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Fox News Holiday Card Celebrates Success (At The Expense Of Other Networks)

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With Christmas under a week away, and Hanukkah starting today, you likely have a refrigerator door full of holiday cards at home right now, featuring friends, family, and awkwardly dressed kids whose names you can’t remember. There might even be a dog or two in there. Perhaps the kids are making snow angels. Here at Mediaite, we get our fair share of cards, too. They’re just not as trite.

Take, for instance, the greeting we received from Fox News. In case you forgot that they had a great year, the network took the occasion of their annual holiday card to remind you. Merry Christmas? Maybe not, as the term “Christmas” is conspicuously, (and perhaps wisely?) absent from the card. Why politicize the holidays with good cheer!

The cover features a fox (get it?) racing ahead of CBS, ABC, and NBC. Make sure to note the CNN and MSNBC characters peeking over the hill on the left. Detractors (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC) are sure to recoil at the bravado in the card, which is, of course, just the way Fox News likes it.

It gets better once you open the card. Instead of a simple “Season’s Greetings!” there is this parody:

(Sing to the tune of “Joy to the World”)
Joy to the world for Fox News Channel
Consistently number one
We are the network that viewers choose
Fair and balanced news
See our ratings we don’t lose
Beating the rest in TV news

On things for certain, we’re here to stay
As our fifteenth we celebrate
News-gathering redefined, our news channel’s one of a kind
So many wished we would fail
But we proved we’re far from frail
And winning we are as behind us they do trail

Our talent can’t be matched, one can’t deny
But sadly they still try
Bill O’Reilly and Hannity, Shepard Smith and Megyn Kelly
With Fox & Friends on the couch we sit
While Cavuto gives us a financial twist
We go live with The Five and tough questions Baier doesn’t miss

Joy to the world for Fox News Channel
The most trusted name in news
The best in breaking news, exclusive interview
We are the ones to beat
Defeat we shall not meet
So into the background the rest do retreat

Give Fox News credit — they never miss the chance to remind you who sits at the top of the ratings, even if this instance is with a wink and a nod.

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  • Anonymous

    Hypocrites…….they were foaming at the war on christmas and yet have no courage to write “christmas” on their season’s card?

  • Anonymous

    Before all the wingnut hysteria begins, I just gotta say, that card is all kinds of awesome.  

  • http://twitter.com/tonygorder Tony Gorder

    Why are sheep pulling the sleds? Am I supposed to read into that more?

  • Anonymous

    Really, really tacky. Boasting is not attractive.

  • Anonymous

    No fan of Fox News here but one good card. Whatever PR staffer came up with it deserves a holiday bonus.

  • http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/630-E-Lovell-Dr-Troy-MI-48085/24509418_zpid/ Louisa Gismonde Calcaterra

    It’s an OK card, except Fox News is far, far behind ABC, NBC, CBS so that graphic is just idiotic….pretty much like everything else on FNC.

  • Anonymous

    People who are complaining are absurd.  MSNBC clearly quit caring a long time ago.  That’s why they have a more stupid version of Ron Burgandy who happens to be black(And responsible for a lot of peoples murders).  A fat white guy who’s only claim to fame is that he louder, more incoherent, and fatter than the competition.  Oh, yeah, also a guy who has a crush on Obama and a chick who looks like Daniel Tosh.
    CNN quit caring, as well.  Who do they have again?  I mean seriously, since that drunk, murdering, racist cuban left I can’t remember.  Who do they have again?

  • J.Linnae C

    Love it!  

  • Anonymous

    What does it matter I watch Fox news sometimes and I watch MSNBC and CNN too. There all in it to spout partisan BS anyway.

  • Anonymous

    Sadly ratings do no measure truth or integrity.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Fox News can’t even get their Christmas card right!!

    NBC, ABC and CBS all beat Fox News when it comes to their national nightly news programs!! Why?? Because Fox News doesn’t have one, they air re-runs of The Simpsons on their network!!

    If the card was referring to all 4 network’s Sunday news programs… it’s still inaccurate!! Chris Wallace’s Sunday show has been consistently in 4th place for years!!

    Now, if the card had the Fox News sled in the lead over MSNBC, CNN and HLN… that would have been accurate!!

    Apparently none of the Fox News viewers here caught that and just falsely assumed their channel was #1 in everything… well, they’re NOT!!

    Furthermore, sheep do not pull sleds!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I would like to add, the little poem in the card is full of lies… but what would you expect from Fox News!!

  • Anonymous

    Love it – just look at these posts – FNC sure does know how to get the libbies all riled up!

    What a hoot.

  • Anonymous

    Fox News has never shown an episode of Simpsons. 

    Ever.

  • Anonymous

    Just go look at tvnewser and see how FNC beat ABC last week with their debate…yup, little old FNC beat out Katie, the perkey one.  Oh well.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed – look how many people read the NY Times, and watch the nightly news on NBC, CBS, and ABC.  It is a travesty. 

