Tucker Carlson, one of Donald’s most obsequious cheerleaders, is just one example of how FOX is more worried about ratings than reality. From Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 4 2021 text: “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait. I hate him passionately.”
From a later text of Carlson talking about Donald: “What he’s good at is destroying things. He's the undisputed world champion of that.” Yet Tucker still cited Donald’s claims on his program.
The owner of FOX, Rupert Murdoc, also knew that Donald lied about the election. From a Nov. 19, 2020 email to a friend, he described Donald and his then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani as "both increasingly mad" due to their election claims. He also said that voter fraud claims, in general, were “really crazy stuff”. Murdoch referred to Donald’s lies about the election as “bullshit”, an astonishingly accurate one-word summary of the Big Lie.
Yet Murdoc, knowing these outrageous claims were absolutely false, still allowed his subordinates to support them. When asked why he did, Murdoc answered that it was a business decision: “It is not red or blue, it is green.”
So, as to whether FOX is news or propaganda with respect to Donald, the answer is unambiguous. FOX is an ultra-right propaganda machine supporting Donald’s many lies rather than presenting the truth. It’s Donald’s Pravda and should be viewed as such.
From the Washington Post - Here's What to Know
From the Washington Post - Here's What to Know
They Knew and They Did It Anyway!
Where does Freedom of Speech Begin and End?
This Law Suit Just MIGHT Begin the Way Back to Truth??!!!
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ON THE LIGHTER SIDE...
L is for Liar. In 1997, Bill Clinton said, “I did not have sex with that woman,” which, of course, was a lie. What he should have said was, “I did not provide dry-cleaning services for that woman.” In 1992, George Bush Sr. famously said, “Read my lips, no new taxes,” and then raised taxes. That lie famously cost him the election. Perhaps the most famous (infamous?) lie of all came in 2003, when George W. Bush started the war in Iraq because “there were weapons of mass destruction” there. There weren’t; it was a lie. (Unless, of course, he believed it and, fifteen years later, he’s still looking for them, in much the same way O.J. is still looking for Nicole’s real killer). Those political lies stand out because they were aberrations, not the norm.
Donald Trump lies so often and so frequently that the truth stands out—or at least it will, if he ever tells it. Donald Trump tells all kinds of lies. He tells lies of defamation (that Ted Cruz’s father was involved in the JFK assassination, for example); lies of dissembling, which is lying by posing as someone you’re not (Trump used to call journalists and pretend he was his own publicist); lies of deception (he fired Comey because of the “way he handled the Hillary email investigation”; even Trump didn’t believe that one!); lies of fabrication (he said Muslims in New Jersey were cheering on 9/11); and my favorite, bald-faced lies (for example, about the size of the crowd at his inauguration, in spite of aerial photos proving that what he was saying was patently false). The truly fascinating thing is that Trump lies when it’s unnecessary and for no apparent reason. To this day, he carries on about how he was at the top of his class at Wharton Business School, a lie that (a) is not true, (b) was about something from fifty years ago, and (c) nobody cares about. If I said I was the Queen of Sweden from 1963 to 1964, it would clearly be a lie, but would you care? No. You’d just wonder why I would lie about something like that.
Which brings us to the real problem with Trump’s lying: credibility. If he’s lying about inconsequential things, how will we know if he’s telling the truth about big things, like a nuclear attack or a health pandemic or whether he’s hung like a horse, as he claims? It’s hard to trust someone who lies constantly. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said it best: “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” (He was deep.) Donald Trump is like an adult version of the character in Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” The boy lied and lied and lied about the wolf coming for his sheep, and then, one day, the wolf really did come, but nobody helped the boy fight the wolf off because they no longer believed him. In the end, the boy was eaten by the wolf.
I think that if Trump keeps on compulsively lying, sooner or later no one will believe him, and he’ll get eaten by the wolf. And so will we, even though we have not been the ones doing all the lying. And that pisses me off...
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Robert Sells has Graciously Agreed to Become an Ongoing Contributor at Book Readers Heaven. You can find him mostly On Facebook... But we look forward to hearing more of his thoughts and awareness of what is happening in the Political Sphere! Welcome Robert and, folks, please feel free to share your comments below if you wish!
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Gabbie
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