The Fox Five Follies

As a brief preface:

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For us old-timers who over the years in school have had to compete with our betters-of-gray matter (there have been many for me) it is difficult to observe the buffoons who are thrown at us from television, radio, etc. posing as media disciples of intelligent thought. These are the same people who provide such verbiage as: “the ‘amount’ of people” or “’less’” numbers” or any number of irregular and/or incorrect grammar or syntax foibles; not to mention the multitude of falsely stated disclosures, such as “antisemitism”(for those who are language prejudiced, I assume) or Israel is “our” strongest ally in the Mideast (I suppose I am too stupid to find what treaty provides us as a wartime “ally” with them). And, of course, by observing this particular nugget of knowledge I certainly am charged as a bigoted fool .


But to conclude the point of this little intro, it was the geniuses of “The Five” on February 12, this new year (this program, of course, is a kissin’ cousin of those other media giants, “Outnumbered” as well as such woeful claptrap as “The view”) that continued the comparison of Minnesota’s recent brawl to the American South and its Confederacy’s “history” of racism and treason, they claim.


But onward to my complaint (not really complaining—just pointing out the obtuse offerings of the media etc.). Complaining about these people is like complaining that you have poison ivy because you had to go into the woods to go squirrel hunting. Nothing you can do except scratch; kind of like Yankees—something natural, like rashes and diseases. You try to avoid them if you can.


But,

One of the group who was on The Five’s Yankee Republican stage that day, Kennedy, I believe (she just goes by the single sobriquet of “Kennedy” with no first or last—a media Paladin-ett, I suppose) blurted out that since Tom Homan had successfully come to Minneapolis and rescued Kristi Noem from the politics of shooting criminals, that Homan could be like U.S. Grant during the “Civil War” when he saved the day. Another of this media intellectual elite, Greg Gutfied, who has apparently learned his history at the knee of The Comedy Hour, stepped in and offered, and supported Kennedy, with the follow-up that Noem would certainly be General McClellan.


Homan, Grant. Noem, McClellan. Get it?


But they really don’t care (nor do they know). Their only wish is to denigrate the South via insults of the Confederacy that they claim was a treasonous group and are to be aligned with various 20th Century “fascists.”


As bad as these people are about understanding Grant and his bloodthirsty mischief, they seem to know far less about McClellan (another subject for these dullards).


I had a sixth-grade teacher as a boy who would get so mad at you when you committed some obviously foolish error that she would get right up in your face, wag her finger at you and bellow: “Paul (or whoever) WHERE IS YOUR GRAY MATTER!”


A good teacher, and we learned a lot. When you see these media outlets today and their mental midgets pontificating, you can only wonder if they even finished grade school.


Naturally the whole bunch cheered almost in a sing-a-long at Kennedy’s analogy as if Dinesh D’souza or Mark Levin were conducting some Republican juvenile delinquent orchestra (the Republican Wagner touch).


It is difficult to watch this elementary school type demonstration with its flagrant and foul notion delivered by people who make (I don’t say earned) hundreds of thousands of dollars to reveal a flawed understanding, if not a downright lie; gray matter be damned!


​And you can be sure that this same bunch are too stupid to realize that their favorite political party will be doomed without the South. And such a notion may not be far off. There are many truthful and capable historians that can unmask the spurious Fox Fivers and the rest of their ilk, if only this media set would listen openly from those who would explain the truth. But they seem not to care. Or maybe they really are as stupid as they offer. Maybe gray matter really is that malnourished with these folks!


Sadly, there are many Southerners that will continue to be fooled because they have locked into part of the media that they believe to be “on the right,” and therefore are RIGHT.


Wrong!


I may or may not be around for the next election, but at this point I am NEVER going to be fooled by these apes again. Not fooled really. It was a kind of foolish trust. And you can be sure that I will never offer these mental midgets of Yankeedom anything close to trust again. I’ve had it with these people.


‘The Five,” “ Outnumbered,” “ The View” ? Gray-Matter’s models of absentia that are lost to gray.