{"id":63150,"date":"2024-10-01T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63150"},"modified":"2024-10-01T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T21:20:31","slug":"fox-news-trump-flunky-sinks-to-new-low-citing-conspiracy-crackpot-as-an-election-news-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63150","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Trump Flunky Sinks to New Low, Citing Conspiracy Crackpot as an Election News Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the least surprising thing about the 2024 presidential election is that Fox News is working furiously to advance the campaign of Donald Trump and his MAGA minions. Shilling for right-wing politicos has been the mission of Fox News from its inception. So why should anyone expect anything different now?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Fox News Trump Flunky Sinks to New Low, Citing Conspiracy Crackpot as an Election News Source%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63150\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-fake-news.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Fake News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The blatant dishonesty of Fox News was exposed when they agreed to settle a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for 3\/4 of a billion dollars. That settlement came after Dominion obtained hundreds of communications from Fox News executives and hosts revealing their deliberate lies and hypocrisies. But even that didn&#8217;t stop them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62471\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News is Still Pushing the Lie that the 2020 Election Was Stolen that Cost Them $787 Million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest journey into journalistic disgrace for Fox manages to exceed its prior milestones of mis- and disinformation. Featured in this episode is Fox&#8217;s Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, in her continuing role as a purveyor of pure propaganda. In a segment discussing the prospect of election fraud that Fox and Trump have been imagining is rampant, Bartiromo asks the national Republican Party co-chair, Michael Whatley, a question based on the <em>&#8220;reporting&#8221;<\/em> of a bona fide Internet nutjob&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bartiromo:<\/strong> We want to get your take on whether or not you\u2019ve got confidence there in Arizona because apparently The Gateway Pundit reported that the GOP chairwoman provided an update to allegations that there\u2019s not going to be a fair election there.<br \/>\n<strong>Whatley:<\/strong> Well, there is going to be a fair election and we\u2019re working very, very hard with the Arizona GOP. I actually had dinner with the chairwoman last night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">lmao &#8212; Maria Bartiromo has now lowered herself to citing Gateway Pundit as a serious source on her show <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5CaZTQeMqu\">pic.twitter.com\/5CaZTQeMqu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1841121071182848091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Bartiromo has embraced Jim Hoft (aka Gateway Pundit), one of the most universally disreputable conspiracy peddlers on the Internet, as a source for her alleged <em>&#8220;news&#8221;<\/em> program. And the information that she draws from Hoft is a quote that he attributes to the chair of the Arizona GOP asserting that the election is already invalidated due to fraud, a month before it has taken place.<\/p>\n<p>With Bartiromo&#8217;s adoption of Hoft as a source, Fox News has fully transformed into the status of an Internet Troll Network. They don&#8217;t employ any credible journalists, so their dependency on hacks like Hoft was inevitable. But to be fair, he really is no worse than Fox regulars Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, Laura Ingraham, and the <em>&#8220;Curvy Couch&#8221;<\/em> potatoes of Fox and Friends.<\/p>\n<p>However, we can set aside Bartiromo&#8217;s guest, Whatley, disputing the charges by Hoft, and assuring Bartiromo that the election is going to be fair. Because it would be foolish to expect that view to stick. If Trump loses in November, the entirety of the GOP outrage machine, including Whatley, Trump, and everyone on Fox News, will be shouting from the rafters that the election was <em>&#8220;rigged and stolen.&#8221;<\/em> Just as they are still doing with regard to the 2020 election. In fact, Trump is already doing it. And even he isn&#8217;t satisfied with Fox&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62392\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crybaby Trump Unleashes a Flaming Freak Out Vilifying Fox News for Not Censoring his Foes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62700\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News is Promising to Finally \u2018Get the Truth About Obama\u2019s Birth Certificate\u2019 \u2013 No, REALLY!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=62317\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News is Officially an Arm of Chinese State Media, Regurgitating its Attacks on Kamala Harris<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61528\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Fans the Flaming Lie that Biden Sought to Assassinate Trump During Search of Mar-a-Lago<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the least surprising thing about the 2024 presidential election is that Fox News is working furiously to advance the campaign of Donald Trump and his MAGA minions. Shilling for right-wing politicos has been the mission of Fox News from its inception. So why should anyone expect anything different now? Click here to Tweet this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[554,1140,33,859,1112,1509],"class_list":["post-63150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-fox-news","tag-jim-hoft","tag-maria-bartiromo","tag-media-bias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-fake-news.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-gqy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53430,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53430","url_meta":{"origin":63150,"position":0},"title":"Judge Rules that Fox News Acted With &#8216;Actual Malice&#8217; By Spreading Trump&#8217;s Election Fraud Lies","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/22\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The hearings of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection incited by Donald Trump have been effectively exposing the role of Trump and his confederates in politics and the press. 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