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Fox News Website Trumpets Government 'Slimdown,' Not Shutdown

Fox News: Shutdown? What Shutdown?
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Senior Media Editor, The Huffington Post

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"Shutdown"? What's a "shutdown"?

If you were looking at the Fox News website, you might think you were in a different universe than the one where everyone is talking about a government shutdown.

What we have, according to the network, is a "slimdown." The government's not frozen and crippled -- it's just losing a little weight!

Ironically, on television, there was still talk of a "shutdown":

(h/t Alexander Kaufman)

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