“We are admitting that we lied to you… for saying the wrong things about the 2020 election…" said spliced clips of Tucker Carlson via The Daily Show.
April 20, 2023

Having Fox News being forced to admit the things you'd actually want to hear come out of their mouths instead of just writing a check for their unbridled (or at least only semi-bridled) malfeasance would be fun, wouldn't it? Jordan Klepper and The Daily Show with the honors this time.

Source: Daily Beast

While discussing the fallout from the Fox-Dominion settlement on Wednesday night, The Daily Show guest host noted that “Dominion was not the only injured party” from the network’s constant pushing of Trump’s “Big Lie.”

“What about, you know, our faith in democracy?,” Klepper said. “There are people who will not trust elections for the rest of their lives—and I have to talk to those people.”

Though America will never get the chance to witness what Klepper imagined as “Sean Hannity, up there on the stand, sweating through his search like a beached manatee,” he’s even more annoyed that the settlement does not require the network—or anyone associated with it—to apologize on-air for their years of fibbing.

“We deserve that—the bare minimum,” he said.

Then, Klepper took matters into his own hands by pasting together an apology from Tucker Carlson himself… culled from a series of soundbites.

“We are admitting that we lied to you… for saying the wrong things about the 2020 election… Now why is that? Well, the truth is… Donald Trump lost the election… And no, we didn’t tell you, because we don’t care what you think,” Carlson said in a series of edited clips.

“Thank you, Tucker,” said Klepper. “Well said.”

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