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Donald Trumpâs Megaphone
Fox News news hosts knew that Trumpâs lies were liesâand they amplified them anyhow.
Iâve shown a good deal of restraint since news broke that I left Fox News.
I havenât done any TV about it, and Iâve let a lot of nonsense go by without a response.
A major reason I chose to leave with more than a year left on my contract was that I felt conflicted about speaking freely. Fox understandably doesnât like to pay people who criticize Fox or its talent, and there is something unseemly about it.
So that was one reason why I left.
Another was that I didnât want to be complicit in so many lies.
Thatâs the thing. I know that a huge share of the people you saw on TV praising Trump were being dishonest. I donât merely suspect it, I know it, because they would say one thing to my face or in my presence and another thing when the cameras and microphones were flipped on. And even when I didnât hear it directly, I was often one degree of separation from it. (âGuess what so-and-so said during the commercial break?â) Punditry and politics is a very small worldâespecially on the rightâand if you add-up all the congressmen, senators, columnists, producers, editors, etc. youâll probably end up with fewer people than the student population of a decent-sized liberal arts college.
Yes, yes, some people started to drink the Kool-Aid and actually came to believe their own lies, but thatâs a subject for another time. Suffice it to say, however: Just because youâve come to believe a lie that doesnât make that lie true.
Donald Trumpâs Megaphone
Fox News news hosts knew that Trumpâs lies were liesâand they amplified them anyhow.
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This is Jonah Goldberg. A man conservatives have quoted and believed. He's telling you that thre shit you're being told is not true.
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