Fox News has long been the go-to source for non-social-Marxist current events information and even financial advice. For years, it’s been a rock in the shifting sand of mainstream, corporate-controlled info. It’s also known for featuring most of the nicest-looking news anchors in the business, which is a bonus.
As the best-informed Fox News watchers have long known, the network is owned and controlled by British and Arab money powers, who also own a number of other networks with conflicting political biases.
Donald Trump was well-treated by the hosts at Fox. But in the middle of November 2020, Trump turned on them and the network hemorrhaged viewers dramatically on the night of the election. At this point, those who have ears to hear know where we’re going with this.
The best-informed Fox viewers have long known that the money powers behind the network are not our friends. We have long known that our ability to access good information and to know the truth is not something that the owners of Fox give two piles of rats’ leavings for. But they provided us with decent news coverage for a long time, at least in comparison to the trash bin fires called CNN and MSNBC.
The relationship between Fox and its audience has always been something of a Mexican stand-off, (a phrase we’d be canceled for using on the Fox News that stands today). We have watched, knowing that there’s nothing even remotely comparable in terms of quality on mainstream channels, but ever-ready to punch the OFF button if they begin showing signs of falsehood.
Well, that’s exactly what happened on the night of the 2020 presidential election. Fox News started calling states for Biden long before the real numbers were in and counted. Fox’s real audience stayed up all night, flipping back and forth between mainstream news channels and alternative news sources, all while keeping Louder With Crowder (God bless him) on in the background.
We watched in real-time as the vote counters called a time out for naps, and we were still awake when the coverage started up again and the Biden line suddenly crossed up and over the Trump line on the official election outcome graphs.
At the moment when Trump’s eager and tireless voters watched the election being stolen right in front of their eyes, that’s when Fox News chimed in to say that it was over, that Sniffy Joe had won. This was the moment in the Mexican standoff we hoped would never come, when we finally had to pull the trigger on Fox. And as it turned out, we were collectively holding a beefy 12-gauge rhetorical shotgun, making our victory in the standoff certain.
Practically all of Fox’s seemingly loyal viewers immediately turned to Newsmax, an up-and-coming Fox competitor that was all too eager to sidle up to bat the moment Fox should falter. Once an app produced by Parlor, a conservative social media outfit, Newsmax became a fully-fledged news company overnight.
Newsmax is owned by Chris Ruddy, the American-born son of a Nassau County police officer and graduate of the London School of Economics. He was once the editor in chief for The New York Guardian, and a former high-school social studies teacher. The question is, do we trust him? No. We do not. But we will be ready to hold him and Newsmax accountable in the same tenuous way we held Fox accountable. So keep your clickers dusted.
That said, Tucker Carlson still seems to be a rock-solid truth-teller.
