As a jour­nal­ist, noth­ing about  FOX “News” inclines me to be any­thing but pro­fane­ly dis­parag­ing of their ultra­crepri­dar­i­an law­suit defence of com­mit­ment to “the high­est jour­nal­is­tic stan­dards.” In an effort to com­ment and still main­tain deco­rum, I sought affla­tus (not what sprang to your mind) from a delight­ful work called “Foyle’s Philav­ery”. (There’s a glos­sary at the end of this.)

To grant FOX even a mod­icum of axiopisty  is to become unasi­nous with mur­cid anchors and pun­dits suf­fer­ing from sopho­ma­nia.
The abject eager­ness of Tuck­er Carl­son to be a  myr­mid­i­an for Don­ald Trump’s absump­tion of demo­c­ra­t­ic val­ues and the rule of law for the lucripetous sake of fame and rat­ings shows him to be a brim­bo­ri­on.
That puts him even low­er on the jour­nal­is­tic evo­lu­tion­ary scale than the FOX talk show fop­doo­dles pol­lut­ing the air­waves with gala­ma­tias.
The great pity of the Domin­ion law­suit was that it end­ed up being about mon­ey, which saved FOX’s stars from the pub­lic spec­ta­cle of an apol­o­gy for allow­ing ster­co­ra­ceous  beings like Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene and her ilk to be con­sis­tent­ly men­dacil­o­quent with­out even a nod to  the basics of jour­nal­ism in the form of a fol­low-up ques­tion or two.
That all of them have end­ed up com­mit­ting podiacide seems unlike­ly to deter them from mak­ing it a habit, however.
And what’s the bet that rather than slip­ping away and try­ing pogonotro­phy to hide what ought to be shame, His Tuck­er­ness man­ages to turn it into pleiono­sis?
The tragedy of FOX vs Domin­ion is that FOX will con­tin­ue to be the news equiv­a­lent of the kak­istoc­ra­cy they will per­suade their faith­ful and acere­bral audi­ence to elect.

Here­with a GLOSSARY to expa­ti­ate (elab­o­rate) the fore­go­ing philav­ery (idio­syn­crat­ic col­lec­tion of uncom­mon and pleas­ing words):
ultra­crep­i­dar­i­an – igno­rant and presumptuous
affla­tus — inspi­ra­tion, espe­cial­ly a divine­ly inspired cre­ative impulse
axiopisty — the qual­i­ty that makes some­thing wor­thy of trust
unasi­nous — being equal in stupidity
mur­cid -- cow­ard­ly, lazy
sopho­ma­nia — the delu­sion one pos­sess supe­ri­or intel­li­gence or wisdom
myr­mid­ion – thug, faith­ful ser­vant pre­pared to be unscrupulous
absump­tion — wast­ing away
ucripetous — avari­cious, grasping
brim­bo­ri­on — a thing of no val­ue, nonsense
fop­doo­dles —  fools, sim­ple­tons
gala­ma­tias — mean­ing­less talk, gibberish
ster­co­ra­ceous — con­sist­ing of or relat­ing to faeces
men­dacil­o­quent — telling lies
podiacide — act of shoot­ing one­self in the foot, irra­tional act
pogonotro­phy — cul­ti­va­tion of facial hair
pleiono­sis — self-aggran­dis­e­ment
kak­istoc­ra­cy — sys­tem of gov­ern­ment in which the rulers are the least com­pe­tent or qual­i­fied or most unprin­ci­pled citizens
acere­bral — lack­ing in intel­li­gence or intel­lec­tu­al abilities.

I hope that was more fun and infor­ma­tive to read than a rant  about lying cretins who are a dis­grace to the word jour­nal­ism, and who got away with pay­ing mon­ey rather than hav­ing to admit to lying and there­by maybe, just maybe, los­ing enough view­ers that the next round of elec­tions won’t be dom­i­nat­ed by politi­cians backed by Tuck­er Carl­son and his ilk.
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