Theater for knuckleheads

A dead fish, a horse's head in some guy's bed and an assertion that "the White House has declared war on Fox News" was how Charles Krauthammer started his commentary Oct. 25 ("More than a Fox hunt."

Hoo-ah, I said to myself, "The Hammer" is in full swing today. In the end, however, Chuck's gangsteresque column shot more blanks than bullets, leaving it more "The Godfather, Part Dumb."

The gist of his rant was that the administration has set about to marginalize Fox News. From White House communications director Anita Dunn's statement that Fox is "opinion journalism masquerading as news," to senior adviser David Axelrod's declaration that Fox was "not really a news station," Krauthammer drones on incessantly regarding the administration's alleged heavy-handed tactics, alternating childishly between fear mongering and righteous indignation.

It does appear as if the White House has finally decided to openly attack a nemesis. Maybe Chuck's piece should have been titled "Black Sheep Becomes Wolf." But what Krauthammer failed to do was to make a case that Fox News is, in fact, a legitimate news organization.

No amount of subterfuge, even when ladled out by one of the right's best water boys, can obscure this simple fact: Fox News is not a legitimate news organization. It is AM radio with pictures. It is entertainment for Republicans. It is where lackeys and puppeteers shout propaganda until the masses consider it true.

Unfortunately for sour-Krauthammer, freethinking people have long considered Fox News as the bully pulpit of the right, "bully" being the operative word. In fact, if cable news organizations had existed during World War II, most Americans would easily accept the notion that Fox News would have bullied for the Nazis, just as they have for Republicans since the mid-1990s.

Of course, Fox News being a propaganda machine is a truth that must be refuted, hence Krauthammer's ridiculous attempt at stratagem. And while I expect worker bees to protect the hive of hypocrisy and its Queen Bee, Roger Ailes, Krauthammer's absurdity reached a new low when postulating Fox News's credibility hinged on evidence that his mom, "Foxy Lady," watched Fox News even when he wasn't on. To my mind, Mama "Foxy Lady" Krauthammer watching Fox News proves nothing more than the nut didn't fall far from the tree. It also proves Fox "News" is nothing of the kind. It is theater of the absurd for knuckleheads and their mothers.