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“There are two types of liberals who are allowed on Fox News. The first is the ineffectual liberal, who stumbles over their words and acts as a foil for the other hosts. FAIR editor Jim Naureckas compares their role to how meerkats in the wild train their young. The mammals, found in the south of Africa, eat scorpions. To teach their offspring how to hunt, adult meerkats maim the arachnids. At first, they rip off the stingers and let the younger animals learn to hunt their prey. Once the young are a little older, adults leave the stingers on but hobble the scorpions so they can’t move as quickly. By the end, young meerkats are well versed in how to hunt and kill the creatures. Fox News liberals are the same. “They’re training people—‘How do you respond to liberal arguments?’—but you don’t want liberals to win, just like you don’t want your baby meerkat to be stung to death,” Naureckas said. “So, you bring out people who are hobbled.”20”
― Eoin Higgins, Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left

“It was a comment that could have referred to any number of white-collar occupations. But in December 2010, Aaron Barr, the head of private intelligence firm HBGary, was talking about journalists.”
― Eoin Higgins, Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left