Rupert Murdoch stealing a lot of headlines for his deposition in the Dominion case, where Murdoch essentially agreed with the majority of the cross examiners questions, confirming that fox hosts "endorsed" the claims about Dominion that the already revealed communications confirm they knew to be patently false, thereby eroding Fox's defense that much farther.
Trump meanwhile is disgusted and demands the firing of every Fox News person who knew the election wasn't stolen
Can you imagine how much fun it would be if any of the 3 Ghouls(Hannity, Carlson and Ingraham) had to take the stand in this case and explain why they promoted information they knew to be false.
Tucker getting cross examined would be box-office gold.
Bet they go back to his previous defamation defense: 'no reasonable person can take me seriously'
It's not at all surprising anymore, but it remains astounding to me that the literal exact named professional asshole people who go off about the War on Christmas every **** year are the most shameless and least god-fearing 'christians' on the planet. Shameless sociopaths. Even if you catch them, they'll keep doing it, because 'free speech' and 'win politics by any means.'
Perhaps as a prime example of this, listen to Kellyanne Conway in 2019 [video at WaPo]:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/13/blah-blah-blah-this-week-old-kellyanne-conway-clip-looks-exceedingly-painful-today/
CONWAY: If you’re trying to silence me through the Hatch Act, it’s not going to work.
REPORTER: I’m not trying to silence you. The Office of Special Counsel said you violated it.
OTHER REPORTER: Kellyanne, is — is Roy Moore a standalone case or do you — or should we expect —
CONWAY (turning to first reporter): Let me know when the jail sentence starts.
Basically saying, '**** off, I'm going to shamelessly violate this law because the law has no tangible statutory criminal punishment attached to it'
And for similar reasons these fucklechucks over at FNC don't give a flying rats ass about a fine from Dominion, that will always be watered down to hell on appeal. They're not going to be personally hurt by it, in fact they've made a political machine out of victimhood from their violation of such laws - "I'm being oppressed" coverage will, in this lost country, lead to killer ratings for them, maybe even a bunch of illicit and not illicit fundraising through book tours etc.; Tucker Carlson will keep his ride or die advertisers and he will continue to broadcast from his safe space in Florida out of a green screen. Hannity will just show up at another Freedumb rally somewhere and hawk merch and continue to blather up the void leftover from Rush Limbaugh.
Even if they absolutely lose this case, they're never coughing up a billion dollars in damages, and none of them are going to jail, and none of them are going to get #canceled. The days when Jon Stewart could go on the air and utterly tank Carlson's viewer base are gone because he's not looking to cater to balanced, fact-sensitive audiences anymore. He learned the wrong lessons from that - to find a base of viewers and advertisers that isn't interested in that, they're interested in Winning and Alternative Facts.
^^^^^^^^^
Still one of the greatest moments in cable news history.
It's a valid insight into why American politics is the clownworld it is today (and by "today" I mean since the 80's. Everything is about ratings and show.
Bread and circuses.
American media is very biased on all sides but Fox in particular of the big networks is the worst, the stunning thing is the most moaning about biaised media by far comes from the people who suckle from Fox’s teat. Conservatives have jumped the shark with their willingness to believe things just because it suits them.
Which is funny because conservatives and republicans like strong authoritative figureheads and leaders with big brass balls to tell them what’s what but if news people told them, you know - facts about life they needed to hear - they’d go “how **** dare you” and flip the channel to another station of sycophants like newsmax.
Coordination with convicted coup plotters you say?
Unreal....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/03/donald-trump-song-charity-single-january-6-prisoners?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
David Guetta remix incoming
In "Things that come as absolutely no surprise," Kellyanne and George Conway are divorcing: https://pagesix.com/2023/03/03/kellyanne-conway-and-george-conway-to-divorce/
ETTD strikes, yet again, this time the Conway's marriage is the victim.
Did their daughter ever get away from the crazy bitch?
Yeah, the family is spread out over the East Coast, but she and Mom have worked some things out. https://www.bustle.com/politics/claudia-conway-tiktok-kellyanne-coming-out
George with the perfect reply...
George will be disgusted that Trump is apparently not attracted to him. What an odd thing to say, even for Trump that’s peculiar he usually only notes women as being unattractive.
It seems perfectly in character for him to me. He likes to insult people he doesn't like, and he isn't very bright. So he says the kind of things to them that he would feel insulted by if someone said them to him.
When CPAC officially jumps the shark....
If that was CPAC jumping the shark, then this is them jumping over The Fonz jumping the shark
TFG's been hanging with the christofascists and drinking their Kool-Aid
TFG: "I am your warrior, I am your justice, and for those who have been wrong and betrayed, I am your retribution."
Nothing like an Ex-POTUS vowing revenge on his enemies.
And they’re too taken in to see it for what it is.
Republicans - we want to unite the US.
Also republicans - lemme beat the **** out of those that disagree with us
Apparently at their poorly attended christofascist love in, they chased Nikki Haley into an elevator chanting "Trump! Trump!" She'd had the temerity to address the audience on why the GQP needs a new generation or something like that.
Can't have a pesky WOMAN challenging their alpha old fat orange-dye soaked mushroom d1cked white guy.
Far too many of them know exactly what it is, and that's why they want it. They're eager to be able to punish "those people" and see him as their way of being able to do so.
For the love of god don’t give Nimrata any undue sympathy. She’s playing the victim card hard enough already, playing with a short deck of cards too.
How can the members of the GOP not see that Trump isn't the least bit concerned about the GOP, it is all about him?
Because that's how all of them think.
Because it's about the power and the money. Not that the Democrats aren't about the same, either. But TFG could really shoot people on, well, outside the Breakers in Palm Beach and if he got the votes, they'd put him up as candidate.
What would they know - they are only RINOs after all...
Most politicians are in it for the power. A lot are also in it for the money. The GOP in the US takes both to an entirely different level. And they aren't generally interested in making their policies more attractive to voters. They're much more interested in stopping people that aren't likely to vote for them from voting.
And yeah, I have absolutely no doubt that he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th avenue in New York City in cold blood and not only not lose a single voter, but also not be arrested. He might eventually be arrested, but it certainly wouldn't happen right away. He wouldn't even need to come up with an excuse for his voters as to why he did it. He would just need to wait for them to come up with one for him.
A comment I saw somewhere pretty much captures the GQP: They don't want to govern, they want to rule. Maniacal realtors like MTG embody that.
Shooting someone on 5th avenue is so yesterday. I updated Trump to Palm Beach since I don't think he's in NYC much anymore. By the way, that Breaker's place makes a delicious crab meat salad, when she was alive my Mom always enjoyed it when I took her there for lunch. Definitely an 'old money vibe' to the place, but beautifully landscaped and great views of the Atlantic.
