Death and foxes
By Capt. Fogg
There's often some good to be found in our increasingly entropic economy -- like a pearl in a tainted oyster. I take comfort in the cosmic joke that is our mortal life; knowing that Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney and everyone at Fox News will go the way of Pol Pot, Nicolae Chaucescu, and Madman Muntz in due time. But even before all the chips are cashed, it's good to know that News Corp., Rupert Murdoch's media empire and the parent company of Fox, is down by the bow and taking on water -- nearly six and a half billion dollars worth of water, that is.
Blaming the grim economic situation, the obvious precursors of which the Fox fabricators have been denying for years whilst mocking the "Libs" for their warnings, Murdoch told the International Herald Tribune:
Who could have foreseen that? Well I for one and other, better prognosticators heard only dimly through the angry roar of the Fox filibusterers. Remember when Fox claimed that the robust economy was being "talked down" by "the Liberal Media" and offered statistics showing the "proof" in the fact that there was more bad economic news than good?
And of course I have a list of candidates for decapitation, but before we get to feeling smug, the bad news in the good news in the bad news, is that amidst the general Murdoch meltdown, Fox News itself reported income of $428 million, which is up $91 million from the previous year. Fox News increased its operating income by 32 percent. Is this also a reflection of a desperate America's increased thirst for lies, damn lies and hysterical hatred? I'm sure that when the statisticians stop chewing on the news, we'll find that alcohol consumption has risen by a similar amount.
In any event, I'm sure that the global meltdown will some day fade into redacted and ill remembered history, but I'm not so sure about the United States of America as we know it. America is failing, Fox News is why.
Et evasi ego solus ut nuntiarem tibi.
(Cross posted from Human Voices.)
There's often some good to be found in our increasingly entropic economy -- like a pearl in a tainted oyster. I take comfort in the cosmic joke that is our mortal life; knowing that Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney and everyone at Fox News will go the way of Pol Pot, Nicolae Chaucescu, and Madman Muntz in due time. But even before all the chips are cashed, it's good to know that News Corp., Rupert Murdoch's media empire and the parent company of Fox, is down by the bow and taking on water -- nearly six and a half billion dollars worth of water, that is.
Blaming the grim economic situation, the obvious precursors of which the Fox fabricators have been denying for years whilst mocking the "Libs" for their warnings, Murdoch told the International Herald Tribune:
While we anticipated a weakening, the downturn is more severe and likely longer-lasting than previously thought.
Who could have foreseen that? Well I for one and other, better prognosticators heard only dimly through the angry roar of the Fox filibusterers. Remember when Fox claimed that the robust economy was being "talked down" by "the Liberal Media" and offered statistics showing the "proof" in the fact that there was more bad economic news than good?
We are implementing rigorous cost-cutting across all operations and reducing head count where appropriate.
And of course I have a list of candidates for decapitation, but before we get to feeling smug, the bad news in the good news in the bad news, is that amidst the general Murdoch meltdown, Fox News itself reported income of $428 million, which is up $91 million from the previous year. Fox News increased its operating income by 32 percent. Is this also a reflection of a desperate America's increased thirst for lies, damn lies and hysterical hatred? I'm sure that when the statisticians stop chewing on the news, we'll find that alcohol consumption has risen by a similar amount.
In any event, I'm sure that the global meltdown will some day fade into redacted and ill remembered history, but I'm not so sure about the United States of America as we know it. America is failing, Fox News is why.
Et evasi ego solus ut nuntiarem tibi.
(Cross posted from Human Voices.)
Labels: Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, Sign of the Economic Apocalypse
posted by Capt. Fogg at
11:02 AM
2 Comments:
Well isn't this revealing.
Dear Capt Fogg really can't take any disagreement. Anyone who opposes messiah Obama is to be... shot, apparently. Or decapitated.
Truly, you are evil.
Have a bad day!
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Tom the Redhunter, at 11:06 PM
Truly you live in a fantasy world. You never actually refer to anything I write when you invent these things, do you? You don't even appear to have read it, but only scanned it for key words that produce stock retorts and failing to find them, you invent things for me to have said.
You're aware that when people talk about heads rolling at some corporations it's a metaphor, right? You're aware that I've never pictured Obama as anything but a better choice than the two nitwits the Republicans offered, right?
Anyway, your decapitation could be accomplished with a nail clipper and I wouldn't imagine that your severed head would roll at all, but float away in the breeze like a dust mote.
Don't bother to reply - you're outta here.
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Capt. Fogg, at 9:03 AM
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