FOX NEWS MAKES ITS OWN ‘DAISY’ AD…. In one of the most famous campaign commercials of all time, LBJ showed a little girl picking at a daisy, followed by images of nuclear explosion. The point wasn’t subtle — that Goldwater guy could kill us all.
Today, Fox News borrowed a page from the “Daisy” playbook, suggesting a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia could lead to the nuclear annihilation of the United States.
Anchor/activist Megyn Kelly, en route to a commercial break, noted that President Obama is en route to Prague. “[C]ritics are asking, will the new deal leave the U.S. defenseless until it’s too late? Coming up, next hour,” Kelly said.
At that point, Fox News cut to footage of a nuclear explosion and giant mushroom cloud.
Two quick thoughts here. First, the arms deal with Russia is a pretty big deal, but it’s not that big a deal. No sane person could possibly believe that the treaty could “leave the U.S. defenseless.” The U.S. will still have a large arsenal, with the capacity to destroy the planet many times over. For Kelly to say this on the air is painfully ridiculous.
And second, how is anyone supposed to do parodies of Fox News when the Republican network airs madness like this with a straight face?
