Open the Weekly Standard’s April 6th edition, on stands now — one week back in the harper on the website — and on the inside cover you will see that Fox News has an advertisement.  It is a dandy of an advertisement, and needs to be seen.

Waves of red, white, and blue — thin stripes and starts — emit from a central map of the US — and I haven’t a clue why some of the shapes are cleared and others put in white… it looks like it would be a presidential electoral college configuration, but it resembles no election year I’ve ever seen or can comprehend happening in the foreseeable future.  Another image of the US map overlays this background map of the nation — actually this one resembles an Air America logo — with the bold words “The FOX NATION” atop it.

At the top of the ad, it reads:

IT’S TIME TO SAY NO
TO BIASED MEDIA
(underline)
AND SAY YES
TO FAIR PLAY AND FREE SPEECH

On bottom, it reads

Be a part of the REAL NEWS of America and join
the online community that believes in the right to
express your views, your values, your voice.

And then, the web address and

SEE THAT YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

It’s all very schizophrenic messaging, isn’t it?

The issue itself features the usual article declaring Obama’s Presidency a failure, and another usual article which suggests the 2010 race in Connecticut as being the start of the Republican Comeback.  To be fair, I don’t really have any item of sarcasm to throw at the rest of the issue, which is decent enough political criticism, but I must point to the concluding paragraph of Matthew Continetti’s “A Big, Fat Failure” (I think it’s the weekly standard’s weekly standard article) and mock it by pointing to the manner this thing has been mocked:

Americans of all political stripes, as well as the non-Americans who hold U.S. bonds, are voicing concern. May-be that will be enough to make Obama change course. If not, conservatives have a real opportunity to introduce a truly responsible vision of a welfare state that maximizes efficiency and growth. The budget outline that House Republicans released last week is a start, but it sure could use some work. And if the president persists in giving America a big and slothful government rather than a limited and energetic one, then it will be incumbent on Republicans and sensible Democrats in Congress to stop him.

Yelp.

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