Wikipedia says the Fox News morning show was named after the great Ranier Werner Fassbinder film, Fox and His Friends, about a (gay German) working class guy who whores himself out to buy a lottery ticket and then proceeds to get fleeced by his new-found friends.
The Beagle Kultur mavens definitely recommend this film if you ever get the chance. Fassbinder plays the lead, Franz "Fox" Biberkopf (the same name as the lead character in the great opus Berlin Alexanderplatz). We have never seen Fox and Friends so we can't make any comparisons, but we have seen the 15-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz multiple times.
Biberkopf = Stupidhead
So the actual appropriate non-ironic title for the show should be "Stupidhead and Friends."
We're not kidding.
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