We Regret To Inform You Obama Has Won, Now Take Your Medicine
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
A writer for Salon forces himself to sit through five solid hours of Fox News on election night. A mostly sorry affair all round he reports, but he does notice some interesting drug ads :
Before Brit Hume informed Fox viewers just past 11 p.m. Eastern, in the dispassionate tones of a physician delivering a grave prognosis, that Barack Obama had been elected president, we got several iterations of a 60-second ad for Plavix, a pharmaceutical “proven to help protect against future heart attack or stroke.” This was followed, at least once, by a commercial for another drug (I didn’t catch its name) that may relieve symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder. Along with heart failure and difficulty breathing, we also had some unintentional humor on the road to President-elect Obama’s victory address. Much earlier in the evening we were told that Fox’s Election Night coverage was brought to us by “Crest — Whitening Expressions!”
Is it even possible to find out if, or how many, Fox News viewers died of heart attacks or strokes on election night?
Fox News owner, Rupert Murdoch, is losing billions as as his media empire stumbles hard over plunging ad revenues. He will be cutting and slashing his way through his entire media empire, and a cable news channel with sinking ratings, and caked in neon proclaiming “We Really, Really Liked Bush!” will be thoroughly cut and slashed until it’s a shadow of its former self.
It really is the end of an hysterical, bitter era for Fox News. They lied to their audience. They said the Karl Rove dream of an eternal Republican Majority would never die. And it just did, for a generation, perhaps longer.
