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Unemployed Guy's Basement Selfie Video Crushes Fox News In Primetime Ratings
2023-04-28
[Bee] The historic leader in primetime cable ratings Fox News was dominated last night by an unemployed man filming a selfie video in his partially-finished basement.

"This guy chatting for a few minutes in his underwear and a blazer just completely blew Fox News out of the water," said Nielsen executive Roger Millican. "It was a ratings bloodbath."

The unemployed man reportedly posted the basement selfie video on Twitter around 7 p.m., and by 7:02 p.m. had gained more viewers than the entire Fox News primetime lineup. "We got demolished," said a Fox News producer, on condition of anonymity. "Our viewers abandoned us in droves to watch a video labeled 'Good evening', which was just this dude jawing in his basement. We're in trouble."

Panic quickly spread among the top brass at Fox News, as executive producers brainstormed how to win back viewers. "More gold coin ads? No, we already tried that. Think, Bob, think!" said Fox News VP Bob Randall. "Is it physically possible to add any more 'Breaking News' graphics? No? How about making the necklines lower on all the female anchors' dresses? This is hard!!"

At publishing time, the unemployed man had reportedly crushed Fox News primetime ratings once again, this time with a video of himself silently making a ham sandwich.
Posted by:Frank G

#4  Based on the Breitbart article that I read this morning, I believe that Fox will hold him out of the market until after the 2024 election. Their hope is that their sheep viewers will return to the fold some more Ryan GOP propaganda because they have no place else to go.
They have banished their Cy Young winner to oblivion, replaced him with a long reliever that will not shake off the catcher, and they expect season ticket holders to forget real soon. Tucker is, by nature, a bit of a troll, so we may see an iteration of The Alex Stein Podcast featuring frequent guest Tucker C, but I expect the lawyers will lob in a bunch of stun grenades and shut it down. Maybe Tucker will go full Doom Cock, but I don’t expect him back for good until his Fox contract is done.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-04-28 12:15  

#3  What you will get soon, assuming the numbers keep falling for FauxNews, will be Bret Bair, Neil Cavuto, Geraldo Rivera and Juan Williams all saying it is proof conservatives are rayciss.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-04-28 09:41  

#2  What next?
Will FOX announce plans to hire the Bud Lite's IT "Dylan Mulvaney" to do a late night show?
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-04-28 08:22  

#1  A "Musk-Carlson" business partnership or coalition ?

More please, faster and with greatly increased enthusiasm.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-04-28 07:48  

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