Decoding Fox News

Dec 10 2024 195 ep. 46 mins 442

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A weekly analysis of 15 hours of Fox News programing hosted by Juliet Jeske a researcher and journalist with a background in covering extremism.

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Podcast #142 - The Hunter Biden Pardon Fox News Freakout

Dec 10 2024 53 mins

Last week on Fox the outrage machine was on overdrive as the overpaid stuffed shirts expressed their disgust at President Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter. Judge Jeanine conveniently forgot to mention that Trump pardoned her ex-husband, Steve Doocy and Emily Compagno both declared that the president-elect was already improving the economy and Jesse Watters joked about an

Podcast #141 - Fox News: Pay No Attention to All of the Sexual Predators Trump Picked for His Cabinet Kamala Spent Money

Dec 03 2024 52 mins

Last week the folks at Fox demonized Vice President Kamala Harris for raising and spending money, trashed Joe Biden for celebrating Thanksgiving with members of the U.S. Coast Guard and tried to cover up that Trump really was connected to Project 2025. As Trump continued to pick unqualified, radical people with sex scandals for various high-ranking positions in his administration t

Podcast #140 - Trump's Web of Lies is Already Starting to Fall Apart

Nov 26 2024 58 mins

Fox tried to sugarcoat Trump’s many alarming picks for various cabinet positions while Steve Doocy and others openly admitted some of Trump’s plans for mass deportation, shutting down the Department of Education and paying off the national debt with crude oil revenue were unattainable. The Murdoch owned media empire is already lowering its viewers expectations for the next Trum

Bonus Podcast - Trump's Cabinet Picks: Tulsi Gabbard

Nov 20 2024 51 mins

A profile of the Russia Loving Conspiracy Theorist Whackjob Who Should be Nowhere Near U.S. Intelligence. I briefly go over a timeline of Gabbard’s political career while also breaking down some of her appearances on Fox News. This would should be nowhere near our intelligence community much less in charge of it. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with oth

Podcast #139 - Fox News: Trump Won but the Rage Lingers

Nov 14 2024 50 mins

According to the folks at Fox News Donald J. Trump’s win is proof that legacy media and identity politics are dead while Americans are disgusted by transgender athletes and woke ideologies promoted by the far left. Greg Gutfeld called for the execution of doctors who perform gender affirming care, Ainsley Earhardt found divine intervention in Trump’s victory and Jesse Watters l

Bonus Podcast - The Presidential Election - How Fox Propaganda Compared to PBS

Nov 13 2024 72 mins

I watched nine hours of Fox News and roughly eight and a half hours of the PBS News Hour from of the night of the 2024 presidential election. This podcast breaks the whole thing down hour by hour with illuminating quotes from both networks. A legitimate news source versus rightwing propaganda. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get

Podcast #138 - Fox News: All Hail the Garbage King

Nov 05 2024 54 mins

The folks at Fox News knew they had one job last week and that was to coronate Donald J. Trump while trashing his opponent Vice President Kamala Harris. If this meant calling him the king garbage, then so be it. The overpaid histrionic propagandists ramped up the crazy. Jesse Watters said a number of horrible things about women. Laura Ingraham claimed Trump’s neon safety vest wil

Bonus Podcast - Trump at Madison Square Garden

Nov 01 2024 94 mins

Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden was a six-hour festival of fascism. I reduced it down to 90 minutes with brief excerpts from every single speech. Trump also included five speakers with a net worth of $500 million or more. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decodingfoxnews.substack.com/sub

Podcast #137 - A McDonald's Nothingburger with a Side of Fascism

Oct 30 2024 53 mins

Donald J. Trump was lauded as a political genius for cosplaying as a minimum wage worker at a McDonald’s franchise while The New York Times published an audio interview of Gen. John F. Kelly describing Trump as a fascist and admirer of Hitler. Fox decided to bury the story in a heap of French fries prepared by the same wannabe dictator Kelly was trying to warn the American public

Podcast #136: Fox News - Kamala's Gotta Get That Bro Vote

Oct 22 2024 53 mins

Last week on Fox News the 2024 election was reduced to a battle to win over one of the smallest voting demographics in the American electorate - Black men a group normally loyal to the Democratic Party. The network also ramped up fear of the emasculating left by pushing stories of trans female athletes and government programs that pay for gender affirming surgeries for prisoners. K