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Average Ameriacn
Member
Wed Mar 08 07:16:15
I've never felt so betrayed in my life!
Without Newsmax and OANN, I might have committed suicide by now...

http://www...ed-sean-hannity-005128847.html

On Jan. 4, 2021, Fox News host Tucker Carlson was done with Donald Trump.

"We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait," he texted an unidentified person.

"I hate him passionately. ... I can’t handle much more of this," he added.

By this time, Fox News was in crisis mode. It had angered its audience when it correctly said Joe Biden had won Arizona in the presidential election. Executives and hosts were worried about losing viewers to upstart rivals, most notably Newsmax.

The private comments were a far cry from what Carlson's viewers were used to hearing from the stalwart conservative host on his prime-time show every night.

“We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest,” he wrote in another text message, referring to the "last four years." “But come on. There isn’t really an upside to Trump.”

The revelation is in hundreds of pages of testimony, private text messages and emails from top Fox News journalists and executives that were made public Tuesday, adding to the trove of documents that show a network in crisis after it alienated core viewers by reporting accurately on the results of the 2020 presidential election.

A judge unsealed the documents, along with parts of some employee depositions, as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News.

The messages are blunt and, at times, profane, as hosts and top executives panicked about how to boost their ratings as Trump refused to acknowledge his defeat. The depositions, meanwhile, offer the broadest picture yet of how executives including Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch allowed baseless conspiracy theories to flourish on air.

In a statement, Fox News accused Dominion of dishonestly portraying key figures' internal communications.


“Thanks to today’s filings, Dominion has been caught red handed using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press," the statement said. "We already know they will say and do anything to try to win this case, but to twist and even misattribute quotes to the highest levels of our company is truly beyond the pale.”

Smaller snippets of the exchanges were referred to in two Dominion briefs made public in a Delaware court last month, when Dominion sought a summary judgment ruling from the judge and opposed Fox News' motion asking the judge to dismiss the case.

Dominion's briefs previously revealed that top figures at Fox News privately blasted election fraud claims as "crazy" and "insane," even as the network aired them on television, and that top boss Murdoch considered some of Trump's voter fraud claims to be “bulls--- and damaging” yet acknowledged in a deposition that he did nothing to rein in hosts who were promoting the bogus claims in the days after the 2020 election.

“The emails, texts, and deposition testimony speak for themselves. We welcome all scrutiny of our evidence because it all leads to the same place — Fox knowingly spread lies causing enormous damage to an American company," a Dominion spokesman told NBC News.

Dominion, a voting machine company, sued Fox News in March 2021, alleging it caused "severe damage" by giving oxygen to conspiracy theories it knew were false, including bogus claims that Dominion equipment was used to rig the 2020 election for Biden, that it was tied to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and that it bribed U.S. government officials.

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murder
Member
Wed Mar 08 07:59:53

Tucker Carlson is full of shit 24/7.

Im better then you
2012 UP Football Champ
Wed Mar 08 16:05:41
LMAO!! They have such contempt and hatred for their viewers its amazing.
Rugian
Member
Wed Mar 08 16:17:55
Its possible to simultaneously think that Trump is an albatross for the GOP and that the coverage of the January 6th riot was ridiculously dishonest and biased.

Trump being a shithead doesn't validate the actions of the far left and RINO collaborators.
tumbleweed
the wanderer
Wed Mar 08 17:49:25
so no riot, just a few vandals... the Capitol should be stormed every election if you don't like the results (because your fuckhead liar choice keeps telling you completely made-up claims of mass voter fraud... & your garbage news network plays along)
Rugian
Member
Wed Mar 08 18:48:21
tumbleweed

Tell me how January 6 was worse than the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020.
tumbleweed
the wanderer
Wed Mar 08 19:08:06
why does it need to be worse?

also their goal was indeed worse
Rugian
Member
Wed Mar 08 19:14:34
"also their goal was indeed worse"

Wrong.
murder
Member
Wed Mar 08 20:32:35

"Tell me how January 6 was worse than the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020."

Democracy doesn't collapse if you can't get 20% off your bed sheets.

Cherub Cow
Member
Thu Mar 09 22:20:58
“Wrong”

In tw’s mind, the goal of preserving the Constitution held by Capitol protestors is indeed worse than the DNC–Marxist insurrection of 2020. Being traitors to the U.S., these Marxists truly believe that the U.S. must be overthrown, its Constitution trampled, and their psychotic Harrison Bergeron fantasies realized. Their entire morality has been inverted.
Forwyn
Member
Thu Mar 09 23:28:21
B-b-but BLM just wants to end black-specific police brutality - and keep the discussion on how blacks suffer disproportionately, because a general discussion on how to address police brutality would weaken the powers of the state! No, we want bias training or something.

Those fucking Trumptards just want to overturn an election. They couldn't have legitimate beliefs, they know they're acting dishonestly, and there's no such thing as a mule and we should encourage more remote voting and also why not 16 year olds?

"these Marxists truly believe that the U.S. must be overthrown,"

The irony of "late-stage capitalism" Commies crying about traitors
murder
Member
Fri Mar 10 07:58:53

"and we should encourage more remote voting"

We should. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it. I find it amusing that Democrats have no issues with Republicans voting remotely despite Republicans proving over and over again that they have absolutely no ethics, but Republicans are sure that cheating will occur because ...

Fuck off with your paranoia!

You should be able to cast your vote from anywhere.

Republicans demand paper ballots like the good old days because everyone knows that things were always on the up and up in the good old days. Absolutely no shenanigans. ;o)

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