Tucker Carlson

Scabbing With Tucker

Learning that there’s racism within Fox News is like Captain Renault In Casablanca discovering there’s gambling at Rick’s. “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here!”

Newly revealed racist text from Tucker Carlson to a Fox News producer reportedly “alarmed” the Fox board when they first heard of it. Really? Alarmed? Shocked that there’s gambling here? Please. What they were probably alarmed about was that it was discovered and would be entered into evidence by Dominion Voting Systems. The text contributed to two things: The  $787.5 million settlement with Dominion and Tucker’s firing.

In the text, Tucker talks about witnessing a group of white men beat up an “Antifa kid,”

Tucker wrote, “A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?”

Tucker, you’re worse than that kid. Tucker always reduced and demeaned people he considered his political enemies.

Tucker also built a career pushing white nationalism. How many times did he promote the “great replacement theory” on his primetime show? This is a theory that whites are being systematically replaced with darker-skinned people. White nationalists love this theory as does Fox News as it fits their agenda of promoting hate and fear.

Fox News being shocked that there’s racism in their establishment is a bunch of crock. They would have to be better actors than Claude Rains to pull that one off. Tucker’s text doesn’t just show that he’s racist, but that a Fox News producer is too.

There’s been too many times that I’ve sat at a bar and a white guy next to me, who I don’t know, starts talking to me and drops N-bombs and other racist slurs. I’ve also heard white strangers near me, who are not speaking to me, but are sharing their racism loudly and with confidence. Of course, the racism bothers me, but what also disturbs me is that they’re not shy in sharing their racism…and with me, who they don’t know. It bothers me that a racist will assume I share his viewpoints. Basically, he’s judging me by the color of my skin. It’s not my fault I’m a 97 percent UK mutt.

But in Tucker’s case, he knows this producer. He knows he can send the guy a racist text. He felt safe sending it. He also felt safe creating a hateful and misogynistic environment in his studio. Hell, Tucker felt safe pushing racism on his show. Shocked there’s racism at Fox News? Here are your winnings, sir.

I once had a friend text me a very unfunny joke about auctioning President Obama. I ignored it. A few days later he texted again, “Did you place a bid?” And that’s when I told him I wasn’t cool with that shit. In his case, he knew I wasn’t cool with it and was trying to get under my skin. We don’t talk anymore because I have nothing for him. But I bet Tucker’s producer didn’t reply to his text, “Please stop sending me this racist shit. I’m not on board.” I’d like to see the reply and who it came from.

And speaking of gambling, I’d bet a lot of money that there’s more than one person at Fox News to who Tucker felt safe sending racist texts.

As for the writers strike, I’m with the writers. I too am afraid of what the future brings, especially regarding artificial intelligence. Basically, every cartoonist is afraid of AI replacing us, and then a few weeks ago, someone shared a bunch of AI-created images of Republicans as drag queens and basically every editorial cartoonist (except for me) shared them.

You don’t fight AI by sharing it on social media. I feel the same way about memes, which some are trying to replace editorial cartoons with. I don’t share memes.

We should always support good writing. Even though it appears there are too many lazy remakes and shitty TV shows and movies, there’s always good writing out there. For every ten “Two Broke Girls,” there’s at least one “Community,” or “The IT Crowd,” or “The Good Place.” You just gotta search for it.

Writers, I stand with you. I feel your pain as someone who’s in an industry where I can’t organize to unionize or even produce a decent ethics guideline.

Creative note: I watched the first two seasons of Ted Lasso but none of season three. But I am planning on subscribing to Apple TV when season three is over, bingeing it, then canceling the service. It’s what I did for the first two seasons. And speaking of writing, I watched “Cocaine Bear” last night.

Music note: I started to listen to Adam Ant and then turned it off when I tried to think of more stuff to add to this cartoon.

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Lemon Tuckers

I had to stop drawing the cartoon I was drawing yesterday to do something about Tucker Carlson. In the middle of drawing that cartoon, the editor of the Tucson Sentinel, which publishes my cartoons, messaged me on Facebook to tell me that CNN had fired Don Lemon. This editor knew I was working on a Tucker cartoon. I looked at my TV, which was tuned to CNN, but they weren’t reporting on Don Lemon. However, I did get an alert on my iPhone from CNN about the firing. I’m subscribed to so many news alerts, it’s ridiculous.

After I had posted my Tucker cartoon, one of my regular Twitter trolls tweeted at me that Lemon had been fired too as if by that point I still wouldn’t have known about it. Of course, he was trying to take some of the attention off the firing of Tucker Carlson but in doing so, he did what so many on the right fail to do and that is make an equivalence.

We don’t have official reasons from Fox News or CNN about why they fired their anchors, with the announcements being about an hour apart. The main speculation over Tucker’s departure is that he angered management with some internal comments. Tucker called them “fuckers.” With Don Lemon, some reports state he was fired because recent controversies have decreased his popularity and some guests have refused to go on the air with him.

CNN’s statement said, “Don will forever be a part of the CNN family, and we thank him for his contributions over the past 17 years. We wish him well and will be cheering him on in his future endeavors.” I will too. I like Don Lemon.

Apparently, Lemon was informed of his firing by his manager and he tweeted, “After 17 years at CNN I would have thought someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly.” CNN fired back at that tweet, calling it “inaccurate” and that Lemon had been offered to meet with management but he had refused.

Lemon had been in the CNN dog house since last February when he stated on air that 51-year-old presidential candidate Nikki Haley wasn’t in “her prime.”

Lemon added that a “woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.” When his female co-hosts, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins jeered him, he doubled down with, “I’m just saying what the facts are. Google it.” If you do “Google it,” you’ll probably find a picture of Don Lemon. He later apologized to the newsroom and agreed to a corporate training program to address his on-air behavior. But he even got a public rebuke from Chris Licht, the chairman of CNN.

But comparing Don Lemon to Tucker Carlson is a false equivalence. First, Don Lemon is a journalist and Tucker Carlson is a propagandist. Lemon has never knowingly told lies on the air. Tucker has. While Lemon has engaged in some sexism and ageism, Tucker has too along with racism, transphobia, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, etc, etc. The only thing comparable is that two of the biggest stars for each network were fired on the same day. Oh, yeah. There’s one other thing. They’ve both hired the same entertainment lawyer to deal with their dismissals.

