Originally posted by: Jeff
I found very interesting what most savvy analysts have been saying about Fox News viewers' reactions after discovering that Carlson, Pirro, Bartiroma et al. didn't even believe their "election was rigged" lies themselves.
Will the revelations hurt the network and its star pundits as one might expect? It seems it won't, because most Fox News viewers *already knew* that Fox was spewing lies, but they *wanted* to hear the lies.
They are the same as the WWE audience that knows the matches are all theatrics, but it's fake wrestling that they want to watch as opposed to an actual competitive contest. Similarly, Fox News viewers want to see Biden, Hillary, Schumer and Schiff headbutted and dropkicked, because they are the heels in the political WWE. Truth matters not to this crowd.
So it's the same with Trump's illicit relationships with women as revealed in the Access Hollywood Tapes, the accusations against him by ~25 women, his proud boast that he could enter the dressing room of his teen beauty pageant and ogle naked teenage girls, because he owned the pageant.
It doesn't matter whether Trump loses this trial. It's just the latest example of, "I could shoot someone on 5th Ave...," one of the few truthful and incisive utterances that have ever come from Trump's mouth.
Yes, it won't affect the loyalty of the Trumper droolers in the slightest. Just like, as you say, it matters not that Fox News lied and admits it. We're in a post-truth world.
Just look at our resident Trump-turd's reaction. If Trump wins the trial, he'll believe that it means that he isn't a rapist. If Trump loses, he'll believe that it was all a liberal conspiracy witch hunt. The only fair trial, he says, is one where Trump wins. Just like the election is rigged unless Trump wins.
I think this country is beyond repair, given that such a large proportion of the citizenry is willing, even eager to follow an evil con man and ignore objective reality in the process. The 2016 election should not have been even remotely close. Fox News should have a smaller viewership than the Sewing Channel. But the appeals to fear, hatred, and bigotry that have become the signature of the RepubliQ are a siren song for 75 million assholes. The book banning, disenfranchising, and throttling of free speech remind me all too readily of Germany in 1933.
