But they sacrificed honest reporting to rescue ratings.
The Head Groundskeeper did not fall off the tater truck yesterday. We know RITOs (Republicans in Tr•mp Only) will go to their graves believing every lie and excusing every crime in thrall to the Insurrectionist in Chief. Nancy Pelosi held the doors to the Capitol open on J6 while Ray Epps herded disguised FBI agents and Antifa activists inside. They just forgot to put out the welcome mat for Ashli Babbitt. Too bad Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do the right thing.
"It's remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things." Bill Sammon, Fox Washington bureau managing editor 12-02-20.
So head cases like Tim Ramthun, Janel Brandtjen, and Mike Gableman are lost causes. But the faucet keeps drip drip dripping and the lies keep getting harder to defend. Especially now that it is revealed that Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and others at Fox News knew better all along but lied to win viewer eyeballs. A defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voter Systems against Fox unearthed off-camera communications. Not that a legal evidentiary filing will sway the True Believer.
“Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It’s insane,” Carlson wrote to Ingraham on 11-18-20.
Ingraham responded: “Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy.” 11-19-20.
“That whole narrative that Sidney was pushing. I did not believe it for one second.” — Sean Hannity. Hannity had understood that Joe Biden legitimately won the election for some time.
Rupert Murdoch, its chairman, called Trump’s voter fraud claims “really crazy stuff.” 11-19-20.
Some Fox executives trashed their own on-screen personalities. Fox president Jay Wallace said of then Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, “The North Koreans do a more nuanced show.” Fox weekend producer David Clark: [Jeanine] Pirro is just as nuts!” Another exec: “crazy Tucker and crazier Hannity.”
"Privately, Fox's hosts and executives knew that Donald Trump lost the election and that he needed to concede. But Fox viewers heard a different story repeatedly." — US Dominion Inc. Voting Systems v. Fox News Network.
Fox lied for ratings
Amid Trump’s withering criticism, Fox’s audience began switching to Newsmax and OAN. Fox tried to placate Trumpbots by firing Chris Stirewalt, even though he correctly called Arizona for Biden on election night. The cable news network ignored Dominion’s offers of evidence to cater to its Tr•mp-besotted audience. They kept giving screen time to stolen election fabulists like Mike Lindell. Tucker Carlson even wanted reporter Jacqui Heinrich fired after she reported no basis for doubting Dominion voting machines.
“Please get her fired. Seriously… What the [f-bomb]?” Carlson texted Ingraham and Hannity on Nov. 12, 2020. “It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.” Late on January 6, Carlson texted …. that
“Trump is a demonic force, a destroyer. But he’s not going to destroy us.”
(A few at Fox come off well, including Bret Baier, Dana Perino, Neil Cavuto, Lucas Tomlinson, and Chris Stirewalt.)
Blaska’s Bottom Line. Go to the source itself: the Dominion court filing. Libel and defamation are hard to prove; must show 1) falsehood 2) malice and 3) actual damages. The Dominion lawsuit checks all three boxes. The “crooked voting machine” gambit was always absurd. And no, Dominion was not founded by Hugo Chavez. Even Fox acknowledges that.
Our Republican party loses too many elections by tying its fortunes to a narcissistic liar.
Education
Blaska Policy Werkes 
IF YOU BELIEVE BRAIN DEAD BIDEN GOT 81 MILLION LEGITIMATE VOTES YOUR ARE A BUFFOON!!
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At least my CAP lock key isn’t stuck.
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LOL. Yeah this silly response ALWAYS comes with NO EVIDENCE!!!!
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Steve-a-reno! If Fox News doesn’t believe the election was stolen, why do you?
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Why do you presume Fox News represents the way all conservatively minded people think? Personally, I think they have their own agenda.
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There was a screw up in communication. I was responding to an idiotic comment disbelieving that Biden got his vote total but provided no evidence to back up the bluster. No I don’t believe the bull scat that the election was stolen. I have seen zero credible evidence to support that. Just like I have seen zero credible evidence to support allegations that Biden did not get his vote total. Just a lotta hot air….
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81 million votes, huh? More than Obama. How do you figure that?
Further, are you happy with Joe?
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Which of the narcissistic liars would you prefer to believe, and how do you like the way McConnell and McDaniel are running your party?
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Cheezus, Fritz? Really? Am I happy with Joe? The answer rhymes! It is NO! As if that justifies the Stolen Election Lie!
Go ahead, side with Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and Rudy Giuliani if you want. Helluva legacy! But come up with a new theory because the old ones have crashed and burned.
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I liked the way Trump was running the country. I don’t like what the prog Dems are doing to it. To coin a phrase, we’re going to hell in a hand basket.
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Would storming the Capitol to overturn an election help?
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Your purging of Trump disappoints me. Same with your insistence that Jan. 6 was an insurrection. Otherwise, I’m generally with you when it comes to trying to keep the locals honest. Unfortunately despite your best efforts, it appears that your losing on that one.
