Fox employee behind "Biden is a dictator" subtitle has left the company
June 17, 2023 4:50 PM Subscribe
It's a start.
posted by wittgenstein at 5:17 PM on June 17, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by wittgenstein at 5:17 PM on June 17, 2023 [3 favorites]
It looks like a old/bad photoshop. I had to check for the ebaums world bug.
posted by Sphinx at 5:27 PM on June 17, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by Sphinx at 5:27 PM on June 17, 2023 [2 favorites]
It’s funny because obviously this would be a firing offense at any traditional news organization, besides like a 70s alt paper covering Nixon, but if you’re not a regular Fox News viewer it’s hard to know for sure this is over their line.
Feels like the mistake was not getting a commentator to say it so they could put it in quotes?
posted by smelendez at 5:32 PM on June 17, 2023 [17 favorites]
Feels like the mistake was not getting a commentator to say it so they could put it in quotes?
posted by smelendez at 5:32 PM on June 17, 2023 [17 favorites]
Oh no, anyway.
posted by mhoye at 5:54 PM on June 17, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by mhoye at 5:54 PM on June 17, 2023 [3 favorites]
"He was considered one of the most capable people in the building." A ship of fools, indeed.
posted by johnxlibris at 6:04 PM on June 17, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by johnxlibris at 6:04 PM on June 17, 2023 [5 favorites]
I surmise there must be more inside baseball on this, because Fox spends most of its day convincing viewers that Biden is a shapeshifting demon that would attack and dethrone god single-handed were he not in cognitive decline.
posted by credulous at 6:13 PM on June 17, 2023 [31 favorites]
posted by credulous at 6:13 PM on June 17, 2023 [31 favorites]
the WOKE mind-virus claims another VICTIM!!!
posted by glonous keming at 6:20 PM on June 17, 2023 [10 favorites]
posted by glonous keming at 6:20 PM on June 17, 2023 [10 favorites]
Sounds like a Tucker Carlson loyalist going out with a bang.
posted by grog at 6:37 PM on June 17, 2023 [8 favorites]
posted by grog at 6:37 PM on June 17, 2023 [8 favorites]
@credulous Tucker loyalist I think. Hilarious to live in a world where there are such a person as a Tucker loyalist.
posted by oldnumberseven at 6:41 PM on June 17, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by oldnumberseven at 6:41 PM on June 17, 2023 [4 favorites]
A close up view of the bottom of the bus.
posted by y2karl at 7:04 PM on June 17, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by y2karl at 7:04 PM on June 17, 2023 [3 favorites]
Eh, they'll get a good offer (for a little while, until they become boring) from the Wingnut Welfare crowd.
posted by aramaic at 7:09 PM on June 17, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by aramaic at 7:09 PM on June 17, 2023 [2 favorites]
It really is hard for me to wrap my head around how childish supposedly grown adults can be, especially when it comes to politics.
posted by moonbiter at 7:10 PM on June 17, 2023 [7 favorites]
posted by moonbiter at 7:10 PM on June 17, 2023 [7 favorites]
These cowards don’t have the courage of their convictions. Or maybe they just don’t have convictions. Yet.
posted by adamrice at 9:02 PM on June 17, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by adamrice at 9:02 PM on June 17, 2023 [2 favorites]
So, Tom Wambsgans is finally cleaning the place out.
posted by Ber at 6:18 AM on June 18, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by Ber at 6:18 AM on June 18, 2023 [3 favorites]
In April, Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a libel case filed against the network by voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems.
Losing that amount of money will make a corporation edgy. But fascists are still fascists even after they go back to dog whistles. McCaskill wasn't fired/resigned because he did something inappropriate but because he did it in a too obvious way.
For now, at least, Fox News wants to switch to the form of lying that doesn't leave visible bruises.
posted by AlSweigart at 6:31 AM on June 18, 2023 [5 favorites]
Losing that amount of money will make a corporation edgy. But fascists are still fascists even after they go back to dog whistles. McCaskill wasn't fired/resigned because he did something inappropriate but because he did it in a too obvious way.
For now, at least, Fox News wants to switch to the form of lying that doesn't leave visible bruises.
posted by AlSweigart at 6:31 AM on June 18, 2023 [5 favorites]
I surmise there must be more inside baseball on this, because Fox spends most of its day convincing viewers that Biden is a shapeshifting demon that would attack and dethrone god single-handed were he not in cognitive decline.
Probably this lawsuit, and then McCaskill just gave them another reason.
Probably this lawsuit, and then McCaskill just gave them another reason.
Meanwhile, the former host and his producers, McCaskill specifically, further fell under scrutiny when they were all named in a lawsuit filed by another Tucker Carlson Tonight producer, Abby Grossberg. She claims they created a toxic environment.posted by hydropsyche at 6:35 AM on June 18, 2023 [2 favorites]
> "He was considered one of the most capable people in the building." A ship of fools, indeed.Fox News answers the unasked question: "What if the Ship of Fools was also a Ship of Theseus where the rotting lumber was constantly replaced by fresh green lumber, or too often already rotten lumber, without anyone ever treating the rot?"
posted by Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks at 9:00 AM on June 18, 2023 [4 favorites]
McCaskill wasn't fired/resigned because he did something inappropriate but because he did it in a too obvious way.
Yep. There's no "fair and balanced" lampshading to do there. Be fascist as hell, but keep at least a teensy bit of plausible deniability.
posted by brundlefly at 12:09 PM on June 18, 2023 [2 favorites]
Yep. There's no "fair and balanced" lampshading to do there. Be fascist as hell, but keep at least a teensy bit of plausible deniability.
posted by brundlefly at 12:09 PM on June 18, 2023 [2 favorites]
"Wannabe dictator" is a pretty good two-word distillation of Umberto Eco's #8, "...enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak..."
posted by Rat Spatula at 5:17 PM on June 18, 2023 [6 favorites]
posted by Rat Spatula at 5:17 PM on June 18, 2023 [6 favorites]
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