Stelter: Fox & Friends is spinning Newsom's win as due mostly to donations from Big Tech

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Here's a thread about how the anti-Newsom talk show "Fox & Friends" is handling Newsom's victory this morning. Overall tone: California is in trouble, Dems are weak, but it's no surprise Newsom won since "Big Tech donated tens of millions of dollars to the anti-recall effort."


"Turns out he had a mountain of money behind him," co-host Steve Doocy said, as if the donations were a surprise that no one knew about yesterday. Ainsley Earhardt read aloud the same list of $ donors during all 3 hours of the show.


"Fox & Friends" didn't feature any pro-Newsom voices today, but it did host a panel of small business owners who said things like "I think small businesses are devastated" by the recall's failure and "I think we will see a lot of businesses leave the state now."


One wonders if Fox fans feel misled by the network's recall coverage: The California-in-the-dumps narrative, the recall cheerleading, the constant interviews with Larry Elder. It was similar with Trump last year: His reelection was portrayed as the most likely outcome, until (Man shrugging emoji)


This morning Doocy said things like "we should not be surprised that Gavin Newsom pulled it out in the last week or two," citing corporate donations, Biden's visit, and the Dems' inherent advantages in CA. As for Elder, "he did well, even though he finished short."


Notable: No "rigged" lies on "Fox & Friends" today. Doocy: "There was some suggestion, by Larry Elder and others, there could be some shenanigans, some fraud like that, but as we just heard him say, 'We do not finger-point, we do not blame.' NO claims of fraud in his speech."

[PortTack]

1. "Elder did well." That's all ya got??

The gqp threw millions at it and 30% is the best they can do?

[yellowcanine]

6. If he is a baseball player 30% is good. Otherwise, no.

[Mad_Machine76]

2. "Big Tech"

has become one of the new right-wing boogeymen. All of them are constantly complaining about it. As though Republicans don't get corporate contributions from "Big everything else"

[CentralMass]

4. They get theirs from sedition supporting billionaires.

[Mad_Machine76]

5. Yep

and tax cheats

[JohnSJ]

3. What jackasses. Newsom won because Democrats supported him, and they came out and voted

Some are arguing it was because Elder was the leading republican, and if it was a "moderate" republican as an alternate candidate that wouldn't have happened. Again they miss the boat. There were supposed "moderate" republican alternate candidates in the race, and they didn't get any traction from republicans. It also needs to be pointed out those suppossed moderate republicans are not so moderate.

There are 45% registered Democrats in the state, and about 23% registered republicans, and the NPP voters are primarily liberal to moderate, not extreme right. As long as Democrats voted, this result was pretty much assured, and the fact that all registered voters received a postage paid ballot made it very easy to vote.

[maxsolomon]

7. the important point is to keep negging Dems and Liberals.

always accuse, always attack, always belittle and dismiss.

it's the constant repetition that makes Propaganda work - the specifics are secondary.