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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,996 posts)
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 08:07 PM Oct 2020

What happens to Fux Noise if Trump loses? Rupert Murdoch is prepared.

Spend a couple hours with Fox News on a typical weeknight, and you may come to see the potential election of Joe Biden as a cataclysm in the making.

Prime-time host Laura Ingraham recently warned her viewers of the “Bolsheviks and billionaires” she said were propelling his candidacy. Frequent contributor Dan Bongino called Biden’s campaign “the biggest con job in presidential election history.” Just last week, Sean Hannity sent a camera crew to stake out Biden’s house to demand answers about the alleged contents of his son’s laptop. Even the network’s senior political analyst, Brit Hume, has repeatedly called the Democratic presidential candidate “senile” on air.

But behind the scenes, a strange calm prevails. The man who helped create Fox News as the most influential platform for conservative politics in America fully expects that Biden will win — and frankly isn’t too bothered by that.

Rupert Murdoch, the 89-year-old billionaire whose family controls Fox News’s parent company, has told associates that he is resigned to a Trump loss in November. And he has complained that the president’s current low polling numbers are due to repeated “unforced errors” that could have been avoided if he had followed Murdoch’s advice about how to weather the coronavirus pandemic, according to associates who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/rupert-murdoch-thinks-trump-is-going-to-lose--and-thats-not-a-bad-thing-for-fox-news/2020/10/28/9547fbdc-1192-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html#comments-wrapper

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What happens to Fux Noise if Trump loses? Rupert Murdoch is prepared. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2020 OP
They do better with the opposition in power. BlueTsunami2018 Oct 2020 #1
As I have said before and stand by the statement, Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #2
They'll be in their glory being able to diss Biden and Harris .. CatMor Oct 2020 #3
"Rupert Murdoch has told associates that he is resigned to a Trump loss in November" lindysalsagal Oct 2020 #4
we are coming for foxnews, thats all I know beachbumbob Oct 2020 #5
Bolsheviks and billionaires, eh Laura? The Genealogist Oct 2020 #6

BlueTsunami2018

(3,492 posts)
1. They do better with the opposition in power.
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 08:19 PM
Oct 2020

Lots more to complain about. More phoney scandals. More faux outrage.

All that equals better ratings.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)
2. As I have said before and stand by the statement,
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 08:19 PM
Oct 2020

they are praying to their GOD OF $$ that Biden wins. They ALL want a Biden win. Their rotted ratings will get a huge boost with a Democratic Administration.

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
3. They'll be in their glory being able to diss Biden and Harris ..
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 08:20 PM
Oct 2020

for the next four years. That's their whole reason for being.

lindysalsagal

(20,687 posts)
4. "Rupert Murdoch has told associates that he is resigned to a Trump loss in November"
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 08:21 PM
Oct 2020

Rupert Murdoch, the 89-year-old billionaire whose family controls Fox News’s parent company, has told...

Works for me!

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
6. Bolsheviks and billionaires, eh Laura?
Thu Oct 29, 2020, 09:38 PM
Oct 2020

The Communists are teaming up with billionaires now? Jesus Christ, lady. You might want to stop drinking the Kool-Ade by the pitcher.

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