Steve Bannon seemed pretty disgusted with Fox News when he spoke at CPAC. He said:
"You've disrespected Donald J. Trump long enough," Bannon, who hosts a popular right-wing podcast, said of Murdoch in remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which was heavily attended by Trump-loyal Republicans.
"Murdoch, you’ve deemed Trump’s not going to be president," Bannon added at the close of his fiery speech. "Well, we’ve deemed that you’re not going to have a network. Because we’re going to fight you every step of the way."
You can tell Fox News doesn't even respect its viewers, he also said: just read the depositions.
Funny thing about that, though. I mean, if you read the depositions, they show that no, Fox News doesn't respect their viewers--they are terrified of them. That's why they continued to promote election rigging conspiracy theories even though they knew there was no basis for them. For his part, Steven Bannon also promotes election rigging conspiracies on his podcast, but that's not because he's afraid of his audience--it's because, even if he doesn't dress like it, he has some self-respect. He is a professional propagandist.
He respects his audience. He respects their capacity to do great damage when they are properly worked up.
This is just a glimpse into the fun house mirror that is the right-wing infotainment universe. You might have heard that Fox News has an FEC complaint against them because helping Trump's campaign is an FEC violation--it's an in-kind contribution. Do Fox viewers have any idea? Probably not, because they won't be hearing it from Fox (for "legal reasons"). But what do they hear in their world anyway? Not much, it turns out. Actually, what they might be hearing is pretty funny:
The hosts’ comments have also not been a focus of users on right-wing social media. Instead, many users on sites like Gab and Truth Social accused Mr. Murdoch of disloyalty to former President Donald J. Trump. One of the articles by The Gateway Pundit that advanced voter fraud narratives about Dominion was the most-shared story about the case on right-wing social media, according to data from Pyrra Technologies, a company that monitors the right-wing internet.
When users on right-wing social networks discussed the Fox News hosts, many criticized Mr. Carlson, Mr. Hannity and others for not fully believing the election fraud lies they appeared to endorse, Pyrra found.
The problem with Fox News? They are disloyal and those lies wouldn't have been so false if Fox News truly believed them. Clap for fucking Tinkerbell, you mugs.
Anyway, it sounds like Fow News is gonna get reamed.
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