Don Lemon is a good journalist. I miss his banter with Chris Cuomo during the handoff between their prime-time shows on CNN. Cuomo was fired for violating journalism ethics and lying about it when he helped his brother, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo deal with the media during a sex scandal. Both Cuomos lost their jobs, which they were both very good at.

Fortunately for Lemon, his greatest sin is saying something stupid. Unlike Chris Cuomo and Tucker Carlson, Lemon doesn’t have a history of violating the basic ethics of journalism. Hopefully, he lands better than Cuomo did, who’s now at NewsNation.

Although, landing at NewsNation would be better than working at Fox News.

Creative note: Since I work for CNN (I freelance one cartoon a week which is published Sundays in the Opinion newsletter), I felt it would be glaringly bad for me not to do a cartoon on Don Lemon, especially since I did one on Tucker. I don’t think other cartoonists are required to draw a cartoon on both, but I am.

Music Note: I listened to Goo Goo Dolls.

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Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.

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Toodles, Tucker

I was in the middle of another cartoon when it was announced on CNN that Fox News and Tucker Carlson have parted ways. Friday night’s show was his last.

This isn’t just a great day for journalism, it’s a great day for America. It’s a great day for this nation because Tucker has been poisoning it for years. While his show is the top-rated news show, it’s not actually a news show. It’s propaganda. It’s also the favorite show for white nationalist racist motherfuckers. If you know a racist, he watches Tucker Carlson.

Those of us in the news business have known for years that Tucker lies on his show. There have been times in the past when the network has had to order him to stop lying about specific subjects, like the Seth Rich murder that he was spreading conspiracy theories about. It was argued in court years ago by Fox News’ lawyers that Tucker is only entertainment and can’t be believed, so Fox News shouldn’t be held accountable for his lies.

After the Club Q shooting, Tucker displayed a graphic during his monologue on the shooting at the gay nightclub that said, “Stop sexualizing children.” Then he had a guest on that same show who said the shootings would continue “until we end this evil agenda that is attacking children.” This was feeding into the lie that Marjorie Taylor Greene said on 60 Minutes that all Democrats are pedophiles.

Tucker is a racist and he’s defended white nationalism on his show, even claiming it doesn’t exist…to his base of white nationalists. He’s a huge advocate for the racist “great replacement theory,” which he’s featured on his show repeatedly. The New York Times did a study and found he built his ratings on stoking “white fear.” He’s defended Vladimir Putin and has helped spread Russian lies about its invasion of Ukraine and how the war is going. He’s attacked democracy and defended attempts to help Trump steal the election. For that, Fox News got sued.

It was the Dominion lawsuit that proved to the entire world that Tucker and others at Fox News knowingly lie to their audience. Even worse, Tucker has tried to get fact-checkers and the actual journalists at Fox News (they’re on during the day) fired.

There’s speculation that Tucker’s dismissal was part of the $787.5 million settlement between Fox News and Dominion. Others believe Fox News is doing this independently and without outside pressure, but because Tucker is the main one who got them into this lawsuit costing them $787.5 million. Tucker is the top-rated show for the network but I don’t think MyPillow ads are going to cover a loss of $787.5 million…and those pillow ads may stop soon after it settles it’s own lawsuit from Dominion.

But, “a person familiar with the company’s thinking” told The Washington Post that it was Tucker’s internal messages about Fox News management that played a large part in his dismissal. In one message to colleagues, he wrote, “Those fuckers are destroying our credibility.” He later wrote, “A combination of incompetent liberals and top leadership with too much pride to back down is what’s happening.”

There’s also speculation this is partly because of the ongoing lawsuit against Tucker and Fox News from his former head booker for being subjected to a “hostile and discriminatory work environment”. There are other upcoming legal problems, specifically concerning the Smartmatic lawsuit. There seems to be a litany of reasons for Fox News to dismiss Tucker.

The dismissal was abrupt as Tucker gave no indication on Friday night’s show that it would be his last. Fox News was still airing promos for Tucker Carlson Tonight on Monday morning before his dismissal was announced.

Tucker has been airing his show from Maine which is the second thing I learned today after “snarge.” He hasn’t released a statement, but Fox News has. I think Fox News snarged Tucker (you’ll have to look that up).

Fox News’ statement says, “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.” It’s a short statement and about the same length as CNN’s on dismissing Don Lemon, which also happened this morning.

What’s next for Tucker? Will he get a new show on OANN, Newsmax, Putin’s RT, create his own YouTube channel or news network, or maybe just shout racist xenophobic comments at people on the street? Glenn Beck has already issued a plea for Tucker to join him on Blaze. Blaze is still around? Glenn Beck is still around? After Rush Limbaugh died, Tucker filled his large space in the right-wing echo chamber. Who will fill that space now?

Meanwhile, MAGA World is upset over at Goon Social, I mean, Truth Social, with many saying Fox News has spit in the face of MAGA, which goes to show that Fox News is not news. A news outlet isn’t supposed to be a part of any political movement or campaign. If Fox News had an ethics policy, Tucker would have been fired years ago. Trump hasn’t posted anything about Tucker yet, but he has about Don Lemon because, you know…Don Lemon is black.

Also on Truth Social, its users are already floating the conspiracy theories in this cartoon. Man, satire is hard.

Creative note: I learned about Don Lemon’s firing halfway through this cartoon. If I had known of it sooner, I would have done a cartoon with both anchors. Since I work for CNN, I feel it would be negligent of me not to comment on Lemon’s firing. That’ll be my next cartoon…unless someone else gets fired today.

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Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.

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Dominion Wins

Nick Sandmann was a high school student in 2019 from Covington, Kentucky when he was in Washington, D.C. attending an anti-abortion rally when he had an encounter with Omaha tribe elder Nathan Phillips, who was beating a hand-held drum and singing at the Indigenous Peoples March at the Lincoln Memorial on the same day. A video went viral of Sandmann in his MAGA cap with a smirk on his face while standing inches from Phillips, as though he was blocking his path. He felt the media slighted him with its coverage and he sued several outlets, including CNN, The Washington Post, and NBC. He sued the Post for $250 million and CNN for $275 million. The Post and CNN settled with Sandmann even though they didn’t do anything wrong.

