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Actual banner from Fox & Friends: Trump Cuts Aid to THREE Mexican countries! (Original Post) tenderfoot Mar 2019 OP
Wow. ck4829 Mar 2019 #1
That's probably a direct quote from Trump. After all, he barely knows where Mexico is. TheBlackAdder Apr 2019 #47
Ha ck4829 Apr 2019 #51
yeah, which ones? anarch Mar 2019 #2
Please Botany Mar 2019 #5
Come on - get serious! MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #8
Right! The 3rd Mexican Country was Obviously Puerto Rico Stallion Mar 2019 #11
How about middle Mexico TEB Mar 2019 #26
Mar-A-Lago Scarsdale Mar 2019 #35
True TEB Mar 2019 #41
I think the author of the sign meant: New Mexico, El Paso, and Puerto Rico. nt NCjack Mar 2019 #42
Don't forget Baja Oklahoma Quemado Mar 2019 #12
Jose Cuervos and Ichiro-- oh wait.....not Ichiro... pangaia Mar 2019 #39
Their audience doesn't know any better The Genealogist Mar 2019 #3
More pot-stirring racism from the white nationalism network. LonePirate Mar 2019 #4
Love the gendered body language there, too. marybourg Mar 2019 #6
Wow, the stupid! smirkymonkey Mar 2019 #7
Wow! Chyron. I have just added a new word to my vocabulary thanks to you! PatrickforO Mar 2019 #30
Actually the chyron is the keyboard that creates those crawling banners FakeNoose Mar 2019 #33
izzat anti-socialisming geograffitti? Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #9
Sometimes I wish someone would compile a book of F&F idiocies. Though you'd probably need highplainsdem Mar 2019 #10
Okay, now I'm in a better mood discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2019 #18
Love that list. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #20
Google "fox news graphs" ck4829 Mar 2019 #21
Thanks! Wow. Love the way Google Images breaks this down into misleading, biased, bad, highplainsdem Apr 2019 #45
You're welcome ck4829 Apr 2019 #48
Saw this and it went by so fast I couldn't read them all FakeNoose Mar 2019 #36
You're welcome! highplainsdem Apr 2019 #46
Sort of like the over-vote for G.W.Bush in Cayahoga county in 2004 lindysalsagal Mar 2019 #13
Fox found out about the New Mexicans adhering to a branch of Chinese philosophy DFW Mar 2019 #14
Please, let one of them be Ilsa Mar 2019 #15
Apparently, nothing will stop those Mexicans from founding new countries discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2019 #16
Oddly enough, none of them Bettie Mar 2019 #17
One never knows if they're pretending to be stupid to appeal to their moronic viewership Aristus Mar 2019 #19
I suspect they really are that ignorant. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #22
You don't have to be ignorant to be racist... Iggo Mar 2019 #23
How stupid can they get? Almost as bad as "mistakenly" having one "Barack Osama".... George II Mar 2019 #24
... eppur_se_muova Mar 2019 #25
Dumb Watching Dumber colsohlibgal Mar 2019 #27
Like Pillboy saying the Clintons had Vince Foster killed........... Bengus81 Mar 2019 #28
Probably meant Mexico Missouri, Mexico New York and Mexico Maine. cstanleytech Mar 2019 #29
And they wonder why we call them dumb. Vinca Mar 2019 #31
Standard Faux News viewer's attitude ... FakeNoose Mar 2019 #37
Pretty much ck4829 Apr 2019 #49
There's nothing quite like making yourself look as dumb as a brick. Firestorm49 Mar 2019 #32
Many Fox viewers left wondering why they didn't aid to all Mexican countries? rurallib Mar 2019 #34
Kick dalton99a Mar 2019 #38
My guess is joe_stampingbull Mar 2019 #40
Fox News: Functionally illiterate from the ground up. MineralMan Mar 2019 #43
when will trump and fux joe_stampingbull Mar 2019 #44
LOL ck4829 Apr 2019 #50
LOL, Dummies. SummerSnow Apr 2019 #52
What about the other nine? spanone Apr 2019 #53
Make NO mistake, this is 100% intentional... Blue_Tires Apr 2019 #54
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
7. Wow, the stupid!
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 11:05 AM
Mar 2019

Which ones? Enchilada, Quesadilla and Chimichanga?

The sad thing is that there is probably not one Fox viewer who saw anything wrong with that chyron.

PatrickforO

(14,516 posts)
30. Wow! Chyron. I have just added a new word to my vocabulary thanks to you!
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 12:55 PM
Mar 2019

Seriously, I didn't know those crawling captions were called chyrons.

FakeNoose

(32,356 posts)
33. Actually the chyron is the keyboard that creates those crawling banners
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 01:01 PM
Mar 2019

... but over the years people became used to calling the banners themselves "chyrons."

It's pronounced KYE-ron with a hard C and a long I.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,041 posts)
9. izzat anti-socialisming geograffitti?
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 11:18 AM
Mar 2019

Canadian countries around the globe are saying, "Tsk, tsk" at us right now.

My head hurts.

highplainsdem

(48,732 posts)
10. Sometimes I wish someone would compile a book of F&F idiocies. Though you'd probably need
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 11:19 AM
Mar 2019

an encyclopedia at this point.

A compilation of video clips would be nice, too, but that would be so long it would take days if not weeks to watch.

