If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is? I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. “A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. Perhaps the most shocking message to come out has been a racist one Carlson sent to a producer hours after the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, referring to street fighting in Washington between Trump supporters and anti-fascists - one that he hoped resulted in murder. In the messages, all from the weeks after the election, the hosts discuss Donald Trump, their often-critical thoughts on Fox management, and their opinions on 2020 election fraud - opinions that often conflict with Fox’s public-facing coverage. To that end, the company subpoenaed extensive internal text messages and emails from and between prominent names in the Fox News infrastructure, including Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Rupert Murdoch himself. Dominion would have had to prove that Fox News hosts knowingly disseminated falsehoods to their viewers. (And, as of May 9, now Twitter’s biggest broadcast star.)ĭominion had accused Fox personalities of repeatedly airing debunked election-fraud theories involving Dominion’s voting machine used in the 2020 election. Days later, in shocking news that may or may not be directly related to revelations the Dominion lawsuit uncovered, Fox News fired Tucker Carlson, its biggest star. In April, just as Dominion Voting Systems’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News was going to trial, Fox settled the case with a $787.5 million payment. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer Photos: Getty Images
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