When bad networks go worse

Maybe you've read my post about cable news and how it stinks (click HERE if you haven't).

The Fox News Network is a large reason why cable news is so awful these days. How do I feel about them? Click HERE to see. Apparently they read my post, because they went and got themselves a sense of humor. Unfortunately for them, that sense of humor was on sale for 99 cents, and was way past its expiration date.

Fox News is threatened by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central for some odd reason. The former has always prided itself on making fun of the American (and sometimes International) political system in general. Despite what many people say, the show doesn't lean primarily "to the left." And the latter, well, it's just a parody of some of the political talk shows seen on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. The host Steven Colbert is not the same as the person Steven Colbert. The person Steven Colbert is just playing a character.

But Fox was so threatened by this show, they just thought they'd get their own "fake" news show, call it The 1/2 Hour News Hour, and bill it as "Fox's answer to The Daily Show."

But somewhere, somehow, Fox missed the point. The show is so horrendously awful, so painfully unfunny that it has to have a laugh track. As I watched this train wreck's credits, you could hear applause and hooting from the audience. Problem was, the camera was panning across the audience, and the people were sitting there doing nothing, perhaps wondering why they came to watch the show.

The show's only goal seems to insult Democrats, random people, and make fun of tragic events. After they had just finished making about 3 jokes about Al Gore, the male "anchor" began telling a story about a woman in a foreign country who killed and dismembered her husband. He then proceeded to state, "What ever happened to the silent treatment?" They then went on to trash people who stood in line for the IPhone, calling them "losers." Yeah, comedy gold.

It's so bad that the show holds the lowest score on the site Metacritic, which gathers reviews from Internet websites and newspapers around the country. Click HERE to read the reviews along with the frequently humorous comments from people who logged into the website, including allegations that the negative reviews are all a big conspiracy.

I've never been someone who has been heavily into politics. I'm not right-wing, left-wing, Democrat, Republican, Whig, or Greenback. So this post is not politically based. It's based on taste. And the show is in the worst possible taste you can get.

Keep trying, Fox News. Maybe you'll get it right some day.