Even though neither news outlet ever told an untruth about Sandmann, he felt they allowed others to lie about him on the air and just basically make people see him in a negative light, but anytime you put a MAGA hat on your head, you have a hard case to prove that someone else made you look racist. But the news outlets settled basically to make the case go away as paying Sandmann a few bucks would be cheaper than their legal fees after a lawsuit. CNN said it paid him off “to avoid a lengthy and potentially unpredictable trial.” Part of the settlement agreement is that neither side will reveal the amount, but veteran defamation attorneys speculate that Sandmann got peanuts compared to his initial demands.

Later, Sandmann became a GOP rock star. I mean, not to the extent of shooting Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, but he still got a speaking slot at Trump’s Republican National Convention (along with the St. Louis gun-wielding mustard stain couple who were upset black people were walking in front of their house in their lily-white gated community) where he got to put on his MAGA cap and display the smirk again. Republicans rejoiced that he “defeated” the “fake news.” Those same people are silent today over Fox News’ settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.

Dominion Voting Systems sued Fox News for lying about their product. Fox News pushed the narrative that Trump won but the election was stolen from him partly because Dominion switched votes from Trump to Biden. Fox News knew that Trump lost legitimately yet allowed its hosts to lie on the air. They allowed guests to come on their network and spread lies that Fox News knew weren’t true. Even the hosts knew what the lies were yet they allowed the madness to continue. Dominion sued for $1.6 billion. Yesterday, Fox News paid them $787.5 million, which is about half of what Dominion wanted.

Dominion settled because while they can prove Fox News knowingly lied, proving the defamation and actual malice is trickier with a jury, and who knows how much a jury would award. What if Fox News viewers got on the jury? Fox News settled because they knew they were going to lose, the price was a bargain, and it spares Fox News further public embarrassment with a trial.

Many Fox News critics, such as myself, are disappointed there was a settlement because Fox News got away without having to admit they lied. There will be no on-air apology and the network got away with only giving a statement saying, “We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.” That statement only acknowledges what the Court said, it’s not endorsing it. Perhaps the only person to mention the settlement on air was media reporter Howard Kurtz.

Later, Fox News said, “This settlement reflects FOX’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.” So the lying continued immediately.

Fox News is the only major “news” outlet that has knowingly lied to its audience. There is zero proof that any other outlet, whether it’s TV, print, or digital, that’s knowingly lied to its viewers. Yes, there are other propaganda outlets lying, like Breitbart, Sputnik, Daily Wire, OANN, Newsmax, etc, but they’re not major “news” outlets. Fox News should have at least been required to remove “news” from its name.

Flipping channels yesterday, I saw that CNN and MSNBC were talking about the settlement. When I switched over to Fox News, they were talking about gang violence in California. On FoxNews.com at this very moment, there are 47 “news” articles and four “opinion” pieces on the home page, and not one, out of over 50 stories, is about the Dominion settlement. Not one. I was tempted this morning to leave my TV on Fox News all day just to see how often they mention it, but then I’d have to watch Fox News all day.

So if you’re a Fox News viewer, you won’t know about the settlement. And I’m sure when you do see tweets and other posts about it on social media, you’ll probably say “fake news.”

This nation is full of ignorant motherfuckers who believe conspiracy theories and lies. Yesterday, Marjorie Taylor Greene was tweeting without any proof that China bribed Joe Biden. Millions of red-cap-wearing fucknuts still believe Donald Trump won the election. Kari Lake is still claiming she’s the governor of Arizona. There are still people out there who believe in Pizzagate and the government is adding toxins to water to turn frogs gay. 60 Minutes even allowed Large Marge to go on their show and claim that Democrats are pedophiles without any real pushback on the lie.

The damage has been done, but Fox News is not out of the woods yet. Smartmatic, another voting machines company, is suing them for $2.7 billion. Dominion said “We’re not done,” which might mean future lawsuits for the MyPillow Fucker.

Fox News isn’t done either. They’re going to continue to lie to their viewers who want to remain uninformed. Tucker Carlson has the highest-rated news show, and it’s public information that he knowingly lies. And it doesn’t seem to matter because his white nationalist audience will never know or believe the truth.

The damage will continue.

Music note: I listened to Bush, Cake, the Beastie Boys, and some other stuff I can’t remember.

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Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.

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Be Like Tucker

Last year after Putin illegally invaded Ukraine, the Duma (Russia’s legislative body) created a “fake news” law that would punish journalists and their outlets for reporting “misinformation” about the war. Who would do the deciding on what’s “fake news” in Russia? The Russian government of course. Russian and international news organizations either withdrew their reporters from the country, changed how they did their work, or shut down completely.

Bloomberg, the BBC, Radio Free Europe, ABC News, CBS, News, and public service broadcasters in Canada, Germany, and Italy each suspended their operations inside Russia. One news outlet that did not suspend their reporting from inside Russia is The Wall Street Journal. Last week, the Russian government detained American reporter Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal on accusations of spying for the United States.

It’s a bullshit charge. But most that come from the Russian government is bullshit, like the claim they invaded Ukraine to liberate it from Nazis. And those who side with Russia, especially people who are supposed to be journalists, spread bullshit as well.

If Gershkovich had been more like Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, he wouldn’t currently be in detention in a Russian jail for doing his job. Tucker has been using his prime-time slot on Fox News to be a Russian asset. He’s spread Putin’s lies and has attacked President Joe Biden for successfully building an international coalition to oppose Russia. While NATO was under attack under Trump, it’s grown under Biden’s leadership. Tucker and other Republicans criticized President Biden for visiting Ukraine.

Tucker famously did a show where he rhetorically asked, as if the hate had been assigned to him, “Why do I hate Putin?”. Tucker used this to defend Putin and explain how Russia had never attacked him, ignoring that Russia did indeed attack our elections. But then again, that attack gave Tucker exactly what he wanted. What’s ironic is that Gershkovich and Tucker work for the same corporation. A cameraman for Fox News, Pierre Zakrzewski, (along with Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova) was killed by the Russian Army yet Tucker continues to spread lies for Putin. So does Ted Rall.

