Monday, January 19, 2015

Fox News: an endless source of comedy (Updated Jan. 20)

Especially when they get bitch-slapped by the French. How would you like it if European news channels called Times Square a shantytown, or said Los Angeles has sharia law ? Of course it's easy to slander faraway places like that when your target audience has never gotten out of their country in their lives and has less culture than a pot of yogurt...

UPDATE: Paris' authorities caught wind of that blatant display of misinformation, and they weren't exactly pleased - to such an extent they now consider suing Fox News over it. Said network has already apologized for the lies spewed by its "experts", but considering Fox News' lengthy history of awful journalism it's unlikely anyone will put much stock in these apologies. I'm using the term "experts" really loosely here - this is the same network that had Jack Thompson (remember him?) as a video game expert in the mid-to-late 2000s. Either way, the damage is done, and now those uneducated idiots who take everything they say at face value will take the belief a large chunk of Paris is forbidden to non-Muslims and has sharia law to their graves. How else do you explain people swallowing the absurdity of vaccines causing autism in spite of countless studies disproving it, and other such nonsensical craziness?

11 comments:

  1. That's amazing. Best thing on the internet I've seen in a while. XD

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  2. I mean, there's a reason for this:

    http://www.businessinsider.com/study-watching-fox-news-makes-you-less-informed-than-watching-no-news-at-all-2012-5

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  3. Fox News isn't in my country, is it really that bad?

    The British have the Daily Mail and The Sun as their facepalm fuel.

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    1. I've actually seen people say it had to be pointed out to them that it's not a parody channel. Yes, it's just that bad.

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    2. Holy shit, no wonder you made frequent jokes about it in your LP.

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    3. Well you shouldn't expect anything less from the channel that made fun of Obama for putting mustard in his hamburgers at the beginning of his presidency. (No, that's not a joke either.)

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  4. As someone who actually can receive one of the channels this show airs on (Be TV, formerly called Canal+ Belgique), I have to say they were nothing short of amazing.

    Here's another video that originally aired on Friday (this one's English subbed as well) and it has a (somewhat exaggerated, but funny) take on how Fox handles their breaking news around the 6-7 minute mark:
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=524_1421523639

    By the way, I told my father that Fox News is often called "Faux News", due to their disinformation. I also told him that the vast majority of the 2 million people (the number the show gave) watch it to make fun of it afterwards, or just don't take it seriously.

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    1. I'm not sure on that last part. You wouldn't believe the bullshit the American extreme right swallows. There's a reason why red states as a whole are a laughingstock, and it goes far beyond their news outlets.

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  5. Boy is this a laugh and a half, so they're going through suing them, you know even if I myself am a bit on the right-wing I never listened to Faux News, they are literally crazy and finally someone is calling them out for it and it's a god damn country

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    1. And it's not just any country, it's the exact country that kind of people wake up at night to hate. I'm gonna need a change of pants.

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  6. Talk about a quiet announcement. Without any prior address, the Contrary Serperior event is available in Europe. It could come to USA and Canada soon.

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