On the recordMarch 8, 2023
last night, additional new evidence came to light that Rupert Murdoch and FOX News knew Donald Trump lied about the 2020 election. Yet they allowed the Big Lie to air on their network all the same. More and more evidence keeps pouring out that these are the undisputed facts. I have never heard of a news organization push a story with such intensity while acknowledging, very candidly behind the scenes, that what they were peddling was total balderdash. In one email just revealed last night, Mr. Murdoch admitted sometime after January 6 that ``maybe Sean and Laura went too far,'' referring to prime-time hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. In another instance published in last night's Washington Post, Mr. Murdoch speculated that after losing the election, Donald Trump was going ``increasingly mad.'' Murdoch said Donald Trump is going ``increasingly mad,'' and then Murdoch worried that President Trump's allies' plans to overturn swing State results ``sound ridiculous'' and could lead to ``riots like never before.'' Murdoch, the head of FOX News, allowing these lies to continue, worries that they could lead to ``riots like never before.'' But it is not enough for Mr. Murdoch to express doubt and regret in private, which is continuing to be documented, because today, after he makes these expressions of doubt and regret and is very pejorative of his own newscast and newscasters, the Big Lie still has a home at FOX News, Mr. Murdoch's station--news network.…





