{"id":5321,"date":"2015-02-05T20:18:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5321"},"modified":"2015-02-05T20:18:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T01:18:37","slug":"how-fox-news-creates-its-own-insane-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5321","title":{"rendered":"How Fox News Creates Its Own Insane Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline\">\n<h3 class=\"node-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/how-fox-news-creates-its-own-insane-reality\" target=\"_blank\">How Fox News Creates Its Own Insane Reality<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-teaser field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><strong>If you\u2019re a Fox News watcher, this is how your political reality is generated.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Every once in a while a Fox personality says something so outlandish he shocks himself.\u00a0Such was the case when Fox Business host Charles Payne got amped up over Michael Moore\u2019s\u00a0<em>American Sniper<\/em>\u00a0criticism and unleashed a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/fox-host-u-s-saved-the-planet-with-overseas-wars\/\">bizarre reading<\/a>\u00a0of America\u2019s overseas military efforts. \u201cWe have saved the planet,\u201d he shouted at the camera, to the visible discomfort of his cohosts, \u201cand if we go away as America\u2019s policeman, it will be hell to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The statement was outrage click-gold, but its virality obscured a crucial quality: even a market-drunk paleocapitalist like Payne doesn\u2019t actually believe the American-produced quagmire in Iraq was the real-world equivalent of the Avengers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Payne\u2019s outburst followed a solid week of escalating rhetoric against Moore, Seth Rogen and other critics of the film. Fox hosts first mounted defenses of Chris Kyle, then of snipers, then of the military, and finally of the Iraq debacle. By the time Payne was plied with Moore\u2019s quote, the network had made the saintliness of the U.S.\u2019s war effort a precondition of Kyle\u2019s defense. Though it sounded outlandish to the rest of us, it was actually just Payne walking that sentiment one step further.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Fox News Creates Its Own Insane Reality If you\u2019re a Fox News watcher, this is how your political reality is generated. Every once in a while a Fox personality says something so outlandish he shocks himself.\u00a0Such was the case when Fox Business host Charles Payne got amped up over Michael Moore\u2019s\u00a0American Sniper\u00a0criticism and unleashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3232,3234,3230,3233,3231,655,669],"class_list":["post-5321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-american-sniper","tag-chris-kyle","tag-fox-news","tag-global-police","tag-political-reality","tag-propaganda","tag-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5322,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}