Now, Fox is getting sued for propagating conspiracy theories for another $800M, J Pirro has moved to take the place of the last batch of hosts who were ousted.
This lawsuit is to recover losses caused to the owners (including pension funds of two states), of stocks caused by flagrant and repeated libel and lies, ruining Fox’s reputation. There are other lawsuits pending.
They get away with lying only because they haven’t been sued by it. The times they have, they surprisingly changed their tune (like the voting machine fraud)
The Dominion lawsuit was fascinating because it showed all the behind the scenes discussions and made it very clear exactly how much Fox knows is utter bullshit on their programs. Seeing them just blatantly admit that they have crackpots on as “experts” regularly and that they’re fully aware that they’re spewing lies is just really disgusting. Even more so when their own hosts talk about how unhinged these people are and how it’s going to get them in trouble only for Rupert to tell them to shut up and stick to the lies being pushed.
They’re cosplaying being a freedom warriors in this culture war. Keith Olbermann talked years ago about how Fox commentators just casually spoke to him as if they didn’t believe what they were spewing on air. They didn’t. It’s all a game or performance art.
Keith Olbermann was great until he himself went on to spewing garbage constantly. I found it funny that he spent way to much time posting dogs for adoption when he finally came back after the MSNBC meltdown
Some conspiracy minded people deny that viruses even exist. I’ve had more than one person tell me that it isn’t vaccines that helped get rid of polio and small pox etc it’s increased hygiene and such. If you start with a conclusion you can either make facts fit the lie or ignore reality altogether.
These cunts will have a bunch of hibbedy-fibbedy-wibbedy-kibbedy to wave that off, too. When you don’t actually care about the particulars, evidence - however conclusive - is immaterial.
It’s something slightly different than hypocrisy. They’re not only criticizing people who choose to be vaccinated, which is hypocrisy, but the vaccine itself. It seems like a pretty fucked up political agenda to have, but what we’d expect from fox - be contrary, divide people just for the sake of profit and sowing discontent and confusion, and fuck the effects on the country. Or they actually want to harm the populace…
Not precisely. Saying the vaccine isn’t effective or is dangerous can’t be hypocritical because they’re not a vaccine. Saying vaccine users made a bad decision isn’t even necessarily hypocritical because maybe they think they themselves did. Saying vaccinated people are sheep or unintelligent would be hypocritical because they’re vaccinated.
It’s not hypocrisy it’s worse. It’s really careful pandering to like 100 different crackpot groups to effectively form the garbage pile that is known as the Republican Party
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