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Carlson and Hannity were big supporters of the truckers who illegally occupied and disrupted our capital for weeks, while calling for the forced removal of our democratically elected government by right- wing extremists funded by foreigners. Same yahoos who blocked an international crossing and commerce and cost Canadians millions.

Sound familiar?

syracuse.com/us-news/2022/02/s

syracuse · Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson cheer on Canadian trucker protestBy The Associated Press

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Murdoch family drama plays out in court with fate of Fox News at stake

If #Rupert #Murdoch, 93, prevails in his legal effort to change voting rights of the #family #trust
to ensure that his chosen successor and conservative-leaning eldest son, #Lachlan Murdoch, 53, runs the company after his death, little may change.

♦️The proceedings pit Murdoch, 93, and his chosen successor, Lachlan, against his three more liberal-leaning siblings, Prudence, Elizabeth and James,
over future control of Murdoch’s #Fox Corp and #News Corp through the family’s control of the global empire’s share structure via an irrevocable trust set up in 1999.

According to the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, Murdoch is arguing that
“shifting voting control of the trust to Lachlan should be allowed because it is in the best interest of all the beneficiaries, including his other children”.

⭐️But if the patriarch loses, the younger brother #James Murdoch, in concert with his sisters #Prudence and #Elizabeth, could force Fox News to move away from the conservative news alignments of their father and brother.

🧨That would be an earthquake in American politics.

➡️ No other media power in the US has the impact that Fox News has had in the last two decades.

It has become a driving force of American conservatism, feared for its power by both Republicans and Democrats.

And condemned by many for its conservative bias and numerous show hosts who have become darlings of the US right and powerful players on their own.

Figures such as Sean #Hannity are hugely powerful within the Maga world, while the former host Tucker #Carlson
– now exiled from the station where he rose to power
– has withered outside it and been largely unable to recreate the influence he had while broadcasting to Fox’s viewers.

Gaming out the different scenarios at stake in Reno is water cooler talk at Fox News’s midtown New York headquarters,
with TV hosts discussing a reposition of their own personal brands if liberal-leaning James wins
and opening back-channel communications with him if his father and rival brother prevail.

But despite their immense importance the legal arguments over the Murdoch Family Trust presented within the impenetrable walls of a 1960’s annex court extension in Reno last week are known only to the judge and court staff, Rupert Murdoch, his first and second set of children and an army of lawyers, including Trump’s attorney general William Barr.

“A family trust like the one at issue in this case … is essentially a private legal arrangement,”
the Washoe county probate commissioner Edmund J Gorman Jr, wrote in an 18-page recommendation before the parties convened.

❇️ James, Elisabeth and Prudence, want the trust to be maintained and oppose Murdoch’s proposed change giving Lachlan control because they would stand to lose voting power.

Yet while Lachlan’s politics are comfortably rightwing and match his father’s,
the opposing other siblings have a different world view.

James Murdoch even hosted Joe #Biden in his home for a fundraiser in 2022 and🔥 has endorsed #Kamala #Harris to beat Trump in 2024.

But it won’t be Fox politics under discussion so much in Reno.
Instead, much of that argument will be couched in an examination of US corporate governance conventions that allow for a family to control a business they do not majority own by a so-called #dual #class structure of shares
– in effect the family shares have more power than others.
theguardian.com/media/2024/sep

The Guardian · Murdoch family drama plays out in court with fate of Fox News at stakeBy Edward Helmore

Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss

#Larry #Ellison, the billionaire co-founder and chairman of the software company #Oracle -- and the biggest backer of #Elon #Musk’s attempted #Twitter #takeover --

⭐️participated in a call shortly after the 2020 election that focused on 🆘strategies for contesting the legitimacy of the vote, according to court documents and a participant.

The Nov. 14 call included Sen. Lindsey O. #Graham (R-S.C.); Fox News host Sean #Hannity; Jay #Sekulow, an attorney for Donald Trump; and James #Bopp Jr., an attorney for "True the Vote", a Texas-based nonprofit that has promoted disputed #claims of widespread #voter #fraud.

♦️Ellison’s participation illustrates a previously unknown dimension in the multifaceted campaign to challenge Trump’s loss,
an effort still coming into focus months later.

