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Has FOX News 'Jumped The Shark' Over Mitt???
VANITY | February 8, 2012

Posted on 02/08/2012 7:32:27 AM PST by Elle Bee

FOX News may have 'jumped the shark' over mittens

Fair and balanced is Juan McCain

I for one have had enough of the ‘wisdom’ of Bill Cristal, Chas. Krauthammer, Ted Baxter, Bret Beahr, Toyko Rove, Ann Colter, Chris Wallace, Sean Wannabe, Dana Parino, Brit Hume, Shep Smith, Judge Jeanene, Alam Comes, Bob Beckle, Juan Williams, Whoraldo, et. al. all acting the part of the Romney cheerleading squad ?

Does anyone else 'feel my pain'?

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To: matthew fuller

You mean Dana PeRINO?


61 posted on 02/08/2012 8:30:30 AM PST by deweyfrank
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To: VirginiaMom
I turned off ALL televised news 5 years ago.......with the exception of Geraldo and Anderson Cooper if they are out covering a hurricane......THAT’s entertainment!

Whorealdo and Anderson Cooper - the grim reaper and the gay reaper

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62 posted on 02/08/2012 8:32:02 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

When Willard fails to get the nomination, Fox will be up the creek. They have been cheerleading so shamelessly for him that it will make them look silly to jump on the bandwagon for someone else.

Conservatives thought Roger Ailes was smarter than this.


63 posted on 02/08/2012 8:32:20 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Jukeman
This topic - Fox News becoming FauxNews/RomNews, etc. has been discussed quite often on these threads, lately.

I haven't watched Faux in about a year. They continue their establishment/elite march with the likes of those mentioned in the first post....and Tokyo Rove and Dana peRINO irk me to no end!

Another poster mentioned that since FauxNews began their left turn, they've actually picked up viewers. I don't get it, as it's the conservative base that's got them to this point in popularity.

64 posted on 02/08/2012 8:33:53 AM PST by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: Elle Bee

I think you nailed it, Elle Bee. There is a hunger amongst Conservatives that isn’t being filled by Faux News anymore.
And it’s not just cuz they have gone left.

It’s because they are predictable and boring. Roger and Co. are catering to an audience that are not as savvy as we are: the go along. get along GOP/moderate/linguine spined independents?

Too many ads that are gut wrenchingly annoying.

One of the Mittens voters from a nursing home in Fla. said that decided to vote for him because the nice commentators on Fox seemed to like him..so that was good enough for her.

My recent top five list of nails on a blackboard FNC pundits:
1. Rove; duh
2. Dana: dumb as a box o’
3. Kirsten P.: “
4. Bret B.: a beaming Democrat who pretends he’s not.
5. Hume: Brit, we thought we knew ye. WTH?

Please add your own. No Dems like Colmes or Beckel. We already know who they are.

We are weary of this primary season and Fox is letting us down and not providing comfort for our addled brains.

Thus, I rec. that you try weaning yourself from the vacant station by either watching only certain shows(Greta, Cavuto) or go cold turkey like I did.
I’m Faux Free and Proud to Be.

It’s very refreshing to have replaced my “white noise”
with Josh Groban and my old John Denver CDs.

Recommendations:
News and political, Fox Business, Free Republic.
Conservative talk show: Levin.


65 posted on 02/08/2012 8:36:14 AM PST by Mountain Mary (Reputation is what others know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)
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To: txrefugee
You're quite correct and just to be really petty ..... their sets seem to get more garish by the day

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66 posted on 02/08/2012 8:36:31 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

If I had married a man like Steve Doocy, maybe I’d still be married.


67 posted on 02/08/2012 8:39:09 AM PST by Mountain Mary (Reputation is what others know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)
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To: Sybeck1

Drudge seems happy Rick rolled. He even notes Romney finished behind Paul in MN.


