“The anchors on Fox News—both male and blonde—are quite happy to bloviate non-stop when they beat the ‘left-wing’ competition in the ratings hands-down,” blogs the Con Man. “Now we know how they do it: by all but eliminating blacks from its viewing audience, Fox has been able to deliver a white demographic not seen on television since the last NASCAR race. Advertisers haven’t been this happy since ‘Mad Men’ did an Emmy double-dip. In case you missed the latest breaking bulletin from the culture wars—ka-ching!—Fox attributes its success to blacks who constitute just 2 percent of its viewing audience not counting Shirley Sherrod, their latest African-American scalp—but including Michael Steele, the foot-in-mouth chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC). There are most likely more blacks who have actually been on Fox News than have actually watched America’s #1 cable news channel.”
