Fox Runs All-Caps Disclaimer Over Trump's Lies About Stolen Election at CPAC

[Kid Berwyn]

Link to tweet

Strange days.

[Yoyoyo77]

1. TFG won't be happy about this. Time to get out the popcorn!!!

[Murphyb849]

2. Fear of perpetual lawsuits

[DFW]

21. That sounds like the most logical explanation

It‘s one thing to show Bugs Bunny on a cartoon station. It‘s quite another to claim the Easter Bunny is real on a station calling itself a news station.

[TheBlackAdder]

27. Yep, they're not refuting what he says, just saying the voting system companies have different views

[calimary]

30. I'd guess that's it.

[twodogsbarking]

34. Lawyers are standing by

more are on the way. At times our legal system is pleasing.

[TlalocW]

3. It actually walks a pretty good tightrope

It's not saying that Trump is wrong, which they will probably never do. Depending on which side you're one, you're going to put your own spin on it. We're going to look at it as, "Whoa, look at FOX going against TFG." His cult will look at it as a reminder of who cost them their leader.

TlalocW

[William Seger]

14. Yep, the cult will just think, "Haha! Cheaters deny cheating! That proves it!"

[CentralMass]

4. Fox can't suck enough.

[elias7]

5. But not the network, only the voting system companies...

What a cop out…

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Fox News runs disclaimer across the screen while Trump lies about 2020 election in CPAC speech

Link to tweet

[OnDoutside]

8. Surely that disclaimer is incriminating in itself, showing that they

knew he was going to lie, but they still broadcast his words ?

[Deuxcents]

7. Then GO!

Go to your nice wonderful beautiful life and we’ll get on with ours.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. So why are they still calling TFG "president??"

[Hugin]

11. A mystery within an enigma.

My guess is that they are trying to have it both ways.

In true bothsidersism way.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. I think you've got it!

[Kaleva]

16. Same reason we call Jimmy Carter "President".

Or a former ambassador or senator "Ambassador So and So" and "Senator So and So".

[Rhiannon12866]

18. I have noticed, more and more, (at least on the news I watch) they refer to him as just "Trump."

[Hugin]

19. A google search reveals no references to 'President' Jimmy Carter without a 'Former'.

Except at the Carter Center, which I feel is appropriate.

But, then we almost never see him blathering away above a scroller.

[Rhiannon12866]

22. I tend to refer to President Carter, President Clinton and President Obama

But never have used that title for the former guy unless it's an actual title of an article. Those three actually won their elections to earn the title - not to mention that I voted for all three of them.

[Hugin]

23. None for President Obama, either.

In a news search. Except for, interestingly enough, Billboard, an entertainment site. Like Faux claims to be in the civil court room.

But, those were all popularly elected Presidents. There needs to be some additional bonus to the honor of serving a popular majority.

[Rhiannon12866]

24. It shouldn't be a bonus, the candidate who gets the most votes should be the one to serve

[Hugin]

26. True, I can think of at least one person who won the popular vote and yet...

Wasn't allowed to serve a single term.

[LiberalLovinLug]

32. "Same reason we call Jimmy Carter "President".

Americans are unique in that. In Canada, and I assume, in other democracies, we would refer to a former Prime Minister as......wait for it........ former Prime Minister.

I guess its a nod of respect, but I always thought it was a bit odd.

[Hugin]

10. They do call The Loser Man 'President' so it's a CYA. n/t

[Kaleva]

17. It's common practice. No different then calling Obama "President".

Dignitaries retain their title after leaving office or retiring.

[ShazzieB]

13. I assume this is a CYA maneuver to stave off lawsuits.

They want to be able to carry TFG's blather without appearing to endorse his unfounded accusations, in the hope that the voting machine companies won't be able to sue THEM based on HIS claims. Will it work? IANAL, so I have no idea.

That said, I love seeing this happen on Fox Noise, regardless of the reasoning behind it. I feel like his credibility is being slowly and steadily chipped away at, and this is one more tiny chip.

[RVN VET71]

35. His credibility will wither and blow away in the wind, but . . .

he will leave behind a strong legacy of divisiveness, hatred, racism, ignorance and willful delusion that may well signal the end of the American dream. The Founders all believed in a Republic whose citizenry was well educated and well informed. They would have considered a high school diploma as evidence of education, and a trained and open mind seeking out diversity of opinion as being well informed. Boy, were they wrong!

75,000,000 voted for Flubbo the Loser a second time. I cannot see that as anything but a sign of hopeless fragmentation and ultimate balkanization, not on ethnic but on intellectual and moral grounds.

The Left argues among itself over moral and ethical issues -- because the Left takes those issues seriously.

The Right isn’t burdened by such things and so, like a person deprived of conscience (or who has simply shucked off conscience) can lie with impunity, praising the Lord of Love while characterizing a murderous mob as everyday tourists, dissuading their own constituents form getting vaccinated against a disease that has killed 600,000 Americans in a year and a half, passing voting restrictive laws in response to a never-existing problem with massive voter fraud.

The 75 million worship at the altar of a sociopath and his paranoid-delusionary ministers, while those ministers and their plutocratic donors all laugh out loud amongst themselves about the suffering caused by their governmental negligence and by their outright deliberate attacks on the non-wealthy. (“No, no, no, no,” said Ex=Senator and marginally human being Rick Santorum, “we do not want to do the will of the people.” And the GOP voters all nudge each other with a drooling grin and say “Now there’s a man who knows what America’s all about!”)

I haven’t given up on Old Glory -- but I may, after the 2022 elections, if things do not go as well as they should for the Democrats.

[BlueNProud]

15. They don't care about the truth, they just don't want to be sued.

[MissMillie]

20. Instead of the disclaimer, "Fair and Balanced" Fox should

invite Dominion and Smartmatic for an on-air chat about vote "flipping"


Oh wait... only a "news" station would do that.

[lindysalsagal]

25. "the various allegations"

"Basically, if this moron said it, it's B.S. Now, back to our regularly scheduled program."

[BlueIdaho]

28. That's a pretty Marvin Milquetoast disclaimer.

“Voting system companies have denied?” Bullshit! How about “There is no truth to the irresponsible claims of the former guy.”

[riversedge]

29. (This disclaimer ran for about 40 seconds on the screen.)..........

I do not think Dominion will be satisfied with 49 secs. of truth.

Link to tweet

?s=20

[lame54]

31. "Everything he is saying is a lie...

Now watch the entire speech."

[LiberalLovinLug]

33. Why have these voting machine co's not sued Trump himself?

Surely he is one of the most, if not THE most, harmful to their business reputation. He continues to thumb his nose at them, and is the biggest reason that a majority of Republican voters think he won.