# Fox News debunking it's own hosts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 20, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-debunking-its-own-hosts/928435 "2020-12-20T01:47:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-debunking-its-own-hosts/928435/1 "2020-12-20T01:47:44Z")
Since I suspect most of us self-select towards avoiding Fox News, a bit that may interest us all. > **[After legal threat, Fox airs news package debunking election fraud claims...](https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/business/fox-smartmatic-news-package/index.html)** > > If President Trump tunes into Fox News this weekend, he may see something unexpected: a point-by-point fact-check to wild election fraud claims made by some of his favorite hosts on the network. While the article doesn’t say so explicitly, I strongly suspect this is an effort to mitigate the probably lawsuits heading Fox’s way, and if so, I hope it is only the beginning. Having said that, I am actually rather looking forward to the post-airing Trump tweetstorm - although considering what has been recently reported as having happened with Flynn and Powell in the Oval office, maybe I should be worried instead. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-debunking-its-own-hosts/928435/2 "2020-12-20T01:56:30Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > While the article doesn’t say so explicitly, I strongly suspect this is an effort to mitigate the probably lawsuits heading Fox’s way, and if so, I hope it is only the beginning. - How is that going to help? Does Fox think the last twelve years will just vanish from memory? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-debunking-its-own-hosts/928435/3 "2020-12-20T01:59:29Z")
Yes, they’ve just ordered a whole boatload of those flashy things from _Men in Black_. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2020, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-debunking-its-own-hosts/928435/4 "2020-12-20T05:38:07Z")
I don’t think Trump watches Fox anymore. Didn’t they hurt his feelings by being the first to call Arizona for Biden? ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-debunking-its-own-hosts/928435/5 "2020-12-21T22:11:21Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > How is that going to help? Does Fox think the last twelve years will just vanish from memory? Dominion has sent them a lawyer’s letter that apparently has real teeth behind. You can lie about election rigging, but you cannot slander the innocent company and destroy their business. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-debunking-its-own-hosts/928435/6 "2020-12-21T22:19:50Z")
Newsmax is having to do it, too. > **['Newsmax is so WEAK': Right-wing viewers are furious after pro-Trump outlet...](https://www.rawstory.com/new/)** > > Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic have received a great deal of attention as right-wing media figures promote the claims of attorney Sidney Powell and other Trump allies who have made up claims that ballot-counting software stole the 2020... ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-debunking-its-own-hosts/928435/7 "2020-12-21T22:23:47Z")
It’s very clear what would happen if the Orange Menace achieved his objective of becoming Dictator-for-Life: the judicial branch of the government would be abolished. Damned courts and judges are obsessed with facts, and that’s just unacceptable. Facts are awful things, and should be illegal. ETA: I hadn’t heard about the Newsmax bit, but the story of how Fox News had to renounce the rantings of a couple of their own resident lunatics was heartwarming! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-debunking-its-own-hosts/928435/8 "2020-12-21T23:08:10Z")
Mark\_Seldom: _Dominion has sent them a lawyer’s letter that apparently has real teeth behind. You can lie about election rigging, but you cannot slander the innocent company and destroy their business._ Hah! They’ve been out of real lawyering for too long to remember how scary a corporate lawyer can be! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-debunking-its-own-hosts/928435/9 "2020-12-22T00:11:14Z")
That reaction… so, backing down instead of doubling down, when someone points out the Law is on the other guys’ side, is being “WEAK”? Tells you a lot about how their audience view the world. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-debunking-its-own-hosts/928435/10 "2020-12-22T00:33:37Z")
[America’s Voice](https://americasvoice.news/) just expanded their audience.