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Fox's 2024 election denial push is already underway
Fox News paid out hundreds of millions of dollars for its 2020 election denial campaign, and the network may still be on the hook for billions more. But Fox’s executives are either unchastened or can’t control their hosts, who have already begun laying the groundwork to delegitimize the results of the 2024 election.
Fox prime-time host Laura Ingraham suggested on Tuesday night — just 24 hours after Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses and 10 months before his likely rematch with President Joe Biden — that Democrats will try to steal the 2024 election.
“The Democrats are going to stop at nothing,” she said. “They see this train coming down the track and they want to derail it. And if they can, they're going to game the system or yeah, maybe even cheat. After all, they say Trump is Hitler, so they have to stop him. They have to.”
The cycle of lies that drove the January 6 insurrection is beginning again.
Trump and his Fox allies spent the lead-up to the 2020 election warning Republicans that Democrats would employ widespread voter fraud to change the results. Trump lost and falsely claimed he had been the victim of a stolen election, a lie rejected by U.S. courts and government agencies, including his own attorney general. Fearing a loss of market share to other right-wing outlets, Fox promoted the lie even though its own hosts and executives didn’t actually believe it. After months of vitriol, a Trumpist mob summoned to Washington, D.C., by the president stormed the U.S. Capitol, disrupting the congressional certification of the election.
Fox prime-time host Laura Ingraham suggested on Tuesday night — just 24 hours after Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses and 10 months before his likely rematch with President Joe Biden — that Democrats will try to steal the 2024 election.
“The Democrats are going to stop at nothing,” she said. “They see this train coming down the track and they want to derail it. And if they can, they're going to game the system or yeah, maybe even cheat. After all, they say Trump is Hitler, so they have to stop him. They have to.”
The cycle of lies that drove the January 6 insurrection is beginning again.
Trump and his Fox allies spent the lead-up to the 2020 election warning Republicans that Democrats would employ widespread voter fraud to change the results. Trump lost and falsely claimed he had been the victim of a stolen election, a lie rejected by U.S. courts and government agencies, including his own attorney general. Fearing a loss of market share to other right-wing outlets, Fox promoted the lie even though its own hosts and executives didn’t actually believe it. After months of vitriol, a Trumpist mob summoned to Washington, D.C., by the president stormed the U.S. Capitol, disrupting the congressional certification of the election.
https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/foxs-2024-election-denial-push-underway
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it's really getting tiresome. This is bullshit...there needs to be a chyron on the bottom saying these views are just the views of the host at the very least...these are the hosts opinions.
But they can get sued for these lies and yet still spout them?
The fairness doctrine needs to be brought back immediate ! RIGHT?!?!??!?