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Fox News talking heads are like the”stepford wives” (the men and women.)

Mario Piperni

I’m happy to report that the entire cast of clowns at Fox News read their talking points memo for the day – the one that dealt with what President Obama really really meant when he said:

Finally we got this car up on level ground. And, yes, it’s a little beat up.  It needs to go to the body shop. It’s got some dents; it needs a tune-up.  But it’s pointing in the right direction. And now we’ve got the Republicans tapping us on the shoulder, saying, we want the keys back.

You can’t have the keys back. You don’t know how to drive. You can ride with us if you want, but you got to sit in the backseat. We’re going to put middle-class America in the front seat.  We’re looking out for them.

If you thought that the car analogy meant that the citizenry should be wary of letting Republicans retake control of the economy – yes, the economy they effectively smashed into the ground – then you obviously have not been watching Fox.

Beck:

So is this the back of the bus kind of analogy? Is that where — is that where the enemies go now, in the back? Because I’m just wondering.

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Why can’t I sit in the front seat? Why can’t I sit in the front seat, Mr. President? Why am I sitting in the back seat? Why are you saying you have to punish your enemies? Are we looking to settle old scores, here? Is that what’s happening, Mr. President? Because I’m just wondering. It sounds like there is a time to settle old scores, which sounds to me like you’re inciting people.

Hannity:

“talk about sit in the back of the bus…I wonder if I, as a talk show host and a conservative commentator made such a reference.”

Dana Perino in response to Hannity:

“[You] would be fired.”

Fox analyst Peter Johnson:

“…a peculiar and strange and haunting and really backward reference that we’re seeing by the president and what we’re really seeing is a reference to the notion of being in the back of the bus, and that’s a matter of sad American history, embarrassing American history.”

Stuart Varney:

“when I looked at that, being foreign born, I know the association that that was bringing to the public mind … It’s unpresidential.”

They’re a creative bunch of asses if nothing else.  Actually, I think the President is being much too kind in asking Republicans to sit in the back seat of the car.  The trunk would be a more fitting place for the bums.