  • http://twitter.com/cynicalmode randy

    they’re like the asshole rich kid at school always reminding everyone how rich they are.

  • Anonymous

    You mad bro? LOL you clown

  • Anonymous

    You can tell he is mad because he ends every sentence with a double explanation point!!

    Or, he sometimes emphasizes an important point with CAPITAL LETTERS!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    “They” was in reference to the Fox Network… was it really that hard for you to figure out??

    And for your information, Fox News, especially Bill O’ Reilly has shown clips from The Simpsons!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I’m not mad, just pointing out the mistakes Fox News made… though, does that make you mad??

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Studies have shown, the most uniformed viewer is a Fox News viewer!! Do you watch Fox News??

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Most people with an ounce of intelligence could have seen the card was inaccurate!! Did you notice the inaccuracies?? I’m not sure you did!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.boisen Eric J. Boisen

    I find the card humorous, but I’m confused about the Sheep

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    For your information, the card states  “Beating the rest in Tv News”, not debates!!

  • Anonymous

    If you look closely behind CNN and MSNBC you can see Keith Olbermann broadcasting into two tin cans on a string.

  • Anonymous

    I do not watch Fox News, nor was I aware that you had to wear a uniform to watch Fox News. 

  • Anonymous

    It was, actually.  Not once have you ever mentioned the Fox Network until now. 

  • Anonymous

    I hate to burst everybody’s bubble, but the news shows produced by ABC, CBS, and NBC get much higher ratings than Fox News – almost tenfold.  I think you are confusing news shows with prime time line-ups.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SNKLFP6MRMBE7GJE6VJDQK74AU Ray

    I think the card picture and poem refers to the fact that more people watch news on Fox News Channel than any other channel ….. since the networks only show a half hour of news in the evening and some time in the morning …. then one can accurately state that more people watch news on Fox News than any other news network. …… Just a thought

  • Anonymous

    It’s silly to compare Fox News to legitimate organizations like CNN and MSNBC.  Fox News operates under a completely different set of rules.  It’s not just that they’re encouraged to lie. Fox News personalities are encouraged to raise funds for candidates.  They’re even allowed to have their own political PACs.  You will never see anything like that at CNN or MSNBC.

  • Anonymous

    I hope Murdoch gets his card in jail.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not bragging if you got it. And if you got it, flaunt it!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Go read my first comment again and you will see that the word “network” is the last word in first paragraph!! Not once did I ever mention the Fox News Channel!!

    This may help you out:

    implied – past participle, past tense of im·ply
    Verb:Strongly suggest the truth or existence of (something not expressly stated): “the report implies that two million jobs might be lost”.

  • Anonymous

    Oh my, is Fox News engaging in blasphemy and participating in the War on Christmas?  I’d be surprised if I didn’t know that they don’t believe in their own BS, propaganda, and lies.  As the front of their card so brazenly shows, they direct the very sheep they depend on.  A picture’s worth a thousand words, and Fox painted an honest picture for once.  LOL

  • Anonymous

    I have no idea what you are talking about.  This is pure giberish.

    And your apparent random use of commas is giving me a major headache. 

    And to follow your logic, you were apparetnly talking about the Fox News Network.  There is no such thing.

    Oh, wait.  What I meant to say is, “There is NO SUCH THING!!”

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Fox News is on the Fox Network, haven’t you ever heard of Chris Wallace and his Sunday morning news show?? His show is on the Network, but works for Fox News!!

    I thought you were intelligent enough to realize this?? I guess not!!

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    “give them credit”  Oh, shut the f**k up.

  • Anonymous

    Their use of that particular song is disgraceful considering the ORIGINAL words of the song!

    Joy to the world! The Lord is come.
    Let earth receive her King
    Let every heart
    Prepare Him room
    And Saints and angels sing
    And Saints and angels sing
    And Saints and Saints and angels sing
    Etc………………………..

  • Anonymous

    Fox News loves to tout its comparative ratings successes against MSNBC and CNN, which it is entitled to do.  But at the same time it plays “Goliath,” it also plays up its “David” role whenever it engages in its incessant harping about the “mainstream media.”

    Fox, I hate to break it to you.  You are mainstream.

  • Anonymous

    the sheep represent all the idiots who believe FOX! 

  • Anonymous

    yeah , the uniform required to watch FOX, is that of a JACKASS!

  • Anonymous

        No they didn’t.

  • Anonymous

    MSNBC already is a PAC for Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Nope

  • Anonymous

    Don’t you mean “lamestream?”

  • Anonymous

    At least he’s doing what he wants to do AND getting paid $$$ whilst doing it.

  • Anonymous

    Oh Tina_Tampon!

