Thursday, October 06, 2022

The Useful Idiots

William Saletan at The Bulwark has been watching Fox "News" so we don't have to. Today he reports that while the daytime programming is presenting accurate information about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the demimondaines of the Fox evening hours apparently aren't watching. It's too early to call them a fifth column, but ....

Read Saletan's article here.

A sample:

“Putin is making nuclear threats,” [Tucker Carlson] noted. “Whatever the reason he is making them, the fact he is making them . . . is enough for any responsible person to say, ‘Now we stop.’”

Really? We want to make it that easy for Putin?

The Bulwark, by the way, is a web site founded by conservative Republicans (specifically, Sarah Longwell, Charlie Sykes and Bill Kristol) whose loyalty to facts and truth is greater than their loyalty to the Republican Party. Thus, former Republicans.

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