Ted Rall is a cartoonist/blogger/author who destroyed his credibility years ago. He’s a former Robert F. Kennedy Award winner (like myself) and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. But those accomplishments were years ago before he was fired by the Los Angeles Times for making shit up and has regrouped working for Sputnik, a Russian propaganda outlet. He also works for Counterpoint which doesn’t seem to care that he’s Putin’s cartoonist. Ted has even traveled to Moscow during the war to return to the United States and report how wonderful it is over there and that sanctions have only strengthened and improved Russia and that Vladimir Putin smells like lilac and honeydew when you hold him close to your body.

Tucker Carlson and Ted Rall are not journalists. Journalists don’t sit inside the United States and spread Russian propaganda. Journalists don’t lie for a fascist government that outlaws journalism. Eva Gershkovich is a journalist and he’s currently in a Russian jail for doing his job.

What I find equally disgusting is the “anonymous” cartoonist, “Rivers,” who is syndicated by Cagle Cartoons, and operated by Daryl Cagle. Cagle said on a recent podcast that it’s OK for “Rivers” to work anonymously since he’s supported by a journalism organization, but he doesn’t mention the organization. And if the organization is Cagle Cartoons, then it’s lost its credibility by syndicating an “anonymous” cartoonist.

Cagle has not explained why “Rivers” is justified to work anonymously. What happened? Why is his life supposedly in danger? I just can’t see it since the guy is in Canada which is a nation that protects journalists. Yet, Cagle doesn’t even tell his clients or readers that “Rivers” is in Canada and allows the guy to pretend he’s in the United States. This isn’t just working anonymously, it’s fraud. Why would Daryl want to jeopardize the integrity of his company with this “anonymous” bullshit? Oh, yeah…it’s because Daryl Cagle doesn’t have integrity.

While it’s posted on Cagle’s site that “Rivers” is an “anonymous” cartoonist and describes him as a “he” or a “she,” Daryl Cagle has NOT told all of his clients that “Rivers” is anonymous. I know this because I talked to one recently who was publishing “Rivers” and they were surprised to learn that wasn’t his real name and he (“Rivers” is a he) is working “anonymously.” Daryl has taken it upon himself to decide for his clients that their ethics policies do not apply to “Rivers” or editorial cartoonists at all.

And when “Rivers” cartoons are published, there’s no note on them that it’s “anonymous.” Readers aren’t being told. Now if you were to write a letter to one of these publications to complain, you would have to sign that letter. I can’t think of any newspapers that allow anonymous letters to the editor.

What is also disgusting is that this coward is pretending his life is in danger while real journalists like Evan Gershkovich are being arrested. “Rivers” is an insult to every journalist who’s been persecuted, including political cartoonists throughout the world. “Rivers” is an insult to every cartoonist who was murdered at Charlie Hebdo. And “Rivers” cartoons aren’t the type that will make anyone come for him. He’s a Trumper who defends the kind of people who would go after journalists. The most offensive thing about “Rivers” is that he is “anonymous.”

When readers read Ted Rall or “Rivers,” they don’t know that one is a Russian-paid propagandist and the other is an “anonymous” coward. Readers deserve to know this, and journalism used to be a thing where full disclosure was a requirement. One of the dangers here is that editorial cartooning will not be seen as journalism in the future, if it’s still being seen that way today. If we’re not journalists and signing our actual names to our work isn’t important anymore, then let’s just go ahead and be replaced by internet memes.

And, I would totally out “Rivers” but I can’t because since I’m only 99 percent sure of who the guy is, outing him without being absolutely 100 percent certain would be…wait for it…unethical.

Update: Nick Anderson, the guy in charge of Counterpoint posted on my Facebook link to this blog and had a few issues. One thing he pointed out is that he doesn’t allow Ted Rall, because of his Russia connections, to draw on Vladimir Putin, Russia, or Ukraine. You can find his entire post here.

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Notes on my book, Tales From The Trumpster Fire: There are 19 copies of my book in stock, which go for $45.00 each, signed. Also, I have copies of my first book from 1997, Knee-Deep in Mississippi available for $20.00.

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Passion of the Tucker

I don’t have a policy against drawing two cartoons in a row on the same subject, but I discourage myself from it. Does it sound like I talk to myself? I do. Right, me? Yes, he does that. It’s annoying. But even if I did have a policy against drawing on the same subject two times in a row, I’d break it at times when I felt it was necessary…and I think drawing a cartoon on Tucker Carlson today is necessary, even though I drew on him yesterday.

The reason it’s necessary is that the Dominion Lawsuit against Fox News has provided even more revelations about the network.

The last batch of internal texts and emails from the goons at Fox News revealed that the hosts and executives didn’t believe the election lies. They didn’t believe Trump won. They didn’t believe Biden stole the election from Trump. They didn’t believe in the accusations of massive voter fraud. They didn’t believe there was an abundance of dead people voting. They didn’t believe undocumented immigrants were voting. They didn’t believe Italian satellites had changed ballots. They didn’t believe bamboo ballots lost the election for Trump. They didn’t believe George Soros was manipulating the Dominion voting system. They didn’t believe the deceased Hugo Chavez was a part of the Dominion voting system. They didn’t believe none of that shit but they gave all of it airtime. In fact, Fox News is still casting doubt on the election.

We learned from those texts that Tucker tried to get a fact-checker fired. We learned that Fox News was afraid of reporting facts out of fear of pissing off Donald Trump and their audience. We learned that Fox News was afraid that reporting facts would make their stock as worthless as stock in Truth Social.

We always knew Fox News lied, but now we have proof that even Fox News doesn’t believe its own bullshit. So why does Fox News knowingly report lies? Because they’re not news and they don’t have principles. Despite this, Tucker was handed January 6 footage by Speaker Kevin McCarthy which Tuckums has now used to lie about the white nationalist terrorist attack, saying it was peaceful and not an insurrection. Showing a photo of the Qanon Shaman strolling through the Capitol building instead of taking a dump in the hallways doesn’t mean he’s a peaceful guy any more than Hitler being a dog person doesn’t mean he didn’t murder six million Jews.

It’s true Hitler was a dog person which means a dog would rather go to Hitler when he calls than to Donald Trump.

