After Dominion bombshells, Karl Rove’s Fox News meltdown deserves a replay

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WATCH: Karl Rove's 2012 meltdown offers insight into the fiasco Fox News faces with Dominion. (via The ReidOut Blog)

Case documents publicly released on Tuesday reveal more text exchanges that suggest Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham promoted Donald Trump's 2020 election lies despite appearing to suggest in private that the claims were baseless.

There I was: a tall, Black progressive in a room full of Mitt and Ann Romney lookalikes — some besuited, some bejeweled, and others khaki’d down to the socks. I didn’t know it at the time, but the observations I made that day would become useful a decade later — in the present day — with Fox News at the fore of a more prolonged phase of election denialism.

But unless you were at a Republican watch party at the time, you likely missed the discouraged faces. The thinning herd of Republicans holding out hope. The overturned “Romney 2012” posters that peeked out from underneath the dining tables, in stacks that grew by the minute. You likely missed the empty words of encouragement from Arizona lawmakers to fellow conservatives whose hopes had all but petered out late into the evening..

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