January 6 texts from Fox hosts reveal the lie at the heart of the conservative movement

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January 6 texts from Fox hosts reveal the lie at the heart of the conservative movement
The texts expose how the rich exploit culture wars to benefit themselves.
By Zack Beauchamp@[e-mail] Dec 14, 2021, 12:30pm EST


As the Capitol riot unfolded on January 6, Fox News hosts knew exactly how bad things were.

“The president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy,” Laura Ingraham texted to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. “Please, get him on TV — [the riot is] destroying everything you accomplished,” Brian Kilmeade wrote to Meadows. “Can he make a statement, ask people to leave the Capitol?” wrote Hannity in yet another Meadows text.

The texts, revealed during a Monday hearing of the House January 6 Commission, were at odds with the hosts’ on-air comments on the night of the attack. Ingraham suggested that “antifa supporters” may have been responsible for the violence. Kilmeade took a similar line: “I do not know Trump supporters that have ever demonstrated violence that I know of in a big situation.” Hannity, for his part, asserted that “the majority of them were peaceful.”

This is tangible proof that some of Fox’s marquee personalities knowingly lied to their audience about January. The lying began basically immediately, in the direct aftermath of a national tragedy.

This isn’t the only issue on which Fox’s dishonesty has been exposed. On one of the fundamental policy topics of the day, the pandemic, the right’s most influential news network is saying one thing to its audience and doing another in private.

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/12/14/22834009/fox-texts-trump-meadows-ingraham-hannity-capitol-riot

[asiliveandbreathe]

1. Rats could see the writing on the Capitol steps..the insurrection wasn't going to work..

Thus,the panic...and, knowing they are going to get caught unless it was stopped..IMHO

[the riot is] destroying everything you accomplished,” Brian Kilmeade wrote to Meadows.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[SleeplessinSoCal]

3. Just a momentary wrestle with the truth.

Things quickly got back to normal brainwashing.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. They have an uncanny ability to speak through both orifices.