FOX NEWS has helped destroy the United States & Democracy by supporting / promoting Trump & Republicans, promoting lies, conspiracy theories and omission of the facts to keep their viewers in the dark about the damage Trump and Republicans has been doing for years, while demonizing Democrats, the very party which fights for the middle class working Americans and the poor. Examples shown on this page.

 

Strategist for GOP 2008 McCain / Palin Presidential campaign Steve Schmidt explains how Fox News and Rupert Murdoch have destroyed America

 

The “Fox-Can-Lie Lawsuit” established that they’re not required to be truthful by law. Since Fox has established that they have the legal right not to be truthful, Fox Opinion Hosts tells their conservative viewers that Democrats are “Radical Leftist Socialists” who want to take away your guns & freedom, that Republican policies are good for this country, that Trump’s a rational person and the MSM (Main Stream Media) such as ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post etc is “Fake News”. ALL the exact opposite of the TRUTH, as exposed on this site.

 

Right Wing media outlets brainwash their viewers into believing the Mainstream Media is “Fake News” so they only watch and believe the lies and misinformation from Right Wing Media sources. This helps them make more money because MORE VIEWERS = MORE PROFITS in advertising.  And it helps Republicans get re-elected, against the best interests of middle class and poor Americans. Right-Wing outlets want to KEEP their viewers brainwashed so they never watch legitimate news and learn the truth about the damage Trump and Republicans has been doing to our country while screwing over “the little guy”.

 

 

How Fox News and Right-Wing Media Brainwashed This Dad and Destroyed a Family

‘It was like some alien took over his body.’  Right-wing media brainwashed Jen Senko’s once open-minded father, but the story didn’t end there.

 

Fox News staffers agree: Fox is not a news organization

Multiple Fox News employees told media reporters that newly released filings from Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the right-wing network show that Fox prioritizes its prime-time opinion programming over its news division. They echo what past staffers who have left say: Fox is a propaganda network for Republicans.

Per the above article: “Multiple Fox News employees told media reporters that newly released filings from Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the right-wing network show that Fox prioritizes its prime-time opinion programming over its news division. They echo what past staffers who have left say: Fox is a propaganda network for Republicans”.

Anonymous quotes from Fox staffers show Fox is not a news organization

In response to incendiary revelations in two recent filings released as part of Dominion’s defamation case against Fox News, as well as a host of supplemental exhibits also provided by Dominion, the rift between the façade of Fox’s “news side” and its actual core business as a Republican propaganda outlet has grown into public view.

• A Fox News journalist told CNN that “the opinion folks are probably right in that there really isn’t a lot of love lost between us and them.”
• According to The Daily Beast, a Fox reporter “wondered how [Fox primetime host Tucker] Carlson could continue to work for the company after it was revealed that he was demanding at least one journalist be fired for doing their job.”
• A Fox producer told The Daily Beast: Carlson “acts like the king of Fox. Entitlement. Extremely unprofessional.”
• One Fox correspondent told The Daily Beast: “Honestly, Tucker is a joke, and I don’t know many in the news division that likes or respects him. He makes our jobs harder and way more dangerous.”
• A senior Fox staffer told CNN media correspondent Oliver Darcy that he was correct and “should keep saying” that the Dominion filings made it clear that Fox isn’t a news network.
• A news production staffer at Fox told The Daily Beast that it’s always been “opinion first, news secondary” there: “The news side has always been kind of used as a bit of a shield, a bit of a legitimacy play. And I think that in and of itself is, it’s kind of falling apart now.”
• A Fox producer referenced the criticism of Fox’s reporters revealed in the filings, telling The Daily Beast: “If journalists are being criticized for being hard on the Trump admin or truthfully talking about the election, it’s a form of censorship. The news division is being given less importance.”
• A Fox reporter called out Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott in The Daily Beast’s report for “clearly not looking out for the news side,” adding: “How can we all continue to work for her?! How can anyone watching Fox for news believe that they’re gonna get news if she’s in charge? We are not happy.”
• A veteran Fox journalist told The Daily Beast that “Tucker has publicly attacked and humiliated journalists here at Fox before,” so “it shouldn’t be a surprise that he was trashing us behind the scenes.”
• One Fox correspondent told Brian Stelter, writing for Vanity Fair of the released text messages from Fox’s prime-time opinion hosts: “We thought they hated us, but now we know it in their own words.”
• A Fox staffer told CNN that “people are really shocked and disgusted” by what was revealed in the filings, adding: “Even longtime staffers. You would think after all we’ve been through nothing could surprise us. But this is unprecedented.”
• A Fox reporter told The Daily Beast that the fallout from the filings is “demoralizing, deflating and soul-crushing” to a journalist.
• More than one Fox employee told Stelter “we’re all embarrassed” by the filings’ contents.

