After their parent company received a lengthy, angry letter from a voting machine manufacturer at the center of multiple election conspiracy theories, three separate programs on Fox News and Fox Business aired an identical interview fact-checking some of their hosts’ own claims this weekend, enraging viewers and surprising the fact-based community.
Tucker Carlson will have to air a segment connecting Smartmatic to Boy Scout pedophilia.
FOX News - Official Apology for prominently airing lies about the election and voting machine companies, etc.:
Hopeless - tried to post a Kristen Wiig gif saying “sorry” … to no avail…
That is, FOX is about as sincere in their apologies as Wiig’s crazed character Gilly.
fact-checking some of their hosts
Sounds like they need some reputable hosts.
Outstanding. We’ve reached a point in our modern world where even when the lying liars admit that they’re lying, their mouth breathing, dumbfuck viewers don’t believe it when they have to tell the truth. We’re fucked until we get those motherfuckers working off of objective facts.
The most important part of this story is the reaction of FOX viewers and why Donald Trump cannot remain a relevant force in the GOP and concede defeat.
This shows that GOP base created Donald Trump and not the other way around. For Trump to do anything but contest the election, much like Trump did for most of Obama’s two terms with the racist birther lie, would cost Trump the base of the Republican Party.
As has been said many times, the overwhelming support for Donald “grab her by the …” Trump by White Evangelicals, Black Evangelicals vote over 95% for Democrats, proves beyond all doubt that “values” in front of the word voter is and has always been code for race.
That said, by refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the Joe Biden’s substantial 2020 election victory Donald Trump is doing exactly what the Republicans did in response to every Democrat victory since 1976. That is none of the last 3 Democrats elected president in 5 different elections had their victories accepted as legitimate by the Republican base.
The reason the Republican base believes Trump won the election is NOT because they believe Trump got more total votes than Joe Biden. Rather, the reason the Republican base has not accepted a Democrat victory in over 40 years is because the Republican base believes that to win requires a majority not of all votes but of White votes.
If Trump were to ever accept the will of ALL the American people and conceded the election the Republican base would turn on Trump and Trump knows this. Therefore regardless if Trump’s refusal to concede is making it harder for the Republican Party, Trump is doing what is best for Trump and keeping control of the Republican base with the hope it will continue to give him control of the Republican Party.
Never say never but the most dangerous post election treachery seems to have peaked after last weeks Trump martial law meeting at the Whitehouse went public.
A+ for the social media posts you chose for this article. They provided illumination rather than background noise.
Smartmatic should demand the people pushed this propaganda should be the ones who now have to refute it, that means Dobbs, Bartiromo and Pirro; not some tech flake.
As the kids say he who smelt it, dealt it.
Breaking: Fox News reports that it is “not aware” of any facts supporting Fox News reporting on the election.
And, for as many times as they built it up for the same amount of time each time.
Fuck them in the ass.
Someone’s worried.
The right wing bubble is filled with fragile snowflakes.
Lou Dobbs reads this as if it’s a hostage note forced on him from the suits above or Kent Brockman’s writing staff. Let him start to debunk some of the nonsense he was putting out there for the past 20 odd years from Birtherism to Benghazi and the attacks on the FBI and our intelligence agencies.
This means Fox knew their people were lying and allowed it for the ratings from dumb fuckers who only know how to turn on their TV to Fox.
Fox should be forced to air that ‘correction’ at least 2 times a day for the next 6 months.
Fox News: Fairly Unbalanced re Litigation.
Considering that each of those people are at great risk of becoming defendants in one or more defamation lawsuits, and that their prospective jury pools are decidedly anti-Trump, they should probably volunteer those apologies all on their own.
I hope someone backs $$ for both companies to pursue - and forces Fox and its mutant cousin to face up to practicing smearing and Dezinformatsia to fleece the rubes.
Exactly.
The talking heads that threw the bull shit need to serve the truth.