Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Where's the Evidence? Fox News Host Presses Sidney Powell on Voter Fraud. She Has Responded.
Townhall.com ^ | November 20, 2020 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 11/20/2020 11:57:16 AM PST by Kaslin

Fox News has had its moments during this election cycle. There’s been considerable frustration and anger with the hosts. Election Night was a disaster for the network. Other hot mic moments have infuriated viewers. They cut away from a Trump White House presser on voter fraud. It’s been a mess. Tucker Carlson appeared to have taken a swipe at his colleagues, noting you just can’t cut away from news coverage that you don’t like. Yet, last night, it was different. Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell says she has evidence of vote fraud. She said that it will prove that President Trump won in a landslide.

The voter fraud scandal itself, if true, would be the biggest in American history by more than a few touchdowns. It would be cataclysmic, to say the least—and yet—she didn’t come onto Tucker’s show. The reason: when pressed for evidence to back up these claims, she got frustrated and told Fox News not to contact her (via WaPo):

Tucker has seen enough (of Sidney Powell anyway)

pic.twitter.com/XDcBfmZtkd— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) November 20, 2020

As Fox News host Tucker Carlson noted on Thursday night, he’s more than willing to give airtime to outlandish claims. “We literally do UFO segments,” he said.

But even Carlson said he was fed up with the total lack of evidence produced by Sidney Powell, one of the Trump campaign’s attorneys, for her unfounded allegation that electronic voting systems had switched millions of ballots to favor President-elect Joe Biden.

“We invited Sidney Powell on the show. We would have given her the whole hour,” Carlson said. “But she never sent us any evidence, despite a lot of requests, polite requests. Not a page. When we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her.”

Carlson also noted: “She never demonstrated that a single actual vote was moved illegitimately by software from one candidate to another. Not one.”

… Carlson didn’t discount the larger claims of Trump’s attorneys that massive fraud disrupted the election — an allegation that has been repeatedly dismissed in court and for which the White House has presented no public evidence.

[…]

The segment also put Carlson at odds with other Fox News hosts like Jesse Watters, who on his Thursday show described Powell and Giuliani’s news conference as “a big shot of adrenaline.”

Well, she responded this morning (via Washington Examiner):

Trump attorney Sidney Powell fires back: Tucker Carlson was 'insulting, demanding, and rude' -- https://t.co/leMZ1Scj7d -- for @dcexaminer pic.twitter.com/CTDKxZnJql— Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) November 20, 2020

Sidney Powell, an attorney on President Trump's election legal team, shot back at Fox News host Tucker Carlson the morning after he said she "got angry" and refused to provide evidence on his show for her claims of voting software flipping votes.

"No, I didn’t get angry with the request to provide evidence," the former federal prosecutor said Friday morning during an interview with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo.

"In fact, I sent an affidavit to Tucker that I had not even attached to a pleading yet to help him understand the situation, and I offered him another witness who could explain the mathematics and the statistical evidence far better than I can. I’m not really a numbers person," she added.

"But he was very insulting, demanding, and rude, and I told him not to contact me again, in those terms," Powell concluded.

He said, she said, but pulling back from this spat between Carlson and Powell—there needs to be some sort of significant development regarding her Dominion allegations, a sequel that should drop soon—something—because the clock is running out.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; donaldtrump; joebiden; sidneypowell; voterfraud
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 121-136 next last
To: Kaslin

Fox didn’t air Rudy’s presser on the Saturday following the election....they were busy joining all the other networks who spent that Saturday declaring Biden the winner

So why did they bother covering yesterday’s presser? And why do they seem so pissed about it?

Cracks in the propaganda dam are obviously getting bigger.....and Fox is caught between a rock and a hard place


61 posted on 11/20/2020 12:53:22 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bryan24
It was the percent of votes (Trump - Biden / Trump) on the y axis. The x axis had straight ticket percentage. Their assumption was the non-straight-ticket voters should behave exactly like the straight ticket voters (horizontal line). That's an incorrect assumption.
62 posted on 11/20/2020 12:53:28 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: palmer

As you know, the switching is not done in the machine on a massive scale it is done by the ‘someone’ collating to send back to the companies like Clarity. You know that but continue to try and float the lie ‘someone’ has assigned for you to spew. YOU are an agent of confusion thus you are one aiding and abetting the sedition destroying America. Don’t take the mark when it is commanded to you and you might have a chance to avoid HELL.


