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Originally I thought all the election denial stuff was a bunch of BS, but now that I know that one of Sidney Powell's sources for the fraud was the time travelling ghost of a decapitated woman, I have to wonder, was the election really stolen after all...?

I mean, why would a time travelling ghost of a decapitated woman lie?

https://www.businessinsider.com/sidney-powell-voter-fraud-claims-headless-time-travel-dominion-fox-2023-2

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Tucker Carlson said he hates Trump ‘passionately’: legal filings

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“We are very very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” Carlson wrote in one text to an unidentified Fox employee on Jan. 4, 2021, according to the filing. “I hate him passionately, I blew up at Peter Navarro today in frustration. I actually like Peter. But I can’t handle much more of this.”

 

Carlson’s text were included in a series of exhibits contained in new filings made by Dominion as part of its $1.6 billion lawsuit for defamation against Fox. Dominion has accused Fox of knowingly airing false claims about the company being spun by Trump and his allies.

Of course the Trump CULT members here will deny ^this, cause they are CULT members. LMAO

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McConnell says Fox News made ‘a mistake’ by underplaying violence of Jan. 6

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“With regard to the presentation on Fox News last night, I want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief of the Capitol police about what happened on Jan. 6,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday, holding up a copy of the police chief’s statement. 

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“Clearly the chief of the Capitol Police, in my view, correctly described what most of us witnessed firsthand on Jan. 6,” he said. 

“It was a mistake, in my view, [for] Fox News to depict this in a way completely at variance with what our chief law enforcement official here at the Capitol” described, McConnell said. 

Manger, the police chief, said the commentary in Carlson’s show “was filled with offensive and misleading conclusions about the Jan. 6 attack.”

Statement from Capitol Chief of police Manger:

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Manger in his statement denounced that portrayal of events, slamming the claim that officers acted as “tour guides” as “outrageous and false.” 

“Those officers did their best to use de-escalation tactics to try to talk to rioters into getting each other to leave the building,” he said.  

But Manger said “the most disturbing accusation from last night was that our late friend and colleague Brian Sicknick’s death had nothing to do with heroic actions on Jan. 6.”  

“The department maintains, as anyone with common sense would, that had Officer Sicknick not fought valiantly for hours on the day he was violently assaulted, Officer Sicknick would not have died the next day,” the chief said. 

 

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Tucker Carlson, Jan 4, 2021:

”We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait. I hate him passionately.”

This was a text from Carlson’s own phone.  It was turned over as part of the Dominion lawsuit and it is public record: Tucker Carlson passionately hates Donald Trump.

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Republican elites fear the monster they created

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On screen, Fox News personalities paint a world of clear heroes and villains, where conservatives are always strong and right and liberals are weak and wrong. But the extraordinary private communications revealed in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox show who they really are. Panicked over Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, those same hosts, and the executives who run the network, cowered in abject terror.

They feared the same monster that keeps House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) up at night, the monster that conservative media and Republican politicians created: base voters who are deluded, angry and vengeful.

McCarthy has sought to appease the beast by granting exclusive access to 44,000 hours of surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection to Fox News host Tucker Carlson. But with each capitulation, McCarthy and Fox News only make the monster stronger.

To see how, begin with the Dominion lawsuit. The company, which makes election software and voting machines, alleges that Fox defamed its business by repeatedly claiming that its systems were used to steal the 2020 presidential election. To win this kind of case against a news organization, a plaintiff must show that the organization acted with actual malice — that it said things it knew were false or acted with reckless disregard for the truth. Mistakes alone are not enough.

Emails and texts sent in the days after the election appear to show exactly that. On air, Fox was spreading lies about supposed election fraud and bringing on guests without concern for their credibility, including Rudy Giuliani and GOP lawyer Sidney Powell. Meanwhile, Fox’s stars and executives privately belittled those same people and the claims they were making.

Sidney Powell is lying, Carlson wrote in one email. Giuliani was acting like an insane person, host Sean Hannity declared.

