Posted on 02/18/2023 2:41:03 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, once suggested that Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham could go on air and declare that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
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On January 5, 2021, Murdoch emailed Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott: “It’s been suggested our prime time three should independently or together say something like ‘the election is over, and Joe Biden won.'”
He said that such a statement “would go a long way to stop the Trump myth that the election was stolen.”
Scott then forwarded Murdoch’s suggestion to Meade Cooper, the primetime programming SVP. He wrote: “I told Rupert that privately they are all there — we need to be careful about using the shows and pissing off the viewers but they know how to navigate.”
The lengthy filing makes revelations about the inner workings of the Fox News network following the 2020 election.
Text messages and emails between Fox hosts and executives reveal that while they privately accepted that Donald Trump had lost the election, the network continued to air pro-Trump conspiracy theories about election fraud.
Murdoch privately described the election fraud claims as “damaging” and “crazy,” according to the filing.
“Sydney Powell is lying,” Tucker Carlson said in a text message to his producer, misspelling Powell’s first name.Meanwhile Laura Ingraham said in a message to Carlson: “Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy.”
“It’s unbelievably offensive to me. Our viewers are good people and they believe it,” Carlson responded, according to court papers. These messages came in the weeks after the election. Dominion said in court papers that Fox admitted Hannity and Lou Dobbs’ shows did not “challenge the narrative” that Dominion was responsible for rigging the election or producing inaccurate results.
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FOX had its cred stolen.
Murdock was never conservative. He just found a niche market. $$$$$$$$
Yeah this is hardly news. It’s not like we didn’t notice how FNC swung.
Dominion is essentially saying that when the truth is thrown down the gaping maw of the memory hole and is replaced by a false narrative, nobody should every try to truth from banishment, and the false narrative must be professed to be the truth, to wit: “Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.”
Good to have this exposure of Foxnews.
Next up: DeSantis is silent about the 2020 Steal.
...retrieve the truth from banishment...
Bet he won’t be if he wins the nomination and loses in 2024 after they steal it again.
When President Trump is re-elected in 2024, we’ll watch FOX swing back the other way...
Exactly almost all so-called Conservative Pundits are in it, because they see a huge market to tap.
I wonder how happy the old coot is now with the senile puppet they installed.
Apparently none at faux are any better than most frauds at seeing the obvious.
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/2024-nothing-matters-but-this
Own the media ….. own a fabricated truth
Dominion must have a strong case against the fraud claims.
When President Trump is re-elected in 2024, we’ll watch FOX swing back the other way...
Why do you think a republican will ever win a presidential election again? Nothing has been done to eliminate fraud.
Fox News, should now be known as Fraud News and thrown into the ash heap of history.
Nothing that we know about, anyway...
if one owns those that own the lamestream media and that is maybe less than 20 people, twenty votes determine the results
Yes, indeed, you even see variations of this message by so-called Trump voters/supporters on this very partison forum.
I will never be convinced that 71 MILLION Legal, registered, alive Americans voted for Biden....... on his BEST day.......not even 50 Million. I will also never be convinced that the alphabet news stations AND Fox were “just reporting the news”. I have also come to realize that the courts are not the solution to getting to fair and honest elections anymore. If we are to be successful in the future, we have to deal with the days / weeks / months long vote counting and employ the tactics now being encouraged by court decisions.
Ingraham was ready to call the election for Biden almost immediately. In fact I think she did.
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