Former Trump attorney and adviser Sidney Powell’s false promise to “release the kraken” following the 2020 election was a bridge too far even for those of us who questioned the more likely ways the Democrats may have interfered to sway the results. I’m referring to Big Tech and the legacy media’s efforts to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, the letter signed by 51 former intelligence community leaders, and the numerous irregularities that had been detailed in sworn affidavits from approximately 1,000 poll workers at battleground state vote-counting centers.
Yet Fox News personalities, including Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Maria Bartiromo, and Lou Dobbs, who privately expressed disbelief over Powell’s claims, continued to invite her onto their shows to spout her lies.
That whole sorry episode has come back to bite Fox in the form of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network. Recently unsealed depositions of top executives including Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch and internal communications of top hosts have put the network in an embarrassing and very precarious position.
Enemies of the most widely viewed cable news channel are flooding the airwaves with predictions of doom about the network’s future viability. And, predictably, the loudest among them are those who have played rather fast and loose with the truth themselves – and done so repeatedly.
This sanctimonious, self-serving posturing from some of the worst offenders has become untenable. A recent NPR article that sounded more like an obituary for the embattled network than news, provides a sense of how the legacy media is covering the story. It began, “Fox News has endured one humiliation after another from the rolling revelations in the case brought by Dominion Voting Systems. …
It continued, “Outside legal observers say the Fox News Channel finds itself in real legal jeopardy … The amount and weight of evidence is perhaps without equal among other major, recent defamation cases.”
Gov. John Sununu (R-NH) appeared as a guest on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday and stunned the show’s highly partisan host, Chuck Todd, with a much needed dose of reality. Todd asked, “What do you think Rupert Murdoch and Fox News need to do to regain some trust after what we’ve learned about this? … And are you at all concerned you can have an honest conversation with Fox viewers?”
Todd was unprepared for Sununu’s response. “Oh, well, I don’t think it’s just Fox. I mean, I’ll put them in there, but all of media, all of television media, and everyone has to own a little bit of the lack of trust, the lack of accountability. It’s okay to get something wrong in the news, but you’ve got to come back and own it. …”
Sununu’s reply prompted Todd to qualify his question. “What about intentionally lying to viewers? … That to me seemed to cross a line. You can make a mistake, but that wasn’t a mistake.”
“So explain to me – look, I’m not defending anybody because I think you’re all in the same basket, I really do,” Sununu said. “But I could go to CNN when they’re going to ignore the Hunter Biden laptop story, we could talk about the virus truly coming out of the lab in Wuhan. … America is losing faith in the media. … “
Todd wasn’t pleased with Sununu’s stinging remarks, but he stepped on that rake all by himself. Peak liberal delusion at its finest. Is he not the least bit cognizant of his and his own network’s journalistic malpractice?
For three years, every network except Fox told viewers that former President Donald Trump was an agent of Russia and that the Steele dossier was real. They lambasted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and everyone else who believed the coronavirus may have originated from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology as conspiracy theorists and racists. They also suppressed and/or discredited the Hunter Biden laptop story and have spent the past two years insisting that the Capitol riot was a deadly insurrection.
Typically, long after these frauds have achieved their intended purpose, we learn they were based on lies. And these revelations always come without fanfare. There might be a correction buried in the 25th paragraph of a New York Times article – or not – and the news cycle moves on. No one is ever held accountable.
Rather than considering what a loss in this case will mean for journalists everywhere, the legacy media is holding Fox to a standard they themselves have repeatedly failed to meet.
So far, Fox shows no signs of settling the case before the trial begins on April 17. Might be a better idea to listen to the facts before passing judgment. Radical I know.
But karma has a way of striking quickly. And it won’t be long before they find themselves in the hot seat.
A previous version of this article appeared in The Washington Examiner.
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Yeah right Rino media. Sydney Powell was right and fox news is increasingly becoming just another democRat/rino establisment mouthpiece.
The failure of the Supreme Court to hear the election fraud case signed on by 17 states sealed the narrative that the election was stolen. It wasn’t that there wasn’t evidence that huge amounts of cheating went on, it’s that the refusal to look at the evidence compiled by the attorneys general of the seventeen states disenfranchised those voters and never resolved the issue. There were also witnesses that observed Clarance Thomas and John Roberts having a heated argument in the hallway about the refusal to hear the case. The message was loud and clear: “ We don’t care about your votes. They don’t matter anymore. We don’t even want to take the time to hear you argue your case.”