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The stupidest.  Fucking.   Timeline.

 

Trumpkins believe this, by the way.  They believe ALL OF IT.  They may hem and haw and lie a little bit because some of them have JUST enough wherewithal to realize just how batshit it all LOOKS.....but they believe it.  Every word of it.

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

once again, they're not mad about the contents of the laptop.  even the pretend contents and all the proof of corruption they claim is on there.  even if it existed and proved that biden was in fact a baby-eater and that hunter stole 500 mil from ukranian banks by putting a little ski mask on the end of his cock.

they only care that it didn't work.  it was supposed to be a bombshell that won trump the election and it didn't.  that's what they care about.

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5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

The stupidest.  Fucking.   Timeline.

 

Trumpkins believe this, by the way.  They believe ALL OF IT.  They may hem and haw and lie a little bit because some of them have JUST enough wherewithal to realize just how batshit it all LOOKS.....but they believe it.  Every word of it.

 

hell, 'educated' posters on this board believe it 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/business/media/chris-wallace-cnn-fox-news.html

 

 

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“I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.”

Chris Wallace uttered those words matter-of-factly, in between bites of a Sweetgreen salad at his new desk inside the Washington bureau of CNN, the network he joined in January after nearly two decades at Fox News.

For those on the left who admired him, and those on the right who doubted him, it’s a statement that was a long time coming.

 

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A down-the-middle outlier at Fox News who often confounded conservatives by contradicting the network’s right-wing stars, Mr. Wallace was also one of the channel’s fiercest defenders, disappointing liberals who hoped he might denounce colleagues like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.

But in December, Mr. Wallace, 74, issued a final verdict: He was done. In a surprise move, he declined to renew his contract as host of “Fox News Sunday” and jumped to archrival CNN. His daily interview show — “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” — starts Tuesday on the new CNN+ streaming service.

So why did Mr. Wallace change the channel?

 

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“I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Mr. Wallace said in his first extensive interview about his decision to leave. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”

“I spent a lot of 2021 looking to see if there was a different place for me to do my job,” he added.

 

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The anchor was eager to describe what attracted him to his new gig: excitement about CNN+, the more freewheeling format of streaming TV — “I don’t have to say, you know, ‘Wolf Blitzer starts right now at 6:59:59’” — and the opportunity to expand beyond politics. In early episodes, he discusses space travel with the “Star Trek” actor William Shatner, asks the former Disney boss Bob Iger about meeting the pope, and at one point sings a warbling duet with the songstress Judy Collins.

But Mr. Wallace also acknowledged that he felt a shift at Fox Newsin the months after Donald J. Trump’s defeat in 2020 — a period when the channel ended its 7 p.m. newscast, fired the political editor who helped project a Trump loss in Arizona on election night and promoted hosts like Mr. Carlson who downplayed the Jan. 6 riot.

He confirmed reports that he was so alarmed by Mr. Carlson’s documentary “Patriot Purge” — which falsely suggested the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a “false flag” operation intended to demonize conservatives — that he complained directly to Fox News management.

“Before, I found it was an environment in which I could do my job and feel good about my involvement at Fox,” Mr. Wallace said of his time at the network. “And since November of 2020, that just became unsustainable, increasingly unsustainable as time went on.”

Still, he acknowledged that some viewers may wonder why he did not leave earlier.

“Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point,” he said, adding: “I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, ‘Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.’”

Fox News declined to comment.

Mr. Wallace said his new CNN+ series, which airs at 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, was inspired by the work of famed interviewers like Larry King and Charlie Rose. (His father, the “60 Minutes” legend Mike Wallace, hosted a versatile interview program of his own in the late 1950s, with guests ranging from Henry Kissinger to the actress Jean Seberg.)

The set of the show is sparse, just Mr. Wallace and a guest sitting on either side of a Plexiglas table — a more brightly lit version of Mr. Rose’s long-running PBS format. Mr. Wallace said he hoped “to have the kind of intimate, thoughtful conversation where we forget we’re on camera in a studio.”

Marketing materials for CNN+ prominently feature Mr. Wallace alongside younger hosts like the former NPR host Audie Cornish, the chef Alison Roman and the actress Eva Longoria. The advanced ages of some of his early guests — Ms. Collins is 82, and Mr. Shatner just turned 91 — also suggest that Mr. Wallace’s program might complement more millennial-focused fare.

