{"id":11545,"date":"2007-07-21T12:50:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T16:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11545.html"},"modified":"2007-07-21T12:50:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T16:50:24","slug":"when-fox-news-disparages-its-own-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/when-fox-news-disparages-its-own-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"When Fox News disparages its own viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing for the reality-based community to cast aspersions on Fox News viewers; it&#8217;s another when the Republican network ridicules its own audience.<\/p>\n<p><embed FlashVars='config=http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/motherload\/xml\/data_synd.jhtml?vid=90145%26myspace=false' src='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/motherload\/syndicated_player\/index.jhtml' quality='high' bgcolor='#006699' width='340' height='325' name='comedy_player' align='middle' allowScriptAccess='always' allownetworking='external' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer'><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who can&#8217;t watch online video clips, I posted a quick transcipt after the jump.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis is Simpsons creator Matt Groening on The Daily Show. Referencing an episode in which the show mocked Fox News with a news crawl intended to ridicule the network&#8217;s partisanship, Groening explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve gotten in trouble for attack Fox. We had an episode in which we had Fox News &#8212; you know the little news crawl? And that was one of our favorite moments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Albert Einstein + Brad Pitt = Dick Cheney&#8217; &#8230; &#8216;Rupert Murdoch: Terrific Dancer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been forbidden from doing that again, because the Fox viewer might confuse our cartoon with <i>actual<\/i> news.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>News Corp. said it; not me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing for the reality-based community to cast aspersions on Fox News viewers; it&#8217;s another when the Republican network ridicules its own audience. For those of you who can&#8217;t watch online video clips, I posted a quick transcipt after the jump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}