Crazy like a FOX

When Fox News(sic) agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems over ¾ of a billion dollars in a defamation lawsuit, I feel they got away lucky.

Or maybe luck had nothing to do with it.

By entering into a pretrial settlement FOX guaranteed defamation would be the worse of their problems.

Released documents showed that across the board FOX News(sic) knowingly misled and out and out lied about the outcome of Presidential election to save their ratings. The more they lied, the higher their ratings. The higher the ratings, the more money they made.

One of the victims of this ruse was Dominion Voting Systems. But in a real sense, the American people were the real victims, here.

What if denying the election results was also a call to arms to its constitutes? What if was a call to rally the troops?

I mean, wasn't denying the integrity of our voting system a risk? Nah, because they not only knew their audience, they knew how to manipulate it.

Here's how.

I have heard more than one FOX News(sic) supporter announce their love for Tucker Carlson. "He's the only only willing to tell the truth!" they have said.

It's funny because, while his show mimics actual news programs, there's actually very little fact in it. As a commentator, Tucker deals,rather, in opinion.

Here's the difference.

Say, after I taste a green gummy bear, I claim that it tastes like strawberries. Let's have a fictional Tucker Carlson disagree. Fictional Tucker says that it tastes just like sour apple. This is opinion.

Now, the company that makes these green gummy bears decides to enter the fray. The gummy bear makers claim that with vigorous research and taste tasting, they got the strawberry flavor perfectly just right. It even says so, right on the candy's bag. This is the truth. If this fictional Tucker Carlson says, " The candy company claims that their green gummy bears are strawberry flavored, " Tucker is also telling the truth.

However, if fake Tuck then goes on, "But the company is actually giving us false news. Who has ever heard that green gummies being

anything but sour apple? Lime might be acceptable, but strawberry? Strawberry? No way. Their fake green flavored strawberry gummy bears are fake news. They are so woke; so politically correct, it's un-American." Then this faux Carlson is not telling the truth. He is lying.

Mimic of the news. Not telling the truth.

Not the news.

Fans call into the show in droves. Rating go up. "Strawberry gummies are not green!"

Our not Tucker doubles down, "Do you know how I know the evil gummy company is pushing its liberal agenda? Their dark red, maroon, gummy bears are the actual strawberry flavored bears. We're being lied to, people. And the question is, why are we buying this snowflake inspired companies product if it can't even tell us the correct colors and flavors? Why are we buying their product? Strawberry/ green gummies: outrageous! "

This is not only lying, this borders on defamation.

FOX does this all the time.

Before false Tucker got hold of it, did any of his base really care one way our the other about what flavor their gummy bears where? Evidently not. The packaging was like that for years. No one cared.

FOX does it all the time. People's childhoods are suddenly ruined by a canceled Dr. Seuss book that they may have read once. A late-night talk show host's so-so joke takes up half of each hour's broadcast. Let's go, Brandon becomes a thing.

Things that normally good people wouldn't care one iota about, now, take up a good portion of the FOX listener's day.

Of course the FOX fans were going to believe FOX's preaching the election was rigged. FOX just paid over ¾ of a billion dollars admitting that's exactly what they set out to do.

You may ask, without FOX New's urging, could had the 1/6 insurrection happened? If FOX News reported the truth, that Joe Biden won by a large margins, would had the viewers taken encrypted text messages, taken work days off, and made plans to attack the Capitol building?

In my opinion, no way. FOX News( sic) went way beyond defamation. By intentionally bypassing the truth of the presidential election and questioning the integrity of its results, FOX went into the realm of propaganda against the laws of the America. Thousands of Americans took their call for revolution based on FOX News 'literal' fake news.

Yes, Crazy like a FOX. Three quarters of a billion dollars is getting off easy. This could easily had been the death knell of the - as some claim - lying liars that lie - FOX News Network.

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