Texts obtained from Dominion’s lawsuit show Tucker, Sean, & Laura calling their guests “F’ing lunatics” “totally off the rails” &“MIND BLOWINGLY NUTS"

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Told ya Republicans are mental. straight from the horse's mouth!

REVEALED: Fox Stars Think Trumpworld Figures Are Just as ‘Insane’ as You Do

 

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Told ya Republicans are mental. straight from the horse's mouth!

REVEALED: Fox Stars Think Trumpworld Figures Are Just as ‘Insane’ as You Do

You already posted it. Excellent. I would think this is check mate as far as who is the real fake news. It's Fox.

network was feeding viewers information about fraud in the 2020 election that its executives, hosts and producers knew to be false. Out of fear that Fox News’s audience was leaving for its competitors

So in order to keep right wing idiots who are their viewers, they had to push the lie. How scary is that?

Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham. In the Nov. 18, 2020, conversation, the Fox stars shared their contempt for Trump’s conspiracy-minded lawyers, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani. Carlson told Ingraham that he personally found their lies “unbelievably offensive,” but added: “Our viewers are good people and they believe it.”

Fox News’ role, according to its own talent, is thus not to challenge or inform its audience, but rather to confirm what its right-wing viewers already believe. In short, Fox is a propaganda outlet, not a news outlet.

And they will continue to lie. Even after this came out

On Thursday night, just hours after the brief’s release, Carlson was still insinuating that the election was fraudulent, telling his viewers: “There are so many unanswered questions, some of them lingering. How, for example, did Biden get 15 million more votes than his former boss Obama? Was the 2020 election a miracle? Honestly we don’t know and don’t expect an answer tonight.”


Fox’s viewers are good people and they believe that Bill Gates has placed microchips in the COVID-19 vaccine, and Fox’s stars are there to tell them they are right to think the vaccines are dangerous and unnecessary. Fox’s viewers are good people and they believe that Paul Pelosi was assaulted by his gay lover, and Fox’s stars are there to tell them they are right to question the official story. Fox’s viewers are good people and they believe that Trump is about to smash a global cabal of Democrats and celebrities that is sexually abusing children, and Fox’s stars are there to tell them that there’s nothing wrong with being a QAnon adherent, whatever that is.

But with its 2020 election fraud lies, Fox News may have finally gone too far. It is very difficult to win a defamation case against a media outlet in this country — rightfully so given the importance of the First Amendment. But Dominion’s lawsuit makes a strong case based on internal documents that it says show “literally dozens of people with editorial responsibility — from the top of the organization to the producers of specific shows to the hosts themselves — acted with actual malice” — the legal standard required in defamation cases. And earlier in the week, a court ruled against Fox News’ bid to quash a separate $2.7 billion lawsuit filed by the election technology company Smartmatic, which the network similarly maligned.

Fox News may finally be on the verge of facing real consequences for lying to its viewers. That day of reckoning can’t come soon enough.

 

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Told ya Republicans are mental. straight from the horse's mouth!

REVEALED: Fox Stars Think Trumpworld Figures Are Just as ‘Insane’ as You Do

Fox News also played a key role in helping Bush steal 2000. And helped him lie us into Iraq. They've been a problem long before Trump. The funny thing is they are now the least right wing of all the right wing media sources. Newsmax I think is even more extreme. Maybe they are more careful about slandering and lying? And Fox is going to argue 1st amendment rights and the right wing Supreme's will probably side with them.

But the internal text messages prove they acted with actual malice” — the legal standard required in defamation cases.