Expressing outrage that the war memorial was closed to and sympathy for the aging World War II veterans who protested the inconvenience, The Five's co-host Dana Perino insisted Democrats used the memorial as a crass bargaining chip to "insert some sort of pain," as "they screw down the nut" on Republicans.But the next evening, The Five co-host Greg Gutfeld lashed out at people who were protesting inconveniences: "So stop whining about a partial shutdown." Then the next day, Fox's Steve Doocy complained Democrats were simply using the shutdown to "exact some pain" on Americans.
So which is it? Is the White House singling out people for shutdown payback and trying to inflict pain (Perino and Doocy), or should everyone "stop whining" about the shutdown (Gutfeld)? Fox News storytelling is rarely this jumbled, especially for such a high-profile Republican production.
Friday, October 4, 2013
Fox news can't get its shutdown frame and messaging straight
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The 'Folks at Fox' care not for and indeed have no need or desire for consistency in their messaging. Their audience are so imbued with a radical form of multidimensional cognitive dissonance founded in the unreasoned fear of the ineducable that the order in which the buttons on the machine are pushed is of no importance.
ReplyDeleteExactly, we have always been at war with East Asia and fox viewers have no problem with that. It was just fun to post, and therefore reinforce the good work from MMFA, catching foxies in their misfire.
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