Albert

"Chip Franklin spent this week going through the Nielsen numbers on Fox News, because the most important thing happening in right wing media right now is that nobody is watching it. THE AUDIENCE FIGURED IT OUT The second half of the segment is about the viewers themselves, and Chip handles it with more sympathy than the writing style suggests. His read is that the roughly 70 million people who voted for Trump have now waited ten years for any of the Make America Great stuff to come their way, and it has not arrived. What Trump did with them instead is the best line in the segment. “Early on, Trump discovered this thick vein of stupid and mean and sprayed it like a garden hose, allowing all of America to see his supporters for what they are.” To show what the network did with those viewers, he plays a run of man-on-the-street clips. A voter opposes critical race theory and then asks the reporter to explain what it is. Another says the Affordable Care Act is better than Obamacare and gets upset when told they are the same law. A third is asked about hate speech and answers, “I believe in hate speech.” Chip’s assessment is that “these Fox people are dumber than dirt,” and the clips are funny for about four seconds. Then they are something else, which is a record of what happens when a television network decides its audience never needs to know anything. The clip he saves for last is from this week. It is Trump at a rally telling his own supporters that the $5,000 he is promising them would not cover a meal at his club. “The problem is that for $5,000 the most you’ll be able to buy is a hamburger and maybe a small dessert. I’m not even sure you could buy that.” They applauded. Chip’s point is that the applause is the business model, and the business model is finally wearing out." BREAKING: Fox News Collapses to Its Worst Month in 25 Years Just Before the Election reallyamerican.substack.com/…