Tucker's Ex-Producer: Fox Viewers Are A Bunch Of 'Cousin F*ckers'
Tucker Carlson and other Fox News personalities knew that Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election. They all knew, but they continued to spoon-feed their viewers dangerous lies about the election and hosted conspiracy theorists like the Kraken lady Sidney Powell, who one Fox star noted in a text that her evidence of voter fraud was "kooky."
Dominion Voting Systems is suing the network for a whopping $1.6 billion for defamation. So, why would the network continue to air such flagrant lies? Money. Ratings. And they did not respect their viewers.
Raj Shah, who had served as a senior aide in Trump's White House for two years before his hiring at Fox, said in a text about Rudy Giuliani's speech that featured the former New York City mayor with hair dye running down his face: "This sounds SO F------ CRAZY btw."
Via The Washington Post:
So when a Fox News reporter went live on air just after Giuliani's news conference concluded and declared that some of what the president's lawyer had said was "simply not true," Shah reacted with alarm.
"This is the kinda s--- that will kill us," he texted the deputy. "we cover it wall to wall and then we burn that down with all the skepticism."
But he knew that the election was fair. And Tucker Carlson's producer at the time, Alex Pfeiffer, thought Carlson's viewers were a bunch of dumb cousin fuckers.