The legal case of Dominion Voting Systems against the Fox News Corporation has revealed some obvious and terrifying facts. Fox News knew that the Trump and Trump team's claims that the election was stolen from Trump was nonsense. But they knowingly and dangerously spread that lie. People died because of that lie. I hope that Fox loses enough money to Dominion that they go out of business. I hope that any who can show a death of loved ones due to that lie also sue Fox for all they have - not just Fox, but sue the owners, the Murdochs, for all they have, and sue the lying Fox News primetime propagandists for all they have. There has to be real consequences for lying and trying to violently overthrow American democracy.
On November 16, Carlson wrote to his producer, Alex Pfeiffer, “Sidney Powell is lying.”
On November 19, FNC chair Rupert Murdoch wrote: “Really crazy stuff.”
Hannity later testified: “[T]hat whole narrative that Sidney was pushing. I did not believe it for one second.”
Fox Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt later testified, “[N]o reasonable person would have thought that,” when asked if it was true that Dominion rigged the election.
...its ratings were plummeting as Trump loyalists jumped to Newsmax.
After a Fox News reporter tweeted something true that the election had not been stolen "...Carlson told Hannity: “Please get her fired. Seriously…. What the f*ck? I’m actually shocked…. It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.”
The stock price is down - losing viewers - so goodness gracious what is a company to do? So puzzling? what to do? what to do? Welllllll.... you just lie, you keep your audience, you foment violent overthrow of the government and end democracy - because, because, because, you know, well, this is a BIDNESS, you've got to make a PROFIT. Doncha know....
Walter Cronkite rolling over in his grave - and Vladimir Putin smiling happily.
The only human response is that given by Joseph Welch to Joseph McCarthy that ended the McCarthy hearings and destroyed that man's lying career:
"Welch was stunned. As he struggled to maintain his composure, he looked at McCarthy and declared, “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.” It was then McCarthy’s turn to be stunned into silence, as Welch asked, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?”
And of course, it was blindingly obvious that McCarthy indeed had no human decency. Same for Fox News, Newsmax, Breitbart News, AON, and the entire autocratic Right Wing extremist propaganda "industry".
Liberal analyst James Carville has called this correctly - Republican voters insist on being lied to. And there will always be a predator out there to do so. Special thanks to Putin, by the way.
We see what happens to the human race when the only thing that counts is money, profit, ratings, winning at all costs. You get Trump - you get Fox News - you get spitballs in baseball and deflated footballs in Super Bowls, you get degraded, indecent people in America and the world.
America, and the world, is in a deep spiritual crisis - and not because women and couples want the freedom to use contraceptives and use abortion to choose their own family sizes, and not because people want to read Faulkner, and not because people are fleeing organized religion in the millions. We are in a spiritual crises because "at long last", so many of us "have no decency".
