Fascism is marked by nationalism,
militarism, sexism, racism, repression of labor, worship of corporate power,
controlled mass media, contempt for intellectuals and education, religiosity
used for political manipulation, rampant cronyism and corruption, fraudulent
elections, obsession with national security and the destruction of civil
liberties — all the flavors Fox News sells to fools all day, every day.
In its constant quest to gaslight
its willing victims, Fox News uses panic mongering, character assassination and
ad hominem arguments, psychological projection and flipping, the rewriting of
history, scapegoating, conflation of violence with power, bullying, confusion, populism,
invocation of the Christian God, saturation, the disparagement of education, guilt
by association and diversion.
Fox News’s most basic propaganda technique
is simply to lie about facts, and it does so constantly. For
example, which political party a politician belongs to isn't a matter of
opinion. It's a fact Fox News lies about.
Fox News suddenly identified
disgraced Republican Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina as a Democrat on the
very day he admitted his philandering.
A coincidence? But Fox News also
suddenly changed Congressman Mark Foley's party affiliation from Republican to
Democratic the very moment it was inescapably confirmed that Foley was sexually
soliciting teenage male pages in Congress.
Every “mistake” Fox News makes
manages to falsely malign Democrats and/or shield guilty Republicans.
Odd, isn’t it?
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