Asked why Fox News cut away 20 minutes early from the question and answer session Obama held with House Republicans (which was largely seen as a big coup for the president), Ailes sidestepped the question, proclaiming, "We're the most trusted name in news."
Seriously, this is the textbook definition of a non sequitur. Arianna Huffington asks a more than reasonable question and Roger Ailes gives what can only be described as a profoundly bizarre response. This only reinforces the larger picture. Roger Ailes and most Fox News viewers spend most of their time living in an alternate, fantasy-based universe. They conduct separate, unrelated, detached-from-reality conversations with themselves. These outlandish responses are so common with conservatives for a reason. They're just not comfortable with facts or reality.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/31/roger-ailes-on-this-week_n_443555.html
Average citizen that doesn't watch Fox News asking Fox News viewer generic question in the course of polite chit-chat: I sure hope we don't get more snow. Do you think we'll get more snow?
Average Fox News viewer responding with typical disregard for fact-based reality: Probably the Celtics or the Lakers. Also, I'm pretty sure that brown people and homosexuals are plotting to poison the water supply.
Average citizen that doesn't watch Fox News: Um...that's outrageous. We're not hanging out anymore. Seriously, you're absolutely *&%#ing insane.
Fox News commentator Steve Doocy of "Fox and Friends" interacting with popular celebrity chef Rachael Ray: We're chatting with Rachael Ray. So Rachael, honest answer-do you think that Barack Obama is a homosexual pedophile or a homosexual secret Muslim terrorist?
Rachael Ray: I um...what? I don't know how to respond to the...are you for real? I mean, for the love of God...look, I was supposed to talk about my new fondue recipe and make a pitch for my cookbook. You people are bat*%#$ crazy. Seriously, this entire network makes me physically sick to my stomach. This interview is over. No, no, I'm leaving. I'm done. I don't even know what to say. This whole thing is wildly inappropriate. Just weird...
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