Inauguration Spin Showdown: Fox vs. MSNBC

Two networks, one coverage.

Austin Bragg and Andrew Heaton | 1.18.2025 11:45 AM

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Partisan pundits cover Trump's inauguration.

Illustration: Stable Diffusion

Writer, Producer, Actor, Editor: Austin Bragg
Writer, Actor: Andrew Heaton
Writer, Producer: Meredith Bragg
Writer, Producer: John Carter

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Don't look at me! 4 months ago

The crawler on the bottom of the screen is the icing on the cake.

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1. MWAocdoc 4 months ago
  
  Ha! "DOGE Commission Budget Slashed by DOGE Commission!" Bwahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
  
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sarcasmic 4 months ago

10/10

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JesseAz (mean girl ambassador) 4 months ago

We can find out MSNBCs real coverage by just reading sarcs posts.

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1. Fire up the Woodchippers! (Trump Ascendant!! ) 4 months ago
  
  The onky difference is Sac’s posts are distilled through the lens of blackout drinking.
  
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  1. JesseAz (mean girl ambassador) 4 months ago
    
    Half of MSNBC has the same habit.
    
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2. Mother's Lament (Salt farmer) 4 months ago
  
  No. We can find out MSNBCs real coverage by just reading Buttplug's posts.
  
  Sarc's not that 'cerebral', Maddow goes over his head a little. Sarc's informed by overhearing the CNN channel that's playing 24/7 near his fry station at the mall, and by what he gleans from Chemjeff shitposts when white knighting for them.
  
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  1. Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive) 4 months ago
    
    Rachel Maddow is boring. I don't watch that shit.
    
    I much prefer a hair-on-fire nutcase conservative yelling about how shitty America is when a Democrat is president. Those guys are entertaining.
    
    It's like "professional" wresting or some scumbag Baptist TV preacher. Anger and hell sell widgets to the masses.
    
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    1. Ersatz 4 months ago
      
      up until you included the word 'conservative' I thought you were referring to Lawrence O'donnell or Keith Olbermann
      
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  2. Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive) 4 months ago
    
    Fair question you implied though - which pundits will I stop what I am doing and listen to?
    
    Sam Harris
    Chris Hitchens (RIP)
    Bill Maher
    Neil DeGrasse Tyson
    
    Can't think of any others...
    
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    1. JesseAz (mean girl ambassador) 4 months ago
      
      Lol. What a sad list.
      
      Sam Harris: 'Hunter Biden Literally Could Have Had the Corpses of Children in His Basement - I Would Not Have Cared'
      
      Tyson gets ripped by Bill Maher, pushes pseudoscience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgJpa8MGKs4
      
      Weird you have both of those lol.
      
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      1. Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive) 4 months ago
        
        "Trump strikes me as a distillation of everything that is wrong with the American character. This could be in large measure a caricature, but he has brought the caricature to life. If you take our materialism, and our ignorance about the rest of the world, and our satisfaction in our ignorance, our overconfidence, our pretension to greatness even when we're actually being merely petty, our vanity, our sexism, boorishness, narcissism. A kind of childishness that doesn't have the virtues of childhood; a kind of malignant childhood that just is all boastfulness and me, me, me, me, me, without any of the curiosity or sympathy that you meet in actual children....He is the living embodiment of a kind of American grotesque. And again, I am a little self conscious about this calumny against America or the ugly American but it's almost like he is a golem that has been conjured by the worst things that have ever been said about us as a country. It's like if he can't grope it or put gold letters on it, it doesn't exist."
        
        Sam Harris
        
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        JesseAz (mean girl ambassador) 4 months ago
        
        Yes. He has TDS like a certain pedophile here. He is often wrong. Comments on subjects he has no clue about. And is often wrong on basic things. Like a certain pedophile here.
        
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        Mother's Lament (Salt farmer) 4 months ago
        
        The moment Harris said it was okay to tell lies in order to have the politician you want in and stop the other for being boorish, all his credibility flew out of the window.
        
        He'd built his whole reputation on being a fearless teller of truths and he fucked it hard for orangemanbad.
        
        Pathetic.
        
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        Ersatz 4 months ago
        
        word!
        
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        Don’t get eliminated 4 months ago
        
        I’m not surprised you like the guy that’s pro dead babies you sick fuck. I really hope the fathers in your neighborhood find out about you.
        
