FoxNews Lies

[Markle]

You had to search for it. It is nowhere on their home page, out of over 50 articles.

Here's a news flash for you. Fox News, just like any news source, continually adds new articles and moves others off the front page.

I proved you to still be a liar. Why not just admit the fact? Oh...riiiiggghhhhtttt.

 

[Synthaholic]

Apparently, the Washington Post is free to read through Thursday. You just need to give them an email address.

Sean Hannity’s desperate attempt to spin the new Trump tape

If you aren’t a regular viewer of Hannity’s program, a lot of his argument might have seemed hard to follow; like Donald Trump, he has built up an extensive glossary of shorthands for purported misbehavior by the government that just get sprinkled into whatever new thing he’s incensed about.

Fundamentally, though, the constituent elements of the rant didn’t matter, as they never do. Hannity isn’t conveying the news to his audience. He’s conveying a framework for perceiving politics — and, particularly, how to perceive Trump in the best possible light. Hannity was arguing that the Justice Department was corrupt in the same way that high-schoolers complain about a teacher they dislike, offering up a pastiche of coded or vague claims that should be treated with skepticism.

“Fake news CNN has exclusively apparently obtained another audio recording used as evidence in Trump’s document case,” Hannity began. “It’s kind of weird because there are virtually no leaks from Biden’s document investigation, if there even really is one. It’s almost as if we have a two-tiered system of justice, isn’t it?”

Immediately, you see how this works. The investigation into Biden’s possession of classified documents is not understood to be commensurate to Trump’s in any significant way. There’s no indication that Biden knew he had classified documents, much less tried to retain them. For Hannity’s point to stand, it would require that (1) the recording obtained by CNN was leaked by the Justice Department and (2) that there exists a recording incriminating Biden in the same way — appearing to show someone a classified document and mentioning that it’s classified — but without that recording similarly leaking. But Hannity’s viewers aren’t pausing to consider that. They’re hearing the code-phrase — “two-tiered system of justice” — and (Hannity hopes) nodding.

 

[Lastamender]

Apparently, the Washington Post is free to read through Thursday. You just need to give them an email address.

Sean Hannity’s desperate attempt to spin the new Trump tape

If you aren’t a regular viewer of Hannity’s program, a lot of his argument might have seemed hard to follow; like Donald Trump, he has built up an extensive glossary of shorthands for purported misbehavior by the government that just get sprinkled into whatever new thing he’s incensed about.

Fundamentally, though, the constituent elements of the rant didn’t matter, as they never do. Hannity isn’t conveying the news to his audience. He’s conveying a framework for perceiving politics — and, particularly, how to perceive Trump in the best possible light. Hannity was arguing that the Justice Department was corrupt in the same way that high-schoolers complain about a teacher they dislike, offering up a pastiche of coded or vague claims that should be treated with skepticism.

“Fake news CNN has exclusively apparently obtained another audio recording used as evidence in Trump’s document case,” Hannity began. “It’s kind of weird because there are virtually no leaks from Biden’s document investigation, if there even really is one. It’s almost as if we have a two-tiered system of justice, isn’t it?”

Immediately, you see how this works. The investigation into Biden’s possession of classified documents is not understood to be commensurate to Trump’s in any significant way. There’s no indication that Biden knew he had classified documents, much less tried to retain them. For Hannity’s point to stand, it would require that (1) the recording obtained by CNN was leaked by the Justice Department and (2) that there exists a recording incriminating Biden in the same way — appearing to show someone a classified document and mentioning that it’s classified — but without that recording similarly leaking. But Hannity’s viewers aren’t pausing to consider that. They’re hearing the code-phrase — “two-tiered system of justice” — and (Hannity hopes) nodding.

Hannity does not care if Trump goes down. Try again.

 

[miketx]

Apparently, the Washington Post is free to read through Thursday. You just need to give them an email address.

Sean Hannity’s desperate attempt to spin the new Trump tape

If you aren’t a regular viewer of Hannity’s program, a lot of his argument might have seemed hard to follow; like Donald Trump, he has built up an extensive glossary of shorthands for purported misbehavior by the government that just get sprinkled into whatever new thing he’s incensed about.

