TLP: Rick Wilson, Molly Jong-Fast and George Conway condemn Fox News
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Fox News is going full negative on the Biden Administration. The Murdochs are doubling down and tripling down on lies. Rick Wilson, Molly Jong-Fast and George Conway condemn Fox News in the 'Fuck That Guy' segment of The New Abnormal.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-trump-and-biden-swap-bodies
Transcription from [47:28] All errors are mine.
RICK WILSON: In the spirit of unity, I believe I’m going to lead off. My Fuck That Guy for today is Fox News. - you Rupert and you, Lachlan. It's Fox News. Fuck That Guy.
They spent last night - OK during the inauguration yesterday and during the night last night, their coverage immediately went to - 'Full communism is coming. Joe Biden’s socialist army is sweeping the country … like locusts preparing to tear apart your communities, forcing you into sharia gay marriage. It's all over. Antifa has a cabinet office now. What will you do America? - Live in fear!' Fuck That Guy
Listen it's so performative and it's so cheesy and it's so shallow. Tucker Carlson … glaring at the screen with his squint, begins with a [chevron] that says “There's a lot we don't know about Joe Biden.” What? - He's from Delaware! ... but he goes by the name ‘Abu Joe’ and he runs around the country blowing shit up. No, sorry, Tucker.
The idea that we're going to have any kind of unity from Fox! Remember, twenty four hours before that, all that Fox would say is ‘We've got to have unity. … If we impeach Trump, there will be no unity. Oh, my God' ... But immediately, at eleven forty seven a.m. yesterday morning, it was ‘Joe Biden [is] full communism - He's worse than Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler all put together.' So anyway, Fuck That Guy.
MOLLY JONG-FAST: Just to add to your Fuck That Guy for a minute. What Fox has done now, which is fire basically whatever was left of the quote unquote news side, which was very opinionated anyway, means that now Fox has gone sort of full OAN. Right, they've become the new big Newsmax. And so they're going to be worse. They're going to ultimately be - you know they're not even going to have the sort of supposition of news. There's not even going to be the pretense. So I do think that they really deserve to have a large and elaborate fuck that guy this week because Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch have made the choice that the truth is just of no interest to them. And they're going to double down on this, even though they know that this leads to autocracy and fascism because we've seen it already. So fuck you both, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch.
GEORGE CONWAY: All right. So in the interest of unity, I'm going to agree with you. And I do think that Fox News is a stain on American democracy and on the media. It's just - I mean, we have seen where disinformation leads us. We have seen it. It leads to basically a large segment of the population … believing what they want to believe and then consuming more of what they want to consume that and allowing them to engage in self delusion. And part of that vicious cycle is basically bad actors doing this for profit, you know, selling people what they want to buy, except that it's poison and it's poison for our society, it's poison for our democracy.
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