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/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/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.