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Fox News Tucker Carlson on Trump: I hate him passionately. So why is he lying about Jan 6? [1]

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Date: 2023-03-08

Fox News allowed Tucker Carlson to use our airwaves to lie to Americans about the attempted coup on the United States, the insurrection on Jan 6.

Shameful Tucker Carlson and Fox News

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It is clear that Tucker Carlson has no shame. Likewise, Fox News continues its efforts to keep a large swath of our electorate not only ignorant but in an alternate state of reality. It is a disservice to democracy and could ultimately tank it.

The Washington Post latest article illustrated that Fox News is cancerous deep within.

For years, Fox News executives and hosts cultivated a close relationship with Donald Trump. But after he lost the 2020 presidential election and turned his back on the network — inspiring many once-loyal viewers to do the same — the relationship curdled. And the ensuing pressure caused tension, second-guessing and infighting within Fox on the scale of an “existential crisis,” as one senior executive called it, a cache of internal communications released Tuesday as part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit indicates. “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights,” prime-time host Tucker Carlson texted a colleague on Jan. 4, 2021. “I truly can’t wait.” Carlson, who had shared private meetings with the president and defended him on-air, added in a text: “I hate him passionately. … What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.” Carlson’s private thoughts are especially striking in light of a new round of criticism this week that he misrepresented exclusive security-camera footage from the U.S. Capitol through a lens of Trumpian misinformation to downplay the severity of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Dominion Voting Systems, an election-technology company, has sued Fox, arguing that the cable-news giant gravely hurt its economic future by allowing allies of Trump to claim falsely on Fox programs that it rigged the election in favor of Joe Biden.

And yet, Fox News, with no shame, continues the charade. This is a display of a certain type of evil that is hard to fathom.

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