The "Fox Cabinet" weighed in when it realized that der Trumpenfuhrer was the only person who could rein in the crowd that they had helped to rile up with their steady stream of election fraud BS. How revealing that all of them had Meadows' cell in their contacts list, and that after 4 years of witnessing Trump's vast ignorance and narcissism they still thought someone could reason with him.
As of yesterday afternoon finding any online coverage of the 'text' story in the msm was difficult. CBS, nope. ABC, way down in the fine print. But Eric and plenty of others are pounding the drum, and it's beginning to show. This is bound to improve when the Committee has enough to hand to the Justice Department, which if I'm not way off base, is where this thing is headed.
People are convicted of murder who were sitting handcuffed in the back of a police car two miles away when the shooting started, but we're still investigating whether Donald Trump had anything to do with Jan. 6. If you ever need to show someone an example of white privilege in action, there you go.
Of course, Trump's entire 75-year fall up the stairs of a life is the perfect example, but that takes a while to explain.
Great piece, Eric. If only the past week would kneecap Faux among all advertisers other than deranged, rock-hard pillow salesmen. That said, any fiction that Faux was ever a "news" outlet is stripped away. Faux should no longer be included in White House press briefings and should be purged from the menu of media services piped into military facilities. Faux is an enemy propaganda psyops operation bent on undermining American democracy. Carrying Faux on military bases is the equivalent of piping in Tokyo Rose to American bases in the Pacific during WWII.
As to Chris Wallace, I have never considered him a serious journalist. He was nothing more than a shill, sellout prostitute to a horrific pustule on American culture. Eff him and eff CNN for taking him on. At least Shep Smith had a moral compass and the guts to tell the truth at that stinking piece of shit. I hope Liz Cheney keeps handing them their lunch "bigly!"
That fact was not revealed until Liz Cheney read the tweets and he felt he had to come forward because some of them were from him. So we know for a fact that reporters were at the Capitol, had direct 1:1 communication with Meadows, knew what was going on, and hid that for nearly a year.
The media has a huge credibility problem.
This is a travesty; what kind of journalist would do that?
At first I thought we were going to see Chris Wallace in the Lloyd Bridges role in Airplane: He picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. Which I think he did a few times. Wallace, that is.
The New York Times's "The Argument" had on Jay Rosen with Ross Douthat--a journalism professor who knows the subject with a non-journalist who is nothing but a right-wing propagandist--to discuss how the media should cover politics. Need we say more? In the interest of transparency, which The Times lacks, this is the email I sent in response:
Hello. The press should cover politics so that we know how it affects us, not what Joe Manchin's biorhythms tell us.
To put it another way, I thought of writing to DC political correspondents posing as an expert on that very topic and saying I knew when Biden should approach him. I guarantee you I would have heard back. But if I had written and said I am--and I am--a history professor whom republicans put on the Professor Watchlist for what I did not say in class and received death threats as a result, and that this demonstrated the garbage about "wokeness," I have no doubt I wouldn't hear from anybody, unless John McWhorter did a piece claiming I made up the whole thing.
So I will say to you what I say elsewhere: The gravest threat to our planet is not the republican party or even climate change, but the political media.
By the way, you might check out a former Times executive editor, Turner Catledge, who said that one of his demands of Washington correspondents was that when they wrote about a bill, before they got to who won and lost, he wanted to know how it affected readers--if it was a tax cut, he wanted them to say as fast as possible that this would give everybody a dollar, or whatever it was. No political correspondent for The Times thinks that way now. None.
I wonder will this finally wake up the belt way media to actually report this accordingly now that the texts messages have been revealed? One can only hope. They are still trash in so many ways. All I keep seeing in my head is "her emails" They need to be held accountable and I'm glad the WH is finally looking like they are calling them to the carpet. Thanks Eric!
While the texts are revealing and Wallace's departure a huge embarrassment, it won't make a difference to the hardcore Fox News viewer. Thankfully that demographic is shrinking but for those folks who genuflect at the alter of Fox News, they will continue to manufacture whatever excuses are necessary to keep Hannity, Ingraham, and Carlson blabbing away on their TV sets. Confirmation Bias plays a huge role in viewership. People say to me that I have confirmation bias toward MSNBC and other progressive outlets. The difference of course is that progressive viewers are skeptical and don't goose-step to everything said on Morning Joe. In fact I just snarled at my TV when Mika teased a piece on Biden's inflation crisis. Unlike the Fox News viewer, progressive viewers do not rely simply on MSNBC. We verify our facts by reading and viewing from multiple sources. Also we read books by renowned journalists like Jane Mayer and Thom Hartman. Fox News viewers read Bill O'Reilly. But all and all, the revelation of Fox News hosts' texts is ultimately is a good thing and as Eric points out, stay tuned. There is so much more to come. While all this insurrection evidence is a good thing, my fear is of how the Republicans have gamed the system in the states since Jan 6 so that next time, the coup may very well succeed.
