Lately there’s been one story about Fox News after another that would be embarrassing if the network cared about anything but its audience of far right Republicans. If any other network was facing a $1.6 billion lawsuit that had revealed that it
repeatedly aired what hosts and executives knew to be lies, and had then been revealed to have
slipped a presidential campaign its opponent's unreleased ads, there would have been a major house-cleaning at that network. At Fox, not so much. The network isn’t even settling that $1.6 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.
But it does seem like a message is creeping into Fox News coverage that might be a response to all this, an indirect way to instruct its credulous viewers on how to respond. The basic message is: “You’re going to be lied to anyway. You might as well be lied to by us.”
That was the theme of a Hannity segment Wednesday night. Here’s former Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway: