Todd Starnes is the religion reporter for FOX News. Feel free to laugh at that sentence. I sure the fuck am. Among the many deeply incorrect beliefs he holds, he thinks that the protesters in Ferguson were the ones who attacked the media:
Why didn't Obama release a statement supporting the journalists who were attacked by the angry mob?
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) August 12, 2014
Oh, I don’t know Todd. How about because the police and SWAT teams were the ones who accosted and arrested reporters? Not the protesters.
Todd is also angry that President Obama didn’t offer condolences to the police officer who murdered Michael Brown? Yeah, I know, I know. It doesn’t make any sense, but this is Todd Starnes.
Obama sends "deep condolences" to family of MO teen killed after allegedly attacking police officer. No condolences for the cop.
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) August 12, 2014
(hat tip to TheNewCivilRightsMovement)
Well they were attacked by an angry mob. Right question, wrong target.
Hypothesis: He’s there to “sell” a narrative. After all, Faux Nooz watchers must have their “reality” spoon-fed to them.
cicely:
I wonder how many people soak in the BS spewed by the likes of Starnes.
Dunno…what is the serious (as opposed to, appalled, or watching for comedic research purposes) viewership of Faux?
*googling*
From here:
Primetime (Mon-Sun): 1,097,000 total viewers / 222,000 A25-54
Total Day Mon-Sun): 1,761,000 total viewers / 294,000 A25-54
though from here:
“But that dominance was accompanied by an alarming demographic shift for the 21st Century Fox (FOXA +1.02%) network as thousands of viewers younger than 54 changed the channel.
That may be giving some Fox News executives their own gray hairs. The network’s median age has edged above 65 for six of the past eight years, The New York Times’ Bill Carter reports. It’s impossible to know exactly how old Fox News’ audience is, because ratings company Nielsen doesn’t provide an exact figure once viewers are older than 65.
At the same time, viewers in the 25-to-54 age group have been dwindling. The network shed 11% of its younger viewers in the second quarter.”
And a quick look at the lower right-hand corner of my monitor tells me that I’m about to turn into a pumpkin (the only acceptable squash!), so with that, Good Night, Dear Shoop.
🙂