Screw it.
I’ve shown a good deal of restraint since news broke that I left Fox News.
I haven’t done any TV about it, and I’ve let a lot of nonsense go by without a response.
A major reason I chose to leave with more than a year left on my contract was that I felt conflicted about speaking freely. Fox understandably doesn’t like to pay people who criticize Fox or its talent, and there is something unseemly about it.
So that was one reason why I left.
Another was that I didn’t want to be complicit in so many lies.
That’s the thing. I know that a huge share of the people you saw on TV praising Trump were being dishonest. I don’t merely suspect it, I know it, because they would say one thing to my face or in my presence and another thing when the cameras and microphones were flipped on. And even when I didn’t hear it directly, I was often one degree of separation from it. (“Guess what so-and-so said during the commercial break?”) Punditry […]
First, let me say I agree with Stephan Schwartz opinion 100%
As he quoted; “blatantly lying about a public health issue that results in the death of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children should result in the persecution of the on-camera propagandists as well as Rupert Murdoch and his sons who have financed all this.“
Second, Jonah Goldberg is a fantastic writer. This article takes the reader straight to the GOP’s famous defense tactic when questioned about facts and evidence – REDIRECTION. Most of us parents, dealt with this tactic when our children were 12 and under.
I also totally agree with you Stephan on this issue.