Fox around World: 101 Days of FNC Idiocracy
Fox News is fearless when it reports on International events, in this post we wonder what foreigners think when they see these outrageous clips that come out of Americas favourite “fair and balanced” news channel.
Day 76: October 12 2007
What would Norwegians think after watching this Fox News panel discuss the Nobel Peace Prize?
Day 77: February 6 2009
What would the Germans think after watching Glenn Beck compare Al Gore teaching kids about the environment to the Hitler Youth?
- Crooksandliars.com – Al Gore is creating another Hitler Youth, Glenn Beck feverishly warns
Day 78: January 29 2009
What would the Mexicans think after watching Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin discuss the imminent collapse of Mexico?
- Crooksandliars.com – Malkin-Beck freakout: Imminent Mexico collapse could doom America!
Day 79: May 12 2006
What would any immigrant think about John Gibson telling whites to make more babies because the Hispanics are taking over?
- Media Matters – Gibson: “Make more babies” because in “[t]wenty-five years … the majority of the population is Hispanic”
Day 80: December 8 2008
What would a resident of the Netherlands think after listening to Bill O’Reilly completely smear their country?
Day 81: July 27 2009
Ah, this is what they think…
- Mahalo – Bill O’Reilly Amsterdam Rebuttal
Day 82: February 23 2006
What would an Iraqi think after watching Fox News debate whether or not civil war was good or bad for their country?
Day 83: February 23 2009
What would a Mexican think when Fox News fails to challenge this State Senator who says these Mexican protesters are being “paid by drug cartels to riot” and that for the first time in history the Texas state guard is on “high alert”?
They weren’t.
- Statesman – Texas guard isn’t on high alert, officials say
Day 84: February 2 2007
What do you think Switzerland thinks when FNC owner Rupert Murdoch admitted that his news tried to shape the agenda in Iraq?
- Crooksandliars.com – Rupert Murdoch admits manipulating the media
- Newscorpse.com – Murdoch Confesses To Propaganda On Iraq
- MediaBistro – Fair And Imbalanced? Murdoch Admits Media Manipulation
Day 85: May 1 2003
What do you think the Iraqis thought when a Fox News engineer got caught trying to smuggle war booty from the country?
- BBC – Newsman on Iraq looting charge
- The Daily Show – May 1 2003: Pillage People
Day 86: April 2 2008
Rupert Murdoch bluntly admits bias on Fox News.
Day 87: The creator and owner of Fox News isn’t even American, he’s Australian. He Provides these Aussie Comedians plenty of material back home.
So that was fun, I haven’t touched yet on Canada, my homeland, that’s in the final part of this Idiocracy Index epic.
101 Days of Fox News Idiocracy Introduction
Day 1 to Day 16: Meet the Fox News Team
Day 17 to Day 27: Meet the Fox Guests
Day 28 to Day 44: Things Fox News Does
Day 45 to Day 63: What the Fuck Fox!
Day 64 to Day 75: The Obama Era
Day 76 to Day 87: Fox around the World
Day 88 to Day 101: Conclusion: Fox News Broadcaster to the Idiocracy
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