Crazy Like a Fox

The revelatory news about material then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, now being held by the House of Representatives in contempt, gave to the House select committee investigating the pro-Trump Capitol insurrection, which showed that Meadows most certainly did help Donald Trump trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election long before January 6, almost (almost) got overshadowed by what the clown car full of primetime hosts over at the Fox News Channel said in texts to Meadows about Trump needing to do something about the insurrection as it was taking place.

(Fox News primetime commentators carpooling on their way to work.)

Like this text from Laura Ingraham: "Mark, the President needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home.  This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy."

(Noted bottle-blonde Laura Ingraham putting on her makeup before going on the air.)

Or how about this text from Sean Hannity?

"Can he make a statement, ask people to leave the Capitol?"

(A headshot of Sean Hannity.)

And then there's text from Brian Kilmeade! 

"Please, get him [Trump] on TV,” he texted. “He's [d]estroying everything you have accomplished."

All of that is in great contradiction to what these hosts were saying about the insurrection after the fact, talking about how it was "not that bad" and that it was a mostly "peaceful" demonstration, and how the violence might have been a left-wing plot instigated by Antifa at the demonstration to make Trump supporters look bad.   These Fox News commentators only make themselves look worse with these texts than any left-wing group seeking to sabotage a peaceful conservative demonstration (which could never happen because conservative demonstrators aren't peaceful - remember the may 1970 Hard Hat Riot in Manhattan?) could ever do.

Oh yeah, Fox News commentators started defending the January 6 insurrectionists on . . . the night of January 6.

The fact that these texts have revealed Hannity, Kilmeade and their evil den mother Ingraham as complete hypocrites and liars are, alas, likely n t have a detrimental effect on their of Fox News' popularity.  The Big Lie about the 2020 election - that the Democrats stole it - is only going to grow until something even worse happens.