Fox staffers in the past have also explained how the network operates like a propaganda outfit rather than a news organization

“This reaction to the contents of the Dominion filings is not the first time current or former Fox staffers have called out the network for being little more than a GOP propaganda shop; Fox veterans Chris Wallace, Carl Cameron, Shepard Smith, and Chris Stirewalt all agreed that Fox’s core business is not news once they left the network. Wallace called it “unsustainable” that Fox questioned the 2020 election results and downplayed the pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Cameron said that “over the years, the right-wing hosts drowned out straight journalism with partisan misinformation.” According to CNN, Smith believed “that his presence on Fox became untenable as opinion shows on the network spread falsehoods that hosts knew were lies.” Stirewalt admitted that Fox became “an arm of a political party” during the Trump years. And there was even more on-the-record criticism of the network from former employees who said they were “increasingly embarrassed by the channel,” which had become “a destructive propaganda machine” during the Trump era”.

Additionally, a September 2019 report from The Daily Beast attributed the following anonymous quotes criticizing the network to then-current Fox staffers:

• “Fox has acted like state media for a long time. This is just one small element to it.”
• “As an employee, I have had concerns about how close Fox has become with the White House and the administration. I don’t think I’m the only person there who has these concerns. …
• With these layoffs in multiple news departments coming just a few weeks before the election, it looks like Fox is more like an extension of this administration, instead of a news network.”
• “The opinion team appears to have won the internal battle” with the news side.
• The leaders of the Fox News website “are not interested in facts. They are obsessed with pitching ‘on-brand’ stories that include Blue Lives Matter, anything antifa-related, anyone who has suffered during BLM protests that can put the protestors in a negative light, anything that threatens Christianity, and anyone who is a Trump supporter who has somehow been wronged.”
• “The Brain Room, in their research, came up with facts that were not used in Fox reports or were in contradiction to what Fox aired. I have to imagine that kind of tension has always existed there, between the fact-checkers and what is often reported.”
• Top Fox executives have “long been unsupportive of real, unbiased reporting. They do not see themselves as a real news operation in the sense that people are doing original work, trying to break stories and get to the bottom of things, wherever the chips fall.”

 

Republicans are bought and paid for by Huge Corporations and the RICH. The United States is over 35 Trillion Dollars in Debt because of Republicans giving tax breaks to the Rich, refusing to make them pay their fair share.

 

 

The above video shows false statements by Trump debunked by Politifact such as: “There is no evidence Joe Biden won”… “In 2020, the ballots that were counted were fake ballots”… “Eighty-two percent of the country understands that the 2020 election was rigged” , “The Harris-Biden Administration fraudulently manipulated Job Statistics”… “Kamala Harris wants to forcibly compel doctors and nurses to give chemical castration drugs to young children”… “Democrats used COVID to cheat in the 2020 election”. Hundreds more at politifact.com Trump / False.

Trump falsely accused Ted Cruz of “stealing” the 2016 Iowa Republican Primary and Ted Cruz’s father being involved in JFK’s assassination. In response, Ted Cruz calls Trump a “Pathological Liar who doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies” and claims Trump “is a narcissist at a level this country’s never seen”.

Dr. John Gartner states; “If we could construct a psychiatric Frankenstein monster, we could not create a leader more dangerously mentally ill than Donald Trump. He is a paranoid, psychopathic, narcissist who is divorced from reality and lashes out impulsively at his imagined enemies“.

 

Trump has called Judges, Prosecutors, J6 Committee members & anyone who has tried to hold him accountable “lunatics”, “psycho” , “crooked”, “the radical left” and every type of derogatory name imaginable. Yet if anyone says or does anything he doesn’t like, he wants them to be PUNISHED and SUED, proving he engages in double standards hypocrisy.

 

 

Donald Trump Lifetime of Lies

 

The Fox Republican Network is DESTROYING this country by promoting Conspiracy Theories, Lies, Propaganda and Disinformation

 

 

Why Fox is ‘the most destructive institution in all of American politics’

 

FOX SUED FOR SPREADING 2020 ELECTION LIES

FOX News SUED for spreading 2020 election lies. Court documents show hosts Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and others knew Trump’s voter fraud claims were false, but continued peddling them to maintaining ratings.

