Recently I wrote an article in which I opined that there were basically two kinds of stupid, everyday stupid, and GOP Stupid! But since I’m dealing with Trumpmenistan here, and all of its minions, I’ve already been forced to expand that. Now there’s Stupid, GOP Stupid, and FUX News Fucking Stupid! I’ll be happy to explain.

On Thursday, FUX News took a whole ration of shit dumped over their heads for being the only major meia news network to not cover the J6 hearing live. Couldn’t have any of their special snowflake viewers unduly upset or enlightened.

Then they went on to earn another bucket of shit over their heads for the way they didn’t cover the hearing. They ran their scheduled programming, but had the live hearing as a picture-in-picture in the upper right corner, with no sound. But every time something that could be embarrassing to FUX, like a Sean Hannity tweet, or video of the capitol riot came on, they instantly switched to a different, wide screen angle camera that didn’t show the monitor. Leaving their viewers to wonder what really good shit was being hidden from them.

You know the old saying, Once burned, twice careful around fire. FUX News decided to cover todays hearing live. Their decision was as craven as it was cowardly. After all, 20 million people tuned in Thursday night, which begs the question What kind of market share did FUX give up by not airing it live, is offset by a much smaller likely view rate for today’s’ hearing. And there’s FUX’s big mistake. The dumb shits should have switched the order!

Let’s recap Thursday nights hearing in brief. Bennie Thompson opened with a statement. What FUX News viewer cares. Then class traitor Liz Cheney gave an extended statement laying out the outline of both this hearing, as well as future hearings. Knowing Cheney’s reputation on FUX, viewers likely would have hit the mute button while muttering Yada-yada-yada like a Tantric chant.

Then the committee played an extended tape of the actual riot, almost all new footage, most of it up-close-and-personal, and raw. Knowing FUX News viewers, most of them probably would have DVR’s that segment to watch it again in slow motion, and scan to see if they could see themselves.

After the break came the two witnesses, an independent British documentary maker who had been embedded with the Proud Boys, and the first Capitol Police officer injured in the riot. Again, on FUX, who cares? Almost nobody in the FUX audience would have caught the nuance of the filmmakers testimony of the discrepancy in the official Trump timeline, and would have gotten wood from the riot scenes. As for the injured police officer? Tough shit. That’s what ya get for resisting true patriots!

But what about todays hearing? Well, that was a whole nother kettle of fish. Granted, viewership would be down, and the testimony didn’t have the emotional impact of Thursday’s tour de force. But today’s hearing had something much more dangerous for FUX and the GOP.

Name and facial recognition! Today’s hearing was made up of two segments of live and video witness testimony. Should be dull stuff, right? Not when that testimony comes from several mainstay faces on FUX News, like Bill Stepian, Trump’s campaign manager, cameos from Ivanka and Jared, and a major role for FUX stalwart Tubby the Ewok. Also a special guest slot for FUX News own former head political honcho, who infamously called Arizona for Biden on election night, when nobody else would. People tend to tune in and pay attention to faces they recognize and trust.

And they all kept saying the same damn, unacceptable thing! They kept saying that Trump lost, fair and square. They kept saying that they repeatedly told him so, directly to his face, only to have him ignore them. And they kept telling him, to his face, that his claims of massive voter fraud, including the voting machines were, in Bill Barr’s words, Total bullshit!

Pop Quiz! What’s my Irish Catholic mantra? In order to keep your faith intact, ensure it remains unsullied by fact. FUX News spent 2 plus hours today letting their viewers hear from everybody from Bill Stepian to Ivanka and Jared Kushner to former Attorney General Bill Barr that the whole Big Lie was nothing more or less than a carefully crafted vessel for an insurrection attempt, as well as just another Trump money making grift.Take my word for it, once the scales fall, there is no way to glue them back on, no matter how hard you try. Once you don’t believe in Santa Claus anymore, you never will again. FUX News let their viewers get more inconvenient truths today than they ever would have on Thursday night. It will be interesting to see what they do on Wednesday.

And so, networking programming executives at FUX News, for being too stupid to check publicly available information on the session agendas before making your decisions as to what to boycott, Stand up and take a bow, fools! 

 

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