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Originally Posted by New Era
This was not a rebuke. This could be construed as issue framing and repetition of dog whistle language to get the audience fired up. He dropped rigging, cheating, fraud and illegal voting without stating that none of those claims were untrue, inaccurate, or lies. This is a soft propaganda technique to activate emotions and responses associated with those dog whistle terms used. No different than when a certain poster just starts asking questions. It is very transparent and not kosher. So be prepared for the opposite response you think this is going to draw, because Fox viewers are not buying anything except rigging, cheating, fraud and illegal voting is happening until it is ultimately rebuked from a trusted information source. Fox did not rebuke anything.
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Strongly strongly disagree. They cut her off live, mid-sentence, to say there wasn't evidence to back up her claims. He hedged his bets, certainly, but this is about as strong condemnation from Fox we've seen against the Trump administration. And of course they knew the headline would be "Fox cuts off McEnany for spreading election lies".
I obviously have my bias where I have been saying that Murdoch has made a clear mandate to start tearing Trump down, but I think this is just more proof of that. Yes, if Trump wins the lawsuits miraculously, they want to be able to have some plausible deniability as they go back sucking on his hairy, orange teet, but again I see this as more evidence of cutting bait.
I would say it's the equivalent of a board member who keeps posting ridiculous unsubstantiated trade rumours and being banned from making any new threads until they provide the mods evidence of these claims. Mods aren't saying the guy isn't getting information from Treliving at Orange Julius, but they need something more to make the claims.