A Former Fox

[H2O Man]

“The rebellion on the populist right against the results of the 2020 election was partly a cynical, knowing effort by political operators and their hype men in the media to steal an election or at least get rich trying,” he wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed. “But it was also the tragic consequence of the informational malnourishment so badly afflicting the nation.”
-- Chris Stirewalt

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/10/fired-fox-news-editor-chris-stirewalt-to-testify-at-jan-6-riot-committee-hearing.html


As you may remember -- though it seems so long ago -- Stirewalt was the first to call Arizona for Joe Biden. Thus, he was attacked by Trump and the cult, and eventually fired in January by Fox News. Curious timing, eh?

Stirewalt will reportedly be testifying during tomorrow's January 6 Committee hearing. Safe to say that Fox won't be carrying it live. But it should be an outstanding Committee presentation tomorrow morning, focusing on Trump & Co.'s planning to steal the election, and how this led directly to the insurrection on January 6.

I'm looking forward to the hearing, and the discussions here.

[Hekate]

1. Kick!

[H2O Man]

2. Thanks!

I think this hearing will kick Trump's fat, pale ass.

[Hekate]

3. I sincerely hope so. I am unlikely to be up in time to hear it live at 7:00 a.m., but my husband has

… already set the DVR for both the hearing and for Rachel’s show at 6:00 p.m. We’re expecting an overnight guest, and that will skew the schedule a bit.

I hope the aftermath of tomorrow’s hearing will be popcorn-worthy.

[H2O Man]

17. I'm confident it will be!

I'm enjoying the media reports on what the Committee is reporting, too.

[Tree Lady]

41. I was just wondering if 10am meant

7am my time in Oregon?

[Hekate]

43. Sadly so. I'm in California, & cable tv programs that run in real time use the East Coast time zone

Of course there are some advantages to this — I will never be tempted to watch Morning Joe and Mika Mouse because when they are on I am fast asleep. When I want to watch Rachel Maddow, she comes on at a convenient 6:00 pm in my time zone.

[Tree Lady]

44. Thanks I googled and set alarm

I want to see it live. Reminds me of my dad and watching watergate as a teenager with him. We were close and would talk politics together. He died in 2000.

[towerbum]

21. It will put lard -ass 6 ft under ! know's jail is coming & can't handle it!

[H2O Man]

23. I suspect that

if the DOJ indicts him, his heart will quit. Not a healthy diet. One can hope.

[underpants]

4. Yep. Trump himself basically disappeared for about a week

I’ve read that he was screaming at everyone. Couldn’t be HIS fault.

They all knew he’d lost. He saw people cashing in on it and was like HELL NO nobody makes money off my name with these rubes without ME getting a cut.

[H2O Man]

10. As repulsive as he is,

he has got to be way, way worse during and after each hearing. Not that any decent person would opt to be around him to begin with.

[Me.]

5. As My Brother Would Say

Yeppers

[H2O Man]

11. It should be

an outstanding hearing. I had high hopes for the Committee, and they have gone higher than I hoped for.

[Me.]

20. Indeed

[Nittersing]

6. Thanks! I didn't know the back story on Stirewalt.

Much appreciated.

[H2O Man]

12. Thank you!

There must be something in the Fox contracts that allows them to fire people who tell the truth.

[Martin Eden]

7. "informational malnourishment"

They gorge themselves on the misinformation to which they have become addicted, growing fat on garbage while being starved of the nutrients necessary for a democracy which depends on the informed consent of the governed.

[PJMcK]

8. Informed consent

This is why we have public education. If people are ignorant they cannot make informed judgments about the country and our politicians.

That’s one big reason Republicans want to damage our schools.

[H2O Man]

14. You nailed it!

Absolutely on target.

[Martin Eden]

26. Republicans are the real groomers

They want to keep children ignorant because their grip on power depends on ignorance.

And bigotry.

And hatred.

[H2O Man]

13. Right.

I've seen a couple attacks on the Committee, especially aimed at Cheney. True to form, they are all bullshit and lies.

[Marcuse]

36. Fox News Channel Shows:

[H2O Man]

45. Nice!

[malaise]

9. I will be there for the entire hearing

Thanks for the heads-up brother.

[H2O Man]

15. Thanks!

I've watched the first one over and over. Very impressive. Looking forward to tomorrow!

[czarjak]

16. Whom, may I ask, made that affliction worse intentionally?

[H2O Man]

18. I think that

one of the most interesting things will be finding out what other republicans begged for pardons. I don't expect we will find out tomorrow -- likely a later hearing -- but that is such an important issue.

[MyOwnPeace]

19. From a 'certain' hearing a 'few' years ago.......

"...let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind."

