By Harold Pease, Ph.D.
At least 20 years ago I told students that one day Fox News, then the go to network for conservatism, would betray conservatives and become like its news competitors. This was based upon the knowledge that its founder Rupert Murdoch was liberal and only created Fox News because he saw the lack of a conservative news outlet and the money that would come with it. His two sons, even more liberal, would eventually move it left.
From its beginning Fox News never exposed the then existing Deep State organizations the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission or the Bilderberg Group. They spurned the very idea that an invisible government existed as did all the managed deep state presses. The free market, limited government, fiscal responsibility and pro-choice narratives were welcomed, and yes, the Constitution as written, but little more. Their newscasters, notably, Sean Hannity, defended the Republican Party no matter what and Fox News became the voice of the Republican Party.
But signs of Murdoch philosophic support for the Left surfaced in 2020 when Fox News even beat liberal networks in calling Arizona for Joe Biden and the election for him as well. Conservatives were stunned by these early actions despite overwhelming election fraud evidence. This was followed by the firing of one of the networks most popular leading conservative commentators, Lou Dobbs, who openly contested the election.
But Murdoch’s viewing base has become overwhelmingly pro-Donald J. Trump and growing exponentially against the parties RINO faction and is likely to annihilate Joe Biden in 2024. If Murdoch is not careful Fox News could be instrumental in Trump’s reelection. The Left needs Murdoch to slow Trump down. Baring natural or unnatural death, Trump will be reelected president in 2024. Murdoch finds himself in the position of making or breaking Donald Trump as Fox News is Trumps largest base. But to do so he must do damage to his own investment.
Enter Tucker Carlson of Fox News, the most trusted media voice in the nation because of his honesty and boldness in exposing corruption wherever it exists. Carlson was slow to endorse Trump, refused to even look at Sidney Powell’s evidence of China’s Dominion machine influence in the 2020 Presidential election, and disliked Trump as a person. Still, people believed him as he became America’s “most watched host averaging 3.32 million total viewers…also the most viewers in the sought-after 25-54 demographic,” all since “Tucker Carlson Tonight” first aired in November 2016 (“Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News – reportedly fired by Rupert Murdoch,” Sam Levine, The Guardian, 24 April 2023).
Enter the 14,000 hours of video documentation of January 6 given Carlson by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy which totally upended everything the January 6 Select Committee said was true. Chuck Schumer, so angry that America might get to see what they had suppressed for over two years, went off on Rupert Murdoch personally, “Rupert Murdoch could have stepped in but chose not to …I am demanding that he do what he should have done a long time ago ‘Order’ Tucker Carlson, and other hosts on Fox News, to stop spreading the Big Lie.”(X22 Reports hereafter not cited, Ep. 3011b, March 2, 2023, 48:10).
January 6 was not a MAGA insurrection, as the Unselect House committee had said, but instead a fedsurrection complete with over 40 confidential human sources used to frame instead the MAGA people. This, complete with video of government agents, Antifa and others doing the damage while Capitol police ushered the MAGA people into the building. Tucker Carlson, showing some of these videos destroyed the Lefts narrative in less than a week.
According to renowned physician Dr Robert F. Kennedy Jr., five days before Carlson was fired by Fox, he took on another arch deception issue, the vaccine. Carlson acknowledged “that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please their Pharma advertisers. Carlson’s breath-taking courageous April 19, monologue broke TV’s two biggest rules; Tucker told the truth about how greedy Pharma advertisers controlled TV news content and lambasted obsequious newscasters for promoting jabs they knew to be lethal and worthless.” Fox just demonstrated the terrifying power of Big Pharma. (Ep. 3053b, April 24, 2023, 11:22).
The Left fears Tucker Carlson more than any other journalist. His documentation is thorough therefore believed. On the horizon there are many more Deep State secrets he might also reveal. He was already too close to one of these, the Dominion machines and their presumed influence in the 2020 Presidential Election. At the time Dominion was suing Fox News for $1.6 billion because Fox had said that Dominion was manipulating the election via their election system. To settle, rather than fight, Fox News had to pay a defamation lawsuit of $787 million to Dominion. Fox chose to pay the settlement (Ep. 3050b, April 20,2023, 18:14).
But the probable real reason Fox settled was because to fight and win Murdoch would have to join conservatives and prove that it WAS Dominion technology that seated Biden and that Trump actually won the election. Creating a network to profit from conservatives, with whom he disagreed was one thing for Murdoch—even forgivable to his socialist friends—but to be the network responsible for returning to power the man and philosophy that would destroying the Deep State, of which he is a part, is totally unforgivable. The financial loss is collateral damage.
Murdoch accomplished four things by not fighting. 1) Backing out suggests that Dominion influence on the 2020 Presidential election has been debunked. 2) This entitles news organizations not to cover the Dominion issue further. 3) It intimidates less powerful news outlets to publish any further, or new evidence, on the subject, as they too might be sued. And 4) It leaves Dominion in place to do what it did in 2020 again in 2024–18 months from now.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 712
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