For years Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham & the rest of Fox News were enraging viewers on air, while laughing at them off-air. Their lies lead followers to mount a deadly attack on our Capitol.

 

FOX LIED to their viewers about “Stolen” and “Rigged” Election claims… putting PROFITS above the TRUTH and PATRIOTISM

 

2 Weeks after the Election was called for Joe Biden, Fox Pundits cast doubt on the results nearly 800 times

Fox pundits repeatedly aided Trump’s efforts to undermine election results, laying the groundwork to cry foul if Trump lost, echoing debunked theories of fraud, pushing the idea that Democrats are trying to “steal” this from him, and arguing that Trump is justified in pursuing his claims of a rigged election. This pattern of coverage continued in the lead-up to the day of the riots.

 

Fox News host Sean Hannity admitted under oath that he never believed Trump was cheated of victory in the 2020 presidential election. David Shuster breaks it down on Rebel HQ.

 

Explosive findings showing that top Fox News hosts did not believe the 2020 election was stolen.

 

Fox News settles Dominion defamation suit for nearly $800M

Fox News has agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million, one of the biggest defamation payouts in history, over the false claims it aired about the 2020 election.

 

Former Fox News Host Says They Lie by Omission of the Facts

 

Fox News Exposed for Peddling Trump’s Big Lie

 

Text messages between FOX hosts show they knew Trump’s voter fraud claims were lies but continued to peddle those same lies on TV

 

The most prominent stars and highest-ranking executives at Fox News privately ridiculed claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, despite the right-wing channel allowing lies about the presidential contest to be promoted on its air, damning messages contained in a court filing revealed.

 

 

 

‘Foxitis’: MAGA Rioters Use Fox News Defense To Fight Criminal Charges

One of the alleged rioters who stormed the Capitol is claiming Fox made them do it, his lawyer coining the phrase “Foxitis” for his defense. This defendant is not the first rioter to blame the conservative outlet for their actions on January 6. MSNBC’s Ari Melber discusses how the network’s misinformation affects Americans and how a “Foxitis” defense may play out in court.

 

FOX Refused to Air Jan. 6 Hearings to Keep Their Viewers In The Dark

While all major TV Networks committed to Air the Jan. 6 Hearings FOX Refused to Air them to prevent their viewers from learning the truth about the extent of Republicans attempted coup to overthrow the U.S. Government and STEAL the 2020 Election.

 

Hannity confession: See smoking gun evidence as Fox chief Murdoch forced under oath

Fox Chief Rupert Murdoch is testifying in a billion-dollar lawsuit defamation suit, accusing Murdoch and the network’s anchors of “repeatedly and knowingly” pushing false claims. Fox denies wrongdoing and argues It was reporting on newsworthy claims. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the legal implications of Murdoch’s testimony, and what it could mean for the future of his media empire.

 

TEXTS REVEAL Sean Hannity TOOK ORDERS From Trump White House

Jesse talks about what newly public text messages reveal about the relationship between Fox New’s Sean Hannity and Donald Trump’s White House in the aftermath of Trump’s 2020 election loss to Joe Biden

. In text messages between Sean Hannity and WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Hannity replied with “Yes sir. On it” when ordered by Meadows on how to talk about the election.

 

Texts show Sean Hannity behaving like a member of Trump’s Whitehouse team

 

On January 6, Right-Wing Media Is Living In Another Universe

Most major news networks aired last night’s 1/6 hearing in full — and then there’s right-wing media, which seems to live in an alternate universe. In spite of facts and a 10-month-long investigation, Ayman says, “a whole separate reality has been manufactured by the right.”

 

Bombshell Text Evidence Ties Trump Allies to Coup Plot

Explosive new stats evidence in the January 6th committee probe was revealed. CNN obtaining more than 2,000 leaked text messages with Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows revealing communications before the riot and in the moments after it. From Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene asking Trump to declare martial law to Donald Trump Jr. asking to “condemn” the riot to Sean Hannity taking orders from Meadows. Ari Melber reports on the new evidence and is joined by Former Solicitor General Neal Katyal who calls on Attorney General Garland to act immediately.

 

 

Jan 6th Committee EXPOSES Fox News & Laura Ingraham’s COLLUSION with Trump

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/business/media/fox-news-suzanne-scott.html

Per the above article from the New York Times; “Since Scott took over the top job at Fox News in 2018, her colleagues said, she has managed from behind the scenes with a simple mantra: Respect Fox’s audience. Often that involves sparing conservative viewers what they don’t want to hear — even when that means ignoring one of the biggest stories of the year.