I always loved the SNL Fox & Friends skits with the long scrolling list of "fact-checker corrections" -- like the one mentioned in this Entertainment Weekly article:


https://ew.com/article/2013/05/04/snl-fox-and-friends-corrections-list/


Once again, Saturday Night Live opened with a sketch that poked fun at Fox News’s Fox & Friends — and ended with a fast-moving scroll that listed a few things the show’s fact-checkers wanted to set straight before going to break. As always, the corrections were topical (“Jason Collins was not turned gay by a Washington Wizard”), totally random (“New York exists outside the mind of Billy Joel”), and everything in between.

Here’s the full list:

Kentucky Derby losers are not turned into Ikea meatballs.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did not accidentally blow up vowels in his own name.

The chupacabra does not deliver presents on Cinco De Mayo.

President Obama does not want to take away T-shirt guns.

Most women have only two breasts.

The Memphis Grizzlies are not a gay blues band.

Scientology was not founded by I Ron Man.

Bangladesh is not an 80s metal band.

Peaking at ladies’ butts is not a background check.

Actual crows do have feet.

Pot pie is legal in every state.

The California wildfires are not a soccer team.

Jason Collins was not turned gay by a Washington Wizard.

The NRA is not a branch of government.

-snipping most of the list-

Anytime minutes don’t let you call the future.

4 and 3 aren’t basically the same thing.

Rock beats scissors.

Zach Braff is not the sound a trumpet makes.


highplainsdem

(48,732 posts)
45. Thanks! Wow. Love the way Google Images breaks this down into misleading, biased, bad,
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 01:10 AM
Apr 2019

wrong, inaccurate, etc.

lindysalsagal

(20,444 posts)
13. Sort of like the over-vote for G.W.Bush in Cayahoga county in 2004
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 11:30 AM
Mar 2019
https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/blowback-ohios-2004-stolen-election-escalating#close

Blowback from Ohio's 2004 Stolen Election is Escalating

According to the prosecution in the case against Maiden and Dreamer, this method of action led to the recount being illegally "rigged." When investigators working with the Free Press attempted to audit the Cuyahoga County ballots from the 2004 election last summer, BOE officials were unable to find the ballots for four full days. The investigation team, led by Richard Hayes Phillips, had to find the ballots on their own. Under Ohio law, the ballots were to be locked in a known location, and secured by two keys, one controlled by each major party.

Brunner says she acted in part because she is concerned that many of the problems from 2004 and 2006 might resurface in the upcoming 2008 election. "With maximum 18-month prison sentences being handed down to two Cuyahoga County election workers last week, for their role in the 2004 presidential recount, the tremendous problems that surfaced in the May 2006 primary that delayed even the unofficial vote count for five days, and the uncertain future of this board as another Presidential election looms on the near horizon, it is incumbent on me as Secretary of State to provide the direction needed to get this troubled board on track," she says. "The voters of Cuyahoga county deserve it, the citizens of Ohio expect it and the rest of the nation will be watching."

In the 2006 primary, Cuyahoga County used the controversial Diebold touchscreen voting machines. These machines suffered a well-publicized meltdown, in which many malfunctioned. A report from the Election Science Institute (ESI) documented significant differences between votes actually cast on the machines as opposed to those officially counted.

Immediately following the election, 562,498 votes were reported cast in Cuyahoga County, with 30,791 listed as absentee or provisional ballots. But the official results show just 468,056 counted. This means that 94,442 ballots cast in the unofficial total disappeared in the official tallies, representing a shocking 16.8% of all the votes cast in Cuyahoga.

Michael Vu, who was the Cuyahoga BOE executive director, came under intense criticism for the bitter controversies surrounding both the 2004 and 2006 elections. Last month, he resigned "to pursue future career growth," according to a Cuyahoga County Board of Elections release.
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DFW

(54,058 posts)
14. Fox found out about the New Mexicans adhering to a branch of Chinese philosophy
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 11:31 AM
Mar 2019

And so they got Trump to cut off aid to all Taos...............

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,470 posts)
16. Apparently, nothing will stop those Mexicans from founding new countries
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 11:39 AM
Mar 2019


OTOH: Maybe a we can make being worldwide embarrassment an impeachable offense.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
19. One never knows if they're pretending to be stupid to appeal to their moronic viewership
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 11:45 AM
Mar 2019

or if they're actually being stupid...

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
22. I suspect they really are that ignorant.
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 12:00 PM
Mar 2019

Not stupid necessarily. But ignorant.

Most Americans know essentially nothing about history or geography. Most Americans don't have a passport and have never traveled outside of the country. Overall ignorance is rampant.

George II

(67,782 posts)
24. How stupid can they get? Almost as bad as "mistakenly" having one "Barack Osama"....
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 12:16 PM
Mar 2019

....many times during the campaigns and his administration.

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
27. Dumb Watching Dumber
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 12:42 PM
Mar 2019

I try hard to remain optimistic going forward but with at least a third of the country lapping this propoganda up like lap dogs......the future is worrisome.

Bengus81

(6,907 posts)
28. Like Pillboy saying the Clintons had Vince Foster killed...........
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 12:47 PM
Mar 2019

Throw it out there,go to a few minutes of commercials and then come back and joke about it and claim how you were joking. Doesn't matter to the toothless MAGOTS,it stuck forever.

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
43. Fox News: Functionally illiterate from the ground up.
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 01:30 PM
Mar 2019

When idiots write your banners, your banners are idiotic.

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
52. LOL, Dummies.
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 07:44 AM
Apr 2019

MSNBC headline says....Trump cuts aid to three Central American countries. Reading is fundamental Fox snooze.

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