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MollyGodiva 4 months ago

Fuck the inauguration, it is the College Football Championship game that evening.

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1. Don't look at me! 4 months ago
  
  Now that’s important!
  
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  1. MollyGodiva 4 months ago
    
    Damn right it is.
    
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    1. Ersatz 4 months ago
      
      Hey, you gotta cope in whatever works for you Molly I guess.
      It beats rocking back and forth in a corner mumbling to yourself, AND it can be more edifying (esp if your team wins).
      
      Somehow I imagine you sneaking peaks at the replays of the other event just to refill your bile ducts.
      
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2. Minadin 4 months ago
  
  Inauguration is at noon.
  
  This is what allowing low-information people to vote gets us.
  
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  1. Wizzle Bizzle 4 months ago
    
    "This is what allowing low-information people to vote gets us" should have been the official response to every story since MTV and the DNC started rocking the vote circa 1990.
    
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CindyF 4 months ago

That was perfect! Absolutely nailed it!

I don't have cable or even a TV, and only watch online clips of different entertainment "news" segments, but there was little difference in this video and that I see on both FOX and MSNBC.

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Not a Conservative but a Biden LOATHER 4 months ago

IF a commentator didn't understand why Kamala lost and the world loves Trump, the inauguration reporting will be "He goes to the podium, he raises his hand, he has a dictatorial look on his face ---then a break to advertize the MSNBC special on "Trump the Dictator"

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1. Zipcreature 4 months ago
  
  “Brought to you by Pfizer”
  
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Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive) 4 months ago

It will be boring - not worth watching.

The team that riots and cheats won fair and square this time - so nada. Nothing. Just a lot of bullshit spewing from politicians mouths.

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1. Not a Conservative but a Biden LOATHER 4 months ago
  
  You love Biden and think millions of Americans are out of their mind for not agreeing with you. you will suffer for 4 years and richly richly deserve it 🙂
  
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  1. Minadin 4 months ago
    
    Maybe more. Can you imagine Pedo's reaction to a Vance-DeSantis ticket in 2028?
    
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  2. Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive) 4 months ago
    
    I won't suffer, you moron.
    
    I did well during Fatass Donnie's first term. Hell, I'm a white, straight privileged Southern male.
    
    The market was shitty. 2018 bear market and then the 2020 free fall. I got it back in Sleepy Joe's term though.
    
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    1. JesseAz (mean girl ambassador) 4 months ago
      
      You still haven't explained that 1k you supposedly turned into 1M.
      
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      1. Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive) 4 months ago
        
        That was AmSoc you dumbass cracka.
        
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        JesseAz (mean girl ambassador) 4 months ago
        
        That was a shrike sock you dumbass pedo.
        
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        Mother's Lament (Salt farmer) 4 months ago
        
        You are AmSoc, clowntits. Your the only other person I've ever met who'd call people 'peanuts' and talk about 'Dogdick, Georgia'.
        
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    2. Nobartium 4 months ago
      
      Tesla shorting says you remain economically retarded.
      
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      1. Wizzle Bizzle 4 months ago
        
        "economically" is not needed in that sentence.
        
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        Minadin 4 months ago
        
        There are only 3 necessary words in that sentence, to be blunt.
        
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2. DesigNate 4 months ago
  
  “The team that riots and cheats won
  
  The Democrats lost you retarded fuck.
  
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  1. Ersatz 4 months ago
    
    I almost posted this but figured if I read further someone would have already - it practically writes itself!
    
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MWAocdoc 4 months ago

I was expecting to see cutting edge parody here and instead there were only actual clips from actual mainstream media outlets. What gives?

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AT 4 months ago

I didn't know that Heaton and Bragg actually went to go work for Fox and MSNBC in order to film this. That's real commitment guys. Kudos.

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Rick James 4 months ago

Why watch parody when you can just watch MSNBC?

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mad.casual 4 months ago

89% B+

Everybody who could meaningfully care about bone spurs and draft-dodging, a weird dig for Libertarians to begin with, died in 2020.

Also, too few renditions of "Imagine", "$10 for every person would be $350 vigintillion dollars!", and over-the-top "Dude, bruh, you should like, no cap, be wiggin' about Trizzump in the hizzouse, fo' shizzle." and "I haven't cried like this since the last time I watched Commando." human impersonations.

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