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11 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

 

The idea that George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose is so fucking outrageously stupid, and so utterly preposterous....   

People who die of narcotic overdoses just fall asleep and stop breathing.  They definitely, positively do not writhe, moan and desperately gasp, “I can’t breathe!”   
 

And as fucking ridiculous as that assertion is, it is a thousand times more offensive... what with the fucking video of the cop suffocating him and all.  
 

Fucking lies and treason.  It’s beyond shameful.  

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14 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

How intertwined is Fox News with the rest of the network? I was listening to Cowherd this morning on the radio, and he read a live plug for the Black Rifle Coffee Company followed immediately by an ad for My Pillow. Some weird shit.

i'm sure the exact details aren't hard to find online, but pretty much every fox entity (with the exception of 20th century fox studios which was bought by disney) is owned by newscorp.

this is fox broadcasting (tv), fox news, fox business, fox sports (not sure if they own all their affiliates including local radio) but i'm sure national radio is still in that loop.  i believe all the fox companies are now part of "fox-corp", which is part of/related to newscorp, and not part of what disney purchased.

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i'm sure the exact details aren't hard to find online, but pretty much every fox entity (with the exception of 20th century fox studios which was bought by disney) is owned by newscorp.
this is fox broadcasting (tv), fox news, fox business, fox sports (not sure if they own all their affiliates including local radio) but i'm sure national radio is still in that loop.  i believe all the fox companies are now part of "fox-corp", which is part of/related to newscorp, and not part of what disney purchased.
I think sinclair bought the regional sports networks
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38 minutes ago, elfenix said:
20 hours ago, henrygandorf said:
i'm sure the exact details aren't hard to find online, but pretty much every fox entity (with the exception of 20th century fox studios which was bought by disney) is owned by newscorp.
this is fox broadcasting (tv), fox news, fox business, fox sports (not sure if they own all their affiliates including local radio) but i'm sure national radio is still in that loop.  i believe all the fox companies are now part of "fox-corp", which is part of/related to newscorp, and not part of what disney purchased.

I think sinclair bought the regional sports networks

yeah, i wasn't sure how that was dealt with.

i had a meeting with someone from fox television right after the disney deal, and she was like, "yeah, everything good is gone."  sucks for fox tv.  they're basically paul kinsey the morning after the s3 move.

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On 2/12/2021 at 3:22 AM, atomheartbevo said:

What your average Fox News viewer does not realize is that if there was more money to be made pushing a liberal slant, the Murdochs would change things up in a heartbeat, and more than a few of the hosts would start sucking up to Biden if it meant a lot more money.

Didn’t they launch the news network in response to Nixon’s resignation? I’m not so sure about your thesis

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11 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

The right wing has totally lost its way. I say that both in the sense of being saddened and concerned that things have gotten so far off the rails for so many people, but also in the sense of disbelief at how lame they are.  And frankly, I’m astonished at how prevailing sentiment on this board is that those goofs are somehow going to control this country in the long run. 

I know everyone enjoys despairing about the “ledge” as their coping mechanism and/or preferred form of rage porn, but come on.  These people are fucking done.  They have nothing.  This is just pathetic at this point.  They could do some real hit pieces a few years ago even if they couldn’t do anything else, but now they’re reduced to shit like this.  They’re literally just lame trolls.   

They’re a cult of personality whose cult leader already got his ass kicked at the polls, and they have no other fall back plan.   Yeah, red states are still red and tons of Republicans are dug in no matter what.   But this - this utter shit - isn’t rallying anyone, and the trends are all against them.  Georgia and Arizona aren’t supposed to be blue states.  Marjorie QAnon, John Wayne Gaetzy, and Tits ‘n Guns aren’t going to take the country by storm.  The country isn’t getting more rural or more Trumpy.

The two political parties eventually reach an equilibrium, but it’s because they adjust when they start losing for too long.  The current Republican strategy is a loser that’s only going to get worse until they course correct.  This is like watching the last season of a once popular sitcom whose writers have all moved on and that has replaced the original stars with Ted McGinley and John Lovitz.  

They can’t even do Rush Limbaugh culture war insult comedy right anymore.  “Durr, Biden’s dog isn’t fancy enough!  Listen to Tucker own these stupid generals for not agreeing with the scrawny Yale lawyer guy who looks like Nazi Poindexter!  We’re sure owning the libs now!”  

Biden is an old white guy, and that’s sadly enough to make them not really have anything they can draw on to truly fire them up.   They can’t even come up with trolling material, and trolling is all they have.  It’s over.

Well that all sounds great until you look at the reality that they actually increased their turnout in 2020 and also are willing to cheat in every conceivable way to keep power. 

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