Stretching One’s Imagination

As we go into the first debate of the Republican presidential candidates leading into the 2024 election, presented by Fox News and moderated by two of its hosts (pictured), try to imagine any set of Republicans prior to this one agreeing to appear under the aegis of a “news” source that is clearly and admittedly based on lies.

Fox coughed up close to a billion dollars to settle a defamation lawsuit from plaintiff Dominion Voting Systems, which proved to a jury that Fox News knew that Trump lost the 2020 election, but repeatedly broadcast the lie that the voting was rigged and that Dominion was largely responsible for this crime.

Try to imagine any Republican you can remember: Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, or Bush 43 agreeing to have anything whatsoever to do with such an entity, let alone using it to forward their political careers.

Fast-forward just a few years, and Fox is the very home of the GOP.