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Former Murdoch Exec: Fox News Is Poison For America [barf alert]
Daily Beast via Yahoo ^ | 7/4/2021 | Preston Padden

Posted on 07/05/2021 10:48:39 PM PDT by logi_cal869

But, in recent years things have gone badly off the tracks at Fox News. Fox News is no longer a truthful center-right news network. The channel (especially the leading prime-time opinion programming) has contributed substantially and directly to:

- the unnecessary deaths of many Americans by disparaging the wearing of life-saving COVID masks;

- divisions in our society by stoking racial animus and fueling the totally false impression that Black Lives Matter and Antifa are engaged in nightly, life-threatening riots across the country;

- the unnecessary deaths of many Americans by fueling hesitation and doubt about the efficacy and safety of life-saving COVID-19 vaccines [Fox News provided me examples of pro-mask/vaccine on-air comments, but in my opinion, they were heavily outweighed by the negative comments of the highly rated primetime opinion hosts];

- former President Trump’s “Big Lie” that the election was stolen from him by providing a continuous platform for wild and false claims about the election—claims refuted by more than 60 judges, Republican State election officials, recounts in numerous States and Trump’s own Attorney General; and

-the Jan. 6, 2021, violent assault on the U.S. Capitol by continually promoting former President Trump’s “Stop The Steal” rally.

Fox News has caused many millions of Americans—most of them Republicans (as my wife and I were for 50 years)—to believe things that simply are not true. For example...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: foxnews; whiningleftists
I'm no fan of FNC. Tucker is perhaps the only one I watch, offline. I wasn't sure what to make of this piece until I read it. Hence, 'barf alert'.
1 posted on 07/05/2021 10:48:39 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: logi_cal869

The only thing Preston Padden needs is a “padded cell”. I don’t blame FOX for getting rid of him for incompetence and stupidity, even if voluntarily left/retired/crawled away on a dark night.


2 posted on 07/05/2021 11:04:22 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: logi_cal869
".... Fox News has caused many millions of Americans—most of them Republicans (as my wife and I were for 50 years)—to believe things that simply are not true. For example...

.... we don't have a clue what we are talking about."

This guy's full of what comes out of my cows' collective asses.

There is no way this guy went from being a Republican for 50 years (really?) to being a liberal democRAT.

If he did, he had to have been in an auto accident and rattled his brain real hard.

3 posted on 07/05/2021 11:50:09 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: All

Interesting.

The article title is correct...
But most of the reasons given in the article itself are outright lies.


4 posted on 07/05/2021 11:59:54 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: logi_cal869

Intersectional Stalinazism: Yahoo and The Daily Satanic Beast.


5 posted on 07/06/2021 12:20:35 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: HotHunt

Lots of Derp State RINOs. Most are Stalinazi Demonrats but find it easier to enact their radical agenda under the GOP umbrella and sabotage the party from within.


6 posted on 07/06/2021 12:22:03 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Good grief! Go take a look at this a-hole’s Twitter feed...the profile picture...lol.

He is a leftist nutcase...says he understands Rand Paul’s neighbor, for example.


7 posted on 07/06/2021 12:38:07 AM PDT by garandgal
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To: garandgal

23 years as a Disney lobbyist, and he identifies as a “former Fox News executive”?


8 posted on 07/06/2021 1:46:00 AM PDT by steve8714 (Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
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To: logi_cal869
I haven't watched Fox News or Fox Business News at all since Aug. 6, 2015, when Megyn Kelly ambushed Donald Trump in the first Republican Presidential Debate.

I didn't read this article because any so called barf alert presumes Fox News could still be worth watching.   It's trash without the old damp newspapers stinking in the garbage can.   Tucker gives his tacit approval by still being on the air with the rest of the RINO and Democrat scum.

9 posted on 07/06/2021 1:58:33 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: higgmeister

Fox is garbage. This clown is right for the wrong reasons.


10 posted on 07/06/2021 2:04:59 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Gotcha. He and his wife weren’t real Republicans.


11 posted on 07/06/2021 2:54:49 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: logi_cal869

More information warfare perpetrated by a leftist, democrat party operative.


12 posted on 07/06/2021 2:57:45 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Intersectional Stalinazism

I don’t know about the Stalinization part, but back in the early 70s I had this apartment and it had this two piece L-shaped sofa...

So I was at the Village Inn Pizza Parlor I meet up with a GS4 receptionist and we ended up back at my place and things got kind of heavy there for a while on the L-shaped two-piece sofa... and the next thing the sofa had separated and we were in the middle on the floor with a piece of the sofa on each side. That’s the only experience that I have with being inter-sectional..


13 posted on 07/06/2021 3:38:12 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distribBluted right.)
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To: logi_cal869

Paddon does well given, in every example, the opposite is true.

Fox are the only network in the US giving any air-time to the facts of the matters listed and, even then, it is only in a few select shows.

for example, Hannity Show, with his group of reporters (Solomon, Carter, Jarrett, etc) was the only TV program in the world that exposed the Russia Hoax in great detail. even on Fox, other show hosts & reporters seemed incapable or uninterested in digesting the complexity of the scandal.

Laura Ingraham, with her medical cabinet, stands alone in the media worldwide, with the exception of Alan Jones on Sky Australia with a much smaller audience, in presenting the most honest reporting on everything covid, from the virus itself to the policies etc.

Tucker has done more than most on China/Wuhan Lab, as has Steve Hilton/The Next Revolution.

as for open borders Rupert - he wanted Trump OUT and the majority of the Fox staff were on board with that.


14 posted on 07/06/2021 3:57:06 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

+1


15 posted on 07/06/2021 4:28:20 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: logi_cal869

Fox News is poison, but for the right. It builds compliance with the regime on important matters, like the Big Steal, and distracts conservatives with nonsense like Mr. Potato Head.


16 posted on 07/06/2021 5:46:17 AM PDT by Renfrew
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To: higgmeister

I feel likewise.


17 posted on 07/06/2021 6:01:30 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

Any 50 IQ leftist troll can write for Yahoo.

The scribblers are paid a few pennies for every click on their sophomoric rants.

So it’s in everyone’s interest to NOT click on any Yahoo article. Yahoo is one venue where patriots can help starve leftists to death by doing nothing.


18 posted on 07/06/2021 7:18:31 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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