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To take a nuanced, complex issue and to simplify it substantially, usually for the purpose of evoking jingoistic or simple-minded responses from Fox News viewers.
To take a nuanced, complex issue and to simplify it substantially, usually for the purpose of evoking jingoistic or simple-minded responses from Fox News viewers.
Example 1: "Sean Hannity frequently likes to foxificate the global climate change discussion by deeming climate change scientists "extremists".
Example 2: "The Fox and Friends morning crew foxificated the discussion on the budget deficit by alluding to the money spent on NPR and Planned Parenthood as significant sources of government waste, thereby fomenting anti-Obama hatred."
Example 2: "The Fox and Friends morning crew foxificated the discussion on the budget deficit by alluding to the money spent on NPR and Planned Parenthood as significant sources of government waste, thereby fomenting anti-Obama hatred."
by Alejandro75 September 24, 2011
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It's hard to know how many people attended Glen Beck's rally as the number goes through foxification before every report.
by mtnmamma October 20, 2010
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adjective: refers to a news item or event invented, over-hyped, or misrepresented in the hopes of inciting "outrage" amongst a loyal fanbase who rarely cross-checks, and accepts the veracity of your claims at face value due to the source.
Verb: to invent, over-hype, or misrepresent a news item or event in the hopes of inciting "outrage" amongst a loyal fanbase who rarely cross-checks, and accepts the veracity of your claims at face value due to the source.
Verb: to invent, over-hype, or misrepresent a news item or event in the hopes of inciting "outrage" amongst a loyal fanbase who rarely cross-checks, and accepts the veracity of your claims at face value due to the source.
Once the furor died down, it was determined that the story in which the President's pro-nutrition public address was actially a call for the creation of soylent Green was a story Foxbricated to apeal to the listeners of one or two particular radio programs. The end result was as the foxbricators hoped- a nation paralyzed by jingoism, fear, and false rhetoric.
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