Fox has canned Lou Dobbs. I can remember Dobbs beginning the process of radicalizing my father with his "common sense" on trade and immigration. For the record, Dobb's common sense is really just 19th century mercantilism and nativism. Dobbs was a Birther.
Now, Dobbs is 75 years old, and maybe it's time to refresh the "talent" pool, but the looming reason he was fired was because he was explicitly advancing false claims against companies that make voting machines - Dominion and Smartmatic - about election fraud. What's more, these companies have pretty legitimate claims for libel. It's very hard to prove libel in American courts, but Fox, OANN and NewsMax clearly are scared of these threats. They could lose a lot of money for jumping on the Trump Train.
It's a little frustrating how much we rely on the Courts because our legislature can't govern, but there is very little way for the Congress to attack radicalized rightist puke funnels like Fox and OANN. First Amendment and all. So, I hope these companies sue the crap out of them and get massive payouts.
There has to be a cost to Trumpism.
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