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The Atlantic: Do You Speak Fox? How Donald Trump’s favorite news source became a language
The Atlantic ^ | Megan Garber

Posted on 09/16/2020 11:45:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

All happy families are alike; some unhappy families are unhappy because of Fox News.

You might have come across the articles (“I Lost My Dad to Fox News” / “Lost Someone to Fox News?” / “‘Fox News Brain’: Meet the Families Torn Apart by Toxic Cable News”), or the Reddit threads, or support groups on Facebook, as people have sought ways to mourn loved ones who are still alive. The discussions consider a loss that Americans don’t have good language for, in part because the loss itself is a matter of language: They describe what it’s like to find yourself suddenly unable to speak with people you’ve known your whole life. They acknowledge how easily national crisis can become a personal one. At this point, some Americans speak English; others speak Fox.

Political theorists, over the years, have looked for metaphors to describe the effects that Fox—particularly its widely watched opinion shows—has had on American politics and culture. They’ve talked about the network as an “information silo” and “a filter bubble” and an “echo chamber,” as an “alternate reality” constructed of “alternative facts,” as a virus on the body politic, as an organ of the state. The comparisons are all correct.

But they don’t quite capture what the elegies for Fox-felled loved ones express so efficiently. Fox, for many of its fans, is an identity shaped by an ever-expanding lexicon: mob, PC police, Russiagate, deep state, MSM, MS-13, socialist agenda, Dems, libs, Benghazi, hordes, hoax, dirty, violent, invasion, open borders, anarchy, liberty, Donald Trump. Fox has two pronouns, you and they, and one tone: indignation. (You are under attack; they are the attackers.) Its grammar is grievance. Its effect is totalizing. Over time, if you watch enough Fox & Friends or The Five or Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity

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>> MS-13

You’re an idiotic, Megan


21 posted on 09/16/2020 12:04:10 PM PDT by Gene Eric (On Don't be a statist!)
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To: SeekAndFind

What does the Fox say?


22 posted on 09/16/2020 12:04:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is the Atlantic overtaking the NYT and WP as official mouthpiece of leftist propganda?


23 posted on 09/16/2020 12:05:10 PM PDT by KobraKai
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To: I want the USA back

The Atlantic is a branch of the Atlantic Council. Proud members of the Council include one A. Vindman and other witnesses to Trump’s “impeachment.” Giving this source any credibility is just plain silly.


24 posted on 09/16/2020 12:07:08 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: silent majority rising
Hope hope they go out of business.

Unlikely. They have a sugar daddy owner.

That is why they publish this nonsense.

It is sort of a vanity press..

25 posted on 09/16/2020 12:14:17 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Atlantic is nothing more than the mouthpiece for the Comminist Chinese Party.


26 posted on 09/16/2020 12:15:55 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: SeekAndFind

It does my heart a lot of good to see the enemy in so much pain.


27 posted on 09/16/2020 12:20:49 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: SeekAndFind
Do they mean words like "woke" and "peaceful protesters?"

-PJ

28 posted on 09/16/2020 12:28:14 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They just can’t stand that any variation from left-wing propaganda is allowed. Fox News is hardly die-hard conservative, but the leftists want anyone not 100% promoting the party line to be Trotskied.

If you want the definition of closed-minded followers living in an echo chamber, you just have to look at our leftists. Not only are they waging war against free speech and fairness, they tend to have emotional breakdowns when confronted with different opinions.


29 posted on 09/16/2020 12:47:44 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: SeekAndFind

If anyone still has Netflix, they have a documentary caaled “The Social Dilemma” that I highly recommend. It’s helped me answer the question, “What has HAPPENED to our country”?


30 posted on 09/16/2020 12:48:07 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: tbw2

Fox News panel melts down when Gingrich calls out Soros pic.twitter.com/fntofzyMh4— Jewish Deplorable 🇺🇸 (@TrumpJew) September 16, 2020


31 posted on 09/16/2020 1:03:01 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: SeekAndFind

What a frickin’ ditz.


32 posted on 09/16/2020 1:11:01 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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George Soros’s Foundation Pours $220 Million Into Racial Equality Push
Mr. Soros’s group will invest $150 million in grants for Black-led racial justice groups, and another $70 million toward local grants for criminal justice reform and civic engagement opportunities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/politics/george-soros-racial-justice-organizations.html


33 posted on 09/16/2020 1:19:27 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: SeekAndFind

(A moment of idiocy)

What does the fox say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE


34 posted on 09/16/2020 2:34:24 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All men and women were created by the, you know, you know, the thing.” -- Joe Biden 3/3/20)
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To: SeekAndFind

So Magen, do you write this junk all the time or are you just on your period?


35 posted on 09/16/2020 3:09:37 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Remember Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Incomprehensible gibberish by the 50 IQ democrat/commie apes at the Atlantic. Only other apes on New York City’s west side will cheer this gobbledygook, even though they have no idea what it means.


36 posted on 09/16/2020 3:32:22 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ask the Atlantic if they are advocating for the mass murder of 25 million Americans who would resist political re-education. That was the Weather Underground’s estimate in the 1970s as to how many people they would kill off after establishing the gulags.


37 posted on 09/16/2020 6:39:24 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: SeekAndFind

>>But they don’t quite capture what the elegies for Fox-felled loved ones express so efficiently. Fox, for many of its fans, is an identity shaped by an ever-expanding lexicon: Benghazi

funny that, last Friday was the 8th anniversary of the 9-11-2012 terrorist attack on our ambassador.

Not a mention of it anywhere in the press.

Not a mention of how Obama-Biden-Hillary-Rice lied openly about it for months.

Ask the Atlantic if they have ever uncovered where Barack Obama was that night while we were under attack. He has refused to answer so therefore he must’ve been incapacitated on drugs or jizz.


38 posted on 09/16/2020 6:42:08 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Olog-hai

BLM, ACAB, FTA, Guillotine 2020... < /leftism >


39 posted on 09/16/2020 6:43:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Olog-hai

The “Boston” Bombers?

Wasn’t one living in Cambridge?

Weren’t their parents living abroad?


40 posted on 09/16/2020 6:47:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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