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Fox News Host Cuts Into Trump Speech To Correct ‘Many Untruths’

www.huffpost.com Fox News Host Cuts Into Trump Speech To Correct ‘Many Untruths’

Arthel Neville fact-checked the former president's claim.

Fox News Host Cuts Into Trump Speech To Correct ‘Many Untruths’

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Behold Fox News trying to win back some of their moderate viewers and cover their assess, so they don't get hit with another billion dollar lawsuit.
- If anyone is undecided on Trump at this point, they're not moderates.
  
  Just because the dude wants to rule as God on earth doesn't mean you can't have a nuanced, neutral view on him! /s
  
  I don't think /u/Telorand was suggesting that. Rather I think they're saying that Fox news is trying to appeal to both trump supporters and non-trump supporters within their base, whatever their base counts as these days.
- They still have another ongoing billion dollar lawsuit from smartmatic, the other voting machine company they slandered.
  
  Yeah, isn't it great? Their comeuppance is long overdue.
- it is because less people are watching.
  a, news is different most don't watch cable
  b, pearl clutching becomes tiresome

Having a POC say the truth so the racist base they fostered will dismiss it
- ding ding ding
- I always wonder what they're thinking. Does it feel like you're surrounded by snarlinf predators? Because real human communities aren't supposed to be like that. Do they think their deeds will spare them when it comes time to enact the white supremacy? History shows it never does.
  
  I always wonder what they’re thinking.
  "Better to be the right hand of the devil, than in his path."
  If we're to assume rational behavior, this is about resignation and making the most about (what is believed to be) an impossible situation. So, cynicism and pessimism. But yeah, simple greed and sheer stupidity could also be the case.
- They’d dismiss it no matter the person’s race.

Untruths, or lies as they are called.
- Alternarive facts, as the crypt keeper use to say.

We are already at the 1984 double speak level "untruth" fuck outta here with that.
- And I thought "alternative facts" was cringe.
  
  And that was only the beginning.
- There is a semantic difference between “untruth” (or “falsity”), and “lie”. Lies are intentional, so untruths are the bigger category. Obviously, in the case of Trump, most of the untrue things he says are intentional, but I’m sure a lot are also just garden variety ignorance.
  
  Yeah, but we already have "falsehoods" for that, why make up a word? Because untruths is more of a soft pedal.
  
  I wonder how much he just says things, and if they happen to be true, wonderful.
- Yeah, this is seriously double-plus ungood.

Man, those lawsuits must have really traumatized them for them to have changed their behavior this much. Love to see it though maybe Faux will be slightly less trash now.
- Until he secures the GOP nomination. Then it'll go right back to All Trump, all the time.
  
  Did it ever stop being that?
  The difference will be that they'll put more effort into this. More "Wow. There is a lot to unpack there. Here is what The President is teaching us when he says this". Spin it as 4D chess where lowly peasants can't truly understand the wisdom.
- Losing money is worse than losing a child to the ultra wealthy.
  
  They don’t care about losing a child, they’re not worth any capital yet.
  
  If you think the main goal of FOX News is money, you're missing the point. If FOX really cared about money, they wouldn't have folded so easily w/ Dominion.
  The money is just a nice side-effect of the disinformation.
- never gonna happen as long as the devil's spawn is running the show.

you could just refuse to televise the useless piece of shit

Seems like them pointing out the election was not rigged is too little, too late at this point
- At this point they’re just covering their ass from more lawsuits, and the one from Smartmatic is still on the way.

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