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Run trump Run. I want to watch him go down like a Chinese balloon.
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Be our guest. You, sir, are a dunce. Classically.
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It treats the election lie in the sense there are many who ardently believe the last two elections were rigged, and as a result we have an illegitimate President.
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Believe what you want. Prove what you can. If we keep re-litigating the past, we lose the future. Tr•mp is on a four-game losing streak.
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It’s just as easy to believe as an individual as heinous and dishonest as Trump getting 73 million votes.
You do realize the US population grew by over 25 million people between 2008 and 2020 right? And that voter engagement and polarization were through the roof by 2020?
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“You do realize the US population grew by over 25 million people between 2008 and 2020 right?”
(2020) 335,932,003 – (2008) 305,694,910 = 30,237,093
Coming up >5,000,000 short is still a more than 25 million increase.
Any idea how many of that revised figure are illegals?
The Gotch
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According to the Pew Research Center that population dropped from 12.2 million in 2007 to 10.5 million by 2017, so that increase in nationwide population was not augmented by an increase in border crossings if that’s what you’re getting it.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/12/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/
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Party of truth? Let me guess, “truth” is whatever Blaska believes. Or Sam Harris being a reasonable substitute. TDS is still not just a phone company.
In any case DB you are on round 97 of not winning anyone over. I hope the RNC has more common sense than you.
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So you continue to believe Trumps lies about the election being stolen even after reading the Fox News anchors who shilled those lies for him didn’t even believe them themselves? Cripes. Some people really are beyond help.
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Two BILLION plus; that’s going to hurt. Pucker Carlson will have to cut back on his bow tie collection. Is this going to count towards the 68 lawsuits rumps lawyers already lost? After faux gets a good boot in the gotch from these guys; then Smartmatic gets a free kick.
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The 76 year-old Lazy @$$ Blogge Idiot‘s inane slobbering fruitlessly continues its laughable effort to prove the Infinite Monkey Theorem?
Priceless!
But with opposable toes he can type with his feet…
The Gotch
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Another meaningless post. Go play with your pickle jars.
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Lazy @$$ Blogge Idiot doughNUTZ-maker slobbers highfreakin’larious gibberish yet again?
Priceless!
The Gotch
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Get yer shine box! (???)
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Get yer shine box! (???)
Classic Line from a Classic Scene from a Classic Flick with FAR MORE than its fair share of both!
Goodfellas’ Billy Batts (the late Frank Vincent) had another…um…Untimely Demise as Phil Leotardo in the epic Sopranos.
The Gotch
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“They [Fox News] sacrificed honest reporting to rescue ratings.” Is this better or worse than the mainstream media sacrificing honest reporting to rescue Biden?
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How about “just as bad,” which I have noted continually.
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Wow Dave; you really got some of these boys riled up today. Good job.
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You ain’t seen nothing yet. Watch for issue 98 of the “Insurrection!” chronicles coming in March. Spolier alert: Trump.
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The Donald must be stopped!
Reaching from seemingly beyond the grave, his Evil Genius caused the Ohio RR disaster, and by extension BUTT-GIGGLE’S GROSS INCOMPETENCE.
The Gotch
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The Gotch
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Priceless! The majority of Biden’s cabinet heads are there because (and only because) they’re card-carrying members of “marginalized” minorities, and the quality of their performance shows it. The smirking little weasel pictured above is perhaps the worst of the lot, followed closely by the Sec. of Homeland Security and the Sec. of Defense. And then there’s the epitome of incompetence who calls herself the WH Press Secretary; if she weren’t a black dyke, she’d be behind the counter at the local Popeye’s.
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The ultimate VIRTUALLY WORTHLESS hire is JoKe’s VP.
There’s a reason, IMO a damned GOOD ONE, why Harris has been persona-non-grata, of late.
If you watched tonight’s mercifully brief NBC Andrea Mitchell interview, you’ll know why!
The Gotch
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On page 60 of the lawsuit, it says only two computer experts were allowed to inspect Dominion’s operating source code. One for Dominion and one for FOX. My question would be, why only two? Why are we only to trust Dr. Seth Nielson of FOX? When it comes to voting systems, why can’t everyone see how the dam machines count votes? There should be no proprietary trade secrets when comes to PUBLIC voting machines! “Put all your ballots in this black box to be counted. We will then lock up the ballots before we destroy them while our magic voting machine tells you who won.” Sound like a carnival huckster? It should.
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Why only two experts, Jack? Because Fox got to choose whatever expert it wanted. It had every incentive to pick the expert most likely to prove that Dominion voting machines were crooked. How much incentive? Try $1.6 Billion. Dominion machines are no “black box.” They produce a paper trail. But I get the modus operandi of you Election Deniers: when one theory blows up in your face, go to the next one. You’re like the queen in Alice in Wonderland: verdict first, evidence if we can find it!
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But yeah, if you got 50 experts you might find a Mike Lindell who would attest that the machines were crooked. Then Jack Sanderson could say “Told you so!”
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