⚠️It is the first known example of a 🔸"technology industry titan"
joining
🔹powerful figures in conservative politics, media and law
♦️to strategize about Trump’s post-loss options
💥and confer with an activist group that had already filed four lawsuits seeking to uncover evidence of illegal voting.

washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s lossBy Isaac Stanley-Becker
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As evidence, #Trump cited viewer surveys from #FarRight sites. “We looked at one poll, it was 92 to 7,” he said. “We looked at another, 86 to 3.”

“Wow,” #Hannity replied.

At one point, Trump started to veer into repeating his claims that #immigrants are eating pets — & Hannity cut him off.

“Your people are calling for you to roll,” he said.

#idiocracy #Trumpaganda #propaganda #disinformation #FauxNews #FoxNews #lies #RT = #RepublicanTV #debate #MAGA #ignorance

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But this didn’t go well, either, because, while it was difficult to hear #Trump, reporters’ questions were loud & clear:

“Why didn’t you look at her?”

“Did she get under your skin?”

“Why not let the performance speak for itself?”

#Why not have a second debate?”

Trump made his way over to #Hannity for some gentler treatment. Trump informed his interviewer that he had “won the #debate” & “we’re getting great reviews.”

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#Hannity was upset that #Harris “wasn’ fact-checked.” (Maybe this was because Harris hadn’t claimed #immigrants were eating people’s pets.)

Hannity decided to “dip in” to post-debate remarks by Harris to supporters but cut that off after 31 secs, just as she was about to give her assessment of the #debate. Then he tried to broadcast an unannounced appearance by #Trump in the spin room.

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“It’s an embarrassment to journalism,” said #MarcoRubio.

[that’s the embarrassment to #journalism???]

“The #ABC #moderators were complicit in her running a completely fact free debate performance,” submitted Sen #TedCruz (TX).

#Trump running mate #JDVance, also joining #Hannity, agreed that the moderators “did a terrible job” while “President Trump did a good job.”

#idiocracy #Trumpaganda #propaganda #disinformation #FauxNews #FoxNews #lies #RT = #RepublicanTV #debate #MAGA #ignorance

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#Hannity said #Harris had presented nothing but “pre-rehearsed, memorized platitudes” & “lots of kind of weird faces & expressions.” He then went after the “left-wing moderators. The biggest loser of the night, #ABC, #Disney, Bob Iger’s network. It was a disgrace.” Hannity was upset that the moderators had not brought up the VP’s position on “banning plastic straws,” among other things.

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& [Hume cont] that #Harris was “a different person from the absolute dunderhead so many of us thought she was during her conduct as vice president.” And a token Democrat, fmr congressman Harold Ford, politely disagreed w/the general tenor of things: “I just think she won.”

But after 15 mins of this post-#debate “analysis,” #Hannity took over the anchor chair & ended all dissent.

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#SeanHannity interviewed Sen #MarcoRubio (R-FL), who claimed #Trump notched “a big win.”

Sen #LindseyGraham (R-SC) [who initially said it was a “disaster for Trump] said #Trump had “the best closing in presidential #debate history.”

Trump himself joined #Hannity in the spin room. “I think it was my best debate ever,” he said.

#idiocracy #Trumpaganda #propaganda #disinformation #FauxNews #FoxNews #lies #RT = #RepublicanTV #MAGA #ignorance

These are the most over-the-top #histrionics we've seen yet. And this is how you know #Trump was destroyed by #Harris, and his surrogates know it. Had he performed well, we wouldn't be seeing anything like this response. How do I know that? Just look at their reactions following Trump's debate with #Biden. There were no accusations of bias. No conspiracy theories about secret earpieces. No desperate spin by people like #Hannity. They give themselves away.

#SadLosers

foxnews.com/media/sean-hannity

Fox News · SEAN HANNITY: This was the most overt, sickening display of left-wing bias during a presidential debateBy Sean Hannity

The right-wing media is working the refs as they always do against the media ABC specifically ahead of the debate for Trump, with threats of boycott against Disney by right-wing groups if they don't ask Harris the questions they're telling the network too ask.

This is unbelievable. #Hannity

At his core, #TrumpIsACoward. He's backing out of a scheduled #debate with #KamalaHarris, claiming she's "too stupid" debate him. Instead, he wants to do a #FoxNews debate hosted by #Hannity in an arena full of #TrumpSupporters. He basically wants to turn the debate into one of his rallies because that's the only environment he feels safe in. He needs his security blanket. He's a coward.

cc: @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

#TrumpCult #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #Kamala2024

politico.com/news/2024/08/03/t