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You are here: Home / Politics / Politicans / Black Jimmy Carter / How do you like me now?

How do you like me now?

by DougJ|  December 14, 20114:21 pm| 40 Comments

This post is in: Black Jimmy Carter, Our Failed Media Experiment

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Maybe these Fox mistakes are just incompetence, but I tend to think this (via) was intentional.

I’m agnostic about the idea of a “Murdoch primary” (I don’t honestly know what motivates those assholes), but this could mean something.

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  1. 1.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    December 14, 2011 at 4:24 pm

    So is the Media elite behind Mitten or Newt? It sounds like even they can’t make up their minds.

  2. 2.

    dmsilev

    December 14, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    Do the Foxbots ever talk about “Obomneycare” (tm Tim Pawlenty)?

    I suppose we should be thankful that they didn’t make that particular substitution mistake with Herman Cain back when he was running.

  3. 3.

    capt

    December 14, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    Mitt O’Romney?

    just an accident I’m sure.

  4. 4.

    BGinCHI

    December 14, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    Where’s Romney’s long-form birth certificate?

  5. 5.

    ...now I try to be amused

    December 14, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    I kinda wish Obama could run in the Republican primaries. Who knows, he might outpoll (and embarrass) some of the other candidates, he’s that good a politician.

  6. 6.

    srv

    December 14, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    I have a freaking back problem and you’re making me LoL…

  7. 7.

    JGabriel

    December 14, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    Damn, DougJ, two minds, single thought. I was just coming here to post that.

    Does this mean that Fox is now pro-Gingrich? I thought they were pushing Romney, but now I don’t know.

    .

  8. 8.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    December 14, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    @…now I try to be amused: That’s other side of this, are they saying Obama out polls Ron Paul, Perry, Bachmman and Mr Frothy for the GOP nomination in Iowa?

  9. 9.

    dmsilev

    December 14, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    Speaking of endorsements, Romney’s latest was a real amusing one. Remember Christine “I am not a witch” O’Donnell? She said of Romney, and I swear I’m not making this up:

    He’s been consistent since he changed his mind.

    ( http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/2746 )

  10. 10.

    Jim C.

    December 14, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    Shhhh! Let those asshat, butt-monkeys pimp away for Newt over Romney.

  11. 11.

    The Ancient Randonneur

    December 14, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    OK I take back my comment in your last thread about the FSM not loving us.

    I guess the take away from this is that Romney isn’t a real American either.

  12. 12.

    cathyx

    December 14, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    Why not the best of both worlds and have them both on the ticket. Romney/Gingrich ’12. Or Gingrich/Romney ’12.

  13. 13.

    The Dangerman

    December 14, 2011 at 4:32 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Remember Christine “I am not a witch” O’Donnell?

    Romney: “I am not a switch(er).”

  14. 14.

    feebog

    December 14, 2011 at 4:32 pm

    Does this mean that Fox is now pro-Gingrich? I thought they were pushing Romney, but now I don’t know.

    Faux Noose is definitely looking for the anti-Romney candidate. Romney has definitely been subjected to hardball interviews by Faux, at least compared to the fluff they have thrown at other candidates.

    .

  15. 15.

    pragmatism

    December 14, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    completely intentional. the fox chryon and graphics are the id of fox news and are used to subliminally validate the alternate narrative lurking beneath the veneer of “fair and balanced”.

  16. 16.

    jl

    December 14, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    “Maybe these hilariously regular and repeated Fox mistakes are just incompetence at understanding the capacities of their demographic.

  17. 17.

    srv

    December 14, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    @feebog: Alternatively, maybe Fox has polling that an Obama-Romney is more popular amongst Iowa voters than a Romney-Romney.

  18. 18.

    Rafer Janders

    December 14, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    Where’s Romney’s long-form birth certificate?

    Actually, this more accurate than you think, since Mitt is the son of a Mexican immigrant. (Romney’s father George W. Romney was born in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1907, and the Romney family fled the Mexican Revolution for the US when George Romney was six years old).

  19. 19.

    geg6

    December 14, 2011 at 4:41 pm

    Well, looks like Gingrich has won the Murdoch primary. Will someone please tell Jonathan Bernstein (filling in for Benen) as he seems to be under the delusion that the “establishment” in the GOP does not include people like Rush Limbaugh and that they have magic powers to make sure their preferred candidate will win despite all those pesky voters.

  20. 20.

    AdamK

    December 14, 2011 at 4:43 pm

    I think they hire idiots to work behind the camera as well as in front to make sure nobody looks bad by comparison.

  21. 21.

    ira-NY

    December 14, 2011 at 4:45 pm

    I have never been one for conspiracy theories and such.

