A heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination, and manufactured outrage, huffed by pundits who don't interpret things the way people do.
At the poetry reading where Common was invited to the capital to deliver a message of people overcoming violence in their communities to achieve a more positive future, those news anchors whom had been reporting as though a rapper was appearing with the Obama's to shoot cops and destroy the Whitehouse, weren't breathing the same stuff as the rest of us. They had the Foxygen.
by daily viewer May 13, 2011
The heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination, and manufactured outrage. Coined by Jon Stewart
by FnClassy May 13, 2011
"Heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination and manufactured outrage"
Term coined by "The Daily Show with John Stewart" describing the methods and environment in which Fox News personalities push their agenda under the veil of "News".
Term coined by "The Daily Show with John Stewart" describing the methods and environment in which Fox News personalities push their agenda under the veil of "News".
by TodoInTX May 15, 2011
A gaseous drug, a “heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination, and manufactured outrage”, which causes people to perceive reality as a far-right-wing caricature that would be scoffed at by Republicans of the Eisenhower era. (Term coined on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, 2011-05-12.)
“After thirty years of stagnant middle-class wages, anyone who thinks trickle-down economics works is clearly huffing Foxygen.”
by catslaugh May 13, 2011
"The heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination, and manufactured outrage", such as what is regularly aired on FOX News.
"For those who huff the heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination, and manufactured outrage, known as FOXygen ..." -- by John Stewart on his Daily Show, May 12, 2011, about FOX News' over-reaction to a recent poetry reading at the White House by rapper Common.
by WarIsNotTheAnswer May 23, 2011
"The heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination, and manufactured outrage." Foxygen was coined by John Stewart on his Daily Show, May 12, 2011, as a neologism describing the kind of orchestrated disinformation that is continuously AIRed by FOX News.
"Jon Stewart again smacked Fox News for its fury over Common’s White House appearance, pointing out last night that only huffers of “Foxygen”—“the heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination, and manufactured outrage” — would be bothered by the rapper’s performance."
Cite: j. mp/foxygen
Cite: j. mp/foxygen
by WarIsNotTheAnswer May 14, 2011
Fox News Watcher: Obama is an islamo-fascist Manchurian candidate who is a proven threat to the lives of every American.
Sane Person: You really need to stop huffing the foxygen.
Sane Person: You really need to stop huffing the foxygen.
by guy full of definitions May 13, 2011