At the same time, Fox News tried to suppress the truth. Reporters for the organization who corrected false claims were reprimanded and threatened. One reporter who fact-checked Powell and Giuliani was told by her boss that executives were not happy about it and that she should do a better job of respecting our audience. When Fox truthfully reported Joe Biden’s victory, Carlson texted his producer: Do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we’ve lost with our audience? We’re playing with fire, for real. When another reporter fact-checked a Trump tweet spreading lies about stolen votes, Carlson demanded that the reporter be fired.

These documents make clear not only that Fox News stars and executives think their audience is a bunch of half-wits but also that they live in fear that the audience will turn on them unless they tell viewers exactly what they want to hear regardless of the facts.

Who taught that audience to believe conspiracy theories and to assume that any unwelcome information must be a sinister lie? Fox News, of course. 

In a NUTSHELL SPOT ON!

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Why Fox News Lied to the Viewers It ‘Respects’

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There are some stories that are important enough to pause the news cycle and linger on them, to explore not just what happened, but why. And so it is with Fox News’s role in the events leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. Thanks to a recent filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit against Fox, there is now compelling evidence that America’s most-watched cable news network presented information it knew to be false as part of an effort to placate an angry audience. It knowingly sacrificed its integrity to maintain its market share.

Why? There are the obvious reasons: Money. Power. Fame. These are universal human temptations. But the answer goes deeper. Fox News became a juggernaut not simply by being “Republican,” or “conservative,” but by offering its audience something it craved even more deeply: representation. And journalism centered on representation ultimately isn’t journalism at all.

To understand the Fox News phenomenon, one has to understand the place it occupies in Red America. It’s no mere source of news. It’s the place where Red America goes to feel seen and heard. If there’s an important good news story in Red America, the first call is to Fox. If conservative Christians face a threat to their civil liberties, the first call is to Fox. If you’re a conservative celebrity and you need to sell a book, the first call is to Fox. 


 

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It is CLEAR now that right wingers LIKE being LIED TO. Which is WHY they like Trump.
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2 minutes ago, robosmith said:

NY Times answer is interesting:

 

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Why? There are the obvious reasons: Money. Power. Fame. These are universal human temptations. But the answer goes deeper. Fox News became a juggernaut not simply by being Republican or conservative but by offering its audience something it craved even more deeply: representation. And journalism centered on representation ultimately isn’t journalism at all.

Interesting because while they're right, they are also admitting a flaw in their particular role, ie. they don't represent most people.  Maybe it's not their problem but it's definitely A problem.

Why are leftists and bougie tech people "leftists" (in the American way) and not people who work 3 jobs and live out of their cars ?

It's all backwards.

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5 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

NY Times answer is interesting:

 

Interesting because while they're right, they are also admitting a flaw in their particular role, ie. they don't represent most people.  Maybe it's not their problem but it's definitely A problem.

Why are leftists and bougie tech people "leftists" (in the American way) and not people who work 3 jobs and live out of their cars ?

It's all backwards.

People used to read papers like the NYT to get smarter (well, more educated). FOX discovered that you could make a lot more money making stupid people feel that they were already smart enough.

Journalism isn't supposed to represent. It's supposed to challenge and improve. That's the job. 

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Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) 

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“When you see police officers assaulted, all of that… if you were just a tourist, you should’ve probably lined up at the visitors’ center and came in on an orderly basis.” — Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), adding that Tucker Carlson’s claims about the January 6 riots are “bullshit.” 

At least Carlson's OTA claims are bullshit. His private comm with colleagues prove he's LYING.

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Tucker Carlson

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“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait. … I hate him passionately.” — Tucker Carlson text to a colleague on Jan. 4, 2021, from a cache of internal communications released Tuesday as part of a Dominion Voting Systems $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. 

 

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Murdoch has survived scandal after scandal. Will Dominion-Fox News lawsuit be different?

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During a January deposition, Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that he knew former President Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election were false, but he did not intervene to stop Fox News hosts and conspiracy-spinning guests from giving the assertions oxygen — even after the Jan. 6, 2021, rampage on the U.S. Capitol, which left five people dead.

Court testimony and internal emails — which have become evidence in a $1.6-billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News by software and voting machine supplier Dominion Voting Systems — exposed a campaign by Murdoch, his son Lachlan and other key Fox News figures to keep Trump-loving viewers and advertisers in the fold. The network and its stars, including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, were spooked by dipping ratings after the election and feared their audience might switch to other right-wing networks.

