Humiliated Fox forced to pretend elections didn’t happen as voters crush their candidates

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

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Humiliated Fox forced to pretend elections didn’t happen as voters crush their candidates

By Oliver Willis   |NOVEMBER 8, 2017

 

Fox News championed hateful ideas and candidates that were on the ballot in 2017, and they lost resoundingly.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson

Fox News

 

Fox News Channel, the quasi-official propaganda outlet of the conservative movement, was a big loser along with the Republican Party in Tuesday’s elections.

While Fox was not directly on the ballot, its candidates and ideas were, and voters in New Jersey and Virginia, and many other parts of the country, resoundingly rejected them.

Most noticeably, this took the form of regurgitating and promoting the racism of Ed Gillespie’s gubernatorial campaign in Virginia. Fox has long beat the drum of anti-Latino racism, and was the swamp from which Donald Trump’s idea to build a border wall emerged.

 

During the election, Fox continued its racist campaign, highlighting stories about Latino criminals to whip up Republican base voters into an anti-immigrant frenzy.

The network also provided a safe space for Gillespie. He largely avoided the media, limiting his appearances almost exclusively to Fox because on Fox, his noxious racist campaign would not be challenged, but celebrated.

A quick look at Gillespie’s YouTube page finds Fox interview after Fox interview, with the network playing pattycake with its chosen candidate.

In addition to anti-immigrant, anti-Latino racism, Fox has also incubated the other racist notions that Gillespie’s campaign tried to use to motivate his base. The network compared pro-slavery Confederates to the heroes of 9/11 when the movement to take down monuments gained steam.

In one instance, Fox lied to its viewers and said a plaque honoring George Washington was being taken down, amplifying Gillespie’s pro-Confederate campaign message.

On election night, acting as the right-wing safe space, Fox could hardly bring itself to cover Gillespie’s crushing defeat. For one 100-minute stretch, the network ignored the biggest story in America, because its ideas and candidates were being humiliated.

To add insult to injury, the morning after the election, Fox hosts on Trump’s favorite show, “Fox & Friends,” followed the leader and threw Gillespie under the bus. He ran a campaign directly out of the Trump racism playbook — as former Trump strategist and Breitbart chief Steve Bannon said just days before the election — yet co-host Steve Doocy complained that he didn’t campaign enough with Trump.

[CaliCat 3,957]

I watched Fox for a while. It seems like someone had thrown a stun grenade onto the set. 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

1 minute ago, CaliCat said:

I watched Fox for a while. It seems like someone had thrown a stun grenade onto the set. 

 

 

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