That strategy has helped Fox News succeed not just as the most-watched cable news network in the country but also as a multibillion-dollar consumer brand with a suite of businesses that, according to a recent company promo for one product, offers fans “The World According to Fox.”

But Scott’s Fox News — a sanctuary for conservatives where few unpleasant facts intrude and political misinformation has spread — also looms large in a case that threatens Fox’s business and possibly Scott herself. She has emerged as one of the central figures in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems, in which the voting company accuses Fox executives of juicing ratings and profits by repeatedly airing false information about Dominion machines siphoning votes away from former President Donald Trump”.

The FOX News Network has put PROFITS & PARTISANSHIP above PATRIOTISM and telling the TRUTH

 

On April 9, 2024, when the Republican dominated Arizona Supreme Court ruled it would enforce a total Ban on Abortion based on a draconian law from 1864, it was the biggest story of the day, carried on every major news outlet. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, FOX hosts such as Sean Hannity and Jesse Watters mentioned it to their viewers ZERO times. This is how “News” outlets in Dictatorships such as Russia & North Korea functions and is a classic example of how FOX keeps their viewers in the dark about Republican’s restrictive and unpopular policies.

 

REPUBLICANS are for the $RICH$

 

Average Joe Americans are being duped by Republicans and their Right Wing Propaganda Media Outlets

 

Study Confirms That Fox Makes You Stupid

According to a new study recently published in American politics, research consuming too much Fox news can in fact, made you stupid. Now the study didn’t put it that way. The study said, it just makes you less informed about, you know, certain things, especially certain things having to do with science, but let’s not dance around it, right? We’re we’re not having to use scientific language. We’re not having to have this published so we can straight up say what it actually is. Fox news makes you stupid. Now, before I get into the details of this particular study, it is important to remember that over the years we have seen study after study, after study, that has confirmed that Fox news viewers are the least informed out of any other media consumers here in the United States.

 

 

 

Republicans in the US Senate voted to cut funding from Medicare and Medicaid in order to help fund their 2 TRILLION tax cuts for the rich. They are taking away healthcare from the needy in order to give more money to the greedy.

Right Wing Media never discusses issues such as this because they serve the interests of the top 1%. If that’s all you watch, you’d never know about this.

 

See Fox News hosts humiliated as FBI Biden ‘informant’ gets arrested for lying

For months, the right-wing media promoted claims from an “informant” to make their case against the Bidens. But after the informant was arrested for lying to the FBI, the Fox News primetime hosts went silent.

 

CNN’s Jake Tapper Takes Jab at Sean Hannity, Suggests He’s Not a Journalist

CNN’s Jake Tapper took a jab at Fox News’ Sean Hannity Thursday, suggesting the conservative TV personality isn’t much of a journalist.

 

 

‘Propaganda’: Video shows Sean Hannity lying, slandering and making false accusation about President Biden.  Reporter breaks down Fox News’ amplified coverage of Hunter Biden

 

Fox News fearmongering backfires on live TV

When Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels attacked a “migrant shoplifter” live on Fox News, it fit perfectly with the right’s narrative about “illegals” and “rampant crime.” Except after the cameras turned off, a little more reporting and digging revealed the truth.

 

FOX, Republicans and Right Wing Media caught LYING about veterans kicked out of a New York hotel to make room for Migrants

 

Fox News runs with fake story about migrants displacing homeless veterans

Fox News went all in on a story about migrants displacing veterans from a New York hotel, featuring it on no less than 15 different shows. The network even claimed to have substantiated the reporting themselves. But then the whole thing unraveled.

 

Fox Host Proves She’s A LIAR And FRAUD On Air

Laura Ingraham gets fact-checked by Juliet Jeske of Decoding Fox News for misrepresenting the conviction of anti-choice protestors.

 

CNN rolls tape on Fox hosts’ public spin vs. private pleas

As Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade were frantically texting Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows on the day of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, CNN’s John Berman shows how the Fox News anchors were reporting the event publicly.

 

Here’s a photo of Sean Hannity’s home in New York. According to celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/republicans/sean-hannity-net-worth, Hannity is worth $250 Million and his salary is $45 Million a year.

When you look at the lavish lifestyle Hannity lives, one can see why he might have a vested interest in doing or saying what-ever it takes to maintain his lavish lifestyle.

