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Fox stays silent about new texts that expose Hannity and Ingraham's Jan. 6 hypocrisy
FOX didin't dare air the 1/6 House Committee hearing yesterday evening recomending criminal contempt charges on Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for ignoring a House subpeona.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R/WY) read text messages that were sent to Meadows on January 6 by various FOX television personalities. They are begging Trump to stop the violence. They know the Capitol rioters are there at the bidding of Trump.
Yet that very evening and night, they dishonestly switch gears on television and try to pawn off the Capitol violence as an Antifa riot. They knew. They were and remain neck deep in propagating Trump's Big Lie.

12/14/21
Fox News did not bother to air Monday night's meeting of the House committee investigating the 1/6 attack. Neither did Newsmax or One America News. So right-wing TV audiences did not hear when Rep. Liz Cheney revealed that some of Fox's biggest stars pressed Mark Meadows for help during the siege of the Capitol. "Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home," Laura Ingraham texted Meadows. "This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy." She knew. They all knew. They all knew the truth right away. But by the night of 1/6, Ingraham was spouting conspiracy theories about "ANTIFA" and excusing the peaceful "patriots" who, let's be clear, paraded into DC based on a lie she pushed over and over again. Fox's pro-Trump programming was partly to blame for the Big Lie, so when that lie led to violence, of course some of the hosts panicked and tried to put out the fire.
On Monday, Cheney read two other texts from Fox stars to Meadows from 1/6. One was from Brian Kilmeade: "Please, get him on TV. Destroying everything you have accomplished." The other was from Sean Hannity: "Can he make a statement, ask people to leave the Capitol?" Cheney didn't specify what time those texts were sent. But I was struck by Hannity's casual tone about the unfolding terror. At least Kilmeade said "please, get him on TV." "These texts prove something essential," Amanda Carpenter wrote for The Bulwark. "No matter what they say now, Trump's loyalists knew at the time that what was happening at the Capitol was not a peaceful protest. They knew that it was a dangerous attack on American democracy. And they knew that Trump was responsible for it. That's why they sent the texts pleading with him, through his staff, to make it stop." Or as SE Cupp put it on CNN just now, "Fox News viewers, you have been had."
FOX didin't dare air the 1/6 House Committee hearing yesterday evening recomending criminal contempt charges on Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for ignoring a House subpeona.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R/WY) read text messages that were sent to Meadows on January 6 by various FOX television personalities. They are begging Trump to stop the violence. They know the Capitol rioters are there at the bidding of Trump.
Yet that very evening and night, they dishonestly switch gears on television and try to pawn off the Capitol violence as an Antifa riot. They knew. They were and remain neck deep in propagating Trump's Big Lie.
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