What is there to say about Fox News that hasn’t been scratched by the nails of demons into the toilet-stall walls of hell? Every day, every hour, every minute, Fox News is either selling its audience lies, misinformation, and disinformation about the world, or it’s selling them pillows, telling them to sell their gold, and saying that the way out of debt is to give Magnum P.I. your home in a reverse mortgage.
This week, Fox News spent most of its time trying to get Americans to join the overinflated, billionaire-astroturfed protests going on in Canada. If you only watched Fox News this past week, you might think that the entire country of Canada was not only closed down due to the anti-vaxxer trucker protest, but also that 85% of the population are truckers. It isn’t, they aren’t; but facts and reality have never gotten in the way of Fox News and their special brand of misinfotainment.
Also, if you didn’t know it, President Joe Biden is handing out crack pipes to people in lieu of … arrest warrants, I think?
Tucker Carlson says lots of things every night on his show. Every single thing Tucker says is terrible, misleading, frequently offensive to 95% of the population (even if a large part of the Fox News audience doesn’t realize Tucker truly, madly, deeply hates their guts), and always wrong-headed. This past week:
- Tucker started by calling Karl Marx a rich kid and the union movement a joke, and then championed the Canadian trucker convoy that has been funded by anti-vaxxer elements in Canada. To make his point about the supply chain stresses an organized freedom convoy could levy on the United States, Tucker decided to attack Joe Scarborough by pointing out that Botox is not produced domestically and 52-year-old, perennially tanned with not a gray hair in sight Tucker would feel bad for MSNBC television personalities that might begin to appear their actual age. Seriously, that happened on Monday.
- On Tuesday, Tucker Carlson said that Joe Biden and the Democratic Party were only handing out “crack pipes” to Black people, and are not helping poor white drug users dying from opioid overdoses (which is the primary focus of the program, as it happens)—because those poor white people don’t vote for Democratic candidates. Seriously, he said that.
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That racist guy that used to do the racist puff pieces for Fox & Friends, the guy with the intensely manicured eyebrows—this guy—jumped on the crack pipe thing.
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And then there was this. The weird fake laugh Tucker did wouldn’t have made the cut in a Verhoeven movie.
But the important thing Tucker and his fellow Fox News snake oil salesfolks, and the right-wing-o-sphere is pushing hard on is for Americans to jam up roads and supply chains in protest to non-existent American mask and vaccine mandates. The payoff for the right-wing is chaos and the hope that they can steal the upcoming elections by scaring people enough into voting for the best interests of the 700 or so billionaires in our country.
On Friday, in the hopes of changing things up I guess, Fox News moved onto a right-wing perennial classic.
Covered once this week on Fox News? Donald Trump probably stealing and destroying confidential documents.