If life were like a TV legal procedural, this would be the moment when the villain takes the stand, just on the cusp of getting away with their nefarious plot, and they are presented with that bit of evidence that unravels the entire thing. See if you can guess who said this:
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait. I hate him passionately. 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 really isn’t an upside to Trump.”
The above comes from another glorious document deluge released Tuesday in the Dominion defamation suit against Fox News. The above text sent by…Tucker Carlson on January 4, two days before those people to whom he now refers as “sightseers” rampaged through the Capitol (if you guessed correctly, please bring your ticket to the cashier’s window). This latest batch further reinforces the evidence that Fox hosts knew that they were peddling pure moonshine about the 2020 election results, and that even the upper echelons at the network were concerned the hired help might be pushing things too far. From CNN:
More than a month after the 2020 election, then-Fox News DC Managing Editor Bill Sammon decried the network’s coverage of false election claims in private messages to a colleague, fearing it had become an “existential crisis” for the right-wing channel. “More than 20 minutes into our flagship evening news broadcast and we’re still focused solely on supposed election fraud – a month after the election,” Sammon wrote to then-political editor Chris Stirewalt. “It’s remarkable how weak ratings makes good journalists do bad things.”[…]“In my 22 years affiliated with Fox, this is the closest thing I’ve seen to an existential crisis – at least journalistically,” Sammon said. “What’s most worrisome is that there doesn’t seem to be much conflict,” Stirewalt said. “What I see us doing is losing the silent majority of viewers as we chase the nuts off a cliff,” Sammon replied. Both men, Sammon and Stirewalt, departed the company in early 2021.
But the “existential crisis” extended higher up than a couple of departed mid-level swells.
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