But, people who watch Fox News don’t get nuance and context. The people who were screaming at me yesterday are totally unaware that Tucker knowingly lies to them because they don’t watch the real news. They only watch Fox. But even Fox didn’t report on Tucker’s phony exposé of the Jan. 6 footage. Seriously, after Tucker signed off on Monday night, not one host on Fox News mentioned the Jan. 6 footage.

The question I now have for Fox News viewers is: How are you going to buy Tucker’s bullshit when Tucker doesn’t actually believe in MAGA? I already know the answer and that is: They’ll ignore it.

Tucker has spent the last six years being a Trump sycophant, an asskisser, a toadie, a lackey, an apple polisher, a bootlicker, a ball licker, a fawner, a groveler, and an all-around cultist. As it turns out, Tucker drank the orange Kool-Aid but he didn’t swallow.

The new revelations reveal that Tucker, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham wanted to flex their muscles to enact change at the network, and not for the better. “I think the three of us have enormous power,” Ingraham wrote in a group text, adding that they have “more power than we know or exercise.” She continued, “we should think about how together we can force a change.” Hanitty told her to “keep thinking” and Tucker texted that “the first thing” they needed to do is “exactly what we want to do,” which is what you would expect a prep-school baby with a lifetime of white privilege to say. Tucker also said, “We are all officially working for an organization that hates us.”

It’s funny that they were outraged at their own network for reporting the news. Fox News was becoming a bit too honest for their brand of propaganda.

Tucker and Peter Doocy mocked Fox News’ journalists on the so-called “straight news” side of the network in a text exchange.
Hannity: News destroyed us.
Doocy: Every day.
Hannity: You don’t piss off the base.
Doocy: They don’t care. They are JOURNALISTS.
Hannity: By the way, ever notice your name is like a “deuce,” you know…taking a crap?
Doocy: What are you talking about? Can you give me an example?
Hannity: Yes. Those MAGAt white nationalists who committed an insurrection on January 6 sure did drop a lot of doocies on the floor of the Capitol.
Doocy: Oh, yeah. Well, just make sure that if Kevin McCarthy ever becomes Speaker and gives you hours of security footage showing MAGAts dropping doocies on the floor of the Capitol, you don’t show that part.
Hannity: Of course not. If part of the deal for McCarthy to ever become Speaker is for him to give me hours of security footage of the Jan. 6 white nationalist MAGA terrorist attack, I’m gonna manipulate it like it’s a Veritas video of an abortion clinic.

After Fox News called Arizona for Biden on election night, the head of the company, Rupert Murdoch emailed a friend, “I hate our Decision Desk people! And pollsters! Some of the same people I think. Just for the hell of it still praying for Az to prove them wrong!” Spoiler: Arizona did NOT prove them wrong.

We also learned that when Murdoch was asked why he divulged confidential campaign ad information to Jared Kushner, he said, “I was trying to help Mr. Kushner. He’s a friend of mine.” That might have been illegal.

We also learned that Maria Bartiromo refused to call Biden President-elect. After the election had been called for Biden on the Saturday after the election, officially making him the president-elect, she texted Steve Bannon, “I want to see massive fraud exposed … I told my team we are not allowed to say pres elect at [all]. Not in scripts or in banners on air. Until this moves through the courts.”

But the juiciest (not the doociest) bit of the new revelations is that Tucker hates Trump. He doesn’t just hate Trump, he passionately hates Trump.

In November of 2020 after the election, Tucker texted to someone that Trump’s decision to snub Joe Biden’s inauguration was “so destructive,” adding that Trump’s post-election behavior was “disgusting” and that he was “trying to look away” like it was a Cheerios commercial with an interracial family.

Two days before the January 6 white nationalist MAGA terrorist attack, Tucker texted, “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.”

Tucker also texted about the Trump presidency (sic), “That’s the last four years. We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn’t really an upside to Trump.”

And then Tucker wrote, “I hate him passionately.”

Tucker doesn’t just hate Donald Trump, he hates him “passionately,” which means he really really really hates him.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates non-gender-specific Potato Heads.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates sexy Green M&M losing her white go-go boots.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates Sexy Green M&M’s white go-go boots being worn by Ron DeSantis.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates a black president putting mustard on a cheeseburger/

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates black history.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates having to share an elevator with a black guy.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates democracy.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates criticism of white supremacy.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates Ukraine.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates Putin haters.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates an empty jar of mayonnaise.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates getting a toy he already has from the McDonald’s kid’s meals.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates real news.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates having a black female vice president.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates that his name rhymes with Fucker.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates it when he confuses his blue M&Ms for Viagra.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates Jon Stewart.

Tucker hates Trump more than he hates that cartoonists are still drawing him with a red bowtie.

But the one thing Tucker hates more than Donald Trump is us knowing Tucker hates Trump and that he’s been a phony all this time. Tucker has been an ass-kisser for something he doesn’t even believe in.

The good news for Tucker since his viewers only watch Fox News is they’ll never know how “passionately” he hates Trump.

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Tucker And The Pussycats

Today’s Comic Strip of the Day features a cartoon by Mike Beckom, who is a gaslighting MAGAt lacking critical thinking skills. His cartoon is a response to the revelation that Fox News knowingly lied to their viewers and presented The Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election, it was stolen from him, and there was massive election fraud. The cartoon uses the tired cliché of the pot calling the kettle black, with the pots being MSNBC and CNN and the kettle being poor widdle innocent Fox News. The author of the blog, Mike Peterson, posted the cartoon in order to shoot it down, writing, “Nobody has produced any emails in which MSNBC or CNN declare, as Fox did, their intention of lying in order to preserve their ratings and stock prices.”

It’s a shame there can’t be fact-checks on the publication of every right-wing political cartoon.

I’ve seen Beckom’s argument posted by other righties, that CNN and MSNBC do the same thing Fox News does, knowingly lie to their viewers…except there’s no actual proof of it. The reason there’s no proof of it is that legitimate news outlets don’t knowingly lie to their viewers. The thing that bothers me with this is what bothers me with all conservatives in that they don’t base their opinions on facts, but then again…if you’re only watching Fox News, you won’t know the facts.

