Timothy Birdnow

Trump adviser Peter Navarro explains why Maria Bartiroma was firedby Fox News and their CEO Suzanne Scott.

It was because Bartiroma was going to do a big segment on Trump's vote fraud speech.

I've mentioned this before but this article shares more details. Bartiroma was going to come clean on the fraud, lay out the case, and Fox wants nothing to do with that. The ostensible argument is they were sued by Dominion and gave up a huge settlement (something that probably wouldn't have happened had they fought it - news outlets can call you a a public masturbating, cross dressing pedophile and you normally don't win in court, and if you do you will never collect) but I don't believe that.

I've long argued BOTH PARTIES want the fraud if it is necessary to keep these elections razor thin. The GOP wants it because it makes the RINO wing irreplaceable, and indeed we saw this with John Cornyn in Texas, whom the Republicans insisted we had to keep just so we could retain control of the Senate. Now they haven't given a penny to his replacement, Ken Paxton, because they are mad and want Paxton to lose - even at the cost of the Senate - so they can tell us they know best and we have to accept their superior political judgment. It's always a matter of telling us to shut up until election day and then we have to turn out and support their candidates, the ones we hate.

Fox is a RINO operation, especially with this Suzanne Scott chick (women CEO are the worst for turning organizations hard left) at the helm. I suspect she's going to slowly but surely flip the network, make it more to the liking of the younger Murdoch who wants to be one of the "beautiful people" and be a part of the intelligentsia.

I usually flip on the news in the morning and tune to Fox but quickly tire of it - it's full of fluff pieces these days and also rotten with commercials (and I have to pay to watch commercials!) I usually change to Newsmax (which is better but also commercial ridden and has a fair amount of fluff) or OAN, which is hard news but annoys me with all the English accents and emphasis on the stock market and whatnot. We need an Aviary for cable television.

At any rate Bartiroma was a fine journalist and I often watched her, even she was on Fox Business and not Fox itself (I find business news dull). She deserved better.

I get why they fired Tucker Carlson now; he is a real piece of work. But they fired O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Meghan Kelly (who no doubt should have been sacked too) and others and usually for going too far to the Right. Fox does not want to be truly "fair and balanced" but rather wants to offer just enough red meat to the Conservatives to keep them coming back but not go into the citadel of Leftism.

As I've said before, Fox was intended to be a safety valve for the public to let off steam; the rest of the media pushed and pushed and Fox was to provide a place where the public, angry and annoyed at left wing media bias, could go and feel our voices were being heard. At the same time it provided a boogeyman, a specter of evil for the Left. It's sole purpose in that regard was to be to be Emmanuel Goldstein from Orwell's 1984, an existential enemy that the Left could use to rally themselves around. As Saul Alinsky said, radicals need to "pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." It's very hard to fight a belief or an idea, but it's much easier to fight a man or an organization. Fox was intended to provide an institution to fight, and when Conservatives present information at odds with what these people gleaned from the mainstream media they can sneer and call us mind-numbed robots for listening to Fox or Rush Limbaugh, or now Donald Trump.

And while we are fighting over things like Fox News the real enemies are the "moderates" in both parties who quietly moved the country ever leftward. We are at a point where what we consider a moderate today would have been called a socialist just twenty years ago.

It's how it has worked and this practice has gone on a long time. Cable broke the monopoly of the big networks on news sources and the old print media - driven by the New York Times and the Associated Press, and so this new model was created using Fox as the counterweight.

The internet presented a much harder nut to crack because you could get news unfiltered, and a number of other Conservative news networks were born to compete with Fox. But the Left has found a way to control the internet with it's dominaion of search engines and control of social media news feeds, and once again the right finds itself on the outside looking in to a degree. This website is a classic example; once it had a fairly high rating as blogs go, but Google changed it's algorithms and disappeared us (same happened to the Gateway Pundit). Last I checked we were somewhere around the three millionth rating; we had been in the top ten thousand of ALL blogs, including commercial news sites and whatnot. Now it feels like I'm a guy on a deserted island shouting into an empty sea.

At any rate I'm too hard-headed to quick, like most of the other old-time blogs have done. I make no money with this site, nor do I plan to in the future. I'd have to actually hire a computer consultant to put the ads on and make sure the site is protected and debugged. Oh, and I'd have to get some writers other than myself and pay them. Right now my "staff" does it on a volunteer basis so when I'm off I might get a post or two out of them but by and large they have their own lives to live and they are just working on a volunteer basis after all.

At any rate I've long wondered if this site is worth maintaining. I don't do original reporting here, by and large, just opinions on the news stories of the day. I spend a lot of time trying to hunt up unusual or different stories, but they are still coming from others. I am not a John Solomon.

Anyway Fox is a duplicitous network and we had best take them with a huge grain of salt. We need to develop our own networks. If I were thirty years younger I'd try to do that. I'd get into podcasting, among other things, but I'm not and I have some health issues and this is probably the best you'll get out of me.

Maria Bartiroma is welcome as a columnist here any time she likes! I fear she woul dhave to take a sizable pay cut though.

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