Freedom fries was one of those extreme moves that backfired on republicans after a few months, like Paul Ryan.

About fox News, i could have sworn i'd seen that CNN actually overtook them. Everything you say is an assumption because it's centered on an America without context. FOXNews wasn't always crazy. CNN wasn't always crazy. MSN wasn't always crazy. They already had the popularity, they were already the major news networks. People were already watching them. If the only news you get is on TV a lot of people fall into the trap of just continuing to believe everything on their side of the spectrum. And as more lies get told both sides get alienated from each other more and more. It's a deep and complex issue that is more nuanced than your childish View. And you can't say you are not making assumptions and while simultaneously admitting to generalizing. A generalization is an assumption. You just have a very ignorant, ready to hate approach to this entire topic that taints what seems like an otherwise capable mind into lazily excepting anything that benefits your point of you without caring how or why you came to believe what you believe. These news stations didn't pop up because people wanted them. They popped up because power wanted them. And really you honestly believe that freedom fries was a widespread idea and not just one of thousands of idiot attempts to grab polarized votes right at the peak of the Republican Party's major shift to crazy town? That alone is enough information for me to know that you don't know what you're talking about because you aren't willing to know what you're talking about because it would disagree with your preconceived notion. It happened but America in general was more embarrassed by it then not. You made a concession about the Republican Party being crazy. This and post 911 in general was the peak of that.