Fundamentally, though, the constituent elements of the rant didn’t matter, as they never do. Hannity isn’t conveying the news to his audience. He’s conveying a framework for perceiving politics — and, particularly, how to perceive Trump in the best possible light. Hannity was arguing that the Justice Department was corrupt in the same way that high-schoolers complain about a teacher they dislike, offering up a pastiche of coded or vague claims that should be treated with skepticism.

“Fake news CNN has exclusively apparently obtained another audio recording used as evidence in Trump’s document case,” Hannity began. “It’s kind of weird because there are virtually no leaks from Biden’s document investigation, if there even really is one. It’s almost as if we have a two-tiered system of justice, isn’t it?”

Immediately, you see how this works. The investigation into Biden’s possession of classified documents is not understood to be commensurate to Trump’s in any significant way. There’s no indication that Biden knew he had classified documents, much less tried to retain them. For Hannity’s point to stand, it would require that (1) the recording obtained by CNN was leaked by the Justice Department and (2) that there exists a recording incriminating Biden in the same way — appearing to show someone a classified document and mentioning that it’s classified — but without that recording similarly leaking. But Hannity’s viewers aren’t pausing to consider that. They’re hearing the code-phrase — “two-tiered system of justice” — and (Hannity hopes) nodding.

Total bullshit, he could care less.

 

[Synthaholic]

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Hannity then introduced his guests: New York Post writer Miranda Devine (who has focused heavily on the Hunter Biden laptop) and Donald Trump adviser and speechwriter Stephen Miller. A surefire way to get unbiased assessments of an allegation against someone is to interview the guy who literally tells the person what to say.

The government is “skilled at the art and artistry that’s often deployed in foreign countries of how to control the narrative in our country,” Miller said in the middle of his angry response. “My message to the American people is, don’t fall for it.”

See, the government wants you to think that Trump telling people that he has a document that he didn’t declassify is bad so that they can control the narrative. (Never mind that there’s no evidence the source was the government and not, say, one of the people in the room as Trump was talking about the document.) Miller is trying to present the credulous position (Trump’s actions are innocent) as the savvy one — but “don’t fall for it” lands a bit differently when we’re talking about an actual audio recording of Trump’s words. What are we not falling for, exactly?

 

[Synthaholic]

Lol!


Hannity turned to former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, who was not willing to go along with Hannity’s arguments.

“I don’t know what his defense will be over this document, but as somebody who used to routinely handle classified information, I do have to say that is not how you are supposed to handle it,” Fleischer said. His other guest, former Trump press secretary and current Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany, was similarly hesitant to go along with the Trump-did-nothing-demonstrably-wrong line.

Hannity tried another tack, suggesting that the situation was comparable to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state. (It isn’t, as shown here and here.) Ultimately, he simply reverted to his existing framework.

 

[Lastamender]

Lol!


Hannity turned to former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, who was not willing to go along with Hannity’s arguments.

“I don’t know what his defense will be over this document, but as somebody who used to routinely handle classified information, I do have to say that is not how you are supposed to handle it,” Fleischer said. His other guest, former Trump press secretary and current Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany, was similarly hesitant to go along with the Trump-did-nothing-demonstrably-wrong line.

Hannity tried another tack, suggesting that the situation was comparable to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state. (It isn’t, as shown here and here.) Ultimately, he simply reverted to his existing framework.

No one cares about Hannity. He is controlled opposition. This is scripted, you jerk.

 

[Mac1958]

Hannity tried another tack, suggesting that the situation was comparable to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state. (It isn’t, as shown here and here.) Ultimately, he simply reverted to his existing framework.

Standard talk radio tactics, throwing stale talking points, fantasies, conspiracies and deflections at any challenging situation. It's all Hannity knows. It's what has made him wealthy.

You see EXACTLY the same tactics here, because these folks learned them from people like Hannity.

 

[Synthaholic]

This is not a news channel.

 

[Synthaholic]

Because FoxNews lies.

 

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