What’s of most concern for Faux Snoooze, ratings. Same goes for the audio version, Limbaugh. Facts and truth if even considered are way down the list below short skirts, lots of leg, blonde hair, giggles and twisted facts. The Rep. base loves their spin. The old men love the ladies. Dems watch for insight to b.s. and laughs. Faux’s only concern was to fill the ears of their viewers with what they wanted to hear, they are the choir directors for the Rep. party.

I wouldn’t put the blame soley on Fox News because they where only spinning the narrative that Roger Ailes and The RNC wanted to put in the minds of American voters. The problem began when they started getting high on their own supply of BS.

While I don’t feel at all sorry for the super rich guys who were fleeced, I feel for the small donors who were snookered.
I imagine they are like the people I see playing slot machines or buying $20 worth of lottery tickets every day. They should just take their donations (lottery or slot money) and put them in an interest earning account.

Frum is right and he didn’t just weigh in with this opinion after the 2012 election with 20/20 vision as mls ! suggested in one of the comments below. Here is an article Frum wrote nearly a year ago, in which he cited the exact same issues, which many believe did indeed influence the result of this election. It’s appropriately titled “When did the GOP lose touch with reality.” http://nymag.com/news/politics/conservatives-david-frum-2011-11/

Dave—You are 100% right. Fox caused Romney`s loss. While broadcasting lie after lie that rational voters seen and rejected,then voted for a return of our president.

Im sure Little Billy EGOreilly will hang his left wing loon label on Mr Frum.

@doors 17 Right on. Just FYI, I have the following bumper stickers on my car:

“I THINK, THEREFORE, I’M A LIBERAL”

“I THINK, THEREFORE, I DON’T LISTEN TO RUSH LIMBAUGH”

@doors17

Yup. As long as sheep want to be fleeced there will be RW charlatans picking their pockets.

- Mitt Romney could have been a really good president, really good – David Frum

UPDATE

Frum is totally delusional.

Frum fled his native land, Canada, for one reason – $$$$$$. That and his infatuation with American conservatives who helped him earn ever more $$$$$. That and his hate of any social democratic policies because he sees it as taking away from his pile of $$$$$. That and his belief in an American Dream that never was because he felt it was all about $$$$$. When David says “Liberty” you can bet he means $$$$$. Why? Because when he worked as a writer for Dumbya he never helped Dumbya explain to the American public just how crazy and vengeful the GOP had become.

Proud wife turns ‘axis of evil’ speech into a resignation letter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/feb/27/usa.matthewengel

And as we all know Frum wrote “axis of hatred” which was changed to “axis of evil” by someone else so wifey pride was another deception. Frum is somewhat delusional.

How convenient for Frum to now speak in 20-20 retrospect. But I’ve also seen him MANY times on TV (Bill Maher, for example) arrogantly spewing the same tired bullshit mindlessly spewed by those that he now is trying to distance himself from. Where was Frum’s concern about the lies of Fox a mere few weeks ago?
Ol’ David just seems to be jockeying for a more relevant position now. Fuck him.

Slight typo – I said Hannity spent the entire years of 2010. I meant from 2010-2012…

I think Frum is right. Fox News spent four years building a narrative of President Obama as a failure whose loss in the 2012 Election would be easy to foretell. They dredged up every bit of dirt they could, mostly from irrelevant gossip or from their own hope they could find something bad, and spent his first term throwing things at the President, hoping they could get one to stick. Nothing was too petty. Whether it was his birth certificate, his college transcripts and grades, his passport, his professors, Jeremiah Wright, Fast & Furious, Joe Sestak, Solyndra, his mispronouncing of “corpsman”, etc.

The only time that they backed off a little was the week bin Laden was killed by the SEALs. And even then, they were trying to nip at his heels. (Of course, Rush Limbaugh went all-in on ridiculing him the next day anyway, and his audience ate it up.) Within a week, they’d established their own narrative of “You Didn’t Do This”, giving the credit instead to Bush and the SEALs.

With that as their backdrop, and with the political and economic situation stagnating while the GOP locked arms and said “NO!” to everything they could rather than trying to get anything done, Fox pundits then followed a narrative that Obama couldn’t win a second term and by their polling, ANY Republican could beat him. Bill O’Reilly repeatedly got that into his Talking Points – usually intoning that things didn’t look good for the President, or that the President’s reelection chances were “in serious trouble.” Add to that Sean Hannity’s gleeful cry of “We’re on the road to 2012!” after the 2010 midterms, which was only a slightly disguised meme of “Countdown til he’s voted out of office!” We should also note that Hannity spent the entire 2 years of 2010 repeatedly assuring his viewers that he was certain that Obama would be defeated.

In the final months of the campaign, the Fox pundits repeatedly called on Dick Morris and Karl Rove to explain by numbers how Obama was certain to lose the election. Morris took the bait and proclaimed a Romney landslide on any occasion he could, while also promoting the most extreme candidates he could and denigrating moderate Republicans. Rove’s White Board never showed Obama having a chance – it always showed danger and gloom for the Dems.

By the final week of the campaign, when you would think the pundits and prognosticators would settle into something more reasonable – such as a close election that either candidate could win, with the edge going to Obama – several of the pundits chose to double down on the concept of a Romney landslide. This included Morris, Michael Barone, Eric Bolling, Greg Gutfield and even Rove at times. Some of the Fox personalities were a little more cautious – Hannity and Krauthammer both went with the idea of a certain Romney victory but not a landslide. Bill O’Reilly, to his credit, was the only one saying “I don’t know how this will turn out” – although the actually polling results were pretty clear that Obama had an advantage that Romney was trying to pierce.

So it should come as no surprise that when the actual results were announced and wound up mirroring not the Fox pundits’ view but instead the statistics shown at Nate Silver’s Five Thirty Eight blog, the Fox personalities and viewers were completely blindsided. And the biggest symbol of this was Karl Rove’s on-air meltdown. Faced with reality, they were completely unprepared and and simply imploded.

If it was Fox’s intention to provide “Fair and Balanced” coverage of this election, and to honestly inform their viewers of what was happening, they spectacularly failed. I was noting in the days before the election that what they were doing was spectacularly irresponsible – they were setting their viewers up for a horrible disappointment. Even if this somehow generates more ratings for Fox, one has to wonder about the morality of it.

Mr. Frum may be correct, along with Rush and all his clones on talk radio, but only way I can see Fox changing its way is only if the ratings go down to where it cost them lost advertising revenue. Until then nothing will change.

I forget which show I heard this on but the host said they say a bumper sticker that said: Vote Democrat. We may not be perfect, but we’re not crazy.