{"id":55622,"date":"2022-12-06T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T20:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55622"},"modified":"2022-12-06T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T20:23:45","slug":"huh-senior-fox-news-misinformer-tucker-carlson-declares-that-misinformation-can-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55622","title":{"rendered":"HUH? Senior Fox News Misinformer, Tucker Carlson, Declares that ‘Misinformation Can Be True’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since it’s inception, the mission of Fox News has been to advance the propaganda and lies of the Republican Party and its ultra-rightist agenda. Their management, editors, and program hosts are all chosen for, and devoted to that mission. And in recent years their extremist political evangelism has fervently pledged to the Cult of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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Leading the wingnut evangelical crusade at Fox News is their top-rated host, Tucker Carlson. His program has become the most popular media destination for America’s white supremacists, misogynists, homophobes, and many other hate groups.<\/p>\n

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On Monday’s episode of Carlson’s hate-fest, he joined the conservative media’s embrace of Elon Musk’s Twitter nothingburger<\/a><\/strong> that purported to reveal an ingrained bias in favor of Democrats and then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. Suffice to say that the entire alleged “bombshell”<\/em> was a spectacular dud that produced nothing but rank speculation, fabrication, and the disturbing doxing of private Twitter communications and staff.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Fox News and Carlson were determined to further brainwash their audience with flagrant falsehoods. And apparently aware that their deceits were too obvious to disguise, they endeavored to frame lies as truths. Carlson literally defined falsehoods as facts. And not even “alternative facts”<\/em> as previously dubbed by his Fox News colleague, and Trump toady, Kellyanne Conway<\/a><\/strong>. Carlson confabulated that…<\/p>\n

“Misinformation is a new word. It’s been around the intel world for a long time but it’s never been used in common conversation until recently. The distinction between misinformation and lying is that misinformation can be true. It doesn’t have to be untrue to be censored. It used to be truth is a defense. If you’re telling the truth, you can say it. Not anymore. With mis- and disinformation, if I don’t like it, if I’m in power, I can censor you.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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"Misinformation is a new word. … The distinction between misinformation and lying is that misinformation can be true." pic.twitter.com\/eYzadS2d2w<\/a><\/p>\n

— Kat Abu (@abughazalehkat) December 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n