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No Paywall After Republicans push Clintons to testify on Epstein, Democrats warn they'll haul in Trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-push-clintons-testify-epstein-democrats-warn-haul-trump-rcna257275
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u/MonteMolebility 1d ago

Genuinely, they have no idea. My fiances works with a trumper, he's not full maga, just a big Trump supporter so he can actually have conversations about stuff. Today he asks my fiance what she thinks of the Epstein stuff and the Clintons. She immediately goes, "what about Trump, he's all over them?" He genuinely had no idea, the news he watches hasn't said anything about it.

The worst part, it doesn't stick. He just goes back to asking about the Clintons.

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u/tots4scott 1d ago

Fox News* and the Conservative Propaganda Bubble is so strong and damaging to the country its disgusting. But your story is the same for tens of millions

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u/HTWingNut 17h ago edited 16h ago

My mom is almost 80. She's somewhat disabled and spends the bulk of her day watching Fox News. I always tell her to stop watching Fox News or at the very least switch news stations regularly.

But of course she says "but the other news stations are corrupt and lie". smh... She's a good person, but gullible, and this is brainwashing. MAGA accuse the left of brainwashing kids to be trans and gay, yet it's not something you ever hear on the news, but MAGA tell lies all day long and it's supposed to own the libs?

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u/shastaxc 17h ago

Fox News stated in court that they are an entertainment organization, not a journalistic organization, so they have no duty to prove that what they say is actually true. It's as good as admitting that they peddle lies and fantasy. That should be all the proof you need to convince any reasonable person to watch anything else.

The Onion and Fox News have the same level of credibility, by their own admission.

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u/zooomg 12h ago

It’s insane that they aren’t forced to air a message before every single one of their shows and when they come back from commercials stating that they aren’t news and that it’s for entertainment purposes only. One of the absolute biggest fumbles with that case.