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Kurt Eichenwald @kurteichenwald
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1. An astonishing thing happened on @FoxNews. Well, not astonishing. It shows the decades the GOP has spent spewing bogus conspiracy theories to its base. It shows why reason and evidence can no longer reach these people. It shows that Fox is NOT a news network, but pure....
2...propaganda. I know we all know this, but this demonstrates how easily they recite alternate realities completely unsupported by facts to create imaginary demons in the democratic party. The villain in this one was @Judgenap Andrew Napolitano, who spewed despicable lies....
3...to remind us all of the first time the GOP danced on the grave of a dead man to spin conspiracy theories for their base. (The second deaths they virtually celebrated by lying endlessly were our heroes at Benghazi.) This one involved the former White House counsel under....
4...Bill Clinton, a man named Vince Foster. He was found dead in Fort Marcy Park in Virginia shortly into the Clinton Administration. Within minutes of the news that his body had been discovered, I received a call from a political hack proclaiming that Hillary and Foster were....
5....lovers, that they had an apartment together, and that he had been murdered in the White House. He had literally no proof of this very detailed claim. Within hours, these same allegations were everywhere. GOPers jumped on it - the Arkansas Project started spinning insane....
6...conspiracies. Jerry Falwell put together a movie saying Foster had been murdered by using other junk conservatives were telling each other. While running for office, Trump declared that he believed Foster had been murdered. Then, last night, @Judgenap said this on Fox....
7..." (Hillary Clinton) comes in with Brett Kavanaugh as well. You remember Vince Foster who killed himself in the White House. How did his body get from the White House to Fort Marcy Park? Who was the prosecutor in charge of figuring out how his body got there. Who was the....
8...prosecutor that exonerated Hillary and the thugs that moved his body: a young Brett Kavanaugh. So that’s going to come out.” All of this, every damn word, is a lie. @FoxNews will never correct it. Propaganda stations don't. Hillary was not investigated. No one - NO ONE -....
9...ever found a shred of evidence that Foster died in the white house and was moved to Fort Marcy. They "cleared" everyone because there was no one even to clear. There were five official investigations into Foster's death (like I said, it was the first Benghazi where GOP....
10...danced on graves for politics. The US Park Police concluded ""The condition of the scene, the medical examiner's findings and the information gathered clearly indicate that Mr. Foster committed suicide." The coroner and first Whitewater Independent Counsel concluded ...
11..."The overwhelming weight of the evidence compels the conclusion ... that Vincent Foster committed suicide in Fort Marcy Park on July 20, 1993." Two congressional committees - one led by a Republican - concluded Foster committed suicide in Fort Marcy Park. The committee...
12...headed by democrats had a minority report put out by GOP - they ALSO said Foster committed suicide in Fort Marcy Park. Then, the SECOND whitewater independent counsel, Ken Starr, concluded four years after Foster's death that he had committed suicide in the park. On the...
13...release of this, Foster's family lambasted the Republicans for dragging this out and using their dead family member as a political game. So, five investigations, five identical conclusions. But on @FoxNews, and with @Judgenap reality has no basis. No, with NO evidence....
14...they proclaim that HILLARY was let off the hook by prosecutors who failed to indict based on GOP conspiracy theories, that Foster was murdered in the White House and dragged to the park. It is disgusting on so many levels. Fox viewers have been hearing this garbage....
15...for more than 20 years. @FoxNews KNOWS they are lying. They KNOW there is nothing supporting what they say. But they say it again and again as if it is fact. This is why so many Fox viewers will tell you that Hillary is a murderer - because GOP made it up and Fox spun that..
16...lie for decades. I do not blame the viewers. They are told lie upon lie - the hosts lie the way others breathe. @Judgenap states an utter falsehood, and no one corrects it on air. Maybe if I slam them, they might. They do that when they are embarrassed. But they KNOW they...
17...are lying. This is why Fox viewers are in a different world - they watch programs packed with lies, which tell them "dont believe any other news source because they are all part of a conspiracy to hide the truth" and since the lies appear nowhere else, the viewers believe...
18...it. We as a nation cannot survive long term from the Murdoch business model of sparking rage addiction with utter falsehoods. But we also have to recognize - the people divorced from reality are Fox's victims, not our enemies. People subjected to relentless propaganda....
19...and the constant message that everyone else is lying will often drink the koolaid. They dont know whats real anymore, because @foxnews spins endless falsehoods based on nothing. They cannot see what is happening now, because Fox lies about it. Sometimes, I have believed....
20...@Judgenap has acted with intellectual integrity. Let's see if he bothers to correct his grotesque lie, unsupported by any evidence, but accepted as "fact" on Fox because dancing on Foster's grave with bogus conspiracy theories brought high ratings to talk radio in the 90s.
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