# 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:** 59
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1162 "2022-10-15T04:45:39Z")
It just occurs to me that anyone who watches Fox doesn’t actually deserve to have legitimate journalism sent their way. They’re immune to it, anyway. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2022, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1163 "2022-10-15T05:15:23Z")
It’s not clear that you read the article but in case you haven’t, it’s a satire. ETA: Some of you others, too. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1164 "2022-10-15T06:43:52Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > A “free sample” isn’t going to pay off for dealers if the recipient a) doesn’t know who they are to come to for more, and b) has no way of paying for the product. Or c) just kills the kid(s). Not only didn’t you get a customer, but you now have serious heat from law enforcement. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1165 "2022-10-15T13:47:21Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > It just occurs to me that anyone who watches Fox doesn’t actually deserve to have legitimate journalism sent their way. Please. You’re impugning those who watch Fox to amuse themselves with the funhouse version of the news, to find out what memes the crazies are flogging or to fan recreational outrage. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1166 "2022-10-15T14:15:22Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Or c) just kills the kid(s). Not only didn’t you get a customer, but you now have serious heat from law enforcement. If your regular clients are spending too much of the money, that you should be getting, on their children, you do what you canto address that problem. > [@Jackmannii](#): > > Please. > > You’re impugning those who watch Fox to amuse themselves with the funhouse version of the news, to find out what memes the crazies are flogging or to fan recreational outrage. That is like taking up smoking in an effort to get an understanding of why people spend their last dollar on cancer sticks rather than food. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1167 "2022-10-18T23:10:20Z")
FOX hosts a focus group, that is supposedly a sample of Virginia parents, to talk about their concerns with how children are being taught. And by “sample” of course we mean sampled from the set of people who are the founders of MAGA activist groups, or worked in the Trump administration. > **[Fox News pushes midterm election message with a panel of “Virginia parents”...](https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-pushes-midterm-election-message-panel-virginia-parents-who-are-really-republican)** Once again, no-one has more contempt for FOX viewers than the FOX network itself. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1168 "2022-12-22T21:14:41Z")
Things appear to be going well for Dominion Systems in its lawsuit: [https://www.yahoo.com/news/testimony-hannity-other-fox-employees-131646430.html](https://www.yahoo.com/news/testimony-hannity-other-fox-employees-131646430.html) When asked if he believed Sidney Powell’s BS that she spouted on this show on 11/30/2022, Hannity said: > “I did not believe it for one second.” > That was the answer Hannity gave, under oath, in a deposition in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, according to information disclosed in a court hearing Wednesday. The hearing was called to address several issues that need to be resolved before the case heads for a jury trial, which the judge has scheduled to begin in April. > One lawyer for Dominion said that “not a single Fox witness” so far had produced anything supporting the various false claims about the company that were uttered repeatedly on the network. And in some cases, other high-profile hosts and senior executives echoed Hannity’s doubts about what Trump and his allies like Powell were saying, according to the Dominion lawyer, Stephen Shackelford. > This included Meade Cooper, who oversees prime-time programming for Fox News, and prime-time star Tucker Carlson, Shackelford said. > “Many of the highest-ranking Fox people have admitted under oath that they never believed the Dominion lies,” he said, naming Cooper and Carlson. > Shackelford described how Carlson had “tried to squirm out of it at his deposition” when asked about what he really believed. There are apparently text messages that show what ol’ Tucker really believed. > Another previously unknown detail emerged on Wednesday about what was going on inside the Fox universe in those frantic weeks after the election. A second lawyer representing Dominion, Justin Nelson, told Davis about evidence obtained by Dominion showing that an employee of Fox Corp., the parent company of Fox News, had tried to intervene with the White House to stop Powell. According to Nelson, that employee called the fraud claims “outlandish” and pressed Trump’s staff to get rid of Powell, who was advising the president on filing legal challenges to the results. > Nelson said that evidence cut straight to the heart of whether Fox Corp., which is controlled by Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, was also liable for defamation. Davis ruled in June that Dominion could sue the larger, highly profitable corporation, which includes the Fox network on basic television and a lucrative sports broadcasting division. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1169 "2022-12-23T00:01:14Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > Things appear to be going well for Dominion Systems in its lawsuit: - Good news. Let’s hope the Murdochs actually face some consequences. Obviously the on-air lying about Dominion was not an isolated case—FoxNews traffics in lies about just about everything (COVID being an obvious example). ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1170 "2022-12-23T00:36:50Z")
