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The following is an excerpt from Joy’s open on Friday’s episode of the “The ReidOut.” It has been slightly edited for length and clarity.
You might want to send this to your MAGA hat-wearing parents or uncles, because frankly, they deserve to know.
OK? Ready? Here it is:
You need to know that most of what you hear on Fox News about the 2020 election is a lie. The hosts you love and whose every word you hang on likely don’t believe a single thing they’re saying to you. In fact, according to the legal brief released by Dominion, the voting machine company that is suing Fox News for $1.6 billion for lying about them, many major Fox News talk show hosts are only pretending to support Donald Trump. And faking that they believe the 2020 election was stolen from him.
[Fox News has denied all wrongdoing, invoking the freedom of the press and freedom of speech in a statement Thursday.]
And they are lying to you for the most obvious reason of all, which Dominion calls out on page 35 of their blockbuster filing, in which they quote an email from Ron Mitchell — the vice president of primetime programming and analytics at Fox News — who emailed his bosses — the president of Fox News and the CEO — nearly two weeks after the election on Nov. 18 2020, saying, “Viewers are watching less.” And he suggested a solution: “Do not ever give viewers a reason to turn us off.”
Why were viewers turning them off? Consider Fox News on election night. Fox News was the first network to call Arizona, a key battleground state, for Joe Biden. Behind the scenes, the entirely accurate call triggered a collective freakout at the Trump White House and throughout Fox News. According to Dominion’s filing, the senior vice president and managing editor of Fox News’ Washington bureau, Bill Sammon, received an angry text from a member of Trump’s team claiming it was “way too soon to be calling Arizona.” Minutes later, Sammon received a…
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