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 by James Turnage, author of “Down from the Mountain”

Nothing offers more incontrovertable proof that Fox Noise is a fake news network than the battle between its pretend newspersons to see who can kiss Trump’s humongous derriere the longest and the best.

Last night on MSNBC Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow enjoyed themselves as they reported a “battle royale” between two of Fox’ most despicable Trump worshipers, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity.

Fox is desperate to recapture a depleted audience. By supporting Trump without offering a single criticism about the lies and mistakes made by the worst man in the world is not only embarrassing and anti-American, it is not “fair and balanced.” A news network’s responsibility is to report what happened not to comment about it.

Somewhat heated comments were exchanged between Hannity and Ingraham that instigated laughter from Hayes and Maddow.

It began when Hannity appeared on Ingraham’s failing broadcast. He began by complaining that she had ‘cut away from Trump’s hate rally too soon.’ She responded with; “Is that the White House speaking, or is that you?” That was just the beginning.

Hayes accurately described the discussion between the two fake journalists.

“Sometimes it feels like there’s a competition over at Trump TV to see who can be the most shameless toady for the White House,” Hayes said. “Now I’m a little worried that competition may be straining the relationships between the good friends hosting the shows over there. Last night there was a bit of an incident and you can tell they’re good TV friends because they keep smiling as they saw awful stuff to each other.”

It was time for Hayes to pass the discussion over to Rachel’s show, but the laughter didn’t end just yet.

“Chris, I promise in all the time you and I share adjacent shows on this TV network we will never have a crossover like the one you just played from Fox,” Maddow said, straight-faced, causing Hayes to break down laughing: “Oh my god! My, my god. My god. My god!”

“I could talk about this for an hour, not 30 seconds or 40 seconds,” Hayes added.

“But you nailed the thing that was scariest about it, which was the distance between the facial expressions and the conversation. I mean, that was like hide under a table this is a scary family fight.”

“That’s exactly what it was! It had real family fight vibes to it,” Hayes agreed, cracking up. “I hope everyone is making up and making amends.”

“Yes. I want the best for everybody, if only because I feel afraid by proxy,” Maddow said. “Eek.”

If you’ve ever had the misfortune to watch even a part of Ingrham or Hannity’s pitiful excuses for entertainment, you would understand the laughter. Not a word of truth is ever offered to their watchers. Their entire broadcasts are right-wing propaganda.

This was fun, but it’s time for me to move on to serious news.

“The truth lives here;” pass the word.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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