Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity almost make me pine for the era of Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Ten years ago when Fox News was riding high in the ratings with Glenn Beck talking about Nazis and Bill O’Reilly dividing the nation into “pinheads and patriots,” I thought I would never see a cable channel with news in its name that was as debased and dangerous a political tool.

I was wrong. Fox News 2020 is so much worse as evidenced by the Monday night shows hosted by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity this week.

I have been writing about this channel since its founding in 1996, and I have been alarmed by the threat it poses to democracy almost as long. There have been days when I sat at the computer with no words left to say how despicable I think this Rupert-Murdoch-owned media property is.

And then comes Carlson, the sneering face of white privilege, talking about racism Monday night in reaction to the firing of his top writer for anonymously posting racist messages on the Internet. And that’s followed the next hour by Hannity interviewing Roger Stone, the political operative and proud dirty trickster sentenced to 40 months in prison for lying to Congress. Stone’s sentence was supposed to start this week, but it was commuted by his friend, President Donald Trump. Oh, yeah, it was a regular rogues’ gallery of liars, racists and convicted felons on Fox News Monday.

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[AleksS]

1. It is hard to believe they used to have SOME standards.

Oh course they were still crapbags and absolutely antithetical to everything the United Statesshoukd stand for. Never forget that part.

Those horses posteriors opened the door for the crapholes we have today.

[tulipsandroses]

2. HUH? Bill O'Reilly was probably the biggest racist of all of them. Stop the madness

They are all terrible.
O'Reilly was the worst.
The only thing I remember differently, he was not as much of an ass kisser as Tucker and Hannity. But he was a bigger asshole and racist. He didn't speak in code, he said outright racist shit.

Lest anyone forget,
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