TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2025
An imitation of life: Our kingdom for access to WordPad!
As we continue to settle our sudden formatting problems, it occurred to us that this might be a good time to answer this question:
Just for the historical record, who the heck (or what the heck) is The Big Weekend Show?
You're asking an excellent question! We'll start with this recent surprise announcement from the Fox News Channel itself:
FOX NEWS CHANNEL ANNOUNCES NEW WEEKEND PROGRAMMING
September 10, 2025—FOX News Channel (FNC) will unveil a new weekend programming lineup beginning Saturday September 20th, announced FOX News Media president and executive editor Jay Wallace...Johnny Joey Jones and Tomi Lahren have been named two of the four co-hosts of The Big Weekend Show as the ensemble program expands to three hours (Saturdays & Sundays, 5-8 PM/ET).
Say what? The Big Weekend Show would now be going to three (3) hours? That was a remarkable change. First, a bit more from that press release about the expanding program:
Both Jones and Lahren will take on new roles as two of the four co-hosts of the weekend panel program The Big Weekend Show as the show expands to three hours (5-8 PM/ET) on Saturdays & Sundays. Joined by two rotating panelists each week, Jones and Lahren will delve into a variety of hot topics, from politics to pop culture. Currently, the program leads all competition throughout the weekend with over 1.2 million viewers dominating the early evening timeslot.
Do panelists on this "weekend panel show" really "delve into a variety of hot topics?" More accurately, they four-member panels now spend three (3) hours each weekend evening agreeing with every word each of the other panelists has just finished saying about a carefully selected set of topics designed to please the Fox News "cable news" audience.
Never is heard a discouraging word from the MAGA perspective! For better or worse, The Big Weekend Show is a message delivery system in which viewers in Red America are bombarded with tribal messaging of this nation-destroying type:
JONES (10/18/25): Good evening, everybody. I’m Joey Jones, along with Kayleigh McGhee White, Lydia Hu and Dr. Marc Siegel. And welcome to this Big Weekend Show.
We’ve got a big story tonight. It’s a Fox News Alert. Millions of far-left protestors are at anti-American rallies tonight across the country, and President Trump closes out his most successful week ever.
As we've noted, that's how Saturday's program started. As usual, President Trump had done everything right, and people who disagree with that assessment were said to be anti-American.
Jones said it at the start of the show. The other panelists all took turns agreeing.
This is the way our "panel programs" tend to work on the Fox News Channel. (That's also true on MSNBC, with one rather large distinction.)
On Fox, the one great exception is The Five, a weekday program which is generally defined as The Big Weekend Show Plus the One Punching Bag. That program gains its sense of frisson as its four pro-MAGA panelists interrupt and overtalk the punching bag Jessica Tarlov.
Meanwhile, The Big Weekend Show will now run for three consecutive hours! The background seems to be this:
In the wake of last November's election, the channel began shedding programs from its "news division" and toughening its propaganda / messaging arm.
Neil Cavuto was first to go, replaced at 4 p.m. weekdays by former Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Will Cain. Beyond that, it seemed to us that some of the Fox News Channel contributors may have been told that they might want to toughen their game.
We could be completely wrong, but it seemed to us that Jones may be one such person. That's the way it has sometimes looked to us, but we could be totally wrong.
Alas! The Big Weekend Show had been robbed of one of its dominant messaging stars when President Trump fingered Tammy Bruce to work in his second administration. In much the same way, the president stole Judge Jeanine from The Five and Pete Hegseth from Fox & Friends Weekend.
Still, Big Weekend was growing like topsy! In a newly updated report, the leading authority explains:
The Big Weekend Show
The Big Weekend Show...is an American panel talk show on Fox News in which Joey Jones, Tomi Lahren and various Fox News personalities discuss current stories, political issues, and pop culture.
[...]
The show originally debuted on February 27, 2021, with hosts Lawrence B. Jones, Gillian Turner, Lisa Boothe and Sean Duffy. The program was featured regularly on weekends and was officially named part of Fox News' lineup in May 2021.
In May 2023, Fox News announced that The Big Saturday/Sunday show would be renamed The Big Weekend Show and would be moving from the 5 p.m. ET time slot to the 7 p.m. ET slot on June 3, 2023.
[...]
On January 13, 2025, it was announced that the show would expand to two hours beginning on January 18.
In September 2025 it was announced that Johnny "Joey" Jones and Tomi Lahren were named permanent co-hosts of the program and that the show would expand to three hours airing from 5pm-8pm beginning on September 20.
"News division" shows were pared. This particular messaging show was expanded from one glorious hour to two, and then why not three hours?
Your nation is dying under the onslaught produced by shows like this, which are built around the principle of "segregation by viewpoint." The panelists all know what they're expected to say.
In the case of The Big Weekend Show, they show up at the appointed hour and they start trashing their fellow citizens who don't see things the Red American way.
Over here in Blue America, major news orgs refuse to report or discuss what happens on these ersatz "cable news" programs. Meanwhile, programs like The Big Weekend Show routinely trash the stars of Blue America's press. As this happens, Blue America's journalists refuse to even say the names of the Fox News Channel messenger children inside Silo Red.