For you 'kids' out there (yeah, it was a long, long time ago - Watergate!):

"More chilling was Ehrlichman’s advice to Dean about L. Patrick Gray III, whose nomination as director of the FBI was stalled because members of the Senate Judiciary Committee weren’t getting satisfactory answers from him to their questions about Watergate. “Well, I think we ought to let him hang there,” Ehrlichman told Dean. “Let him twist slowly, twist slowly in the wind.” (Gray twisted for more than a month before his nomination was withdrawn.)"

https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2013/01/28/words-of-watergate-part-2/

[H2O Man]

24. Right.

I think some of them are mighty nervous. They should be.

[llmart]

38. Watergate

CBS did a piece on CBS Sunday Morning about Watergate. Interesting piece. I can't offhand remember the guy they interviewed but at the end the interviewer asked the guy what's different these days between the Jan. 6 insurrection and Watergate. He said "Fox News and today's Republicans put party over country."

[MyOwnPeace]

42. YES, indeed they do!!!!!

It was a group of Republican Congressmen that went into Nixon's office and told him: "Either you resign or we're going to impeach."
Seriously, name ONE RepubliQan who would have the b*lls to do that to IQ45?

[DFW]

22. While we won't see it live here

For a former Fox broadcaster to admit, in sworn testimony on live TV, that he and all Fox broadcasters are given scripts off of which to report their fake news, it would be a beautiful thing for the USA to have permanently etched into its archives.

[H2O Man]

25. Definitely.

[ymetca]

27. Gordon Gekko

and his Merry Band of Batman Villains, is pretty much how I saw it.

It was all just a shallow "show" for them, and damn the consequences.

A pretentious mockery of all we thought we stood for.

Grifters and miscreants crashing the D.C. "party" for four long years, culminating in the Animal House conclusion on January 6th.

It would be pathetic, were it not for the nightmares we now must endure, trying to forestall more unraveling.

[H2O Man]

28. Right.

In his classic 1973 book, "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness," Erich Fromm wrote about the type os scum that surround a sociopath who comes to political power. That book describes the Trump cult extremely well.

[cilla4progress]

29. Sounds like a good book to read

to understand this on a deeper level!

[H2O Man]

30. It is a great book.

A few years back, I was talking with my brother about it and Trump. He bought it, and was very impressed. Since then, he has bought every Fromm book he can find.

[elleng]

31. 'informational malnourishment '

[H2O Man]

32. It is both horrifying

and a great description at the same time.

[elleng]

34. Yes it is, both.

You know, of course, about our 'congenital' dislike/horror of knowledge/understanding. . .

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

—Isaac Asimov

[H2O Man]

37. Great quote!

[elleng]

40. Yes, great, sad and true.

[malaise]

52. One of the great quotes of all time n/t

[AZProgressive]

33. I don't know why it was hard to accept for people that Biden won Arizona

I saw it coming because I live in Maricopa County and know how much the state and especially the county has changed over the years.

Even when McCain won the state Obama was popular with a lot of working class folks in the county.

It was the one swing state I was confident in that Biden would win.

[elleng]

35. Thank you

[H2O Man]

39. I remember long ago,

talking to Rubin about how surprised I was at how stupid some people seemed. He said that those with limited exposure and experience often find very little to think about or compare, and even less to understand. I think that fits a sad amount of people.

[malaise]

46. Did I just hear that he won't be there

in person because his wife is in labor? Apparently his statement will be read into the record.

Corrected - not him Bridgegate's Bill Stepien

[H2O Man]

47. Not long now!

[malaise]

48. Hearing will start 30 minutes late

because of Stepien's withdrawal

[H2O Man]

49. I'm watching the WP live feed ......

They have good coverage.

[ck4829]

50. K&R

[H2O Man]

51. Thanks!

[malaise]

53. Here we go n/t

[malaise]

55. An apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani

[H2O Man]

58. Hilarious!

[malaise]

60. Perfect

[malaise]

56. I love that Rep Zoe Lofgren is calling him

Mr Trump and not president Trump

[H2O Man]

59. She is great!

[malaise]

61. Huge dumps

Seriously the Slobfather is a pathetic lunatic - I know less petulant five year olds.

[H2O Man]

62. This is intense!

[malaise]

63. They're tearing him a new one on CNN

Whatever else, Trump committed fraud.
They also said he is detached from reality as in insane.
Duh!

[H2O Man]

64. My cousin said that

Fox had it on.

[malaise]

65. Don't have Fox by choice

I detest Barr but he has destroyed the Slobfather here
This is really good because these are all ReTHUGs

[H2O Man]

66. I think it should

be titled Pox News, as it is diseased.

[malaise]

67. LOL

These hearings will finish off Slobby - they are powerful

[malaise]

57. Here comes a Former Fox