Fox News’ viewership is declining at a rapid pace they’ve never experienced.
It all began when they turned on former President Donald Trump.
And CNN could shut down Fox News for good after making one outrageous claim.
Fox News caved under pressure from the radical Left, and the Republican establishment.
After the media reported Joe Biden’s win, they jumped completely on board with the narrative, even calling some states for Biden before networks like CNN did.
Fox News refused to allow hosts to bring up the very real evidence of voter fraud.
And in some cases, they outright mocked those questioning the election results.
In turn, Fox News has seen a huge decline in viewership, with CNN even having more average viewers than they do.
And CNN sees this, and is trying to put the final stake through the heart of their competitor.
CNN’s Chris Cuomo brought New York Times columnist Tom Friedman on air to talk about how they can take down Fox News for good.
Friedman has a long record of outrageous statements, like when he called Republicans “un-American whores putting a bullet in the country,” and the “biggest threat to our democracy since the Civil War.”
Now he is targeting Fox News, insisting that they gave Trump supporters “permission” to be terrorists, similar to radical Islamist suicide bombers.
He compared Fox News’ pro-Trump coverage as similar to those promoting terrorist ideas to Muslim extremists, saying, “I really draw on the experience now these days of the whole war against Muslim extremism after 9/11. And I tell you the biggest thing I learned from that. That you need a war of ideas and it’s got to come from within.”
He went on to insist that Fox News needs to lose the ability to give “permission” to so-called terrorists.
“We need to take that permission away,” Friedman said. “Just Trump leaving will be at the beginning of that. But the ecosystem, the Fox News permission givers, the whole ecosystem has to say this is off. This is wrong. You are not proud boys, you’re dumb boys. It has to come from within the right and that is what we all have to be calling for as journalists, as politicians, and, Chris, as business leaders.”
To do that, he calls on the business community to defund the network, saying, “The American business community has got to tell every one of these shows if you are promoting a big lie, we are taking the money away. That’s what a war of ideas is all about.”
CNN sees that Fox News is in a weak position now.
And they may be able to succeed in taking them down at this point.
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