What the most recently released Dominion filing showed — which is perhaps not surprising at all — is the extent to which Fox was acting as the campaign arm of the Republican Party.
Beyond the continuous boosting of the election lies, you had the man at the very top, Fox Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch, directly coordinating with the Trump campaign.
The filing states that “during Trump’s campaign, Rupert provided Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, with Fox confidential information about Biden’s ads, along with debate strategy … providing Kushner a preview of Biden’s ads before they were public.”
Think about that: The head of a supposed “news” network sharing confidential campaign data with officials from the opposing campaign. That doesn’t seem very “fair and balanced” now does it?
[Fox News has denied all wrongdoing and is vigorously contesting the Dominion lawsuit.]
Meanwhile, we are seeing a split in the Republican Party put on full display with two competing events. You have the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, that has become the island of misfit toys made up of the MAGA fanatics, which Donald Trump and Kari Lake will be headlining.
And then you have the Jeb Bush-allied Republicans down in Florida at the Club for Growth’s annual retreat which will include Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence.
But let me be clear: Whatever schism exists between these two factions, the end goal is the same — going after tax cuts for the super- wealthy and deregulation of their industries.
As the president of anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist put it in 2012, nearly anyone would do as long as you “pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen” and “sign the legislation that has already been prepared.”
Ryan has remained on that board as Fox continues to this day to push some of the same lies that he was supposedly fighting against.
Which brings…
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