63 posted on 11/20/2020 12:54:33 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: Prince of Space

Why should they try a case before the news media? They do not determine the President.


64 posted on 11/20/2020 12:58:32 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

I think Sidney Powell lowers herself by bringing up Carlson’s manners. It has no bearing on the fraud investigation and wastes our time.

I hope she and Trump’s team have something.


65 posted on 11/20/2020 12:59:01 PM PST by cymbeline
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN
YOU lie. You do not in fact hope there are `better' statistical cases

In fact that's not true. I have mentioned them in the threads about Biden gains. There are statistical cases for outsize Biden gains being evidence of manufactured Biden votes. There are valid arguments that excessive Biden-only (no other votes on the ballot) may be evidence of fraud if that's different from the non-swing states or counties where fraud is not tolerated.

Like Tucker, I want to see evidence of software bias. I believe it is extremely unlikely (too easy to detect and get caught).

66 posted on 11/20/2020 12:59:36 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: Bryan24

Don’t be misled by palmer. It is spewing a misdirection play. Don’t be taken in by the deceit. recounting will mot reveal anything about the machines which took the vote in, because that was a robotic exercise. The fraud/sedition or Treason took place where the vote counts were sent to be collated and returned to companies like Clarity who feed numbers to the networks for posting. Is it any wonder the networks are trying to coronate a senile criminal and his ho?


67 posted on 11/20/2020 1:00:02 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Why isn’t the “where’s the evidence crowd” out doing their own investigation? They want to be spoon fed instead of trying to verify charges. The Trump people filed a complex motion in Pennsylvania before this all blew up yesterday yet I’ve seen no reporting on it. And Carlson is looking for an exclusive, breaking news moment to boost his, and Fox’s ratings.


68 posted on 11/20/2020 1:00:24 PM PST by vigilence (Vigilence)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

69 posted on 11/20/2020 1:01:59 PM PST by McGruff (We shall not go quietly into the night. We will not surrender without a fight.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

The Agenda of Fox News Many Have Forgotten and Perhaps Many More Do Not Know…

Posted on  by 

I wrote about this in 2014/2015, followed the dynamic and refreshed it again in 2017. However, with increased sunlight on the agenda of Fox News, perhaps a review of this history is needed again. Back when the 2014 “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” agenda was swirling in the senate; you might remember the “gang of eight” immigration bill; specific media entities inside and outside FOX media were involved in private discussions to promote the agenda.  {GO DEEP}

Two of those outside FOX voices were Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson; so it was not a surprise to see FOX News Rupert Murdoch hire them later as prime-time hosts. This is all about following the money and the FOX agenda; ie. inside baseball stuff:

During the 2015 Fox Business News GOP Primary debate several political junkies noted a rather curious and brutally obvious omission: Senator Marco Rubio was never questioned about the 2013 Senate Gang-of-Eight bill and his stance on Comprehensive Immigration Reform. In fact, if you were to review the 2015 debate substance you’d note candidate Rubio wasn’t directly questioned about his immigration positions at all.

GOP gang of 8

It is not disconnected that during the 2013/2014 Gang-of-Eight immigration constructs we later discovered Fox News was an active participant in the promotion of the immigration reform proposals.

In order to facilitate the congressional immigration intent Fox launched a previously unknown pro-amnesty propaganda blitz to support senate immigration bill.

What follows below is an evidenced expose’ of their agenda.

Candidate Jeb Bush attends Chamber of Commerce dinner with Fox's Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett (December 2014)

Candidate Jeb Bush attends Chamber of Commerce dinner with Fox’s Rupert Murdoch and Valerie Jarrett (December 2014)

♦ It was in 2014 when writer Mickey Kaus was chastised by Tucker Carlson, then a Fox contributor and now prime-time show host, for writing an article in the Daily Caller outlining the relationship between Rupert Murdoch, his company Fox News, the talking heads under his control and authority, and Murdoch’s request for pro-amnesty propaganda to be broadcast on the network.

