You watch Fox News long enough and you figure out how that sausage must get made. In 2011, Rolling Stone (paywall) watched enough to prove that the guests on Fox are not there to provide their insight or opinions: they are there to repeat the talking point of the day to the hosts so that it appears to the audience that “everybody is saying” that, for instance, Barack Obama is a secret socialist.

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