The final implosion of Trump's Fox News propagandists

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
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Fox News propagandists are now relentlessly pushing the idea that the election is being stolen from Trump, to provide cover for invalidating countless lawful ballots. What's funny is those Fox personalities helped lure him down the path to his likely loss:

Opinion | The final implosion of Trump’s Fox News propagandists
Fox personalities spew lies about the election to save Trump from the very disaster they helped create.
washingtonpost.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/05/final-implosion-trumps-fox-news-propagandists/

With President Trump mounting a frantic, last-ditch effort to stop the counting of votes that could doom his reelection, his Fox News propagandists are wheeling into action: One after another, they are raging that the election is being stolen from Trump by all manner of chicanery and fraud.

In a way, this represents the perfect finale for them, because there may be no group of people alive who did more to construct the bubble of unreality that Trump bought into all throughout the last year.

In so doing, they had a big hand in creating the record and even the worldview — the themes and narratives and depiction of the state of the country and the true nature of the challenges it faces — on which he ended up staking his reelection.

Now they are engaged in a last-ditch effort to help prevent the American people from rendering their verdict on all of it in a free and fair election — to forestall that verdict on what they themselves wrought.

"Tonight every American should be angry, outraged and worried and concerned about what happened in the election and the lead up to the election," chief Trump propagandist Sean Hannity declared on Wednesday night.

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[Eyeball_Kid]

1. "Concerned about what happened..."

Eh? What happened Sean? What actually happened. You can't articulate "what happened" because Biden is getting more votes than Trump. Why should every American be angry, etc., over a Biden win? 71 MILLION voted for Biden!

But Hannity's being deliberately vague because all he's concerned about is that dog whistle he's sending to Trumpers. Vagueness is all that's needed. In fact, vagueness is Hannity's sleight of hand. He doesn't have the voting facts on his side, so he makes vague allegations that sound oh, so troubling.

[Midnight Writer]

2. We need to use their language. "He is trying to overturn the election!"