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This is Why They Call it the Idiot Box: Nancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield Fake ‘Satellite’ Interview

grace-31-300x187While covering the Cleveland kidnapping story genuinely despicable despair-vampire and purveyor of prime time idiot bait  Nancy Grace conducted a “satellite” interview with CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield. The only problem is that the two “reporters” were in the same parking lot. The Atlantic Wire provides irrefutable proof through a series of animated GIFs. Go check them out.

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Hilarious ‘Satirist’ Pushes the Envelope Too Far?

Satire is the art of pretending to adopt a position you wish to ridicule and then, with apparent sincerity, aping opinions you consider absurd. A good satirist never drops his mask in public and leaves not a single chink in his characterisation. The trick is to go as far as possible without it ever being too obvious you’re acting the fool. In other words, ‘credibility’ is the key. Could it be possible that this noble art is being enacted by the current Director of “Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy” at the American Family Association, Bryan Fischer?

If so his daring comedic style extends to the following breath-taking nonsense, according to him, the bastards who attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 were “agents of God’s wrath” because it is they who inspired “God Bless America” to be sung at Major League Baseball games. His topper to these edgy lines are that singing this song is “one of the reasons we haven’t been hit since 9/11.”

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