If you only watch Fox News then you are probably not at all aware that the Dominion lawsuit produced emails and texts between executives and hosts at Fox News revealing that they knew they were lying…and did so in order not to lose their viewers and to keep their stock prices up. There is not a text message in public of a host at CNN or MSNBC demanding that a fact-checker be fired, but there’s one of Tucker Carlson doing it.

So the same people who don’t know that Tucker Carlson knowingly lies to them probably watched him air footage last night gained from Speaker Kevin McCarthy of the Jan. 6 white nationalist insurrection, and calling it a “peaceful gathering.”

Tucker said, “The footage does not show an insurrection or a riot in progress. Instead, it shows police escorting people through the building.” This is cherry-picking. Tucker said the rioters were ” peaceful sightseers,” not “insurrectionists.”

This is why everyone was against Kevin McCarthy giving the unseen footage to Tucker because he would use it to create a lying narrative. I watched the attack live on January 6, 2020, and what I saw was an insurrection and riot committed by a bunch of white nationalist MAGAts. What I saw was a coup.

When McCarthy was struggling to become Speaker, losing vote after vote, Tucker said on his show, after the third loss, “First, release the January 6 files. Not some of the January 6 files and video… all of it… so that the rest of us can finally know what actually happened on January 6, 2021.” Tucker receiving this footage was part of the deal McCarthy made to become Speaker…that and giving Matt Gaetz foot massages every Tuesday.

McCarthy was fine with giving this footage to a liar who’d use it to harm the country. McCarthy doesn’t care how much damage this does to the nation, just so long as he has political power.

Now in Florida, where most bullshit happens, the legislature is about to begin its next session, and among the many dozens of bills to make DeSantis state emperor is one mandating that public schools and universities only teach the “right” history. You know, no black history. No history that can make a white kid feel guilty about the actions of white people in the past.

The party that wants to legislate how history from decades and centuries ago is taught is led by Tucker, who reconstructs recent history. These people can’t even get the history from last week right, and they want to mandate how the history of slavery and the civil rights era are taught.

If you want to learn history, don’t go to school in Florida… and don’t watch Fox News.

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No-News News

We have talked about this a lot here but it’s worth repeating. Fox News is NOT news.

Every news outlet gets it wrong from time to time, but they’re not lying. When someone claims an outlet such as CNN or The New York Times lies, they’re never specific. It’s an “I know you are but what am I?”. When CNN and The Times gets something wrong, they issue corrections.

But Fox News doesn’t just get shit wrong and push right-wing talking points. They don’t just overhype fake scandals. They don’t just manufacture outrage to raise their viewers’ blood pressure with their ratings. They don’t just push racism and provide a platform for goons like Kash Patel and Rudy Giuliani to mouth crap all over their airwaves. They don’t just market their platform to sell advertising for shitty pillows. Fox News knowingly lies to its viewers.

And now, further proof they’re not a legitimate news outlet comes with the news that the head of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch himself, gave Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, a preview of ads from the Joe Biden campaign before they were public. If an employee from a legitimate network had given a preview of campaign ads to a rival candidate, that person would be fired.

The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit has revealed text messages and emails from Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham, as well as between executives, including Murdoch that reveal they all knew Trump’s claims of the 2020 election being stolen were not just false, but totally absurd lies being spread by lunatics. They knew the claims were false but continued to give the lies a platform. I discussed this last week.

Naturally, Fox News has not reported this. Why not? Because they’re not a real news outlet. This also comes at the same time that Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given thousands of hours of footage from the Jan. 6 white nationalist MAGA attack on the Capitol to Tucker Carlson. Did McCarthy not hear that Tucker knowingly lies? Maybe McCarthy doesn’t know this because he only watches Fox News.

A few years ago, Tucker kept spreading conspiracy theories about the murder of Democratic Party campaign worker Seth Rich. When the network was threatened with lawsuits, they told Tucker to stop. Tucker stopped but he never issued a correction or apology. Tucker is NOT a journalist. Fox News did issue a retraction but never apologized. They reached a seven-figure settlement with the Rich family. Tucker just kept on being lying Tucker and went on to help get Fox News into another lawsuit, this time one for $1.6 billion.

Take all this into account with Republican arguments and efforts to make it easier to sue media outlets for lying. Donald Trump once tweeted that news outlets shouldn’t be allowed to publish whatever they want. Usually, the main issue they have with the press isn’t that the press lies, but that the press tells the truth.

Now, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants to kill laws that protect free speech and the freedom of the press. He said, “The idea that they would create narratives that are contrary to discovering facts, I don’t know that was the standard. Now it seems you pursue the narrative, you’re trying to advance the narrative and trying to get the clicks, and the fact-checking and contrary facts have just fallen by the wayside.” Ron DeSantis described Fox News in that statement, which is the only network he allows to interview him. This is where Tucker works, who called for the firing of one of that network’s fact-checkers.

But it’s the right who are always lying. Let’s use a right-wing MAGA cartoonist as an example of lies and hypocrisies.

Look at these two cartoons from Eric Allie. Today, Eric claims the press lied about the lab-leak theory, Jim Crow 2.0, Hunter’s laptop, Russian collusion, Don’t say gay, the Steele Dossier, and natural immunity. Except the media didn’t lie about any of those. But in a cartoon from last December, Eric claims the Democrats and the media “colluded” with big tech to suppress the free press. This is not true. It’s a lie.

The right claims they’re against lies when they’re liars. What they complain about are not lies. There was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Voter suppression is a real thing and it’s being enacted by Republicans who are changing voting laws based on lies there was massive voter fraud in the 2020 election. “Don’t say gay” is a nickname, but it’s pretty much what the Florida bill is about. The Steele Dossier was never presented as fact, very little of it has been debunked, and the press never presented it as fact since it was produced by political campaigns. I don’t recall the press lying about natural immunity. The lab leak theory has low confidence. And there’s nothing incriminating about anyone or anything on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Republicans have difficulty with comprehension and they should not be the ones deciding what’s true and what are lies. But to make it easy for you, if a Republican says it, it’s a lie.

The last wall between democracy and fascism is a free press which is why fascist goons like Ron DeSantis and all other Republicans are trying to destroy it. And in trying to destroy the free press, they’re trying to destroy the Constitution, which Donald Trump has already called for terminating.