 

 

25 years of dangerous lies from Fox News: “There is a direct pipeline from what appears on Fox News to the absolute worst manifestations, worst behavior, worst elements of our politics and society.”

 

Republicans must lie to survive: They have no other choice

From Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, the path to Republican political success is rooted in profound deception

Per the above article; “The GOP exists to serve the interests of the wealthy and big business that comprise the richest 1%. No party, however, can ever win an election with only 1% of the vote. So to win elections, the GOP must necessarily reach beyond its own wealthy core and attempt to convince a large segment of working people in the 99% to vote for Republicans.

Normally, a political party wins elections by offering policies that benefit the voters. These policies attract the voters who then cast their votes for the political party.

But for the Republican Party, this is not an option. A candidate could not possibly campaign on the policies favored by the 1%. Just imagine the stump speech. “Vote for me and I will slash your health care! In fact, I’ll do even better — I’ll fight like mad to completely eliminate your health care!”

“Vote for me and I will get rid of your pensions! This would save corporations a bundle and boost profits to the shareholders! Screw the workers!”

“Vote for me and I promise to ship your jobs overseas under globalization! The exact same labor can be hired in Asia for only pennies! Hurray!”

The Republican Party is left with only one option. It cannot possibly be honest about its true intentions and actual policies. The working class would never vote for them. Instead, the only option is to lie”.

Right Wing Media has been extremely effective in propagating and reinforcing Republican’s lies to brainwashed viewers.

Proof of how Republican’s policies are bad for working class people is how California Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Larry Elder ran on a platform of eliminating the minimum wage.

 

Republicans don’t want to pay Average Joe Americans a fair, living wage. The above video explains why.

Right Wing Media never discusses issues such as this because they serve the interests of the top 1%. If that’s all you watch, you’d never know about this.

 

The Republican Party Exists to Protect Millionaires and Billionaires

The Republican Party’s attacks on the IRS budget are depriving the government of revenue, according to a new Atlantic-ProPublica report.

The Republican Party Exists to Protect Millionaires and Billionaires

Per the above article: “Other than “downplaying federal crimes committed by the president,” the modern Republican Party cherishes nothing more than finding innovative ways to lighten the financial burdens of the millionaires and billionaires who support it. This is most evident, of course, in its signature accomplishment of the 115th Congress: a $1.5 trillion tax cut for very wealthy people, propped up by the usual gamut of vague, Reaganomics-type assurances that the gaping new hole in the federal deficit would “pay for itself.”

 

Fox Goes SILENT Moments After Massive Jobs Report

Fox News goes silent after a blockbuster jobs report after spending the entire morning teasing what they expected to be disastrous new jobs numbers. Feb 7, 2022.

Right Wing Media went silent because all they want to do is make Biden & Democrats look bad so people will vote for Republicans against their own best interests.

 

Republicans / Fox Resort To Double Standard To Stir Outrage Over Supreme Court Protests

Mehdi Hasan highlights the double standard of Fox News pretending to be outraged over peaceful protests outside the houses of Supreme Court justices after making excuses for January 6th rioters and ignoring the actual violence committed by anti-abortion protesters.

 

BUSTED! The Dishonest Methods FOX Uses to Make Their Viewers Disrespect and Hate Joe Biden

Fox News was caught red-handed committing one of the gravest of all journalistic sins—deceptively editing a sound bite to make a politician say something they didn’t say.

Right Wing Media went silent because this was another “scandal” they invented to make their viewers hate Joe Biden & Democrats.

 

Video exposes Sean Hannity as a Political Hack and Propagandist for Trump & Republicans, accusing Joe Biden of  issues Trump routinely engages in, only Trump is far worse. Fox and Hannity FAILS to report Trump’s incompetent behavior to FOX viewers while inventing issues about Biden, proving Hannity is a Double Standards Political Hack and Propagandist.

 

FOX INVENTED SCANDAL AGAINST HILLARY CLINTON

Fox News and other Radical Right-Wing Propaganda media outlets lied and hyped totally false claims of Hillary Clinton Spying on Trump White House. They went silent after being BUSTED for inventing another non-extant Hillary Clinton “scandal”.

 

Hillary Clinton called out Fox and right-wing media for their misleading coverage of a filing from special counsel John Durham.

 

Fox News Completely Stops Covering Hillary Spying on Trump Story After Spending All Week Attacking Media For Ignoring It

Anyone watching Fox News over the past week learned Hillary Clinton had been caught spying on former President Trump. As of Friday, that coverage stopped.

