Fox News hosts exposed in texts

True nature is revealed in released messages

Any rational person reading the latest batch of text messages from Fox News hosts released as part of the $1.6 billion defamation suit against the network by Dominion Voter Systems will come to one inescapable conclusion:

Fox viewers didn’t watch enough Oprah.

If they had (or if their parents had) they would have seen or heard about the show in the late 1990s when Oprah had the author Maya Angelou as a guest and Angelou passed along what Oprah called her “most important life lesson.”

Angelou told her, “When people show you who they are, believe them.”

In their messages to one another, and in the depositions given for the Dominion lawsuit, the phonies at Fox show you exactly who they are.

Here’s host Tucker Carlson on Donald Trump: “I hate him passionately ... What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.”

Here’s Carlson again, talking about the years Trump was president, writing, “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn’t really an upside to Trump.”

He also calls lawyer Sidney Powell, the election conspiracy kook and frequent guest on Fox programs, a “lying f---ing b----.” And Carlson admits there is no evidence of a stolen election.

Fellow primetime host Laura Ingraham in a message calls Powell “a complete nut” and says, said “no one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy (Giuliani).”

When reporters at Fox debunked false claims of election fraud Ingraham wrote, “We are officially

working for an organization that hates us.”

Hosts Sean Hannity and Steve Doocy had similar complaints.

Hannity, who was angry with reporters for doing their jobs, said, “‘News’ destroyed us.”

“Every day,” Doocy replied. “You don’t piss off the base,” Hannity said.

“They don’t care. They are JOURNALISTS,” Doocy texted back.

Golly, journalists doing their jobs. How terrible.

In a deposition with Dominion lawyers Fox, Chairman Rupert Murdoch was asked, “You’ve never believed that Dominion was involved in an effort to delegitimize and destroy votes for Donald Trump, correct?”

He answered, “I’m open to persuasion; but, no, I’ve never seen it.”

Likewise, former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis has admitted that she spread false information about a stolen election.

Responding to the release of the latest texts from the Dominion lawsuit, Fox issued a statement calling it “further distortion and misinformation.”

The Fox hosts said what they said and wrote what they wrote. They can’t deny it. And as Maya Angelou said, “When people show you who they are, believe them.”

No.

It it’s all there in black and white. The Fox hosts said what they said and wrote what they wrote. They can’t deny it.

And as Maya Angelou said, “When people show you who they are, believe them.”

Reach Montini at ed.montini@arizonarepublic.com.