I read that Chris Wallace and Brett Baier went to Fox CEO with concerns about the “documentary” Tucker Carlson was producing and promoting. Their complaint was ignored and brushed aside. Certainly not the way to treat a loyal employee of 18 years. Maybe that was the final indignity
"Since everyone at Fox News operates without a moral compass, none of the millionaire hosts will have trouble sleeping despite their insurrection hypocrisy making headlines this week. Still, the network privately hates episodes like this, because it puts them on the defensive and it chips away at the preferred fantasy they push on Madison Avenue and within the Beltway that Fox is merely a conservative media outlet and that it actually employs a 'news' division."
I beg to differ. The reason none of the millionaire hosts at Fox and their billionaire overlords (and their GOP viewers and fully enabled legislators) will have no trouble sleeping despite their gargantuan hypocrisies has precious little to do with them operating "without a moral compass." That's a given, and I would suggest it is far too charitable a description. We have known this all along.
The real reason they do what they do is because they are all sociopaths. They have no conscience whatsoever. None of them. Not a single one of the people who works there, nor any of their viewers or members of the GOP.
There's a reason Rupert Morduch’s brand of "news" is no longer welcome in Canada or the UK. As I saw someone on Twitter put it, "We are going to 1st amendment ourselves to death." Propaganda like Fox News should be permanently banned from our country.
Guess Chris Wallace finally got tired of being a living prop that got bought out anytime Faux was criticized for being a right-wing propaganda outet promoting hatred & bigotry, anti-intellectualism, anti-science, and general stupidity.
Maybe after years of taking a paycheck from Murdoch, did he finally realize Faux wasn't the news outlet that it supposedly was since many of the "serious journalists" were being sidelined by the unhinged opinion show hosts because getting the viewers outraged was more profitable than informing them?
The "Fox Cabinet" weighed in when it realized that der Trumpenfuhrer was the only person who could rein in the crowd that they had helped to rile up with their steady stream of election fraud BS. How revealing that all of them had Meadows' cell in their contacts list, and that after 4 years of witnessing Trump's vast ignorance and narcissism they still thought someone could reason with him.
You looked and sounded fantastic last night. More MSNBC appearances, please.
As of yesterday afternoon finding any online coverage of the 'text' story in the msm was difficult. CBS, nope. ABC, way down in the fine print. But Eric and plenty of others are pounding the drum, and it's beginning to show. This is bound to improve when the Committee has enough to hand to the Justice Department, which if I'm not way off base, is where this thing is headed.
People are convicted of murder who were sitting handcuffed in the back of a police car two miles away when the shooting started, but we're still investigating whether Donald Trump had anything to do with Jan. 6. If you ever need to show someone an example of white privilege in action, there you go.
Of course, Trump's entire 75-year fall up the stairs of a life is the perfect example, but that takes a while to explain.
Great piece, Eric. If only the past week would kneecap Faux among all advertisers other than deranged, rock-hard pillow salesmen. That said, any fiction that Faux was ever a "news" outlet is stripped away. Faux should no longer be included in White House press briefings and should be purged from the menu of media services piped into military facilities. Faux is an enemy propaganda psyops operation bent on undermining American democracy. Carrying Faux on military bases is the equivalent of piping in Tokyo Rose to American bases in the Pacific during WWII.
As to Chris Wallace, I have never considered him a serious journalist. He was nothing more than a shill, sellout prostitute to a horrific pustule on American culture. Eff him and eff CNN for taking him on. At least Shep Smith had a moral compass and the guts to tell the truth at that stinking piece of shit. I hope Liz Cheney keeps handing them their lunch "bigly!"
It get’s worse: Jake Sherman, a reporter from Politico (at the time and now elsewhere) was at the Capitol:
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1470753707688136706
That fact was not revealed until Liz Cheney read the tweets and he felt he had to come forward because some of them were from him. So we know for a fact that reporters were at the Capitol, had direct 1:1 communication with Meadows, knew what was going on, and hid that for nearly a year.
The media has a huge credibility problem.
This is a travesty; what kind of journalist would do that?
At first I thought we were going to see Chris Wallace in the Lloyd Bridges role in Airplane: He picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. Which I think he did a few times. Wallace, that is.