 

BOMBSHELL SCANDAL: Fox News Hosts Texted Meadows Amid Riot, Urged Intervention

The January 6th committee revealed text messages in which Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and Brian Kilmeade begged Mark Meadows to get Trump to call off the riot while falsely claiming to their viewers that the rioters weren’t Trump supporters.

 

What Fox News hosts said privately vs. publicly on Jan. 6

In private text messages on Jan. 6, Fox News hosts condemned President Trump’s response to the attack. In public, those same hosts deflected blame from Trump.

 

Fox News Hosts, Trump Jr. Texts Reveal Everyone Was Horrified By Riot—Except Trump

“Here is the raw truth that is exposed in just those few text messages. Everyone—except for the actual mob and Donald Trump—was on the same page as they watched the horrifying insurrection transpire,” says Chris Hayes. “Everyone else immediately recognized that it was wrong, that it was horribly dangerous and destructive, and that the president alone was controlling it and could stop it.”

 

Jan. 6 Committee Releases ‘Explosive’ Texts From Sean Hannity

Private text messages shed light on how Fox News host Sean Hannity acted more like a memeber of Trump’s team and advisor rather than an independent “jorunalist” who just reports the news

 

 

PROOF: Right-wing media outlets spent significant time on Jan. 6 suggesting that the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol weren’t actually made up of Trump supporters.

 

Fox News Pundits Partisan Double Standards & Hypocrisy EXPOSED

After getting busted for text messages to Mark Meadows Fox News Pundits Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson whines about their “private” texts being exposed to the public.

 

Former Extremist Nails Fox News For Marketing Hate

A former extremist named Frank Meeink now spends his time educating others about hate and working against the crowds he once ran with. And recently, he called out Fox News for doing little more than “re-marketing hate” to the American public. His assessment is spot on, as Fox News has always peddled in hate bordering on extremism, but they have brought plenty of the most extreme ideas from the hate crowd into the mainstream.

 

Radicalization is infesting airwaves of pro-Trump media

CNN’s Brian Stelter explains how the country faces radicalization as some right-wing media outlets flood the airwaves with conspiracy theories and disinformation.

 

Former Fox News analyst says Fox has become ‘destructive propaganda machine’

 

Ex-Fox News analyst: Trump is a danger to the US

 

Tucker Carlson acts like a Spoiled Brat Psychotic Punk in the above video cutting off an ex-cop, abruptly ending the interview when confronted with information which didn’t fit his narrative.

 

You Literally Can’t Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox’s Lawyers

Fox News viewers don’t expect facts from Tucker Carlson, according to network lawyers who defended their star in a slander lawsuit filed by a woman who said she had an affair with President Trump.

Per the above article; “You can’t expect to literally believe the words that come out of Carlson’s mouth. And that assertion is not coming from Carlson’s critics. It’s being made by a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and by Fox News’s own lawyers. U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil’s opinion, leaning heavily on the arguments of Fox’s lawyers: The “‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary. ”

 

Ex-Fox reporter reveals why Tucker Carlson is lying about vaccines

Former Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron discusses Tucker Carlson spreading disinformation about the Covid-19 vaccines.

 

Tucker Carlson’s Patriot Purge “documentary” is a classic example of how Right Wing Media is destroying our country with lies, conspiracy theories and attempting to re-write history.

 

Two Fox News contributors resign after Tucker Carlson special

Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg announced Sunday night that they have resigned from Fox News, saying that Tucker Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” propaganda film was the last straw.

 

Title from Youtube; “Why Tucker Carlson pretends to hate elites”

Description from Youtube; “Tucker Carlson has branded himself as a populist, condemning the “liberal elite” that he argues makes up the American “ruling class.” It’s a good shtick, and it’s helped him stand out from other Fox News hosts. But while Tucker decries the “elite” on his show, he regularly ignores major stories of Republican economic policies that harm the working class, choosing instead to focus on bogus culture war stories.

That isn’t an accident. Carlson’s show is meant to distract Fox News viewers from Republican economics, channeling their frustration and anger at groups that don’t deserve it. That kind of misdirection produces what Marxist theorists call “false consciousness”: when workers are tricked into accepting their own exploitation”.

 

When spoiled kids whine

Saying the White House “can’t not give us a pass,” Tucker Carlson shows why we need a better class of rich people

Per the above article; “Nothing says “spoiled child” like Tucker Carlson. The son of wealthy Republican William Carlson, a former Los Angeles television anchor who became the head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and a U.S. ambassador, Carlson used his family connections to sail into journalism. Except for a brief moment when he seemed willing to ruffle the powers that be – his first George W. Bush profile for Talk magazine comes to mind – he has done nothing but afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable in his career. Examples of his partisan ethics abound, but my favorite was his shrill defense of Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame case while never acknowledging that his father headed Libby’s defense fund. Wealthy Republican family values at work”.

