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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Do You Know The GOP Was DEVASTATED By Yesterdays Jan 6 Hearing?
Because the Three Clowns On A Crooked Couch Show (aka 'Fox & Friends') dedicated less than a minute to it. That's right. If you get your news from watching Fox & Friends (what a hideous thought), you'd never know it even took place.They spent less than a minute discussing it, buried in the middle of the show, and showed one five second clip of Adam Kinzinger slobbering. Presumably to make him look 'weak.' They deliberately avoided any of the testimony from the police officers.
That's usually how you can tell when the right wing noise machine is in a full blown panic. If something happens that makes the GOP look good, they play it on a continuous loop for weeks. If something happens that makes Democrats look bad, they play it on a continuous loop for weeks. If something happens that makes the GOP look bad, but still has an element of doubt, they'll spin it like crazy with WHATABOUTISM. But if something makes the GOP look really bad, and there are no two ways about it, their last resort is to completely ignore it. And distract with some other, unrelated sensationalism, like an octopus spraying ink in the water, giving it time to piss off like greased lightning.
It usually takes them overnight to craft effective strategies and talking points, and you'll see it on Fox & Friends the next day. The night before, however, you'll have the three stooges (Carleson, Hannity, and Ingraham) flailing around in reactionary mode. That's what happened last night. Carleson literally trashed police officers in uniform. Called them all a bunch of sissies, and thespians crying crocodile tears. Ingraham did the same thing, claiming the cops were just reading from a script that Nancy Pelosi had written for them. Then gave them 'acting award trophies.' Hannity mostly ducked with whataboutisms. "Why are they so obsessed with THIS? Whatabout BML riots in Oregon and Seattle? Whatabout shootings in Chicago? Whatabout the border crisis? Blah blah..."
By morning the spin doctors had gotten the word out that you just can't trash police officers in uniform, even with THEIR Pavlovian-conditioned audience. So their only recourse was to ignore it, which is what they did this morning. It always makes my day when that that happens.
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How Do You Know The GOP Was DEVASTATED By Yesterdays Jan 6 Hearing? (Original Post)
TrollBuster9090
Jul 2021
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Sinclair's morning news show The National Desk showed just a few seconds of the police
highplainsdem
Jul 2021
#5
Devastated now? Wait until the subpoenas start arriving at Congressional offices and unemployed ...
marble falls
Jul 2021
#6
tuckem's just put the cop's out on tuck'y watch ! he do have a license plate ! dumb ass!
monkeyman1
Jul 2021
#7
Apropos, only discussion on FReaky site seems to be hatred for Cheney & her remarks about McCarthy.n
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2021
#8
Scrivener7
(50,773 posts)1. LOL! I don't watch Fox, so I didn't know this. You're absolutely right!
That's the best way to tell. And I'm very glad to know it is killing them.
I did see the "Iggidy-iggidy-iggidy" Gym Jordan interview, where he could just as well have been wearing an "I am totally guilty!!!" T-shirt. Cracked me right up.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)2. SOP for FAUX News; deny shit exist
Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)3. Shepard Smith on CNBC led with COVID-19.
One might think news about investigating efforts to destroy Congress could lead his broadcast, just for a change of pace.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)4. Carlson calling cops sissies? Better watch out for those mirrors, Fucker.
highplainsdem
(48,727 posts)5. Sinclair's morning news show The National Desk showed just a few seconds of the police
officers' testimony, gave much more time to GOP criticism of the select committee.
marble falls
(56,358 posts)6. Devastated now? Wait until the subpoenas start arriving at Congressional offices and unemployed ...
... former WH staffers and officials homes.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)7. tuckem's just put the cop's out on tuck'y watch ! he do have a license plate ! dumb ass!
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)8. Apropos, only discussion on FReaky site seems to be hatred for Cheney & her remarks about McCarthy.n
KS Toronado
(16,908 posts)9. Well I got a whataboutism for them........
What about the head insurrectionist? You know Der orange Führer, what should we do with him?
joetheman
(1,450 posts)10. Their testimony is ready made for campaign ads when the time is right. nt
crickets
(25,896 posts)11. I agree with this assessment. Good.
Let them ignore it if that's the best they've got.