Fox News Chyron Highlights 2012 Apocalypse Fears

Via Mike Madden, it seems that Fox News is keeping abreast of the issues that matter most to America -- and not at all indulging in bizarre, paranoid fantasies. As we've learned, the "some" who are always "some saying" tend to "say" all kinds of weird things. In this case, apparently "many people" believe the world is going to end in 2012. Most of that "many," of course, are the ancient Mayans, who had the good sense to die out as a culture before any of the real apocalyptic pain was visited upon the earth. (That's a "joke," humorless anthropologists!) But that's enough of a news peg to hang a story on, apparently:

Obviously, this story is "developing!"

Actually, in fairness to Fox here, I happen to be a big fan of the apocalypse as a literary device, even when it is ineptly deployed. Let's face it, placing the entire planet on collision with a comet/meteor/supernova/climate calamity/alien invasion/viral pandemic/spawn of Satan/ancient prophesy/whatever that weird black sphere in the Fifth Element was all about is an ambitious gambit. Once you've raised the stakes that high, your epic struggles to win the affection of Zooey Deschanel sort of pale in comparison. The Mayan calendar/2012 prophesy is going to be in vogue, now, thanks to the forthcoming, economically-named movie 2012. Based on this clip, it seems that the plot of the movie is about the zero-sum strategy of self-destruction that the planet earth embarks on in order to gain vengeance upon John Cusack.

WATCH... if you dare!

Anyway, like Robert Frost said, "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice," and apparently many people believe it will end in this way. But look, whether it's fire or ice or bang or whimper, if the world does end in 2012, I think that Fox News is going to feel pretty stupid that it wasted so much time opposing health care reform.

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Comments

[beckpod1]

It's the latest wave for fear-junki­es....rest of us sometimes wonder if special effects will ever be used sparringly...and with taste!

[JcFractal]

Nothing is going to happen, but man made.

[jdrourke]

Of course Fox is giddy about another scary possibility; fear = ratings! I wonder how Y-2-K feels about all this rubbish concerning 2012...?

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/dear-2012-a-k-a-the-end-of-the-world-and-all-that-sht/

[atoonce]

NICE CGI. donuts rolling, cars falling out of parking garages, limo driving through partially collapsed building. Excellent. Q #1: Is this just Cali? It sd no matter where you live. So where are they flying to? Q #2: Why exactly is the earth just crumbling and exploding? Is it like a ticking time bomb, game over type deal? Maybe Cusack just happened to have a Superman-type fortress up at the North Pole? Or was it the South Pole? Because the ice will certainly be melted on both ends and the NP would be water. Lets just say they successfully make it to the Fortress. How are they going to survive the rest of their lives without satellite TV?

[Jazz88105]

sorry... astronomical alignment happens in 2012. He says the movie is more likely to end the world. LOL

[Jazz88105]

The Mayan Chief Rogeberto Poot says its all a coincidence that the astro

[sweakley]

Screw paying my student loans, changing the oil in my car, or eating healthy. I'm going to live it up for the next 2 yrs.

[Dynamohum]

Right........this is right up there with Y2K, which was the biggest joke of the new millenia.

[msbadger]

LOL and Guffaw! They HOPE it will be TEOTW so they won't have to face another 4 yrs of democracy in action. It'll be the Mayan Rapture! (someone could invent a drink by this name...)

And to see this on F*x nuze is just another reminder of how little difference there is between their idea of "breaking news" and that found in the Nat'l Enquirer.... Well, it don't bother me. I getz my nuze from teh LOLcats.

[carlosgriffin]

The National Geographic channel and Discovery/History channel (not sure which one) keep putting on 1 hour specials about the very same thing. I find this stuff vaguely amusing.

[KIVPossum]

The last few years much of their crap is National Equirer type programing.

[12-21-2012]

2012 is an interesting topic. For an objective starting point, go here:
http://www­.2012endof­days.org

[SimianNation]

Fear...can you smell it on their breath?

[Mustang Sally]

EEEEEWE!

;-)

[TheEmptinessOfTruthiness]

Jason when you are famous and fabulously wealthy, will you remember us little people?

Thanks Bud! I knew you would.

[joeyfoto]

At least the Mayans could do math. That's more than anyone can say for the fools who believe what they see on Fox-Fake-News.

[BustMyChops]

I'm surprised Fox acknowledges 2012. It wasn't a Judeo-Christian prophecy. They couldn't possibly give credibility to an evil ancient religion..could they?

[jack7521]

This will all make more sense when Beck goes on vacation and his fill-in, Nostrodamus, can explain it all to us.