If Dominion can successfully sue the snot out of them for this one particular set of egregious, pervasive and long-standing lies, maybe they will be less willing in the future to carry on in the same manner. I’m sure they were relying on the extra protection afforded media outlets and it sounds like they became a little too complacent. Good. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1171 "2022-12-23T00:37:56Z")
I want them ruined. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1172 "2022-12-23T00:55:51Z")
Think of how many people they’ve indirectly killed with their Covid lies. Unfortunately that cannot be quantified, but the damage to Dominion’s business can be. Add in punitive damages, and I hope they get sued into oblivion. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1173 "2022-12-23T00:55:52Z")
I’d like to see them forced to air a public service announcement every 30 minutes: “The Fox Network, Fox News, Fox Digital and all Fox divisions are liars. We serve up lies to fool our viewers and readers in order to make lots of money. We think that our viewer and readers are suckers and fools, and we laugh at them while we make off with the cash.” This has been a public service announcement. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1174 "2022-12-23T01:24:20Z")
I still don’t get how gong shows like Infowarzzz and OANN keep floundering along. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1175 "2022-12-23T01:50:59Z")
PT Barnum understood. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2022, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1176 "2022-12-23T02:12:21Z")
The rube element I get, but how they haven’t been litigated a lot more than they have is something I’d like to see stepped up. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1177 "2022-12-23T04:07:49Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > I still don’t get how gong shows like Infowarzzz and OANN keep floundering along. You know that old saying? “You can all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Well, they took a look at and said let’s base our business model around that middle group. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2022, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1178 "2022-12-23T05:40:16Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > maybe they will be less willing in the future to carry on in the same manner Nah, they’ll just narrow their lying to subjects on which they are unlikely to be sued, or for which it’s impossible. Like, all the COVID misinformation — who has standing to sue? _Maybe_ a clever law firm could figure out how to corral a few thousand long-COVID victims into a class with a generalized claim of harm via malicious negligence or something, but that would require a serious investment of time, energy, and money just to get the effort off the ground, let alone what it would take to bring it to a successful punitive conclusion. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1179 "2022-12-23T06:23:26Z")
This story has apparently been around all day, but I don’t see it anywhere on here. I guess this is the place for it. > **[Fox News' Sean Hannity says he knew all along Trump lost the election](https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/1144926308/fox-news-sean-hannity-dominion-lawsuit-trump)** > > "I did not believe it for one second," Hannity said under oath about former President Trump's false claims that Dominion Voting Systems cheated him of votes in 2020. Dominion is suing Fox News. All this is from the Dominion defamation suit. I don’t know what the ramifications to Hannity’s and Fox’s liability are, but to me the difference between “I genuinely thought it was true” and “I said it over and over again on the air even though I didn’t believe it” is the difference between arrant stupidity and venal calculated mendacity. And I think a lot worse of the second than the first. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1180 "2022-12-23T07:04:55Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Buying him a naked waterslide with hookers? That is a sensationalistic and gross exaggeration of the truth. Most of those hookers were clothed. Yes, hairbands and high heels are indeed clothes, check your dictionary. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2022, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180/1181 "2022-12-23T12:49:44Z")
I submit to you that there is a difference in common parlance between being clothed and having some articles of clothing upon one’s person. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180.md?page=58) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-just-in-fox-news-channel-is-bunch-of-lying-fucks/931180.md?page=60)