In a recent post, Mourning Lots of Unvaccinated Texans, I wrote about the people who died from COVID-19 because they refused vaccinations: maybe taking (one’s) medical advice from Fox News wasn’t such a great idea after all.
But we live a country in which free enterprise is the law of the land. Does Fox havethe right to disseminate whatever disinformation it chooses, if by so doing it makes money? After all, what does “free speech” mean as we find it in the First Amendment to our constitution?
Well, this “law of the land” is not absolute. After all, Fox did have to shell out $778 million to Dominion Voting Systems following an agreement to settle the defamation case; Fox had repeatedly broadcasted what they knew for a fact to be false, that the plaintiff had rigged its election machines to “flip votes” from Trump to Biden.
Maybe the take-away is this: if you have no integrity and you’ll do whatever it takes to come out on top, roll the dice and take your chance. It cost Fox close to a billion dollars.
Here, As anyone could have foreseen, however, there are a couple of major issues:
1) Like every other state in the nation, Colorado has in-person polling places. Here are their FAQs.
2) As explained in this piece by PBS, there are dozens of countries that allow mail-in voting.
Do you think the Australians or the Japanese are raising hell, claiming that their elections are rigged, that they are experiencing massive voter fraud? No. That’s because they don’t have major candidates who are pathological liars, and electorates that are composed of about 50% gullible fools.
The words at left are 100% correct.
Yet, Trump has one capability that’s rarely if ever seen: He can invent stories that have no basis in fact–and convince tens of millions of Americans that they’re true.
Trump flip-flops? Who cares? Anyone who believes a single word coming out of his mouth is an idiot.
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