    But, it might be time to get fitted for a tin-foil hat to wear when I consider Fox.

  22. 22.

    huckster

    December 14, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    Romney=Obama?

    Some kind of 11th dimensional dog whistle?

  23. 23.

    David in NY

    December 14, 2011 at 4:47 pm

    @Rafer Janders: His Michigan birth certificate (like mine) looks exactly like Obama’s “short form.” And I don’t think Michigan has any other kind.

  24. 24.

    JGabriel

    December 14, 2011 at 4:48 pm

    @huckster:

    Some kind of 11th dimensional dog whistle?

    No, I think this one’s taking place in the usual two dimensions of Fox News.

    .

  25. 25.

    rlrr

    December 14, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    Romney’s father wasn’t born in the USA…

  26. 26.

    Capri

    December 14, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    @geg6:

    IIRC, 4 years ago, the Republican decision makers wanted anyone but McCain. Limbaugh hated him. Coulter said she’d vote for Hilary before McCain. Guiliani was their guy. Then Romney.

    Once McCain got the nomination they all got in line.

    If there really were some connected folks that could actually manipulate the process effectively, McCain would have been an after thought.

  27. 27.

    Bitter Scribe

    December 14, 2011 at 4:52 pm

    OK, there are malevolent Fox “mistakes,” like putting (D) after the name of a Republican newly engulfed by scandal. And there are idiotic Fox mistakes, like putting a picture of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin in place of Sarah Palin.

    Not sure where this one falls.

  28. 28.

    The Moar You Know

    December 14, 2011 at 4:58 pm

    Is that real? Holy shit, I guess it’s true. Nobody likes Romney.

  29. 29.

    chrome agnomen

    December 14, 2011 at 4:58 pm

    fox viewers will just figure romney switched again.

  30. 30.

    Calouste

    December 14, 2011 at 4:59 pm

    @Bitter Scribe:

    And labeling Iraq “Egypt” (or the other way around).

  31. 31.

    Amir Khalid

    December 14, 2011 at 5:00 pm

    @Rafer Janders:
    Wait, wait. I was under the impression that George Romney ran for President in 1968. But from what I know a naturalized US citizen is ineligible. Am i missing something here?

  32. 32.

    ...now I try to be amused

    December 14, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    @huckster:
    HA! “11th dimensional dog whistle” deserves to be a meme.

  33. 33.

    Brachiator

    December 14, 2011 at 5:17 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Wait, wait. I was under the impression that George Romney ran for President in 1968. But from what I know a naturalized US citizen is ineligible. Am i missing something here?

    There is this, from the Wiki.

    George Romney (1907–1995), who ran for the Republican party presidential nomination in 1968, was born in Mexico to U.S. parents. Romney’s grandfather had emigrated to Mexico in 1886 with his three wives and children after the U.S. federal government outlawed polygamy. Romney’s monogamous parents retained their U.S. citizenship and returned to the United States with him in 1912. Romney never received Mexican citizenship, because the country’s nationality laws had been restricted to jus sanguinis statutes due to prevailing politics aimed against American settlers.

    Had Romney’s campaign been more successful, this might have been more of an issue.

  34. 34.

    Wag

    December 14, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    I’m waiting for JCACHO to come for our triannual inspection and needs a laugh. Thanks!

    Fox News is for sheep.

  35. 35.

    TooManyJens

    December 14, 2011 at 6:01 pm

    @Amir Khalid: He was a U.S. citizen at birth because his parents were both U.S. citizens.

  36. 36.

    Bill Arnold

    December 14, 2011 at 7:47 pm

    Related, (via boingboing) Graphic Design the Fox News Way

  37. 37.

    SFAW

    December 14, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    He was a U.S. citizen at birth because his parents were both U.S. citizens.

    Are you sure? I’ve never seen a copy of George’s parents’ citizenship papers? For all I know, it could have been part of the long-game plan para La Reconquista.

    Is it irresponsible to speculate? etc. etc.

  38. 38.

    SFAW

    December 14, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    I’ve never seen a copy of George’s parents’ citizenship papers?

    I seem to recall hearing George Romney saying once, long ago: “Papers? We ain’t got no papers! We don’t need no papers!”

  39. 39.

    Quiddity

    December 14, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    That was intentional.

  40. 40.

    montanareddog

    December 15, 2011 at 7:54 am

    I don’t honestly know what motivates those assholes

    Doug, I think it is simply eyeballs. A presidential between two boring, middle of the road technocrats is the last thing Roger Ailes wants. When he said he hired Palin because she was “hot”, he was not referring to her alleged pulchritude, but to the fact that she was “media hot”. Gingrich is the same and gives an old Nielsen whore like Ailes the closest thing to a chubby that he can manage nowadays.

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