How they really felt

More evidence in the Dominion case against Fox News reveals how they really felt about Trump himself.

In a Nov. 19, 2020, email, Rupert Murdoch appears to describe Trump and Rudy Giuliani as “both increasingly mad.”

He adds of Trump: “The real danger is what he might do as president. Apparently not sleeping and bouncing off walls! Don’t know about Melania, but kids no help.”

  WaPo

Throw Melania in there, too. They're all nutty shitbirds.

[H]e also agreed when asked whether Trump was a “sore loser.”

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Someone tells [Tucker Carlson], “One [sic] the bright side — Trump has a pretty low rate at success in his business ventures.”

Carlson responded: “All of them fail. What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong. It’s so obvious.”

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Two days before Jan. 6, Carlson texted someone, “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.”

He added, “I hate him passionately,” and then, of Trump’s four years in office: “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There really isn’t an upside to Trump.”

Fox won't tell its viewers that, but Trump will find out, and then they'll know. Bye-bye, Tucker.

I keep hearing people (on the left) talk about how smart Tucker is. He can't be too smart if he puts stuff like that in writing.

After Jan. 6, Murdoch also mused about Trump’s fading away, asking former House speaker and Fox Corp. board member Paul Ryan, “Could he still resign and get Pence to pardon, then just disappear?”

He should have, but that would have been both smart and completely contrary to Trump's narcissistic personality.

The conceit of Fox News has always been that its opinion hosts are conservative but its news-side produces real, neutral journalism. That conceit has repeatedly been called into question by disclosures showing that it viewed itself as allied with the GOP and the furtherance of its goals.

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Murdoch lamented, “With several states now disappointingly favoring Biden hard to claim foul everywhere.”

Hard in what sense? That's exactly what they did.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 07:22 am:

Will Tucker try to pretend he was talking about someone other than Trump?

Sad!

UPDATE 03:12 pm:

Won't back down.  Not yet, anyway.

He's got a lot of ass-kissing to do to get back in Trump's good graces.

UPDATE 03/11/2023:  Fox was the Trump channel.