 

Here’s a photo of Tucker Carlson’s home. Per an article at velvetropes.com/backstage/tucker-carlson-house; “Tucker Carlson’s house is 7,400 square feet with 5 bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms.  In the fully-enclosed backyard is a 40-foot heated swimming pool, a veranda, a flagstone terrace, a lush lawn, and perfectly manicured mature landscaping”.

According to celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/republicans/tucker-carlson-net-worth is worth $30 Million and his salary is $6 Million a year.

When you look at the lavish lifestyle Carlson lives, one can see why he has a vested interest to do / say what-ever it takes to maintain his lavish lifestyle. Also, having a show watched by millions of people carries enormous prestige, to the extent some people might be willing to abandon allegiance to county & decency.

 

Republicans represent & protect the RICH and Corporate America. They have unlimited money to spend to buy the type of America THEY want. Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a Multi-Billionaire worth $22.4 billion as of July 2021, according to wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch.

As part of the RULING CLASS, he has a vested interest in “Controlling the masses” and making sure as many people as possible watch his channel and vote for Republicans, so they can stay in power and cram what they want down the throats of Average Joe Americans.

 

How Murdoch’s Fox News allowed Trump’s Propaganda to De-stabilise Democracy

ABC News In-depth – How Fox News promoted Donald Trump’s propaganda and helped destabilise democracy in the United States of America: the first of our two-part special on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News.

 

Lies and Disinformation from Right Wing Media and Republicans are destroying the United States

 

Right Wing Media is Corrupting Our Democracy

 

Fourteen Propaganda Techniques Fox “News” Uses to Brainwash Americans

When access to quality information is willfully or unintentionally obstructed, democracy itself is degraded.

Per the above article: Fourteen propaganda techniques fox news uses to brainwash Americans

1. Panic Mongering. This goes one step beyond simple fear mongering. With panic mongering, there is never a break from the fear. The idea is to terrify and terrorize the audience during every waking moment. From Muslims to swine flu to recession to homosexuals to immigrants to the rapture itself, the belief over at Fox seems to be that if your fight-or-flight reflexes aren’t activated, you aren’t alive. This of course raises the question: why terrorize your own audience? Because it is the fastest way to bypasses the rational brain. In other words, when people are afraid, they don’t think rationally. And when they can’t think rationally, they’ll believe anything.

2. Character Assassination/Ad Hominem. Fox does not like to waste time debating the idea. Instead, they prefer a quicker route to dispensing with their opponents: go after the person’s credibility, motives, intelligence, character, or, if necessary, sanity. No category of character assassination is off the table and no offense is beneath them. Fox and like-minded media figures also use ad hominem attacks not just against individuals, but entire categories of people in an effort to discredit the ideas of every person who is seen to fall into that category, e.g. “liberals,” “hippies,” “progressives” etc. This form of argument – if it can be called that – leaves no room for genuine debate over ideas, so by definition, it is undemocratic. Not to mention just plain crass.

3. Projection/Flipping. This one is frustrating for the viewer who is trying to actually follow the argument. It involves taking whatever underhanded tactic you’re using and then accusing your opponent of doing it to you first. We see this frequently in the immigration discussion, where anti-racists are accused of racism, or in the climate change debate, where those who argue for human causes of the phenomenon are accused of not having science or facts on their side. It’s often called upon when the media host finds themselves on the ropes in the debate.

4. Rewriting History. This is another way of saying that propagandists make the facts fit their worldview. The Downing Street Memos on the Iraq war were a classic example of this on a massive scale, but it happens daily and over smaller issues as well. A recent case in point is Palin’s mangling of the Paul Revere ride, which Fox reporters have bent over backward to validate. Why lie about the historical facts, even when they can be demonstrated to be false? Well, because dogmatic minds actually find it easier to reject reality than to update their viewpoints. They will literally rewrite history if it serves their interests. And they’ll often speak with such authority that the casual viewer will be tempted to question what they knew as fact.

5. Scapegoating/Othering. This works best when people feel insecure or scared. It’s technically a form of both fear mongering and diversion, but it is so pervasive that it deserves its own category. The simple idea is that if you can find a group to blame for social or economic problems, you can then go on to a) justify violence/dehumanization of them, and b) subvert responsibility for any harm that may befall them as a result.