Tucker Carlson took down the article from the Daily Caller, and subsequently Mickey Kaus quit in disgust over the agenda-driven editorial decision. Apparently some things are just too sensitive for sunlight and exposure.

However, what Mickey Kaus outlined was a pattern within Fox to push immigration reform and included a first person excerpt between David Axelrod and Rupert Murdoch:

During the dinner, Murdoch, who was seated beside me, insisted that the president had to move on immigration reform. ….

“But the solution has to be comprehensive,” I said. “We can’t just attack a piece of the immigration problem. And you know, there’s one big thing that you can do to help, and that is to keep your cable network from stoking the nativism that keeps us from solving this.” [Emphasis added] (link)

Kaus goes on to outline how Fox News followed the plan and conspicuously avoided any mention of the crafting: “in the spring of 2013 when the “Gang of 8” amnesty bill snuck through the Senate“. Mickey uses a historical timeline, day-by-day story leads, showing how Fox was intentionally NOT COVERING the story (see here).

GOP gang of 8

♦ However, even before Kaus discovered -and outlined- proof of what his research into Fox revealed there was a prior article written by Ryan Lizza in The New Yorker Magazine [June 2013] which was even more revealing:

New Yorker 2013 – […] Fox News has notably changed its tone since the election. A Democratic policy staffer who worked on the issue in 2007 and has helped write the current bill said, “NumbersUSA and FAIR”—two groups that want to dramatically limit immigration—“managed to convince Fox News back then to be their twenty-four-hour news channel of the anti-immigrant point of view. Fox has now totally bought in to the idea that we just need to figure something out.”

Rush Limbaugh, who fiercely opposes the bill, has come to sound resigned. “I don’t know if there’s any stopping this,” he said on January 28th, the day the Gang held the press conference announcing its framework for the legislation. “It’s up to me and Fox News, and I don’t think Fox News is that invested in this.”

McCain told me, “Rupert Murdoch is a strong supporter of immigration reform, and Roger Ailes is, too.” Murdoch is the chairman and C.E.O. of News Corp., which owns Fox, and Ailes is Fox News’s president.

McCain said that he, Graham, Rubio, and others also have talked privately to top hosts at Fox, including Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Neil Cavuto, who are now relatively sympathetic to the Gang’s proposed bill. Hannity voiced support for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, which he previously dismissed as “amnesty,” on the day after the 2012 election. “God bless Fox,” Graham said. “Last time, it was ‘amnesty’ every fifteen seconds.”

He said that the change was important for his reelection, because “eighty per cent of people in my primary get their news from Fox.” He added that the network has “allowed critics to come forward, but it’s been so much better.” (link)

So there’s a trio of GOPe Republicans in the so-called Gang of Eight huddled with leading figures at Fox News Channel. A few days later Bill O’Reilly interviews Marco Rubio and urges the Senator to come to him if anyone opposes the proposal.

♦ As you watch this segment in retrospect, with the information you now possess, consider that both Bill O’Reilly and Marco Rubio have pre-discussed the entire topic and worked out exactly what the framework of questions and answers would be:

Rubio Discusses Borders & Benefits In Immigration Bill w/ Bill O'Reilly

Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the entire GOPe apparatus -including House Speaker Paul Ryan- are 100% behind comprehensive immigration reform to include amnesty.

Back to Fox News and their debate agenda – The executive in charge of Fox News debate programming, debate questioning and debate structure is Vice President Bill Sammon. (circled below)

Rubio debate 2

brooke sammon

The Washington Post has an outline describing how Bill Sammon runs the entire show at Fox regarding debates; and how he is the person who Chris Stirewalt, Megyn Kelly, Chris Wallace and Brett Baier directly reported to for all debate issues, construction, and question organization.

In essence, Bill Sammon runs the show.

Bill Sammon’s daughter is Brooke Sammon who was the national press secretary for Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign.

Now, lets contrast this information against the backdrop of Rupert Murdoch’s response to the republican debate.

There is a particular clarity that resonates, no?

grubering us 2

Mr. Rupert Murdoch, who is also leading the executive decision-making on Fox programming, also contracts pollster Frank Luntz to appear on Fox News broadcasting during the 2015 and 2016 election cycle.

