The Dominion lawsuit against Fox News has lain bare the network's duplicity in the Big Lie.
Rather than tell the truth about the 2020 election, they chose to push the Big Lie because they were scared they would lose their rube viewers to Newsmax. It's all coming out now in their private messages to each other.
Tucker Carlson called Trump a "demonic force".
Yeah.
But who is the real demon when they knowingly help Trump push the Big Lie to the rubes?
Tucker Carlson also wrote, "Sidney Powell is lying."
Rupert Murdoch wrote that TrumpCo's lies were "really crazy stuff".
Sean Hannity said Rudy Giuliani is "acting like a crazy person", and Laura Ingraham responded he is "Such an idiot."
“Not a single Fox witness testified that they believe any of the allegations about Dominion are true,” Dominion argued in the filing. “Indeed, Fox witness after Fox witness declined to assert the allegations’ truth or actually stated they do not believe them, and Fox witnesses repeatedly testified that they have not seen credible evidence to support them.”
Fox’s news staff was just as loud in raising internal concerns as the star pundits and executives, the filings show. In one message, Fox correspondent Lucas Tomlinson wrote to news anchor Bret Baier referring to “dangerously insane” election claims. Baier, in turn, wrote that “there is NO evidence of fraud” and told Bill Sammon, then the network’s Washington bureau chief, that their team must “prevent this stuff,” meaning the spread of misinformation.
Now pay close attention to this next part, rubes, and observe how they agonized about telling you the TRUTH:
While much of the correspondence aired by Dominion shows Fox officials agonizing over false information on its airwaves, some of the behind-the-scenes torment was about a story the network got right — an election-night projection that Joe Biden would win the hotly contested state of Arizona.
Fox’s decision-desk analysts were days ahead of other news outlets in making the controversial call, which infuriated Trump and his supporters — including many Fox viewers.
“Do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we’ve lost with our audience?” Carlson wrote in a text message to his producer. “We’re playing with fire, for real.”
When a media outlet chooses to push a lie, they have crossed over from being a media outlet into a full-on propaganda outlet. They have chosen to push Fake News.
When they told you the TRUTH, they knew they would upset you! You have become so accustomed to being gaslighted that you literally cannot handle the truth. You cannot handle reality.
Fox News president Jay Wallace acknowledged in a text message to Scott that it was “a bit troubling” to see Newsmax pick up Fox viewers — an ultimately short-lived gain — adding that the rival network offered “an alternate universe” but that “it can’t be ignored.”
So I ask for the eleventy-hundreth time, why, oh why, do you fools keeping lining back up to be lied to over and over and over and over?
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We will all now observe the rubes doing back flips in order to continue to hold onto their delusions about the 2020 election. Delusions deliberately planted in their heads by their propagandists whose fealty to profits and to Trump override their loyalty to the TRUTH and to the country.