RFK Jr.

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-ne...wding-out-its-coverage-trumps-gop-challengers

 

If RFK, Jr.'s last name wasn't Kennedy and he wasn't the son of one of the most beloved Democratic politicians in the last 100 years his candidacy would have the same seriousness as that of Lyndon LaRouche when LaRouche was running against Bill Clinton for the Democratic nomination in 1996.

 

Given that there are no viruses, anti-vax is the only sensible position.

Let’s turn a pejorative into a positive!

 

Boy, could we have used him in 2020!

“Civilization grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary."

— H.L. Mencken —

 

Seems to me that FOX is busily purging its most conservative elements.

 

I have personal beef with Fox News for weaponizing right-wing political propaganda for their immense profit at the expense of America as a whole.

 

Valid question. I do reference Fox fairly often. I'm sure it's not nearly 4 or 5 times a day. I only average a few posts more than a day. But I do look at Fox (and CNN) a couple of times a day. (Wash Post and NYT often, but less often.)
And the reason I quote Fox here is simple: They are the voice of conservative America. Not only is it the primary news source for Republicans, the case can be made that the GOP follows Fox as much as Fox follows the GOP.
If you want to understand why conservatives believe what they do (and I do want to understand) you have to pay attention to Fox.
And while CNN is the primary news source for Democrats, CNN and Fox are not mirror images of each other.

BTW - while I used to often be in a place that had Fox and CNN on TVs without audio at night, I seldom see any of the Fox broadcast anymore. 99 percent of what I know about what it does comes from its website and liberal watchdogs like Media Matters.

 

From what I've read, Fox has a lost a little of its rightwing domination. But there's still no other source that comes close. And it is interesting that as extreme right, as dedicated as Fox is to bad stuff about the left ... you think it's losing influence because it's not far right enough. Is that right?

 

One day people are going to call MSNBC right wing.

 

But you pointed out they lost viewers after they fired Carlson. That's not a matter of ignoring 'legacy' media. That was because Fox lost its most radical host. So they went to more extreme far right sites like Newsmax.
There were also plenty of reports of Fox viewers fleeing for Newsmax after Fox called Arizona for Biden and then didnt push the fraud myth as much as some Fox viewers wanted.

 

Carlson is far from radical. He’s just the right of the world of crazies in the media.

 

You've got it wrong, there was a virus, even Trump said so (and told Bob Woodward privately how deadly it was), but like Trump said, it would "just disappear."

Poof! You want proof?

Trump said so!

 

Irony: you’ve had 2 + 3 Trump vaccines!

 

Just for the fun of it. There was no virus. It had disappeared!

 

Trump was right about one thing: he said that if people stopped testing, Covid would go away. The test was the only thing that sustained the perception of a pandemic.

 

Along with a few million people dying.

 

Of age-old causes falsely attributed to a virus.