1585
1586

“Those grapes are probably sour anyway.”

1587

Country matters? Which one?

1588

Chris Buckley is a damn fine writer, and this only makes me like him more.

1589

https://twitter.com/jefftiedrich/status/891322984014721024

1590

You would think the Clintons were still involved with something or had some significance still the way all these stories keep getting posted on Fox.

Like the Axis of Evil is now:
North Korea
Dem Muslims
The Clintons

1591

I presume that’s reverse order.

1592

I believe Hannity thinks that until Hillary is behind bars the justice system has no right investigating Trump for anything.

1593

Hannity’s openly and utterly in the tank for Trump, so it stands to reason he would pull out all the stops trying to protect his buddy via whatever misdirection he can muster up.

1594

Absolutely correct. I misquoted the Fox agenda. :)

1595

Hannity believes that if he yells about Clinton, his viewers will forget that Trump is a total cluster fuck.

I mean, there’s no actual significance to Clinton herself. If she died tomorrow, folks like Hannity would just pick someone else.

1596

If she died tomorrow I think Hannity would still demand she be investigated and her body interred in a prison. And then he would probably quit because without Hillary his life would have no meaning.

1597

“Is Clinton’s rotting corpse running a child prostitution ring from its prison cell?” - tonight on Hannity.

1598
1599

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540783715/lawsuit-alleges-fox-news-and-trump-supporter-created-fake-news-story

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The first page of the lawsuit quotes a voicemail and text from Butowsky boasting that President Trump himself had reviewed drafts of the Fox News story just before it went to air and was published.

Well there ya go. Explains why Hannity and Fox in general went balls to the wall with this story. Enough is enough, time to feed Rupert to the meat grinders and demolish Fox News.

1600

The private detective at the center of a Fox News article about the death of a young Democratic aide claims that the White House and a wealthy Trump supporter urged the network to run the article as part of a scheme to blunt speculation about the president’s ties to Russia, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Rod Wheeler, who was hired by the family of the aide, Seth Rich, to look into his death, filed the lawsuit against Fox News and its parent company, 21st Century Fox, accusing the network of fabricating quotes from him in an article on FoxNews.com. . Mr. Wheeler states that the network was aware that he had not said the statements yet it published them “with reckless disregard for their truth.”

The network later retracted the article, saying it did not meet its standards.

In the suit, Mr. Wheeler, who is a Fox News contributor, asserts that he was a pawn in a broader plan by the White House, a Trump supporter named Ed Butowsky and Fox News to “shift the blame from Russia and help put to bed speculation that President Trump colluded with Russia in an attempt to influence the outcome of the presidential election.” The lawsuit, alleging defamation and racial discrimination, was filed Tuesday morning in the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York.

1601

It honestly seems like Fox is just going down in flames these days.

My only fear is that they are replaced by something even worse.

1602
1603

Also…

1604

They will be. Isn’t Boris Epshteyn setting that up at Sinclair as we speak?

Or maybe we’ll just jump straight ahead to a 24 hour cable Infowars channel sponsored by commercials for guns, viagra, and whatever the hell else.