Fmr. Fox News Politics Editor Says Fox News Hosts Were Acting as ‘Arm of Republican Party’ with Text Messages to Meadows

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STIREWALT: "So, here's the deal. What they were doing that night and thereafter was spinning for Republicans, right? They were saying, 'Oh, well, maybe it was Antifa. Actually, the election was a mess. What about this?' And then eventually we would end up with the 'Patriot Purge' stuff that Tucker Carlson did and all of these things. So, on the one hand, you could say that they were functioning as an arm of the Republican Party. But what you could really say is that what they're advising for the Republican Party isn't even good for Republicans. The right thing for Republicans to have done on January 6 was to take a step back. 'Uh-oh! What did we do? This got way out of hand!' But that's not good for TV. That's not good for revenue. Because if you say to people, 'Things have gotten out of hand here. We need to reassess what we're doing and we need to take some blame for ourselves, we need to look at our part of this,' that doesn't keep people tuned in because what you're telling them is the last thing that these viewers want to hear, which is, 'You have a part in this too. And you need to think about that.'"