Far East Cynic

Putting Fox News in their place.

I am back in “terrorized” Europe-having spent the last week in the Whining States of America, who-if judging by the news coverage- is collectively losing its mind about what’s going on in Europe.  And let me be clear, I am not in anyway diminishing the severity of the incidents that happened in Paris and in Belgium. However, I think we need to put a more positive spin on things-namely that collectively, Europe is working together to identify the bad actors and get their hands on them. And as I noted previously- it was a terrible tragedy.

It was a busy week work wise-made extra difficult by both circumstances and the ablity of United Airlines to set new lows in customer service. The weather was crappy though, so I was able to watch a lot of American TV.

Thus it was fun for me to see, the French responding to the more egregious misreporting in the American news. In a segment entitled ‘Shut the Fuck Up-Fox News”, Le Petit Journal , CANAL + French version of the daily show provided a great put down of the lying liars at Fox. Since a lot of the videos showing translations on You Tube are edited to allow for translation I thought I would post the full episode here first. Its in French, unfortunately, but if you have any knowledge of the language whatsoever, you will be able to get the drift pretty quickly. I love the part where they post the news editor of Fox News’ e-mail address and encouraged French viewers to e-mail Fox and demand an apology to France.

Hey, that’s what the City of Birmingham in the UK did-as you will see in the clip below. Enjoy:

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Even David Cameron, no liberal he, was shocked at how stupid Fox could be. 
So the next time you hear someone ardently defending Fox as the “counter” to the so-called Main Stream media ( which as I have told you repeatedly over the years, no longer exists). Show them this. And then tell them in French or English, to Shut The Fuck Up. (Or  ferme ta gueule ? if you wish).