# This Just In...Fox News Channel is bunch of lying fucks **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 22, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180 "2021-01-22T06:13:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 106
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2102 "2024-07-28T20:22:50Z")
Works for me, in this case. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2103 "2024-07-29T00:21:29Z")
I thought court proceedings were generally public (barring some circumstances that would make secrecy a thing in the public interest). A _secret_ court battle over an intrafamilial dispute strikes me as paradoxical. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2104 "2024-07-29T01:39:59Z")
It’s probably still in the evidence discovery and motion practice stage, with lots of sensitive business data and likely inflammatory personal animadversions happening. At this stage sealing the docket is not all that unusual. When (if\*) it comes to trial most if not all evidence will be public. \*Or it might stay secret if they come to an out-of-court settlement, perhaps via mediation. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2105 "2024-07-29T03:31:26Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Or it might stay secret if they come to an out-of-court settlement, perhaps via mediation. I swear I’m so tired right now I read that as “meditation” and thought, that’s a novel approach. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2106 "2024-07-29T03:37:35Z")
This is a response to the lawyers winning. My grandmother told me a story from the early 1920’s in her small town. A farmer murdered a traveling salesman for messing with his daughter. In those days she was referred to as “retarded”. A jury of his peers acquitted the guy but he lost the farm because of the lawyer fees. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2107 "2024-07-29T10:03:47Z")
The precedent of [Jarndyce v Jarndyce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarndyce_and_Jarndyce) may apply here. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2108 "2024-07-29T18:09:42Z")
On the other hand, this could be a good thing. Maybe. Quoting the article: > Citing the court documents, which CNN has not independently seen, The Times reported that Murdoch was concerned that interference from his other three children – who are more politically moderate than Lachlan and their father – could influence the companies’ editorial stance. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2109 "2024-07-29T19:24:58Z")
Three sane, moderate adults and one frothing asshole bent on destroying democracy. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2110 "2024-07-30T11:51:52Z")
> [@](#): > > who are more politically moderate than Lachlan and their father > [@smithsb](#): > > Three sane, moderate adults and one frothing asshole I have no idea about the actual political stances of the other three, but ‘more moderate than Lachlan and their father’ leaves a lot of space before you get to ‘moderate’. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2111 "2024-07-31T13:04:30Z")
Jesse Watters is evil. Also stupid. > “I heard the scientists say the other day, when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman.” Which scientists exactly, Jesse? > ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2112 "2024-07-31T13:13:12Z")
This is a very short clip. I saw another somewhere that had more context, and I think it’s clear he was _attempting_ to be funny. Failing, obviously. But I don’t think he’s trying to make a serious point. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2113 "2024-07-31T13:23:42Z")
Who can tell? He regularly says things that are equally ridiculous but intended seriously. Still a long way to go to top Laura Ingraham’s attempt to drink a steak stuffed with lightbulbs through a plastric straw, though. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2114 "2024-07-31T21:42:37Z")
From Watters article: > [@](#): > > A Fox News spokesperson told HuffPost, “Anyone who watched the full segment can obviously tell that he [Watters] was joking which was also made clear later in the discussion.” Of course, so obvious. Well, um, no - not to your average brainwashed Fox viewer - shit no. This “was just joking” shit is getting tired. The GOP and its servile news outlets throwing spaghetti to the wall to see if it sticks, and if it doesn’t - whoops, backtrack a little. It’s about as disturbing a defecation on journalism as it can get. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2115 "2024-08-01T18:40:34Z")
Watching too much Fox is bad for you, apparently? > **[Ahead of sentencing, Jan. 6 defendant leans on ‘Foxmania’ defense](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ahead-sentencing-jan-6-defendant-leans-foxmania-defense-rcna164683)** > > A Jan. 6 criminal defendant says Fox News is partly to blame for his misconduct — and he's not the first to lean on the “Foxmania” legal defense in court. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2116 "2024-08-01T19:47:58Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > > Or it might stay secret if they come to an out-of-court settlement, perhaps via mediation. > > I swear I’m so tired right now I read that as “meditation” and thought, that’s a novel approach. Or “medication”. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2117 "2024-08-01T21:30:41Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Watching too much Fox is bad for you, apparently? I am totally going to start using the term Foxmania. “Just a bunch of Foxmanic assholes.” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2118 "2024-08-01T22:51:38Z")
Foxmentia? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2119 "2024-08-01T22:52:30Z")
I’ll buy that as appropriate language once I see it offered as an official legal defense. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2120 "2024-12-29T23:02:31Z")
Smartmatic is still fucking with FOX. [https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/27/media/smartmatic-fox-murdoch-family-succession-trust/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/27/media/smartmatic-fox-murdoch-family-succession-trust/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/2121 "2024-12-30T01:16:35Z")
BTW, the latest season of the Slow Burn podcast is about the creation of Fox News. I’m only through 4 episodes, but it is interesting so far. Fuck Fox News and Roger Ailes. My parents and inlaws are slaves to this brain rotting bullshit. > **[Slow Burn Season 10](https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s10/rise-of-fox-news)** > > How a cable news channel became a cultural and political force – and how a whole bunch of people rose up to try and stop it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180.md?page=105) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180.md?page=107)