[…] since June, Murdoch has been attending Ailes’s daily executive meeting held on the second floor of Fox headquarters. The secretive afternoon gathering in Ailes’s conference room is attended by about a half-dozen of the network’s most senior lieutenants. It’s where some of the most sensitive decisions about running the channel are discussed. (link)

Frank Luntz had sub-contracts with Marco Rubio and a long-term relationship with Rubio going back to the Freshman Senator’s time in the Florida Legislature. Rubio alone has paid Luntz $350,000+ It’s not accidental that Frank Luntz focus groups regularly found Marco Rubio as the winner of debate and opinion programming.

In an extensive 2016 article within New York Magazine, mostly outlining the rather sordid details of Roger Ailes, readers may also noted confirmation from August of (2015). Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch instructed Fox News executives to take down candidate Donald Trump.

megyn kelly 2 rupert murdochgrubering us bush murdoch jarrett

Excerpt:

(NY MAG) […] Murdoch was not a fan of Trump’s and especially did not like his stance on immigration. (The antipathy was mutual: “Murdoch’s been very bad to me,” Trump told me in March.) A few days before the first GOP debate on Fox in August 2015, Murdoch called Ailes at home. “This has gone on long enough,” Murdoch said, according to a person briefed on the conversation.

Murdoch told Ailes he wanted Fox’s debate moderators — Kelly, Bret Baier, and Chris Wallace — to hammer Trump on a variety of issues. Ailes, understanding the GOP electorate better than most at that point, likely thought it was a bad idea. “Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee,” Ailes told a colleague around this time. But he didn’t fight Murdoch on the debate directive.

On the night of August 6, in front of 24 million people, the Fox moderators peppered Trump with harder-hitting questions. But it was Kelly’s question regarding Trump’s history of crude comments about women that created a media sensation. He seemed personally wounded by her suggestion that this spoke to a temperament that might not be suited for the presidency. “I’ve been very nice to you, though I could probably maybe not be based on the way you have treated me,” he said pointedly. (read more)

A July 2017 article written by Roger Ailes confidant Michael Wolff affirms one of the more transparently obvious hidden secrets in the 2015/2016 presidential race and election.

Fox News owner/mogul Rupert Murdoch was intensely against the candidacy of Donald Trump. So much so that Murdoch instructed former President of Fox News, Roger Ailes, to shape favorable coverage toward anyone other than Donald Trump, including a request to tilt toward support for Hillary Clinton.

New York – […] It was Ailes’ tacit support of Trump that, in part, made his removal from Fox all the more urgent for the Murdochs. And it was not just the liberal sons who were agitated by Ailes’ regard for Trump, but also the father, whose tabloid, the New York Post, helped create Trump, but who found him now, with great snobbery, not of “our” conservative class. (“When is Donald Trump going to stop embarrassing his friends, let alone the whole country?” Murdoch senior tweeted the day after Trump officially declared himself a candidate.)

Murdoch instructed Ailes to tilt to anyone but Trump, Ailes confided to me before he was fired, even Hillary. (Ailes, for his part, characterized Murdoch’s periodic efforts at interference as similar to Nixon’s instructions to bomb this or that country — best ignored.)

After the election, a confounded Murdoch had to call on his ex-wife Wendi’s friends, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, to broker a rapprochement with the disreputable Donald. Now, to Trump’s great satisfaction, a humbled Murdoch is a constant caller. (read more)

All intellectually honest media and political observers already knew this was the basic premise for Fox News in the 2015/2016 presidential race. Murdoch supported Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio as the frontrunners because each of them advanced policies that were beneficial to the interests of Rupert Murdoch.

The August 2015 ambush by Murdoch’s princess Megyn Kelly was merely a highly visible example of Murdoch’s aversion to the ‘America-First’ agenda of Donald Trump. Ms. Kelly was later paid $10 million by Harper Collins, another Murdoch company, as compensation for services rendered, ie. advance payment on her book deal.

However, what most people don’t recognize is the motives behind these activities. There were/are billions of dollars at stake from the policies and outcomes of the election.

