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Botany

(73,155 posts)
Sat Feb 18, 2023, 09:59 AM Feb 2023

Fox News Knew Trump's Big Lie Was BS the Whole Time

We’re finally getting to see how utterly terrified Fox News heads and hosts were of Donald Trump. And it’s delightfully pathetic.

An unsealed brief as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation suit showed Fox News bigwigs criticizing Donald Trump’s Big Lie, all while advancing his B.S. “stolen election” conspiracy theory on air (and simultaneously trying to punish a Fox News fact checker for reporting the truth).

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Do you think Sidney Powell is “a complete nut”? So does Laura Ingraham. Do you think Rudy Giuliani is “full of shit?” So does a Lou Dobbs producer. Think the allegations of voter fraud are “Bullshit?” So does Bret Baier! Think “The North Koreans do a more nuanced show” than Lou Dobbs? So does the president of the network. Think Trump is a “demonic force”? So does Tucker!

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Actually, we don’t have to consider these hypotheticals. Look no further than the tobacco industry—which successfully lied for decades before being compelled to admit its product killed millions of people.

By spreading the Big Lie, Fox News knowingly propagated a conspiracy theory that was just as toxic, addictive, and dangerous to the body politic.

https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-knew-trump-big-195837450.html?soc_src=social-sh&amp%5B0%5D=&amp%5B1%5D=&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr&fr=yhssrp_catchall

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Fox News Knew Trump's Big Lie Was BS the Whole Time (Original Post) Botany Feb 2023 OP
It's more accurate to say Fox was more afraid of TFG's cult Ocelot II Feb 2023 #1
We need to take it easy on Fox News for this. How do we know everyone doesn't do what they did? gulliver Feb 2023 #2

Ocelot II

(122,847 posts)
1. It's more accurate to say Fox was more afraid of TFG's cult
Sat Feb 18, 2023, 10:19 AM
Feb 2023

than they were of TFG himself. They were afraid the cult would dump them and go to Newsmax and OAN if they told the truth about the election, so they kept lying and making the lie worse.

gulliver

(13,342 posts)
2. We need to take it easy on Fox News for this. How do we know everyone doesn't do what they did?
Sat Feb 18, 2023, 10:29 AM
Feb 2023

I mean, let's give Fox News a chance to turn up some CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, etc., texts that show folks in those news organizations put out product in direct contradiction to what they believed themselves.

Fox finds the texts or they graciously (as honest people of good will) remove the word "News" from their name. Simple.

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