Murdoch, during his deposition, expressed some regret about his network’s handling of the stolen-election narrative. 

 

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Notice how @Nationalist amd the rest of the far right crackpots have not posted on this thread in over 10 days and even when they did post, they tried to change tue subject to CNN, Biden’s laptop, Covid conspiracies, Wikipedia, etc.

Not one of them is able to discuss the actual points relevant to the topic of this thread which to recap are:

1) Even Fox doesn’t believe the election conspiracy lies that its pundits it peddles to the gullible classes.
 

2) Tucker and other pundits complaining that the news division should stop report that Biden won the election fair and square because it is “not what our viewers want to hear”. In all of their internal emails and texts not once do any of them indicate that they believe the election was actually stolen, they basically only argue that their viewers could move to other right wing outlets unless the Fox  “news” department starts reporting the fake news that their hyper-partisan nutjob audience already believes to he true b

3) And the icing on the cake, which is Tucker has hated Trump this whole time. 

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35 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

Notice how @Nationalist amd the rest of the far right crackpots have not posted on this thread in over 10 days and even when they did post, they tried to change tue subject to CNN, Biden’s laptop, Covid conspiracies, Wikipedia, etc.

Not one of them is able to discuss the actual points relevant to the topic of this thread which to recap are:

1) Even Fox doesn’t believe the election conspiracy lies that its pundits it peddles to the gullible classes.
 

2) Tucker and other pundits complaining that the news division should stop report that Biden won the election fair and square because it is “not what our viewers want to hear”. In all of their internal emails and texts not once do any of them indicate that they believe the election was actually stolen, they basically only argue that their viewers could move to other right wing outlets unless the Fox  “news” department starts reporting the fake news that their hyper-partisan nutjob audience already believes to he true b

3) And the icing on the cake, which is Tucker has hated Trump this whole time. 

Yes, I've noticed that they are in DEEP DENIAL about the meaning of the internal texts and emails which PROVE that the Fox hosts are completely dishonest. AKA promoting story lines they don't even believe are true.

The odd thing is them promoting Carlson's video based Jan 6th allegations but ignoring the FACT that he's privately stated he doesn't believe them.

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Fox News finally reveals its kryptonite: the bottom line


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Fox News isn’t news, and it shouldn’t be treated as such. Let’s call it what it is: a right wing variety show where ratings trump truth.

Throughout the tense days following the 2020 election, through the deadly events of Jan. 6 and the fate of the union balancing on a razor’s edge, Fox doubled down again and again, attacking whomever or whatever it needed to stay in the black. But picking on Dominion, an entity with the resources to fight back, was a bad idea. Legal analysts have said there is ample evidence to prove in court that Fox unfairly targeted the voting machine maker, whether the ulterior motive was to help Trump and the Republican Party stay in power, feed viewers more of the red meat the network itself had gotten them hooked on, trounce competitors or all of the above.

Media watchdog groups have called for Fox to be penalized for its creative use of the word “news,” but those campaigns have been about as effective in creating real change as Robert Mueller’s report on Russian collusion in the 2016 election. Arguing against Fox News on moral or ethical grounds presupposes that the network values the basic tenets of journalism, such as avoiding conflicts of interest that would erode its credibility. But that ship has long since sailed, perhaps off the flat end of the Earth if we’re to believe the extreme elements the network’s conspiracy theorizing inevitably courts.

Even before the Dominion lawsuit, litigation has been the only effective weapon in the fight against Fox News’ dangerous excesses. After all, two of the network’s most influential — and seemingly untouchable — figures were taken down by lawsuits. News of multiple settlements, which in turn spurred more lawsuits, ultimately quieted its top blowhard, Bill O’Reilly, and its too-big-to-fail CEO, Roger Ailes. And make no mistake, it was an avalanche of multimillion-dollar payouts that toppled them, not the shame or embarrassment that they preyed on their colleagues and underlings.

