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I'd say InfoWars, but due to a one and a half billion judgement against that enterprise, its not viable in the long term.
I'm sure I remember reading some attempted legal fudge where Jones is claiming that Infowars has to pay its creditors first, which just so happens to be him and his parents to the sum total of more than its worth, or something.
 

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A lot of these ultra conservatives and followers of these ultra conservatives love screwing each other over, despite sharing the same or common goals. You know the saying: hell is other people. So they can enjoy all their hell together, and fuck off.
I mean, these people have no common cause outside hatred of "the other", the definition of which inevitably shrinks down to "anyone who isn't me and mine" (and even the second half of that isn't sacrosanct).

And the award for "Ultimate example of the pot calling the kettle black" goes to... Billow Reilly!
 

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Miniature tanning beds for your scrotum.
So close, a tiny pot for scalding your testicles, all natural male-contraceptive. And it only hurts a lot for a short time.

they were supposed to bring on an awful woman calling herself 'Alison Wonderland'
That's one of those names that sounds like a porn star, no matter the context.
 

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I'd say InfoWars, but due to a one and a half billion judgement against that enterprise, its not viable in the long term.
I'd also think Alex Jones probably doesn't want someone else stealing his spotlight on his own network/social media platform/whatever the hell infowars is.

Daily wire is likely to be looking to negotiate contracts, they offered a complete idiot like Steven Crowder a $50 million one, which he still turned down publicly, I've no doubt all that Koch/Heritage Foundation etc money can stretch to accommodate someone with a tad more experience at kuntbuggery, and they're in the process of trying to grow their media ecosystem. Doubt infowars are hiring at mo, they were supposed to bring on an awful woman calling herself 'Alison Wonderland' some while back and she has still not appeared, along with the absence of any other newcomers too.
Alison Wonderland sounds like a Bart Simpson prank call(or as someone else pointed out, a porn star).
 
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Here's a fun possible outcome, for a given definition of fun.

CNN's conservative shift in trying to find more conservative voices to "balance" their newscast picks up Tucker.
 

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I'm guessing a jaunt over to Newsmax and bringing his audience with him. A lot of people who hang on Tucker's words already find Fox as a whole to be too liberal.
Sure he's got some diehard fans, but I don't think that the average Fox News viewer actually cares what talking head is talking to them so long as they're telling them what they want to hear. Hell, for most people who watch Fox News it's something that they just have on in the background of their lives rather than something that they're actively consuming.

Newsmax also doesn't nearly the amount of money to pay Tucker what he was making at Fox.
 
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Sure he's got some diehard fans, but I don't think that the average Fox News viewer actually cares what talking head is talking to them so long as they're telling them what they want to hear. Hell, for most people who watch Fox News it's something that they just have on in the background of their lives rather than something that they're actively consuming.

Newsmax also doesn't nearly the amount of money to pay Tucker what he was making at Fox.
The second sentence I agree on far more than the first. That being said, the second sentence is very persuasive.
 

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Sure he's got some diehard fans, but I don't think that the average Fox News viewer actually cares what talking head is talking to them so long as they're telling them what they want to hear.
I agree. But people like Carlson also have power within the corporation - Carlson can likely dictate a certain amount of his content, and thus Carlson's relatively extreme output likely reflects Carlson. Firing him may be a very visible symbol that Fox needs to tread more care and moderate slightly, and I don't think they'll lose many, if any, viewers by declining to promote white nationalism and gross election lies.
 

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Love this chain of events.
Fucking ghoulish wankers....


The Dominion document released Thursday notes that Heinrich "accurately fact-checked the tweet," pointing out that top election officials had said there was no evidence of any voting systems deleting, losing, or changing votes in the election.

Carlson and Hannity apparently did not take kindly to her public rejection of Trump's messaging.

"Please get her fired. Seriously...What the fuck?" Carlson wrote in a text to his colleagues, according to the filing. "I'm actually shocked...It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It's measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke."

Hannity responded saying he had already sent Heinrich's tweet to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott with a "really?"

After receiving Hannity's message about Heinrich's tweet, Scott wrote in a message to Fox News President Jay Wallace and Fox News Senior Executive Vice President of Corporate Communications Irena Briganti: "Sean texted me — he's standing down on responding but not happy about this and doesn't understand how this is allowed to happen from anyone in news," according to the court filing.

"She has serious nerve doing this and if this gets picked up, viewers are going to be further disgusted," Scott wrote of Heinrich, according to the filing.

By the following morning, Heinrich had deleted her fact-checking tweet, according to the filing.

Later that day, she replaced the removed tweet with a new tweet fact-checking Trump's erroneous Dominion claims in response to a tweet from the then-president which did not directly name her co-workers.
 

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"Please get her fired. Seriously...What the fuck?" Carlson wrote in a text to his colleagues, according to the filing. "I'm actually shocked...It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It's measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke."
Because it wasn't ever about informing the public; it was about spreading lies for profit. And those lies almost led to the death of democracy in this country.
 
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