ROX vs. FOX Continued
Posted by Matt Poundstone
A short side note in Jason’s last column urged people who might own Fox News hats to do like his father and take a marker to the FOX logo, turning the …F’ to an …R’ and spelling out …Rox News’ in support of our World Series-bound Rockies.
This suggestion is sound advice for free-media loving Americans and baseball fans alike. But it also begs the question: Who out there would actually wear a Fox News hat?
For inquiring minds that want to know, here’s what a quick Internet search revealed.
First of all, the phrase “Fox News hat” yields few instructive results on Google. The same thing goes for “sporting” and “wearing a/his/her Fox News hat.” It doesn’t help a Google search when the word …hat’ appears frequently in the blogosphere vernacular.
But overall, the web reveals some limited utility in wearing a Fox hat, ranging from the provocative to the absurd.
If, for example, you are trying to annoy Hollywood anti-war activists like Sean Penn and Tim Robbins, walk up to them with a microphone and a Fox News cap and ask whether they want America to succeed in Iraq. The hat turns out to be the cherry that gets extra press for a guerrilla interview.
If you’re an outspoken member of the alleged liberal media elite, the cap can also be hip and ironic. At the memorial for journalist Molly Ivins, a slide show featured a photo of her in a Fox News hat. The sight drew roaring laughter from the audience.
Finally, from the Random Celebrity Sighting files: a man in a Fox News hat appears at a paintball adventure with none other than William “James Tiberius Kirk” Shatner. The man in the photo is listed as Col. David Hunt, who is (you guessed it) a Fox News contributor.
So, if you’re in the mood to agitate the left or engage in simulated combat with a TV celeb, a Fox News cap might be for you.
For the rest of us, there will always be the …Rox News’ alternative…-or the often wise example of Molly Ivins to treat the whole enterprise as a joke.