Maintaining control of multinational corporate trade policy and influence; along with retention of multinational “Wall Street” banking policy; in conjunction with open border mass immigration policy is still the primary objective of the Big Club.

 

Research on Dreamers Contradicts Public Image @JessicaV_CIS @wwwCISorg #EndDACA
 
 

70 posted on 11/20/2020 1:03:18 PM PST by Bratch
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MHGinTN
As you know, the switching is not done in the machine on a massive scale it is done by the `someone' collating to send back to the companies like Clarity.

That's not possible to do undetected. Here in Virginia the county votes are visible on the machine to county officials and a member of each party. They get added and put on the Virginia website. There may be companies involved in transmitting data, but if they changed any numbers it would be obvious.

I don't understand why you think that I have some nefarious motive. I am talking about reality. If you think anything I say is false, then specifically point out what is false. I will be happy to admit I am wrong.

71 posted on 11/20/2020 1:05:28 PM PST by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: TChad

TY. I caught it on my radio app. 👍


72 posted on 11/20/2020 1:05:56 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Tucker cares about his paycheck. The country...not so much.


73 posted on 11/20/2020 1:05:59 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Joe Biden: The best president money can buy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lepton

You asserted that she has not produced evidence. That is a bold deception since she has produced affidavits reporting vote fraud witnessed by the affiant, and a signed affidavit IS EVIDENCE which a real court accepts. Did you know that signed witness affidavits are real evidence?


74 posted on 11/20/2020 1:06:15 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: Prince of Space

The truth is they are news readers and commentary readers not investigative journalists or subject matter experts. The fact is they don’t understand the evidence even when someone lays it on the table in front of them.

A lot of people think this: it easy to learn to code but it is not and people who say it’s easy are usually not adept at bit shifting in the back of their mind while working on ascii character sets as they’re being injected into a database that’s encrypted.

Tucker definitely doesn’t get that kind of stuff
So when anybody hands him an affidavit with what he considers jibberish that explains what’s wrong and why it doesn’t work right or Why it does things the wrong way script readers see nothing but gibberish.
A waste of her time.


75 posted on 11/20/2020 1:06:16 PM PST by MIA_eccl1212 (When the bad guys have leverage they use it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Wow.

ONE SLIP... ONE off-key note, and all these “better than the rabid left,” “not burning down the town in a rage” Freepers have got Tucker roasting over the fires of Hell on a rotted stick.

My, my, my, my... and we’re the actually tolerant ones, are we?

Do tell.

ENTIRELY UNLIKE the Schiffs and AOC’s off the works who merely give lip service to Torrance? Is that it?

YEAH, YOU’RE DAMNED RIGHT I’M GIVIN’ Y’ALL A RATION! Ya DESERVE it.

I’m NOT exonerating Tucker’s “oops,” but — for the love of St. Mike — does it REALLY rise to such a level as to wholly eradicate all his history of holding to, probably, the most Conservative line in mainstream network news commentary?

The only ones I know of consistently espousing more Conservative narrative than Carlson aren’t on any major network.

I mean... call me a raving lunatic, but dontcha think it just MIGHT BEHOOVE US NOT to be so quick to eternally damn decent allies??

Can we NOT lop off our nose to spite our face, and just MAYBE groan out a Mulligan for the guy?


76 posted on 11/20/2020 1:09:29 PM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bankwalker

I hope you know how to do a search, if not you’re outta luck cause I’m not gonna tell you


77 posted on 11/20/2020 1:16:47 PM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
"But he was very insulting, demanding, and rude, and I told him not to contact me again, in those terms,"

That's no surprise there. I personally witnessed how he treats co-workers when he was on the morning show on Sundays. He was a real pr#ck, and acted like a spoiled child that day.

78 posted on 11/20/2020 1:18:10 PM PST by voicereason (The RNC is like the "one-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

I’ll be watching too


79 posted on 11/20/2020 1:18:23 PM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

In regards to Tucker’s “where’s the evidence” question and his remark about Sidney Powell’s “rudeness”, in answer to Tucker’s rudeness asking such a silly question...Powell obviously doesn’t suffer fools.


80 posted on 11/20/2020 1:21:34 PM PST by yoe (President Trump works for We The People - not China as Biden has and will.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 121-136 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson