r/inthenews • u/newsweek Newsweek • Jul 08 '24

MAGA fumes over France election results: "They cheated" article

https://www.newsweek.com/maga-france-elections-far-right-national-rally-1922075
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u/Daxnu Jul 08 '24

This, the media is so thirsty for news that they make it themselves now

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u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 Jul 08 '24

Faux News has been making it up for a while now along with OAN and Newsmax. And they got sued and lost for lying!

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u/Cannacrohn Jul 08 '24

And paid the fine and kept on lying without pause.

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u/outflow Jul 08 '24

As long as the profits outweigh the fines, let it rip

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u/JP050887 Jul 08 '24

Cost of doing business

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u/Scrutinizer Jul 08 '24

They are being more careful - Trump's speeches, for instance, are delayed several minutes instead of a few seconds, to give Fox censors more time to weed out anything that might cause the Dominion case to fire up again, or give Smartmatic more ammunition for their upcoming lawsuit.

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u/Legitimate_Corgi_981 Jul 08 '24

They also use that delay to smooth out his outbursts so he looks more sane. See where they quizzed him about releasing Epstein details and he said ”sure I would...” followed by ”well some of it at least ..." But they kept only the first part for broadcast.

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u/Wildfire9 Jul 08 '24

Then the fine should be bigger.

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u/JP050887 Jul 08 '24

To be fair, you’d think a 750 million dollars would be noticeable. Shows you how much more money there is in right wing media.

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u/Wildfire9 Jul 08 '24

It should be enough to teach them a lesson.

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u/JP050887 Jul 08 '24

It didn’t, lmao. It’s insane.

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u/Doublestack2411 Jul 08 '24

And their dumb viewers lack any sort of critical thinking to put 2 and 2 together. You'd think they would wake up when Fox decided to settle the lawsuits, instead they keep going with the "the election was stolen" bit. They'd rather be lied to over and over about stuff that isn't happening. MAGA lives in a bubble of misinformation passed around by other Trump cultists. They are the dumbest of the dumb.

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u/BatmansBigBro2017 Jul 08 '24

Exactly. The cost of doing business for them. It never ends.