The New York Times's "The Argument" had on Jay Rosen with Ross Douthat--a journalism professor who knows the subject with a non-journalist who is nothing but a right-wing propagandist--to discuss how the media should cover politics. Need we say more? In the interest of transparency, which The Times lacks, this is the email I sent in response:
Hello. The press should cover politics so that we know how it affects us, not what Joe Manchin's biorhythms tell us.
To put it another way, I thought of writing to DC political correspondents posing as an expert on that very topic and saying I knew when Biden should approach him. I guarantee you I would have heard back. But if I had written and said I am--and I am--a history professor whom republicans put on the Professor Watchlist for what I did not say in class and received death threats as a result, and that this demonstrated the garbage about "wokeness," I have no doubt I wouldn't hear from anybody, unless John McWhorter did a piece claiming I made up the whole thing.
So I will say to you what I say elsewhere: The gravest threat to our planet is not the republican party or even climate change, but the political media.
By the way, you might check out a former Times executive editor, Turner Catledge, who said that one of his demands of Washington correspondents was that when they wrote about a bill, before they got to who won and lost, he wanted to know how it affected readers--if it was a tax cut, he wanted them to say as fast as possible that this would give everybody a dollar, or whatever it was. No political correspondent for The Times thinks that way now. None.
"I wonder if he knew the release of the Insurrection Day texts from his colleagues was imminent..." That is the $64 M question.
I wonder will this finally wake up the belt way media to actually report this accordingly now that the texts messages have been revealed? One can only hope. They are still trash in so many ways. All I keep seeing in my head is "her emails" They need to be held accountable and I'm glad the WH is finally looking like they are calling them to the carpet. Thanks Eric!
While the texts are revealing and Wallace's departure a huge embarrassment, it won't make a difference to the hardcore Fox News viewer. Thankfully that demographic is shrinking but for those folks who genuflect at the alter of Fox News, they will continue to manufacture whatever excuses are necessary to keep Hannity, Ingraham, and Carlson blabbing away on their TV sets. Confirmation Bias plays a huge role in viewership. People say to me that I have confirmation bias toward MSNBC and other progressive outlets. The difference of course is that progressive viewers are skeptical and don't goose-step to everything said on Morning Joe. In fact I just snarled at my TV when Mika teased a piece on Biden's inflation crisis. Unlike the Fox News viewer, progressive viewers do not rely simply on MSNBC. We verify our facts by reading and viewing from multiple sources. Also we read books by renowned journalists like Jane Mayer and Thom Hartman. Fox News viewers read Bill O'Reilly. But all and all, the revelation of Fox News hosts' texts is ultimately is a good thing and as Eric points out, stay tuned. There is so much more to come. While all this insurrection evidence is a good thing, my fear is of how the Republicans have gamed the system in the states since Jan 6 so that next time, the coup may very well succeed.
I read that Chris Wallace and Brett Baier went to Fox CEO with concerns about the “documentary” Tucker Carlson was producing and promoting. Their complaint was ignored and brushed aside. Certainly not the way to treat a loyal employee of 18 years. Maybe that was the final indignity
From your article, Eric:
"Since everyone at Fox News operates without a moral compass, none of the millionaire hosts will have trouble sleeping despite their insurrection hypocrisy making headlines this week. Still, the network privately hates episodes like this, because it puts them on the defensive and it chips away at the preferred fantasy they push on Madison Avenue and within the Beltway that Fox is merely a conservative media outlet and that it actually employs a 'news' division."
I beg to differ. The reason none of the millionaire hosts at Fox and their billionaire overlords (and their GOP viewers and fully enabled legislators) will have no trouble sleeping despite their gargantuan hypocrisies has precious little to do with them operating "without a moral compass." That's a given, and I would suggest it is far too charitable a description. We have known this all along.
The real reason they do what they do is because they are all sociopaths. They have no conscience whatsoever. None of them. Not a single one of the people who works there, nor any of their viewers or members of the GOP.
There's a reason Rupert Morduch’s brand of "news" is no longer welcome in Canada or the UK. As I saw someone on Twitter put it, "We are going to 1st amendment ourselves to death." Propaganda like Fox News should be permanently banned from our country.
Holy moly, I missed this news! Good for him!
I love Rod Stewart’s “Great American Classics” collection.
Guess Chris Wallace finally got tired of being a living prop that got bought out anytime Faux was criticized for being a right-wing propaganda outet promoting hatred & bigotry, anti-intellectualism, anti-science, and general stupidity.
Maybe after years of taking a paycheck from Murdoch, did he finally realize Faux wasn't the news outlet that it supposedly was since many of the "serious journalists" were being sidelined by the unhinged opinion show hosts because getting the viewers outraged was more profitable than informing them?