  • Anonymous

    Oh Tina_Tampon! We would be happy for Fox if they weren’t so smug and if they told the truth every so often. Unfair & Unbalanced is closer to the truth. I wonder if The Rupster was doing any phone tapping in the U.S.? That’d sure liven things up!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Why do they hate Christ so much?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    with lots of tinfoil accessories

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    except the networks beat FOX’s cable ratings, so it’s completely inaccurate.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    FOX zombies always respond to criticism with “derpty derp ratings!”
    popularity does not equal quality. 
    Case in point: Vanilla Ice and the Backstreet Boys have two of the biggest selling albums of all time.

  • Anonymous

    Does anyone doubt for a minute that if one of the other Cable News networks spoofed “Joy to the World” that O’Reilly would be hyperventilating about it for 11 news cycles, screaming about the secular progressives desecrating Christmas?  How many times would he have Gretchen drop by to flair her nostrils at the sacrilege so great that she is furious that her children might see it; How many nights would Bernie Goldberg have to drop by to tell Bill that only he, Bill, has the courage to protect the sacred carols from the Liberal jackels….   

    But it’s Fox, so all is right with Papa Bear.  IOKIYAR. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    Joy to the world is far better then Merry Christmas….more christian :b
     

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    only from biased flawed studies. 

  • http://profiles.google.com/robbieinbox Robbie Smith

    I wouldn’t wipe my a** with that card.   

  • Bud Meyers

    Just out of curiosity, what are all the other networks combined, compared to Fox
    News? If all liberal viewers share the ratings with all others, and conservative
    viewers primarily only watch Fox, what’s the match up?

  • DisConNectTed

    The biggest inaccuracy is the lead that Fox has on the other networks,  It should be greater.

  • DisConNectTed

    Riiiiiiight.  Just like CNN, HLN, MSNBC, CBS, blah, blah, blah.  You are so full of hate and animosity toward Conservatives you actually further our cause.  I, for one, encourage you to spout your ideology as loud as you can.  Try capital, bold letters followed by 4 exclamation points next time.  :)  But as a Conservative Christian, I pray for you.  I don’t pray that you will change your political views, just that you find some inner peace.

  • DisConNectTed

    To all of you Fox Haters:
     
    You seem to miss the point that Fox offers 2 distinct options.  One is their news programming, the other their political programming.  In reality, Fox and Drudge are centrist while CBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc are left leaning.  If you want true right wing TV, go to the 700 Club or GCN (Genesis Communications Network).
     
    Don’t mistake relative bias with absolute bias.

  • Anonymous

    Holiday card? Let me be the first to call Fox News a bunch of RINOs.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    you’re saying a cable news outlet doesn’t have a nightly news broadcast?… 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    you’re confusing fox news network policy with the opinions of their blowhard pundits…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    i hate to burst your bubble, but the broadcast news shows are nowhere near tenfold over fox news in ratings…  all 4 are usually pulling between 1.5 and 2m viewers per night…  this last week they were all below fox news…  that is, comparing similar programs:  baier vs williams vs sawyer vs whoever took over for couric…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    more liberals watch fox news than cnn and msnbc combined…

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly did not seem to have any problem the SNL’s Tim Tebow and Christ skit.  He aired segments of it the other night.  So perhaps your “doubt for a minute” over the use of “Joy to the World” claim, based on O”Reilly’s reaction to SNL, may lack credibility.

    “How many times would he have”…etc., well, it seems, no times.

  • Anonymous

    Keep telling yourself that – And while you’re at it, make sure that you avoid any of O’Reilly’s 40 annual November-December diatribes about how there is a War on Christmas, and all the religious signifiers are being erased or desecrated by the so called “secular progressives…”

  • Anonymous

    The simple fact is, when it comes to the cable news and opinion networks, Fox wins!

    You can add all the caveats, addenda, break the demos down, analyze the day-parts, measure TSV (time spent viewing), etc, and overall and consistently Fox wins!

  • Anonymous

    Changing the lyrics to “Joy to the World” (written long ago by some dead guy) isn’t blasphemy.  Frankly, this is the same kind of hysterical crap you hear from the Middle East when someone dares to name a teddy bear “Mohammed” or draw a picture of their precious prophet.

    All that said, the Fox lyrics are truly awful.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-McDonald/100000452342001 Bob McDonald

    I bet your an MSNBC fan….figures…your probably miserable as well.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bob-McDonald/100000452342001 Bob McDonald

    At least at fox we have an alternative news media source….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LBF3YF57Y7O6MSWK5FB2FOZN6A David AP

    One would think that the sleds would be pulled by reindeer. Even though this card is a FOX creation showing their viewers as sheep I have no doubt that the other networks view their viewers the same way.,, as sheep. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Pattersom/1309868220 Mike Pattersom

    They Think we are SHEEPLE!!!!
     No more fox for me!!!!
     All Media lies!!! but FOX really sucks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Pattersom/1309868220 Mike Pattersom

    THEY ALL DO IT!!! you just don’t notice it ! When they slant to your side!!
     
    no free
    press WAKE up Please!!!
     I was a warmonger,voted straight Republican  party ticket for 41 yrs! Eyes opened Now!!!!

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