They treated Obama like a substitute teacher.
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CNN: Justice Department is widening investigation into Fox News
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They treated Obama like a substitute teacher.
And he has come to fucking COLLECT.
Yea..Now I see why Hannity was tweeting like he shit his pants earlier.
Angelus Errare
Banned
If that precedent is corporations actually getting punished for breaking the law, there isn't a single corporation I'd feel terrible for if shit went down with them.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
this is great
lol, I love it.
Something had to give lol
Phoenix RISING
Banned
And the turn begins.
I never forgave him after this.
radios shipping overview
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There's no precedent when FNC is one of the few news orgs that regularly says nice things about the Donald.
Escape Goat
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Like friends of Dorothy but less sexy.
SatelliteOfLove
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The right-wing media outside of the old standards that kept their integrity and tested ideology have descended into brinkmanship with a dangerous expectation for other Conservatives to meet their delusional radicalization...or else.
Therefore, I'm glad they're collapsing without phantom boogiemen to lean on, the whole politician-media-donor-voter construct on the right needs a purge, and without the media part of that whipping the rest into a frenzy makes it much easier.
Lord Frieza
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Breitbart, in the grand scheme of things, is really nothing. It has a pretty dedicated base and following, but it's not even within the same hemisphere as Fox, or the other TV cable networks. They could maybe try to launch a network, but I don't know where the capital would come from, and even if they managed it, it's not exactly a secret they are a thinly veiled Neo-Nazi rag that spreads literal fake news. It'd be hard to line up advertisers and on-screen talent to continue a 24/7 news network properly.
Seems like a pretty goddamn good precedent . Investigating crimes committed seems like a good thing.
Kill Your Masters
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Protecting free speech to the death, even if it means allowing crimes?
What's more concerning for me is Preet Bharara's dismissal and his investigation into FOX news. It makes me wonder if Trump knew about what he was trying to get on Roger Ailes and FOX news and Trump did that to delay/squash the investigation. It makes Trump look very culpable; some of the same people at FOX who dictated coverage of Trump were possibly informed by Trump -- since he has more access as a President -- and Trump agreed to remove Bharara to keep coverage of him favorable and to keep FOX out of the line of fire.
In other words, Trump won't call FOX 'fake news' because FOX will be biased towards him anyway and he'll make sure any investigations into them have roadblocks in place.
In other words, Trump won't call FOX 'fake news' because FOX will be biased towards him anyway and he'll make sure any investigations into them have roadblocks in place.
boiled goose
good with gravy
How about the precedent of letting the powerful get away with illegal behavior?
If Fox News goes down, Hannity, O'Reilly and the other nuts will just move to Breitbart and drag all their viewers shamelessly into the alt-right and make things worse.
Hannity and O'Reilly are wealthy enough to get things chugging along at Breitbart.
Hannity and O'Reilly are wealthy enough to get things chugging along at Breitbart.
Lets hope they get sued for the inevitable sexual harassment there within a short period time instead of decades.
Lord Frieza
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Hannity and O'Reilly are not wealthy enough to by themselves to get Breitbart up and running as a full TV network. And, again, good luck getting mainstream sponsors and talent to a Neo-Nazi rag gone mainstream.
I mean, Glenn Beck was massive at one point, and he started his own thing. It didn't work out that well, since The Blaze is just chugging along at this point. Fox News made O'Reilly and Hannity, not the other way around.
RPGCrazied
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Just close it all down. Nobody is worth a damn on that network save Shepard Smith and maybe Chris Wallace.
Lys Skygge
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The silver lining to Trump winning the presidency is that a big spotlight is suddenly shining on all of these deplorable organizations and people.
I once said that winning the Presidency was the worst thing that could happen to Trump, which drew a lot of disagreement. But as these developments continue, I feel like I was only wrong in that I only included Trump in my statement.
GoldandBlue
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Was Trump winning like a monkeys paw wish for the right?
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
How is he freaking out?
ClosingADoor
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The precedent of investigating illegal activities?
Isaac Otherworld
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Breitbart doesn't have the money to maintain three 15 million a year contracts with these guys and they won't work for free. Breitbart isn't even profitable without the Mercer family subsidize it.
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