The next time someone in the media is interviewing a Republican about suing media outlets for making stuff up, they should ask if those lawsuits should apply to Fox News. The only problem with this is, Republicans only allow themselves to be interviewed by Fox News.

Update on my current Facebook suspension: As you’re probably aware, I earned ANOTHER 30-day suspension on Facebook yesterday. It was for the cartoon of Dilbert in a KKK hood. My friend Lalo Alcaraz did something similar in support of me and called his “Klanbert.” I love that. Anyways, I got banned for hitting racists again, Facebook upheld the ban and denied my appeal, and then around 1 a.m., my page came back up.

My page was disabled and I couldn’t even log into Facebook. Each time I went to it, I just got a message that I was suspended. I couldn’t even use Messenger which was new because I was able to use it during my two previous 30-day bans. So when I went to Facebook and it came up, I thought it was another case of its inconsistency until a window popped up telling me I was back. They didn’t admit they got it wrong, just that they were “concerned.”

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Music note: I listened to Edwyn Collins and Drivin’ and Cryin’.

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Tucker Trash

Speaker Kevin McCarthy has handed thousands of hours of footage from inside the Capitol during the attack on January 6, 2021, over to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. In doing so, he’s denying reality.

McCarthy said, “Sunshine lets everybody make their own judgment.” But this isn’t sunshine, Sunshine.

Sunshine Week was started in 2005 by the American Society of News Editors and will be celebrated this year from March 12 to March 18. It’s designed to educate the public on the importance of open government and a free press. “Sunshine” is NOT a description that fits Fox News any more than it would fit Sputnik or Pravda. Fox News lies.

Fox News lies and helps dangerous lying government officials engage in coverups, deception, and corruption. Fox News doesn’t shine a light. Fox News engages in darkness and spreads deceit and bullshit. Fox News never asks the hard questions when it interviews Republicans or corporate CEOs (like Norfolk Southern).

CNN fired Chris Cuomo for helping his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, strategize and deceive the media. Fox News hosts give speeches at Trump rallies. Laura Ingraham literally gave a Sieg Heil at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

Journalists don’t join political campaigns. They don’t give speeches at political rallies or conventions. The Fox News goons do it because they’re not journalists and Fox News doesn’t have a hard journalism ethics policy. Sean Hannity had nightly phone calls with Donald Trump when he was in the White House. They were not interviews but private conversations to help strategize. Fox News is not news. It’s propaganda. When Trump was in the White House (sic), it was Trump TV. Like Vladimir Putin’s RT, Sputnik, and TASS, Fox News was state TV.

Last week, texts and emails between Fox News hosts and executives revealed that they knew Trump’s claims of election fraud and a stolen election were lies, yet they helped Trump, Sidney Powell, and Rudy Giuliani spread them anyway. They helped push the Big Lie while knowing it was a big lie. They mocked the lunacy of Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, yet allowed them to spread the lie on their shows.

Tucker and Sean Hannity even tried to get a fact-checker fired. the fact-checker was told to “respect” the conspiracy theories and wrong beliefs of their audience.

Now Kevin McCarthy has given Tucker footage of the white nationalist MAGA terrorist attack, saying, “I was asked in the press about these tapes, and I said they do belong to the American public. I think sunshine lets everybody make their own judgment.”

McCarthy has given footage of the attack to a goon who has claimed it was all a “false flag” operation of the government. Handing this footage over to Tucker Carlson is like giving it to Joseph Goebbels or Baghdad Bob.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said, “By handpicking Tucker Carlson, Speaker McCarthy laid bare that this sham is simply about pandering to MAGA election deniers, not the truth. Tucker Carlson has no fidelity to the truth or facts and has used his platform to promote the Big Lie, distort reality, and espouse bogus conspiracy theories about Jan. 6.”

Schumer also said the speaker was “needlessly exposing the Capitol complex to one of the worst security risks since 9/11.” Seriously, just give the terrorists a map, why don’t you?

McCarthy has also assigned Representative Barry Loudermilk to investigate the security breach in the Capitol. Loudermilk was the GOP goon who gave tours of the Capitol to terrorists days before the attack.

When Nancy Pelosi created the committee to investigate the January 6 attack, she gave McCarthy the opportunity to appoint Republicans to it. His choices were goons like Jim “Gym” Jordan, who should have been a testifying witness instead of a member of the committee. Jordan kept changing his story about his conversations with Trump on January 6. Now, Jordan is investigating Hunter Biden. Thankfully, because she’s a better speaker than McCarthy, Pelosi didn’t allow Jordan or McCarthy’s other picks to sit on that committee.

This is a political move by McCarthy to appease the right-wing goons in his caucus, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Jim “Gym” Jordan. You don’t investigate Nazis by giving all the evidence to Nazis. Giving this material to Tucker is probably one of the promises McCarthy made to the goons to win the speakership.

McCarthy said, “I promised I would give you the truth regarding January 6, and now I am delivering.” You don’t deliver the truth by delivering evidence to a known white supremacist liar like Tucker Carlson.

McCarthy cherry-picked which “news” personality to give it to instead of providing it to all journalists. By giving it to Fox News, he may as well have given it to Breitbart, the Daily Caller, Newsmax, The New York Post, The Babylon Bee, PragerU, OAN, the Gateway Pundit, or Epoch Times.

Now, Tucker will cherry-pick this material to create more lies and feed bullshit to the next white nationalist terrorists who wish to attack our government. Kevin McCarthy may as well have given this footage to the Daily Stormer.

Music Note: I listened to Cake.

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Fox News Lies

Right-wing cartoonist Lisa Benson created a cartoon that’s published today on GoComics whining that “conservative news” is being silenced by the “speech police.” The first thing I thought when I saw it was, “Ooh, bad timing.”

I don’t know what Lisa’s talking about. MAGAts been making false claims about being persecuted by big tech and social media, but that’s not “news.” And another thing, news should be news, not conservative news and not liberal news. Yes, there will always be biases but no network should specifically target one demographic. The problem for right-wingers is that facts have a liberal bias. And taking in yesterday’s NEWS about Dominion suing Fox News is why I think Lisa’s cartoon has horrible timing. It doesn’t reflect reality but then again, that’s the entire basis of the Dominion lawsuit.