68 posted on 02/08/2012 8:41:21 AM PST by Tribune7 (GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)
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To: Mountain Mary
I’m Faux Free and Proud to Be.

that seems the better course

FOX as a conservative news source isn't ever going to be and the Bill Kristols and Tokyo Roves have molded the network the way they have molded their candidate

It shouldn't be all that hard to start another cable news network ... there is clearly a market there ... lord knows my satellite has a thousand channels of nothing

69 posted on 02/08/2012 8:43:34 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

It seems that many on FR want to talk about anything but the Winner,Rick Santorum.


70 posted on 02/08/2012 8:44:26 AM PST by ardara
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To: Breto

yep, so have I. I do channel surf, and if when I land on Fox they’re discussing something like Obama versus Catholicism, then I’ll listen.

If they get into the republica primaries even a little bit, then I’m outta there. They all put on their Mitt Romney suits and contend to have the most pro-Romney soundbite.


71 posted on 02/08/2012 8:44:58 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: Mountain Mary
and whenever I see Kirsten Powers I ask myself, why would I listen to the opinion of a woman who dated Anthony Wiener?

Consider the audience out there ... Ted Baxter is the most highly rated cable show

FOX has opted for the low hanging fruit

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72 posted on 02/08/2012 8:48:10 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

I’ll resume my old tv habit when Free Republic branches out into its own station. May it come.


73 posted on 02/08/2012 8:50:38 AM PST by Lady Lucky (Public education -- government cheese for the brain.)
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To: potlatch; brownsfan; Gator113; County Agent Hank Kimball; TexasFreeper2009; Squantos
If I wanted ‘group think’ I’d join a cult.

a wee bit of irony there actually...

but yes...u and browns are correct ...FOX is more conservative than the others due to Ailes editorial power

which is nice...

but since they are pretty much a Romney nomination arm then I too can decide that defeating Romney is important enough to me to ignore FOX and Drudge if I choose...if they are my enemy at this juncture why give them the hits?

I can slice bread and pat butter at the same time...I swear.

Yes I realize FOX is at least something of a GOP network but I also see them as a Romney arm and will ignore them till I feel like doing different.

The tearing down you mention started in Iowa with Romney's war machine which includes FOX and Drudge etc dumping on Newt like crazy and then amped up again in Florida...look for them to do it now to Santorum more

So I am turning them off even though I realize they are not MSNBC....though frankly MSNBC and CNN have both been more fair to Newt than FOX...no question

I am fine getting news here or from Levin or Mike Berry...Berry is basically me...just in Houston and on the radio

74 posted on 02/08/2012 8:51:12 AM PST by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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To: Elle Bee
Brian Kilmeade is Killing Me with his cheerleading for Mittens.
75 posted on 02/08/2012 8:56:23 AM PST by McGruff (Go Newt!)
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To: Elle Bee

Roger A. met Kirsten in a bar in DC and hired her.


76 posted on 02/08/2012 9:03:39 AM PST by Mountain Mary (Reputation is what others know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)
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To: Breto

yep, so have I. I do channel surf, and if when I land on Fox they’re discussing something like Obama versus Catholicism, then I’ll listen.

If they get to talking republican primaries even a little bit, then I’m outta there. They all put on their Mitt Romney suits and contend to have the most pro-Romney soundbite.


77 posted on 02/08/2012 9:06:26 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: moehoward

Tony Snow would have taken them both to the woodshed by now, and made them sorry for it too. :sigh: I still miss Tony Snow.


78 posted on 02/08/2012 9:08:26 AM PST by RobinWWJD
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To: Mountain Mary

What do you get when you deflate a blonde airhead presstitute?

Kirsten Powers


79 posted on 02/08/2012 9:10:38 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: Mountain Mary
MM you nailed it. I would love to know fox's numbers. They always bragged the mslsd, cnn,...had only 600,000 and they had millions. Imagine if we all watched CNN (we know what to except from them at least) and fox had 600,000 and cnn went over a million. Ya think they would have to do some brain storming? they take us for granted, just like the establishment. Oh wait, they are part of the establishment.
80 posted on 02/08/2012 9:14:12 AM PST by Linda Frances (Only God can change a heart, but we can pray for hearts to be changed.)
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