Fox News takes needed hit

The liars at Fox News have been given notice by two of their contributors, Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, that they ā€” the contributors ā€” will not tolerate the lies broadcast by Fox News talking head Tucker Carlson.

Goldberg and Hayes said they cannot stand with the network after it broadcast Carlsonā€™s special on the 1/6 insurrection. Carlson called it ā€œPatriot Purge,ā€ and according to Goldberg and Hayes ā€” two leading conservative thinkers and columnists ā€” the program was full of lies, distortions and unfounded conspiracy rumors. They wonā€™t be part of a network that allows such lying to go unchallenged.

Good for them.

To be honest, I didnā€™t watch it. I donā€™t need to watch what I know it contains. I have heard Carlson spew much of the trash I know he poured into the production of ā€œPatriot Purge.ā€

According to The Wrap:Ā Carlsonā€™s ā€œPatriot Purgeā€ has drawn sharp criticism since its launch, with the Anti-Defamation League calling on Fox News to cancel it. ā€œLetā€™s call this what it is: an abject, indisputable lie, and a blatant attempt to rewrite history,ā€ ADL CEO and National Director Jonathan A. Greenblatt said in a letter addressed to Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch. Greenblatt expressed alarm that the ā€œfalse narrative and wild conspiracy theoriesā€ presented in ā€œPatriot Purgeā€ could ā€œsow further divisionā€ and possibly ā€œanimate violence.ā€

Fox News has given itself ample reason to be ashamed of itself. Carlsonā€™s phony documentary is just one more example of the lies that pour forth from a network that once boasted to be ā€œfair and balanced.ā€

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