The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
On Tuesday, the Fox Mole wrote his inaugural post on Gawker, which included some unremarkable footage of Mitt Romney bantering with Sean Hannity during a break in an interview. The consensus on Ricochet was that, if anything, the footage compelled folks to like Romney a little better – or to dislike him a little less, as the case may be.
Then on Wednesday, the Fox Mole complained about News Corp bathrooms.
And by Wednesday evening, Fox Mole had been outed and fired. From his last post, a confession that's sure to serve him well as he tries to salvage his reputation and career prospects:
I am a weasel, a traitor, a sell-out and every bad word you can throw at me... but as of today, I am free, and I am ready to tell my story, which I wasn't able to fully do for the previous 36 hours.
The Fox Mole's real identity: Joe Muto. And it turns out Mr. Muto accepted just $5,000 to commit career hara-kiri.
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May '10
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
...gives a new meaning to the term "spilling your guts..."
Jun '10
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
Keith Preston
...gives a new meaning to the term "spilling your guts..." · 5 minutes ago
Genius.
Dec '10
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
Diane,
Let's see, The Left is made up of Starry Eyed Idealists or
The Left is made up of Cheap Backstabbing Idealogues.
Hmmm...let me think.
Regards,
Jim
May '10
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
A liberal was miserable at Fox. Go figure. How many people at other networks bite their lower lips til they bleed (besides me)?
May '10
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Given that lefties own the vast bulk of the legacy media, this was arguably a very sensible career move. Now he can be a celebrity inside MSNBC.
Jun '10
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He's gonna tell his story now? The whole story? Everything that he knows about Fox News? From the inside?
Oh this will really shake things up. Finally, we will see the level of bias that was seeping out from the edges before but always mopped up just before the world got the info. The reason that something like this doesn't happen in the liberal stations is that there was nothing to tell: just plain old hard work, getting to the bottom of everything, slogging through the mundane world we live in.
I mean how can that be sexy? That's why Fox News has been outselling its competitors. It's simply willing to do all those dastardly things we all hear about. Things that people of integrity would never stoop to pick up and then promote.
After this all comes out we will all have to take a bath, I'm sure.
Jun '10
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
Has there been a bigger non-event this week?
Mar '12
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
And apparently, he has more revelations to come!
I'm skeptical--if I was Gawker, I would have published the most explosive allegation first.
Mar '11
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
Mr. Muto? The famous Japanese secret agent?
Aug '10
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
It only took them two days to track him down?
He must have been really, really bad at covering his tracks. Did he use Fox's computer equipment to send his submissions to Gawker?!
Up here in Canuckistan, there was a Liberal Party staffer that was busted running a particularly nasty anti-Tory Twitter account. His mistake was that he used a Government of Canada computer, so it was easy to track the IP information back to him.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Dumb.
Still, it took more than a week for the guy to be exposed.
This guy at Fox was either really incompetent, or else he wanted to get caught so that he could get better offers from Fox's competitors.
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
Diane, well said. I see the mole has now released new excerpts from the Hannity-Romney conversation showing that both men are -- brace yourselves -- completely reasonable. Romney explains that he thinks there is a time and place for using a teleprompter, which should come as a shock to no one because Romney has used teleprompters at certain times and places. The mole seems to think this is somehow hypocritical or ironic because some have made fun of Obama for overusing teleprompters, but instead it comes off as reasonable and thoughtful. One would think that a mole would be better at digging up dirt.
Sep '10
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
This raises the question:
"Do moles have squirrel brains?"
Aug '10
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
He'll have a long career as a "former conservative" who speaks truth to power about the racism and sexism of the conservative movement. He'll be like all of those "former Satanists" who told evangelicals about the evils of D&D in the 80s who took advantage of honest and deeply religious people by spreading fear.
In this case, he'll be fear mongering those that the Democrats have been lying to for years. He'll be yet another example of the converted enemy who couldn't stand the hate.
He's another David Brock in the making, and I'm sure Media Matters has a position just waiting for him.
Sep '10
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
This has all the drama of Frasier Crane running with scissors in his hands.
May '10
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
I certainly hope conservatives don't waste their breath talking about whatever inane accusations Muto makes from here on.
Don't let Democrats control the public conversation, folks. Talk about what matters, not whatever topic the New York Times or MSNBC raises to distract us.
Aug '10
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
Yabbut, they're really good at coming up with topics that make for interesting Ricochet comment threads!
The issues that really matter don't tend to be nearly as fun in the "Post Comment" department.
May '10
Re: The Fox Mole's 15 Minutes of Fame Have Come to an End
It's slightly off-topic, but now's as good a time as ever to point out that "Fox News Liberal" is a TV Trope.
Sep '10
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The comment from "mbmanni" on the Gawker article is entertaining. It starts, "Hi Joe, can I be the first liberal to call you a (unmentionable)?" and gets better from there.
May '10
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Another story reminding us of professionalism's gradual death in the internet age. Whether you love or hate your job, you don't rant about your employer through blog posts--unless, of course, there is some legitimate whistleblowing rationale (insider trading, not "they are conservative").
Oct '10
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Romney might want to pay this guy $5000. That clip of Mitt and Hannity really does make me think more of Mitt.There's a guy I'd enjoy having a beer, er no...coffee, no...well then, lemonade with. He seems like a genuinely good guy.
Maybe, just maybe, the RNC has really gotten smart and this mole was a double agent.