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Fox News Satire Targets Left's 'Sacred Cows'
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| 11/20/3006
| NewsMax.com
Posted on 11/20/2006 3:04:39 PM PST by adorno
Fox News Channel is preparing a new Saturday night comedy show tailored to its largely right-leaning audience. . . . The show would take aim at "the sacred cows of the left that dont get lampooned very much by other comedy shows, according to Joel Surnow, co-creator of "24 and one of the executive producers of the new Fox program.
"Its a satirical news format that would play more to the Fox News audience than the Michael Moore channel, he told the Hollywood reporter.
"It would tip more right as The Daily Show tips left.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
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To: adorno
This on the heels of the Mancow special. I liked Mancow, and liked his special, but it doesn't belong on a 24 hour news channel. Neither does this comedy being floated by us now.
They are fine but just belong somewhere else, I think.
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posted on
11/20/2006 3:22:50 PM PST
by
HitmanLV
("Lord, give me chastity and temperance, but not now." - St. Augustine)
To: adorno
Something like this...?
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posted on
11/20/2006 3:23:14 PM PST
by
Silly
(Still being... Silly)
To: martin_fierro
Yeah Miller was such a hit on CNBC!.
I think you have to be funny to have a show.
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posted on
11/20/2006 3:23:39 PM PST
by
JNL
To: adorno
To: HitmanLV
"but it doesn't belong on a 24 hour news channel"
Why not? Personally, I get sick of seeing one host after the other show the same tired media-bytes and make the same comments all day long and into the evening. When the weekend comes we just have all these condensed into a weekend of programming that is nothing but a repeat of the week's programming. Some shows are even repeated as many as 3 times in a viewing day.
Lighthearted news/political programming is a good thing, IMO.
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posted on
11/20/2006 3:32:22 PM PST
by
L98Fiero
(Terrorists, Communists and Liberals. All happy with a Democrat Congress)
To: glorgau
ROFLOL!
That was SNL? Gee, they actually displayed a sense of humor there. They've been a bit dour of late, according to reports -- haven't watched myself in quire a while.
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posted on
11/20/2006 3:34:19 PM PST
by
Mugwump
To: L98Fiero
Lighthearted news/political programming is a good thing, IMO.I agree, but just not on a self-identified news channel. You're right about news programming, especially the weekend lineup, but I think having a comedy show in the lineup is un-newsworthy.
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posted on
11/20/2006 3:34:54 PM PST
by
HitmanLV
("Lord, give me chastity and temperance, but not now." - St. Augustine)
To: adorno
FOX will score another hugh time slot victory. The problem for the MSM is that they altogether compete with the same venue (DNC talking points and socialism) for a Democrat audience, whereas FOX is a single voice walking in the middle towards the Right. And that ALL RIGHT by me.
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posted on
11/20/2006 3:37:28 PM PST
by
Jumper
To: Argus
"I caught this guy Mancow on Fox Saturday night. What's up with this guy?"
Mancow reminds me of "Bill the Cat" and how I perceive Mia T. Twenty cups of coffee followed by a six-pack of Jolt Cola.
Nothing personal, Mia, it is JMHO.
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posted on
11/20/2006 3:42:58 PM PST
by
lawdude
(The dems see Wal-Mart as a bigger threat to the US than muslim terrorists)
To: adorno
How about lampooning the Dems' "kulture of korruption." highlighting Murtha's newly released Abcam bribe on film, his anti-Marine tirade, the corrupt Alcee Hastings as the new head of Intel House committee (couldn't get a job as a janitor at CIA because of his lack of integrity) Harry Reid's land deals, Brian Dorgan's big money deals with Abranoff, Menedez, and of course the fact that Nancy Pelosi applauded House-Page sex-abuser Gerry Studds on prime committee assignments, knowing what he did.
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posted on
11/20/2006 3:49:06 PM PST
by
cookcounty
(Murtha: Is that an Albatross or an Osprey around his neck?)
To: adorno
This is going to be huge.
To: adorno
Michael "Kramer" Richards is looking for a new gig and he is hilarious. :(
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posted on
11/20/2006 4:03:02 PM PST
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: BallyBill
"Michael "Kramer" Richards is looking for a new gig and he is hilarious. :("
That could work. After all the article said the show would be making fun of the lefts "Sacred Cows".
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posted on
11/20/2006 4:12:24 PM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Angry voters tend to make poor choices politically.....Unfortunately we all have to live with them.)
To: aynrandfreak
The Daily Show seems to have pushed shows like SNL further to the left. Sometimes it seems like they're not even trying to be funny anymore.Regardless of their political sway, it hasn't been funny in a decade.
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posted on
11/20/2006 4:14:50 PM PST
by
Tim Long
(Pro-live birth abortion Obama coming to Rick Warren's church Dec. 1st. What purpose is driving that?)
To: RinaseaofDs
This is going to be huge
If it turns out to be big enough, it can get rolled out into the big FOX network, just like Dayside was, but this new show would be on Saturday nights..
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posted on
11/20/2006 4:17:34 PM PST
by
adorno
To: adorno
For crying out loud, they have little enough "news" on FNC as it is.
I thought there was a Fox-Net, Fox-Lite, Fox-Fox, Fox-Etc., etc for this kind of bilge.
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posted on
11/20/2006 4:22:11 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: adorno
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posted on
11/20/2006 4:28:39 PM PST
by
Samurai_Jack
(ride out and confront the evil!)
To: HitmanLV
They are fine but just belong somewhere else, I think. I'd like a dedicated conservative channel. One which does not give libs half the air time, because it is trying to be fair and balanced. I'm 60 now, and don't want to spend a good part of my remaining years listening to lying libs.
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posted on
11/20/2006 4:54:03 PM PST
by
syriacus
(Millions in South Korea are free because 30,000 US troops DIED in 3 years under TRUMAN.)
To: syriacus
I'd like a dedicated conservative channel.I'd settle for a channel that just called things relatively fair, with only slight biases now and then in either direction depending on the biases of the personality.
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posted on
11/20/2006 4:56:34 PM PST
by
HitmanLV
("Lord, give me chastity and temperance, but not now." - St. Augustine)
To: RinaseaofDs
Could be..given the right cast,
writers, and a willingness to
accept *good* suggestions from
viewers.
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posted on
11/20/2006 4:57:30 PM PST
by
NickatNite2003
(From the Man from Hope" to the wife who snarls "Abandon All Hope!")
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