Fox News Lies So Much Viewers Incapable Of Being "Good Citizens In A Republic"

[Celerity]

A Fox News insider speaks out at the Jan. 6th hearing.

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/fox-news-lies-so-much-viewers-incapable



WASHINGTON, DC – Every now and then, the facade of bullshit on Fox News Channel breaks wide open and its easily-deceived viewers are momentarily bombarded with actual facts and truths, rather than the aforementioned bullshit. Occasionally, hosts like Neil Cavuto or former host Shepherd Smith, punch through and manage to expose their audiences to what’s really happening in the world.

The same thing happened during the coverage of the 2020 presidential election, when the Fox News decision desk was the first to call Arizona for Joe Biden – a seismic event for both the election itself, Fox News viewers, and one-term loser Donald Trump. The consequences included a mass exodus of Red Hats to copycat networks like OANN and Newsmax. The network became an instant enemy of cults like QAnon, while the heads of true-believers exploded all across the Red Hat entertainment complex.

At 11:20pm eastern time on Election Night, Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer was walking through the latest numbers on the studio touch-screen map when he flipped back to the national map just in time to see Arizona had turned blue. “What is happening here? Why is Arizona blue? Did we just call it? Did we just make a call in Arizona?” Yes. Yes they did. Brett Baier jumped in, “OK, time out. This is a big development.”

It was absolutely the biggest development at the network since it has previously shocked the nation by calling Florida for George W. Bush in 2000. At the time, a guy named John Ellis was running the decision desk and made the call… for his first cousin, George W. Bush. In 2020, however, the role of decision desk chief fell to Chris Stirewalt who, after crunching all the numbers, accurately landed on Joe Biden as the winner of Arizona’s 11 electoral votes. For telling the truth about who won the state, Stirewalt was fired with the excuse from Ruper Murdoch that ratings would dip whenever he was on. But I think we all know why he was canned along with 15 colleagues. My educated hunch is it was all Trump’s doing.

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[ificandream]

1. Just started a new book on Fox's b.s.

It's called "Fox "News": The Enemy Within" by Norm Zadeh and it details the shit they pull. (Quotes around "news" are mine. I refuse to call them news no matter what their title is.)

Here's a direct link. You can read it free on Kindle Unlimited or buy it for $9.99. I chose to buy it even though I'm on KU because I really liked what I saw.