by NoahIt's always been obvious that FOX "News" was never meant to be anything but a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party. Even its origins lie in Roger Ailes plans for what he called a "GOP TV" network that he proposed to his then boss, President Nixon, back in the early 1970s. From the start, right down to the hiring of openly racist tools like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, shit-stirring crazies like Glenn Beck and Pam Geller, astounding hypocrites like Mike Huckabee, smarmy, truth-bending psychos like Newt Gingrich, and even downright morons like Sarah Palin, it's been clear that FOX would always be a tool of the far right. Shepard Smith? Well, what about Shepard Smith? He is an actual journalist and he is a token. There's no other reasonable way to put it. People that I have known and met over the years that have worked at FOX have always told me that, within the corridors and bunkers at FOX, Smith and those closest to him were regarded simultaneously as being there to provide a thin veneer of needed credibility, and, alien infiltrators that were to be kept at arms length.Ironically, on Monday afternoon, it fell to Shep Smith to break the news about Sean Hannity's previously undisclosed relationship with Señor Trumpanzee's consigliere, Michael Cohen to FOX viewers. 'Previously undisclosed' is a key here. Hannity has been jumping through hoops into dimensions rarely heard of or seen in his defense of both Trumpanzee and Cohen, even more so since the FBI, with the OK of Republican judicial officials, including Trump appointees, got their warrants and paid their visits to Cohen and his offices and his residence. At no time, during his nightly spewing of Republican pro-Cohen anti-Robert Mueller bullshit, did Hannity bother to disclose his relationship to Cohen. Hey, maybe he just forgot to mention it? It was bad enough that Hannity frequently dines with Trump to discuss Republican Party propaganda strategy, but this presents another layer. Hannity, working closely with Trump and Cohen, under the polluted auspices of FOX "News," amounts to nothing less than an extremist cabal, the kind you would see in any totalitarian dictatorship, whether it was Russia, Germany, Argentina, Cuba, or North Korea, just to name a few in humankind's sordid political history.As for the goons with the forced smiles in tonight's meme, well they, no doubt, came from a carny row in deepest Florida or Alabama, or they simply escaped from some backwoods asylum for inbreds or the severely mentally challenged. Their ongoing buffoonery and combined IQ of 120, on a good day, has been shown, time and time again, to be the source of "news" and opinion presented in their false idol's morning misspelled and syntax-challenged tweet storms. It's been quite a game on social media to match up whatever nonsense goes back and forth between the curvy couch of "FOX And Friends" and the golden toilet of the Trump bathroom.None of this is going to change anytime soon, though. The founders of Russia's Pravda and Josef Goebbels will continue rubbing their hands in perverted glee about it all down in Hell. The viewers of FOX "News" are so brainwashed in their state of nihilistic devotion that any sort of rehabilitation is now impossible. They have the glassy-eyed stares of crackheads in a downward spiral. Roger Ailes may be gone, but for him, Rupert Murdoch, and their corporate sponsors, it is "Mission Accomplished" for real.
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