Fox News teases O'Reilly segment: "Body language investigates" whether Clinton has "called it quits" on running in 2012
October 21, 2009 1:30 pm ET
From the October 21 edition of Fox News' Happening Now:
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The ANNOUNCER beaming away in front of a curtain --
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Ladies and Gentlemen! The Network
News Hour! --
121. INT. CONTROL ROOM
The SHOW MONITOR --
ANNOUNCER (ON MONITOR)
-- with Sybil the Soothsayer, Jim
Webbing and his It's-the-Emmes-
Truth Department, Miss Mata Hari
tonight another segment of Vox
Populi, and starring --
MUSIC: A FLOURISH OF DRUMS.
ANNOUNCER
-- the mad prophet of the airways,
Howard Beale!
Jim Webbing = Sean Hannity
Miss Mata Hari = Ann Coulter
Howard Beale = Glenn Beck
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With hard-hitting, Pulitzer-worthy pieces like that, how could anyone seriously question Fox's hard news bonafides?
What's next, a Glenn Beck exclusive interview with the Bat Boy? Complete with those "actual photos"?
Hillary will either run again or she won't. Big whoopdie doo.
Could use some whoopdie doo too, boo!
I kind of view this differently. Fox has long been obsessed with the meme that Clinton is a maniacal power-hungry witch and this is just more support for that idea. I think Fox thinks they can cleverly use reverse-psychology to bait Clinton into challenging Obama in 2012.
Fox has used tons of hair-brained logic that can only really be explained by the above view of Clinton. I am sure we all remember how Fox claimed in 2004 that Wes Clark was actually a "Clinton Stalking Horse". And they were simply amazed how Clinton could go all of the way into October of 2003 without officially announcing her candidacy? Some of the Fox personalities were so sure Clinton was going to run, they ran headlines that suggested Clinton had actually screwed up somehow despite her consistent denials she was even interested in running at the time.
Furthermore Dick Morris has managed to parlay the Hillary as an evil shrew meme into an actual cottage industry.
Long time no see. I've only been posting occasionally. Have you been around much? There are so many threads now it's easy to miss people.
You might be right about Fox's motivation regarding Hillary, but I doubt it will work. I don't expect she'll run again. I used to be one of those that only viewed her as shrill & riding on Bill's coattails. But I really came to admire her during the campaign. And still do.
I'm sure Dick Morris would love to write a book predicting she'll challenge Obama in 2012...but as we all know that guy never gets anything right.
I just noticed a new thread has O'Reilly asking this body language "expert" about Hillary's "cackle" Geeze it never stops does it? Ha!
I think these body language segments are a joke. But I guess they must be popular with O'Reilly's audience. Which tells ya all you need to know about that crowd ;-)
I'll see ya around the boards.
:)