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Why Fox News Slimed a Purple Heart Recipient
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/opinion/vindman-fox-news-.html?smid=nytcore-ios-shareIn anticipation of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindmans recent public testimony in the Houses impeachment inquiry, the Fox News host Laura Ingraham and a guest concocted an insulting fantasy on her show: the idea that Colonel Vindman might be a Ukrainian spy.
It may have shocked a lot of Americans that Fox News televangelists and establishment conservatives like John Yoo are spinning the narrative of the courageous Colonel Vindman a man who put his countrys interests ahead of his own into one that suggests, as an immigrant, he wasnt loyal to the United States. But as a former Fox News opinion talk-show guest host and contributor for 14 years, it didnt shock me.
I can explain the art and purpose behind throwing a Purple Heart veteran under the Fox News bus. First, we must talk about narratives. In my time at Fox News, narratives were weapons of mass emotional manipulation, what the Nobel laureate Robert J. Shiller defines in Narrative Economics as contagious stories as he put it in a paper of the same name, a simple story or easily expressed explanation of events that many people want to bring up in conversation or on news or social media because it can be used to stimulate the concerns or emotions of others, and/or because it appears to advance self-interest. One recent report said that we find information or misinformation 22 times more memorable in narrative form.
Theres little in this world that has the emotional manipulative power of a good tribalized us versus them narrative. Its a contagion, and thanks to social media, or participatory propaganda, highly viral.
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Why Fox News Slimed a Purple Heart Recipient (Original Post)
steve2470
Nov 2019
OP
Fox News will slime any man/woman in uniform or veteran if they are critical of the Republicans
TheRealNorth
Nov 2019
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TheRealNorth
(9,462 posts)1. Fox News will slime any man/woman in uniform or veteran if they are critical of the Republicans
For gawd sakes, they defended Trump sliming John McCain.
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)2. Fox news Purple Heart hero
Fox news Purple Heart hero
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+got+a+purple+heart&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1
Today, a Donald Trump supporter handed him a Purple Heart. Trumps flippant and repugnant reply: I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.
Actually, Donald did get a Purple Heart...