Dominion is making a case that Fox News knows they don’t reflect reality. I’ve been making an argument that MAGAt cartoonists, and the cartoonist who works for Sputnik, don’t reflect reality.

Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for spreading lies about their products. Fox News aired claims by Trump and his lawyerly goons, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani that Dominion was corrupt and switched votes from Trump to Joe Biden, thus stealing the election from Trump for Biden. The lies are preposterous as there were claims of meddling by George Soros, Italian satellites, and Hugo Chavez’s ghost. They’ve also pushed debunked lies about “illegal” immigrants and dead people voting.

The fact is, the only people who tried to steal an election was Trump and his goons. Trump called Georgia’s Secretary of State and literally told the guy to find him “11,780 votes.”

Fox News didn’t just report on the lies, they pushed the lies. And the worst part is, they knew they were lying.

A filing in a Delaware state court by Dominion reveals emails and texts that top executives and hosts didn’t believe Trump’s election lies or the multiple conspiracy theories he and his goons spread.

Tucker Carlson texted Laura Ingraham, “Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It’s insane.”
Ingraham replied, “Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy.” Yet, they continued to give air time to those “complete nuts.”

Testimony claims that Carlson confronted Sidney Powell and said, “You keep telling our viewers that millions of votes were changed by the software. I hope you will prove that very soon. You’ve convinced them that Trump will win. If you don’t have conclusive evidence of fraud at that scale, it’s a cruel and reckless thing to keep saying.”

It was a cruel and reckless thing to keep saying, yet he kept giving her air time to say it.

The filings show that Carlson and Sean Hannity pressured network leaders to fire Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich after she tweeted a fact-check of a Trump tweet promoting lies about Dominion Voting Systems.

Tucker told Sean, “Please get her fired. Seriously….What the fuck? I’m actually shocked…It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.”
Sean replied, “I’m 3 strikes. Wallace shit debate[.] Election night a disaster[.] Now this BS? Nope. Not gonna fly. Did I mention Cavuto?”

After their complaints, she deleted her tweet. These dicks were trying to get a woman fired for fact-checking and telling the truth. Fox News, where truth and fact-checkers are fired.

It wasn’t just Tucker, Sean, and Laura.

After White House correspondent Kristin Fisher fact-checked claims that Powell and Giuliani made at a Nov. 19, 2020, press conference, Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton told Fisher that she needed to do a better job of “respecting our audience.” She was told that she needed to respect that Fox News’ audience is made up of conspiracy-loving MAGAt fucknuts who can’t handle the truth. And if you tell them the truth, they’ll change the channel.

If Fox News won’t lie to their MAGAt viewers, they’ll change the channel to a station that will, which is what they did by changing over to Newsmax, which is a little poodle of a conspiracy network nipping at Fox News’ heels.

Tucker texted a producer, “Do the executives understand how much credibility and trust we’ve lost with our audience? We’re playing with fire, for real….an alternative like Newsmax could be devastating to us.” Tucker believes you lose trust by being trustworthy.

Lauren Petterson, the president of Fox Business Network, wrote to other company execs, of Newsmax, “They definitely have a strategy across all shows to try to target and steal our viewers.”

Jay Wallace, the president of Fox News Channel, wrote to fellow execs, “The Newsmax surge is a bit troubling—truly is an alternative universe when you watch, but it can’t be ignored.” Dominion Voting Systems didn’t ignore Newsmax and they’re suing them too.

Between the election and the January 6 insurrection, Fox News’ viewers left and their ratings fell to third place behind MSNBC and CNN. Fox News was the first network to call Arizona for Joe Biden on election night, and that was the moment goons, fucknuts, and yee-haw fuckers started changing the channel over to Newsmax.

It went all the way to the top. Rupert Murdoch knew Trump’s lawyers were lying and told Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott: “Terrible stuff damaging everybody, I fear.”

On Jan. 5, 2021, a day before the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump’s white nationalist MAGA terrorists, Murdoch wrote to Scott saying, “It’s been suggested our prime time three should independently or together say something like ‘the election is over and Joe Biden won.'” Murdoch told Scott that such a statement “would go a long way to stop the Trump myth that the election (was) stolen.”  Such a statement never came which means Fox News may have been able to prevent the attack on the Capitol. It means Fox News was culpable in the attack.

Fox News put the safety of this nation at risk in favor of ratings and profit. They knew they were lying.

Murdoch told Fox News leadership that Giuliani was to be taken “with a very large grain of salt,” and bemoaned the fact Rudy was advising Trump in the post-election period yet, they still put him on the air and helped him push the Big Lie.

Fox News claims that Dominion “cherry-picked” statements for its case, but can’t argue that they didn’t know Trump, Rudy, and Sidney were lying. Fox News can’t claim they actually believed Donald Trump won or that the election was stolen. And the thing is, they’re still pushing these lies.

Dominion is seeking $1.6 billion from Fox News. Quite frankly, I think we should all sue Fox News for the damage they inflicted on this nation.

Fox News is NOT a news source. They’re propaganda which this filing by Dominion proves. They state behind closed doors that their audience can’t handle the truth and that they need to choose lies and conspiracy theories over facts to increase ratings.

The next time you hear a MAGAt goon brag about how Fox News is the ratings leader in news, and that CNN and MSNBC lag far behind, point out that Fox News isn’t a news channel. I don’t know if actual news channels can ever maintain higher ratings than Fox News because there seems to be a larger market for lies and bullshit than facts. Facts can be uncomfortable and Fox News has to “respect their audience.”

Fox News argues that this nation isn’t racist, but the fact they’re the ratings leader argues that is is.

Disclaimer note: I have argued with cartoonist Ted Rall in the past that every time he does a cartoon about Russia or Ukraine, he needs to issue a disclaimer that he works for Russia, as he draws cartoons for Sputnik, a Russian-owned state propaganda outlet. He argues back that I need to place a disclaimer that I work for CNN, as though his fascist-owned propaganda outlet is equivalent to a legitimate news outlet. But today I decided that since I’m commenting on a CNN issue and one of their competitors, that I should add the disclaimer. And I’ll continue to add a disclaimer in the future when I draw cartoons about CNN or its competitors. It’s what a responsible journalist should do, which Ted Rall is NOT.

Music note: I listened to The Rolling Stones and The Who.

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