Hillary Clinton Takes a Flamethrower to Fox News: 'Superb Propaganda'

[DonViejo]

by Joe DePaolo | Nov 23rd, 2018, 10:05 am

Though two years have passed since her defeat at the hands of President Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton somehow remains a fixture of Fox News programming — with the network’s opinion and debate shows seemingly managing to find a place to mention her at least several times a week. After her latest comments, we suspect the former Secretary of State will be included in a bevy of Fox News show rundowns over the next few days.

In an interview with the Guardian, Clinton absolutely lit up Fox News — referring to the network as “a wholly owned subsidiary of Trump and the Republican party now.”

“You watch Fox News, it’s always, ‘Something terrible is about to happen’, ‘Something terrible did happen’, ‘These people are doing all these awful things,’” Clinton said. “It is totally divorced from reality, but it is superb propaganda. I don’t know the best way to puncture that. You have to hope that reality catches up with politics and entertainment at some point.”

Fox News was not Clinton’s only media target. The former Secretary of State slammed the press as a whole for, in her view, falling for tactics of distraction on the part of Trump and others.

“I believe that where we are now in the political cycle is that the press does not know how to cover these candidates who are setting themselves on fire every day, who are masters of diversion and distraction,” Clinton told the Guardian. She added, “the press has to get smarter because that’s basically how most voters get their information.”

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[UpInArms]

1. It's like seeing how the know-nothing

Kardashians continue to garner press attention ... or Dustbin Peebert ....



as if any of those things had actual merit or anything that was relevant to life on this planet

[BigmanPigman]

2. Hillary always has had the ability

to see things fairly clearly and objectively. I really appreciate that about her. What a loss for our country.

[Blecht]

5. Exactly -nt

[oberliner]

3. Her description of Fox News can apply to other outlets as well

[Kingofalldems]

8. What other outlets?

[oberliner]

9. Limbaugh, Breitbart, Drudge, Sinclair

There's loads of them.

[dalton99a]

4. It is a mouthpiece of the GOP and must be treated as such.

[DownriverDem]

6. If only

President Hillary Clinton was visiting the troops this holiday season.

[paleotn]

7. Spot on...

What the press needs to do in general, is take a page Jim Acosta. He doesn't fall for the shiny bobbles or other misdirections, but remains strictly on point. That drives shitler and his minions insane.

[SayItLoud]

10. The BIG mistake critics of F*CK News make is...

attacking the on air creeps. They should be naming, shaming and drilling down on the Murdoch brothers. The old man is a lost cause but the two brothers live and socialize in the NY and Hollywood communities and want to be accepted. Mocking them personally instead of HanRatty et al will get under their skin "bigly". Share this strategy with your peeps if you agree.

[mahannah]

11. Citizens need to get smarter.

[elmac]

12. they were going to call it GOPTV before the biz got started

so yes, they are propaganda and should be breaking all kinds of elections laws.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. all tv news attempts to create consumers

The goal is to make the viewer uneasy and desperate to do something, just in time for the commercials which instruct the good consumer what they can do to cure that urge.

Propaganda and incomplete stories make for higher response to ads. Leave 'em wanting more.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Kick this big news.