We apologize for a bit of confusion this week. As we attempt to fashion a reunion with WordPad, we thought we could at least acquaint you with the way this messaging war rolls on.
Big Weekend is an imitation of life. No large modern nation can really expect to prosper, function or survive with such clowncar procedures in place.
The Big Weekend Show is a corporate imitation of life. So too with the silence from Silo Blue—the silence of the endless array of Blue American lambs.
ReplyDeleteWhoa, you sound like you're the best in the World expert in Fox News, Bob. You da man!
This is a huge, UGE achievement for an ordinary BlueAnon, like yourself. Congratulations, and keep it going, man.
Fuck off troll
DeleteWhy does blue America need to report what Fox is doing when viewers can see for themselves? We don't need to be told how to think about Fox.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, Somerby never focuses on the content of what folks are saying, just on who is saying it. We get bios of reporters instead of insight into the issues they are discussing. Now we are being told that Blue America should be discussing Fox and not the issues and current events that any network should be covering.
DeleteI'll bet 10-1 that you cannot point me to where Somerby says Blue America should not be discussing "the issues and current events that any network should be covering."
DeleteI'll bet anyone here a million to one that they can't find a Republican voter who isn't a bigot.
DeleteHe never discusses that stuff in his own blog, then he flogs the blue media (which he conflates with the corporate mainstream media) for not telling the people that Fox is a propaganda outlet. Then he tells us that our democracy is dead because we blues haven't focused on Fox enough. Didn't you read today's two essays?
DeleteSomerby is not upset because Trump put out a crazy video. He is upset because Fox is normalizing Trump and we blues are not complaining about Fox enough. (The whole point of the no-kings protest was to complain about Trump.)
I didn't say Somerby was telling Blue America not to discusws current events, but that he was telling Blue America to focus on Fox for being a propaganda outlet. Fox is the problem for Somerby, Trump is crazy, and Blue America is not putting enough carefully selected psychiatrists on TV to call Trump crazy, meanwhile Gutfeld is calling women whales. That is the sum-total of Somerby's blog posts, day in and day out.
Today he is promising to call Trump crazy again, by excerpting about conduct disorders from the DSM-5. He perhaps missed the part where the diagnosis of conduct disorder applies only to children, not adults. Or maybe he is going to tell us to pity the child again, while blaming us for tolerating Fox (they have 1st Amendment rights over there). And perhaps he'll quote another poem.
"Over here in Blue America, major news orgs refuse to report or discuss what happens on these ersatz "cable news" programs. Meanwhile, programs like The Big Weekend Show routinely trash the stars of Blue America's press. As this happens, Blue America's journalists refuse to even say the names of the Fox News Channel messenger children inside Silo Red."
Isn't this a call for Blue America's journalists to call the Fox performers names and trash them? It sounds like that to me. And if they use their show to do that, they will be discussing less of the issues and current events that any network should be covering, or they will have to lengthen their own shows to do both. Do you really not see that show length is finite and if you talk about oranges you cannot talk about apples without talking less about each? When Somerby urges that Blue American media trash Fox celebrities, he is doing that at the expense of coverage of real news.
I'll take that as me winning the bet.
DeleteDG,.
DeleteAs 3:24, I'm taking that as me winning my bet, too.
No, are you too stupid to see that your bet was addressed by @3:26?
DeleteSpeaking of who is doing the reporting:
ReplyDelete"Benny Johnson is one of the right wing influencers who was revealed to have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Kremlin. Naturally that makes him an insider in the Trump White House. (He frequently travels with the president and Kristi Noem.)" [Digby]
Here is a cogent explanation of why Trump cannot just shoot people out of the water and claim they were drug smugglers afterwards.
ReplyDeletehttps://digbysblog.net/2025/10/21/another-splendid-little-war/
Why hasn't Trump been impeached yet. This stuff is very illegal and it illustrates Trump's increasing dementia. None of us on the left want this being done in our country's name.
Does it explain why it was okay for Obama to kill 4000 people, including Americans, and claim they were terrorists?
DeleteThe AUMF, dumbfuck trumptard.
DeleteNo.
DeleteNor does it explain why the Republican Party can't criticize the use of racist and bigoted language being used by Young Republicans, but it's obvious that the reason is it would risk them losing each and every one of their voters.
Actually, yes it does explain that. Go read it and see that there is a difference between what Obama did and what Trump is doing, and why Obama was legal while Trump is illegal.
DeleteSorry, but I have quite enough of you Soros-monkeys right here, to be chasing more Soros-monkeys out there.
DeleteWhat are you going to do about it, Mao?
DeleteStop raping children?
I'll take my chances with that idle threat.
Obama was less wrong, but still, he was wrong.
DeletePresident Trump nominated Paul Ingrassia to head the Office of Special Counsel. The senate might not confirm him.
ReplyDeleteI hope both David and Cecelia will defend Ingrassia. They failed to defend the poop video, but this is more important.
President Trump is telling the Department of Justice to pay him $23M.
ReplyDelete$230 million
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