Fox News’ loose relationship with the facts, and its unholy alliance with the most unhinged characters in the Republican Party, has finally come home to roost, and now the network is poised to pay a massive price. But it won’t be the revelation that it’s a partisan propaganda outlet that will bring it to heel. As with O’Reilly and Ailes, what might succeed in silencing the network’s worst instincts will be what’s been its kryptonite all along: the almighty dollar. 


 

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Conservative Media Pay Little Attention to Revelations About Fox News

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Fox News and its sister network, Fox Business, have avoided the story. Newsmax and One America News, Fox’s rivals on the right, have steered clear, too. So have a constellation of right-wing websites and podcasts.

Over the past two weeks, legal filings containing private messages and testimony from Fox hosts and executives revealed that many of them had serious doubts that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election through widespread voter fraud, even as those claims were made repeatedly on Fox’s shows. The revelations, made public in a defamation lawsuit against Fox brought by Dominion Voting Systems, have generated headlines around the world.

But in the conservative media world? Mostly crickets.

When users on right-wing social networks discussed the Fox News hosts, many criticized Mr. Carlson, Mr. Hannity and others for not fully believing the election fraud lies they appeared to endorse, Pyrra found. 

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^This is why right wingers here ignore the story. Right wing propaganda sites won't report ^this NEWS.
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Ex-Trump aide at Fox wrestled with election lies, network’s interests

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The emails and text messages involving Raj Shah, who had served as a senior aide in Donald Trump’s White House for two years before his hiring at Fox, offer a particularly vivid example of the pattern, demonstrating how elements of Fox, the Republican Party and the then-president’s own staffers spent years accommodating some of Trump’s worst impulses and amplifying some of his lies. When it came to the baseless election fraud narrative — including that counting dead voters had lifted the Democrats to victory — many of these people were aware of the likely falsity of the allegations but were unwilling to anger Trump or his supporters by clearly stating so publicly.

Shah is also a reminder of how Trump’s operation had become fused to the nation’s most watched conservative news channel, whose coverage had helped fuel his rise before his 2016 election. Shah was part of a long line of Trump underlings who passed back and forth between Trump’s orbit and Fox’s on- and off-air ranks. 

 

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2 hours ago, impartialobserver said:

I find in general that folks care more about style than substance.. hence why FOX NEWS is alive and well 

That is the point of FOX LYING and NOT being an actual NEWS organization.

FOX sacrificed the truth to tell their audience WHAT THEY WANTED TO HEAR.

We have some of them right here who STILL REJECT that FOX HOSTS LIED by promoting stories NOT EVEN THEY BELIEVED. 

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20 hours ago, robosmith said:

That is the point of FOX LYING and NOT being an actual NEWS organization.

FOX sacrificed the truth to tell their audience WHAT THEY WANTED TO HEAR.

We have some of them right here who STILL REJECT that FOX HOSTS LIED by promoting stories NOT EVEN THEY BELIEVED. 

I see evidence of this on a daily basis. I swim in raw data all day. Not interpretations, not subjective opinions. My stuff looks like this. When we are asked about stuff like jobs in xyz industry, wages, unemployment, job postings, etc... if we give raw numbers, the glazed look comes on in 2 seconds on the best of days. They want passionate, opinionated takes on how the number went up due to this liberal/conservative, and so on. 

 

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3 minutes ago, impartialobserver said:

I see evidence of this on a daily basis. I swim in raw data all day. Not interpretations, not subjective opinions. My stuff looks like this. When we are asked about stuff like jobs in xyz industry, wages, unemployment, job postings, etc... if we give raw numbers, the glazed look comes on in 2 seconds on the best of days. They want passionate, opinionated takes on how the number went up due to this liberal/conservative, and so on. 

 

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I was occasionally exposed to shows like Tucker Carlson when I visited a Trump fanatic friend (used to be a liberal).

Observing Tucker for 10 minutes meant hearing a dozen LIES.

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1 minute ago, robosmith said:

I was occasionally exposed to shows like Tucker Carlson when I visited a Trump fanatic friend (used to be a liberal).

Observing Tucker for 10 minutes meant hearing a dozen LIES.

Folks want affirmation not information. Affirmation comes with a certain style to it hence why Trump, Tucker Carlsen, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, and Ann Coulter are popular. 

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