6. Conflating Violence With Power and Opposition to Violence With Weakness. This is more of what I’d call a “meta-frame” (a deeply held belief) than a media technique, but it is manifested in the ways news is reported constantly. For example, terms like “show of strength” are often used to describe acts of repression, such as those by the Iranian regime against the protesters in the summer of 2009. There are several concerning consequences of this form of conflation. First, it has the potential to make people feel falsely emboldened by shows of force – it can turn wars into sporting events. Secondly, especially in the context of American politics, displays of violence – whether manifested in war or debates about the Second Amendment – are seen as noble and (in an especially surreal irony) moral. Violence become synonymous with power, patriotism and piety.

7. Bullying. This is a favorite technique of several Fox commentators. That it continues to be employed demonstrates that it seems to have some efficacy. Bullying and yelling works best on people who come to the conversation with a lack of confidence, either in themselves or their grasp of the subject being discussed. The bully exploits this lack of confidence by berating the guest into submission or compliance. Often, less self-possessed people will feel shame and anxiety when being berated and the quickest way to end the immediate discomfort is to cede authority to the bully. The bully is then able to interpret that as a “win.”

8. Confusion. As with the preceding technique, this one works best on an audience that is less confident and self-possessed. The idea is to deliberately confuse the argument, but insist that the logic is airtight and imply that anyone who disagrees is either too dumb or too fanatical to follow along. Less independent minds will interpret the confusion technique as a form of sophisticated thinking, thereby giving the user’s claims veracity in the viewer’s mind.

9. Populism. This is especially popular in election years. The speakers identifies themselves as one of “the people” and the target of their ire as an enemy of the people. The opponent is always “elitist” or a “bureaucrat” or a “government insider” or some other category that is not the people. The idea is to make the opponent harder to relate to and harder to empathize with. It often goes hand in hand with scapegoating. A common logical fallacy with populism bias when used by the right is that accused “elitists” are almost always liberals – a category of political actors who, by definition, advocate for non-elite groups.

10. Invoking the Christian God. This is similar to othering and populism. With morality politics, the idea is to declare yourself and your allies as patriots, Christians and “real Americans” (those are inseparable categories in this line of thinking) and anyone who challenges them as not. Basically, God loves Fox and Republicans and America. And hates taxes and anyone who doesn’t love those other three things. Because the speaker has been benedicted by God to speak on behalf of all Americans, any challenge is perceived as immoral. It’s a cheap and easy technique used by all totalitarian entities from states to cults.

11. Saturation. There are three components to effective saturation: being repetitive, being ubiquitous and being consistent. The message must be repeated cover and over, it must be everywhere and it must be shared across commentators: e.g. “Saddam has WMD.” Veracity and hard data have no relationship to the efficacy of saturation. There is a psychological effect of being exposed to the same message over and over, regardless of whether it’s true or if it even makes sense, e.g., “Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States.” If something is said enough times, by enough people, many will come to accept it as truth. Another example is Fox’s own slogan of “Fair and Balanced.”

12. Disparaging Education. There is an emerging and disturbing lack of reverence for education and intellectualism in many mainstream media discourses. In fact, in some circles (e.g. Fox), higher education is often disparaged as elitist. Having a university credential is perceived by these folks as not a sign of credibility, but of a lack of it. In fact, among some commentators, evidence of intellectual prowess is treated snidely and as anti-American. Education and other evidence of being trained in critical thinking are direct threats to a hive-mind mentality, which is why they are so viscerally demeaned.

13. Guilt by Association. This is a favorite of Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart, both of whom have used it to decimate the careers and lives of many good people. Here’s how it works: if your cousin’s college roommate’s uncle’s ex-wife attended a dinner party back in 1984 with Gorbachev’s niece’s ex-boyfriend’s sister, then you, by extension are a communist set on destroying America. Period.

14. Diversion. This is where, when on the ropes, the media commentator suddenly takes the debate in a weird but predictable direction to avoid accountability. This is the point in the discussion where most Fox anchors start comparing the opponent to Saul Alinsky or invoking ACORN or Media Matters, in a desperate attempt to win through guilt by association. Or they’ll talk about wanting to focus on “moving forward,” as though by analyzing the current state of things or God forbid, how we got to this state of things, you have no regard for the future. Any attempt to bring the discussion back to the issue at hand will likely be called deflection, an ironic use of the technique of projection/flipping.