A day after Fox News settled the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million, Fox News host Tucker Carlson ignored the news, claiming instead to his viewers that all other news networks are corrupt.
Carlson did this to distract from Fox's massive settlement, but also in part to promote his COVID-denying and anti-vaccine wacko guest Robert Kennedy Jr..
"Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight. Sometimes you wonder just how filthy and dishonest our news media are," Carlson snarled.
Tuckems said this after Fox News was caught via texts and emails outright lying to their viewers about Trump and his fraudulent claims the 2020 election was stolen. Projection, Tuckems?
He then continued promoting lies about the 2020 presidential election and the voting system until Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6th. Even after that atrocity, Fox News and their hosts continually lied to their viewers.
Discovery in the Dominion lawsuit revealed that Tucker Carlson admitted in his own emails how much he hated Trump.
"We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights," he wrote in a text sent on 4 January 2021. "I truly can't wait.... I hate him passionately," he added.
So try not to gag when you watch this clip.
Ask yourself, is any news organization you know of so corrupt that it’s willing to hurt you on behalf of its biggest advertisers? Anyone who would do that is obviously Pablo Escobar-level corrupt and should not be trusted. What would that look like? That level of corruption?
Well, imagine that the Trump administration had made it mandatory for American citizens to buy MyPillow. That’s one of Fox News’s biggest advertisers.
Imagine the administration declared that if you didn’t rush out and buy at least one MyPillow and then at least another booster pillow, you would not be allowed to eat out. You couldn’t reenter your own country. You couldn’t have a paying job. Mypillow They told you the straight face was the very linchpin of our country’s public health system. No matches. They told you that that Fox as a news organization endorsed it, amplified the government’s message.
Imagine if Fox News attacked anyone who refused to buy MyPillow as an ally of Russia, as an enemy of science. And then imagine that Fox kept up those libelous attacks, even as evidence mounted that MyPillow caused heart attacks, fertility problems and death.
Carlson's rant escalated, getting worse and worse.
"If Fox News did that, what would you think of Fox News? Would you trust us? Of course you wouldn’t. You wouldn’t know that we were liars. Thank heaven Fox News never did anything like that," he said.
The world already KNOWS Fox News and YOU already did do that. You are f**king liars. The court found as a matter of FACT that Fox News is a pack of liars. $737.5 million worth of dirty liars there.
Thank heaven Fox News never did anything like that. But the other channels did. The other channels took hundreds of millions of dollars from big pharma companies, and then they shelled for their sketchy products on the air. And as they did that, they maligned anyone who was skeptical of those products. At the very least, this was a moral crime. It was disgusting, but it was universal. It happened across the American news media. They all did it. So at this point, the question isn’t who in public life is corrupt? Too many to count. The question is who is telling the truth?
We know this much: It wasn't Fox News telling the truth.
