FOX News Channel’s “Half Hour News Hour”
Posted in Entertainment, Jokes & Humor, Media Reviews at 8:30 pm by Joe July 23rd, 2007FOX News debuted a show a few weeks (months, really) ago called the Half Hour News Hour. It’s a right-wing take on the Daily Show, Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, and the Colbert Report. The show has absolutely dominated its competition in its time slot on cable news. Yet it gets universally panned by critics.
Seems about right!
Listen folks, the hard truth of our world is that television programming is DOMINATED by programming from the far left and the liberal point of view. It just is. Anyone who watches Jon Stewart on the Daily Show and doesn’t think that the show has a huge liberal bend is just batty. And quite frankly, the humor that Jon Stewart spews is no more “factual” than the humor that the hosts on the Half Hour News Hour spew. Both shows tell fake news as real news, but only Stewart’s news is actually taken as fact by the brainwashed young masses…
And this is a fair blog - the AM dial is completely controlled by the right wing pundits, as is most talk radio. Do those hosts tell the complete truth? Well, sometimes, but they certainly have an agenda that they are pushing - that’s clear.
What I find really saddening about the media universally bashing this FOX News comedy show is that it proves things that the brainwashed masses just don’t want to admit. For example, this show is, in fact, a success and by NOT admitting that in their reporting, the major media sources show their anti-FOX bias. Remember, we’re not talking about the USA Network or network television channels like NBC or CBS where getting 1.4 million viewers is a miserable failure. This is a cable news channel. CABLE NEWS!
Make no mistake about it - to draw in numbers like that for a half hour comedy show is impressive and a huge success. But don’t expect to see that fact put out there in the mainstream media…that would ruin their obvious falsehood that the show is a failure for the right-wing and the FOX News Channel! If you want to watch a funny half hour of television, then check out the Half Hour News Hour. Is it the funniest 30 minutes on television? Absolutely not - check out Scrubs or the Office for that! But is it better than the 50+ “Bush is an idiot” jokes that you’ll get on the Daily Show and the “President Bush is Stupid” jokes you’ll get on Weekend Update?
Absolutely. And don’t believe just me - the numbers speak for themselves!
August 14th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I do not understand your point. FOX NEWS (!!!) is cancelling the show. They are not part of the Liberal Media by anyone’s estimation. So how do you deduce that the Media-bashing of Half Hour News Hour is the reason the show is being taken off the air?
If the Media-bashed Fox’s other shows would Fox take THEM off the air?
Let us assume that Half Hour News Hour is a great show and is a ratings success; if it gets taken off the air, blame Fox News for being cowards.
I assume you read Hot Air and other Conservative sites: Half Hour News Hour is embarrassing to people who support its politics.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
I don’t even know what Hot Air is…and I have no idea which websites are conservative. I read NYTimes.com, CNN.com, FOXNews.com, and my local newspapers online.
Can’t I have a fucking opinion without someone thinking that it’s fueled by some hardcore right-wing website? And I’m pretty sure that the Half Hour News Hour just ran the course of its 15 episodes that were scheduled and that FOX chose not to pick it up…which isn’t surprising because FOX executives are notoriously stupid (canceling Family Guy and Futurama?).
August 15th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Joe
relax.
I am a reader who stumbled onto your blog. I have less of an axe to grind than you. I assumed people form blogs because they want readers and I did not understand your point.
If your point was that Fox should not have canceled the show because it had good ratings, I agree with you. If your point was that Fox should not have canceled the show because you liked it, I agree with you.
I referred to Hot Air because many, many people thought the show was awful. I watched it three times and thought it was the most amateurish and strident show I had seen. The two African guys explaining how Blacks were the actual Jewish People on Cable had more interesting ideas and more open-mindedness.
Allow me to say one more thing: I didn’t accuse you of anything. I like blogs, especially the individual blogs like yours. I was commenting.
August 15th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Gotcha! [Thumbs Up]