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Bob Somerby has been on the right track for a long time. Fox News is a big problem, but the real problems come from the so-called Main Stream Media. The profits and the cachet that Limbaugh and Ailes have created, along with the right-wing activisim of the far-right religious minority, have completely convinced them to abandon any pursuit other than what Bartcop called "the ditto monkey dollar."