If Tucker Carlson was your doctor …
Do you want your doctor to give it you straight – the truth – or do you want the Fox News version?
Spoiler alert for Fox News viewers: Fox News stars like Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and especially Tucker Carlson – do not believe a word they say. On air. They tell you what you want to hear. For ratings. To keep you angry, uninformed … and tuned in to their nonsense.
Behind the scenes and in real life, they are cringing. And hating on Trump.
Related: Dominion lawsuit: Tucker Carlson called Trump a ‘demonic force’ that would destroy Fox News – al.com
Related: Tucker Carlson texts about Trump: ‘I hate him passionately,’ lawsuit reveals – al.com
Related: Fox News: Maliciously mainlining Trump lies to MAGA junkies – al.com
Related: Tucker Carlson lies as he shares Jan. 6 footage; Trump demands release of attackers – al.com
Conservative columnist Mona Charen writes: Fox News isn’t news at all – Chicago Sun-Times (suntimes.com)
Excerpt from Charen’s column:
“We know what to think of Fox News hosts and executives. But what about the audience? All of us indulge the urge, at least sometimes, to hear news that confirms our own views. What Fox’s audience must grapple with is that choosing news is not like other consumer choices. It’s not like choosing country music over hip hop or Android over iOS. Getting the truth from a news source is more analogous to getting the straight story from your doctor. If your doctor assured you that your skin lesion was benign, thinking this would be more welcome than the news that it was melanoma and required immediate treatment, the doctor would be guilty of malpractice and you wouldn’t thank him.
“When Fox News and its competitors lie to viewers, they are endangering not their physical health, but their civic health and the good of the nation.”
Related: Tucker Carlson says if he’s a Putin propaganda tool, so is Zelensky – al.com
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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.
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