it thinkingagain Jan 2021 #2
It wasn't PERFECT! Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2021 #5
fux fox must be held accountable for their lies samsingh Jan 2021 #6
They have to stop the lies or nothing will change. Cobalt Violet Jan 2021 #8
Am I alone. . . matt819 Jan 2021 #9
The only way it will ever change old guy Jan 2021 #10
I have a degree in history with an American emphasis. rsdsharp Jan 2021 #11
Wait, you mean Turd Blossom didn't big-up Reagan or his old boss? Montauk6 Jan 2021 #12

sfstaxprep

(9,998 posts)
7. I'm Surprised Rover Didn't Include FDR's Pearl Harbor Speech
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 03:57 PM
Jan 2021

Why not compare Biden's speech to the Gettysburg Address as well?

What a tool Rover is.

thinkingagain

(906 posts)
2. Well they didn't really listen then because Joe said in it
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 03:53 PM
Jan 2021

“In another January, on New Year’s Day in 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper, the president said, and I quote, “if my name ever goes down into history, it’ll be for this act. And my whole soul is in it.”

I believe that is a reference to Lincoln.
He also referenced George Washington


Fox News idiots

samsingh

(17,590 posts)
6. fux fox must be held accountable for their lies
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 03:55 PM
Jan 2021

people should sue them for reputational damage everytime they lie

Cobalt Violet

(9,905 posts)
8. They have to stop the lies or nothing will change.
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 04:02 PM
Jan 2021

I agree with you there. It can't be overstated how important that is. These right-wing TV and radio outlets have radicalized so many.

matt819

(10,749 posts)
9. Am I alone. . .
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 04:09 PM
Jan 2021

in hoping that Jeff Bezos stealthily buys a major interest in Fox and then closes down Fox News.

Nuts?

Just looked online. Market cap for Fox Corporation is $18 billion. Revenues for 2020 were $12 billion. Chump change for Bezos.

After all, how many companies has Bezos, Zuckerberg et al bought for the sole purpose of shutting them down or acquiring the technology and then absorbing them into the mother ship?





old guy

(3,283 posts)
10. The only way it will ever change
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 04:13 PM
Jan 2021

is if no repubs are ever, ever elected to public office, anywhere, for anything, period. Otherwise, they will always obstruct for their base.
PS. I do realize this will never come to pass.

rsdsharp

(9,137 posts)
11. I have a degree in history with an American emphasis.
Wed Jan 20, 2021, 04:29 PM
Jan 2021

This was the 59th inaugural. I can only think of four memorable lines from ANY of them.

Lincoln (second): With malice toward none. With charity for all.

FDR (first): The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.

Kennedy: Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

Trump: American carnage ends right here. And it ends right now.

That’s all I can come up with from memory, and Trump is only memorable because it was, as G W Bush said, some weird shit.

So fuck off, Rove.

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