Mac1958
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In the aftermath of The Great GOP Meltdown of 2012, I've now seen a couple of articles asking this question as the party begins a little self-inspection. Wow, never would I have expected this.
(Well, at least SOME of the party is doing some self-inspection. The rest of it is doubling down, proudly remaining in abject denial. But that's for a different thread)
Fox played a big part in the party somehow convincing itself that Romney was going to win in a landslide. It essentially created an information cocoon for conservatives, where no light was getting in, where the bad information inside the cocoon was allowed to fester and grow. The result? Conservatives were shocked at the outcome; no one else was.
So would the GOP be better off if Fox never existed? Or if it changed its approach and stopped being such a weird cartoon act? Is Fox hurting the GOP?
(And by the way, don't divert to MSNBC. I agree it's gone completely over the cliff for the Left. This is about Fox, how it created its own little world, and why the Right was so stunned by the election results)
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Conservatives were shocked at the outcome; no one else was
Says who?
So would the GOP be better off if Fox never existed? Or if it changed its approach and stopped being such a weird cartoon act? Is Fox hurting the GOP?
Would you ask the same questions of those networks that are most certainly in the tank for the left?
Honestly thinking people are safe and can weather the various TV influences that exist and will vote with intelligence.
The true problem is the lack of critical thinking from both parties.
Good grief.
"Says who"? Perhaps you were not paying attention to all the predictions of a Romney landslide by well-known Republicans, from Michael Barone to Karl Rove; perhaps you haven't seen that Romney himself and members of his own staff where shocked. Holy crap, come on.
"Would you ask the same questions of those networks that are most certainly in the tank for the left?" Did you not bother to read the last paragraph of my post about MSNBC? I have highlighted in red for you, above. I asked a direct question about Fox, and no one has been willing to give me a direct answer. Including you.
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