On Fox:"Hysteria from the left". "Markets have not been effected", "Trump is building relationships"

[oberliner]

"Actions speak louder than words"
"No one has been tougher on Russia than Trump"
"The mainstream media set this up for failure"
"He worked hard and wants the best"
"90 percent of the nukes are held by these two guys"
"Being friends with Putin is valuable to the United States"
"Mueller should send his agents to Moscow - take Putin up on his deal"

Heard all this in the first 5 minutes on whatever Fox news show is on right now.

Here's the next five minutes:

"Clapper and Brennan and Mueller are actively undermining him"
"He'll have plenty of chance to clean things up on Hannity and Tucker"
"He would get criticized no matter what"
"If he started an arms race, he'd be a war monger"
"Putin didn't get any of the things he wanted"
"The media is acting like Trump gave Alaska back to Russia"
"Trump is seeking to reduce the adversarial turf around the globe"
"Peace seems to be breaking out all over"
"Look at the deeds - it seems to be working"
"Do they want us to nuke Moscow? Is that what they want?"

(Providing this as a service for people who can't bear to watch Fox but want to know what they are saying)

[leftieNanner]

1. Where is that BARF smilie when you need it??

[ProudLib72]

3. ...

[leftieNanner]

4. Thank you.

[ProudLib72]

5. You need to open the "..." in the lower right hand corner of the smilies page

is fast becoming the most popular emoticon at our disposal.

[leftieNanner]

7. It is.

Only because I don't think we have a "nervous breakdown" smilie!

We do have a cocktail smilie and that makes a difference. Around Rachel time! I am looking forward to her show tonight.

[lapfog_1]

2. they finally got the talking points from their Russian handlers.

[oberliner]

6. It's amazing to watch and listen to the spin

Only a tiny tiny bit of dissension from this gang.

[lapfog_1]

10. After Trump does something gob smacking

The initial reaction from faux and from some to most national repukes is one of "natural unguarded" or "old republican - preTrump"... but then the extremists from the base plus (very likely) Russian trolls start spreading the "spin"... and soon all of the faux hounds and GOP howlers on capital hill fall into line.

Just like Charlottesville.

Even Chief of Staff Kelly unguarded facial reactions are the same...

first reaction is OMG. what did this moron just say? (Charlottesville conference, Nato conference) followed by White House and the propaganda channel "spin"

[oberliner]

11. Exactly

Very well summarized.

[IADEMO2004]

9. Spot on! It took a couple hours but now they are off and running spin.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Do they have a direct wire to Moscow

or have they imported their own propagandists?

Sooner or later, we're gonna find out how the faux news sausage is made.

[oberliner]

12. Is it that or is it a reflexive desire to defend Trump?

[superpatriotman]

13. I speak for my entire family when I say:

[oberliner]

15. If you think that's bad, wait until Tucker and Hannity

[superpatriotman]

17. Let me be as delicate as possible here...

One tickles the testes while one manipulates the phallus. Not a gay thing. A dominant/submissive thing that hasn't been seen since Caligula.

[exboyfil]

14. Do Democrats ever get interviewed on Fox

Just wondering because MSNBC and CNN get Republican spinmeisters on all the time. I bet Al Frankin would swing a wrecking ball.

[oberliner]

16. Yes, I've seen Swallwell go on there sometimes

[Initech]

18. I can rebut all of these:

"Hysteria from the left". - Fuck you, traitors.
"Markets have not been effected" - Not yet, but they will be. Won't feel sorry for it when it does. You voted for this.
"Trump is building relationships" Trump isn't building shit.
"Actions speak louder than words" Again, fuck off, traitors.
"No one has been tougher on Russia than Trump" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
"The mainstream media set this up for failure" Well republicans own 100% of the media, so yeah, they kind of did.
"He worked hard and wants the best" The guy who plays golf and eats cheeseburgers in bed does not get to lecture anyone about "hard work".
"90 percent of the nukes are held by these two guys" And that's the problem.
"Being friends with Putin is valuable to the United States" Only if you're trying to build a fascist dictatorship.
"Mueller should send his agents to Moscow - take Putin up on his deal" To which I say "good luck with that".

Heard all this in the first 5 minutes on whatever Fox news show is on right now.

Here's the next five minutes:

"Clapper and Brennan and Mueller are actively undermining him" Yes this is sadly true.
"He'll have plenty of chance to clean things up on Hannity and Tucker" That's the political equivalent of throwing a tank of kerosene on an already burning gas fire."
"He would get criticized no matter what" Actually this one is true.
"If he started an arms race, he'd be a war monger" You don't need to start an arms race to be a war monger.
"Putin didn't get any of the things he wanted" Good!
"The media is acting like Trump gave Alaska back to Russia" He could, and the Trump fans in Alaska would still support him.
"Trump is seeking to reduce the adversarial turf around the globe" Yeah, right.
"Peace seems to be breaking out all over" Did you see that embassy opening in Jerusalem? It was a fucking war zone! Which could have been easily prevented by *NOT* opening the embassy in Jerusalem.
"Look at the deeds - it seems to be working" Emperor Palpatine says hi!

[oberliner]

19. Nicely done