The service, which costs $6 a month, debuts on Tuesday, years after the arrival of streaming competitors like Fox Nation and the CBS News Streaming Network. CNN executives view it as a major effort to gain a foothold with viewers who are abandoning cable subscriptions in favor of online alternatives for news.

The stakes are high for CNN, which is undergoing wrenching change. The channel’s parent company, WarnerMedia, is expected to be acquired by Discovery Inc. in the next few weeks. A new president, Chris Licht, is taking over CNN after the network’s longtime leader, Jeff Zucker, resigned in February over an undisclosed relationship with a colleague.

Mr. Wallace allowed that he was “obviously unhappy” that Mr. Zucker, the man who hired him, was forced out in a corporate scandal just weeks after he joined up.

“It’s not ideal,” he said of Mr. Zucker’s exit.

Mr. Wallace is best known for his political expertise — he moderated two presidential debates, served as NBC’s chief White House correspondent and is an equal-opportunity griller of Democrats and Republicans — but he now plans to graze on other topics, including sports and the arts. Interviewing Ms. Collins, he chimes in with a few lyrics from her 1975 hit, “Send In the Clowns.”

“I wanted to get out of politics,” Mr. Wallace said, adding, “Doing a Sunday show on the incremental change from week to week in the Build Back Better plan began to lose its attraction.”

He demurred when asked about recent opinions expressed by Mr. Carlson and other Fox News commentators about Russia and Ukraine.

“One of the reasons that I left Fox was because I wanted to put all of that behind me,” Mr. Wallace said, adding that since his exit, “there has not been a moment when I have second-guessed myself about that decision.”

 

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7 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Biden and others in the admin calling them idiots without calling them idiots is nice.

Yep -- I mean, when Doocy lies about Biden's own words.....to Biden.....these fucknuts must think that everyone else in the world is as ass-wrenchingly stupid as they are.  Fucking morons.  All of them.

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1 hour ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

Not really specific to Fox but interesting thread discussing a study on the effects of partisan media.  

 

 

 

What? Non factual repetitive Propaganda works at influencing people’s worldview and vote? 

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Biden: Rupert Murdoch ‘most dangerous man in the world’

https://thehill.com/news/3258124-biden-rupert-murdoch-most-dangerous-man-in-the-world/

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President Biden reportedly decried Fox News owner and media magnate Rupert Murdoch as the “most dangerous man in the world,” according to new reporting in a forthcoming book by a team of New York Times reporters.

Excerpts from the book “This Will Not Pass,” by journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns obtained by CNN reveal Biden assessed Fox News “as one of the most destructive forces in the United States.”

The book reportedly describes Fox News as a “torrent of anti-Biden programming, stoking skepticism about vaccines and disseminating wild conspiracy theories about the January 6 attack.”

Biden’s alleged comments to Martin and Burns are the first the president has ever made publicly about Murdoch, CNN noted.

Representatives for Fox News and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Since announcing his candidacy for president, Biden has regularly sparred with Fox News reporters who have peppered him with questions about his son Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings, his policy agenda and his verbal gaffes in the run-up to the election.

Each of Fox’s leading prime-time hosts has at some point suggested that Biden is mentally unfit to serve as president.

Biden in January infamously was caught on a hot mic chiding Peter Doocy, once of Fox’s White House corespondents, calling him a “stupid son of a bitch” after Doocy had asked a question about inflation.

During a CNN town hall last fall, Biden joked he “turns on Fox to find out how popular I am.”

 

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51 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

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"Citing low output of porn, porn stars slam Biden for not fucking on camera more."

That headline would actually make MORE sense than what Fox says.  I've repeatedly noted that we are in the stupidest timeline.  That description is clearly insufficient for the level of stupidity in which we continuously wallow.  Imagine infinite stupidity.  Then triple it.  And you still aren't anywhere close to as stupid as this timeline.

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14 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Bill O’Reilly is a caricature of everyone’s angry uncle and his replacement Tucker is a caricature of every shithead edge lord in your undergrad philosophy seminar. 
 

America was better off with the angry uncle as most watched cable host. 

I thought that fucker was already dead.

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