As a retiree, I like to sit and watch the news at different times in the day to stay up on current events. I also like to watch different news brands, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, Newsmax, just to see what they are covering and how they are trying to slant the coverage. I pick one story and go back and forth between the liberal and conservative news outlets to see how they report and analyze the story. I am pretty good at weeding through the BS that all these networks put out on varying events but this Fox News story on their outright lying about the 2020 election really is stunning at so many levels. I have been doing some extensive research on it and I will tell you, it boils my blood.
I wrote several blog posts about the so-called election fraud of 2020 and as I stated back then, I state now, there was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Fox news used this nonsense to pander to their audience and allowed for a false narrative to be reported repeatedly. Fox’s main news entertainers, that’s the correct adjective for those three by the way, Tucker Carson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham have had all their texts messages submitted as evidence in the Dominion lawsuit filed against Fox news. Let’s do a quick review of their mind-numbing coverage.
Fox News stunned the Trump campaign on election night by becoming the first news outlet to declare Joseph R. Biden Jr. the winner of Arizona — effectively projecting that he would become the next president. Then, as Fox’s ratings fell sharply after the election and the president refused to concede, many of the network’s most popular hosts and shows began promoting outlandish claims of a far-reaching voter fraud conspiracy involving Dominion machines to deny Mr. Trump a second term. Everyday, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo would wheel out Sydney Powell or Rudy Giuliani and they would taint the airways with their false information, and this of course would get the Trump base fired up even more. Here are some of the behind-the-scenes texts by the fair and balanced crew.
Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It’s insane,” Mr. Carlson wrote to Ms. Ingraham on Nov. 18, 2020.
Ms. Ingraham responded: “Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy.”
Mr. Carlson continued, “Our viewers are good people, and they believe it,” he added, making clear that he did not. The messages also show that such doubts extended to the highest levels of the Fox Corporation, with Rupert Murdoch, its chairman, calling Mr. Trump’s voter fraud claims “really crazy stuff.”
On one occasion, as Mr. Murdoch watched Mr. Giuliani and Ms. Powell on television, he told Suzanne Scott, chief executive of Fox News Media, “Terrible stuff damaging everybody, I fear.”
Tucker Carlson also wanted to get one of the Fox reporters fired for fact checking and telling the truth about all this garbage, Carlson and Hannity apparently did not take kindly to her public rejection of Trump’s messaging.
“Please get her fired. Seriously…What the f–k?” Carlson wrote in a text to his colleagues, according to the filing. “I’m actually shocked…It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.”
Say one thing behind the scenes, but report what makes the audience happy, to hell with facts! All these folks claim to be god-fearing, Christian upstanding Americans who apparently lie like they breath just to push a false narrative, despicable if you ask me. The thing that really torques me is all this lying led us to January 6, 2021, one of the worst days in American history. I believe that Fox News may have finally jump the shark yesterday when one of President Trump’s sycophants Kelly Ann Conway went on Fox news and came out with this dribble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV-6tq0fhaU
I say this all the time, I am an independent voter but more important, I am an American first. I’m not a cancel culture guy, I don’t want these folks to be fired, I think a much better punishment would be to make them go on TV and admit they lied for President Trump and his campaign. Personally, I hope Dominion wins every penny from their lawsuit, I also think making all the Fox personalities take a civics course on what it means to be an American would-be justice.