Boehlert: ‘FOX News Has Been Getting People Killed for Years;’ It’s ‘a Cancer on this Country’

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BOEHLERT: “Anyone waiting for Rupert Murdoch to do the honorable thing will wait a very long time after someone who has watched him for 20 years. Fox News has been getting people killed for years. Just look at their crusade against affordable health care and expanding Medicaid. This is not unusual for them. It is far more dire. I mean, I’ve been watching and documenting Fox News for 15 years. I mean, they are a cancer on this country. So who knows what they are going to do. Their programming is to vilify and stir hatred. And one thing I think that maybe people don’t understand, you know, they think that Fox News is just a conservative news organization and it is not that dangerous and maybe that is what it was when it started 20 years ago, it is clearly morphing into something far more sinister and it is brainwashing. People say you shouldn’t use that rhetoric, that is an exaggeration. But this is textbook brainwashing. So when people wash Fox News, the hard core viewer, they don’t pick and choose which topics they think they believe or maybe they are not going to believe. They are all in. They believe everything. And so even during a pandemic, people say why would you believe misinformation about a pandemic. They believe misinformation about everything. And that is the danger of Fox News.”