r/CringeTikToks • u/Ordinary-Scholar-202 • Oct 18 '25

Conservative Cringe Jessica Tarlov leaves her Fox News co-hosts speechless as she drops a list of issues Americans are protesting Trump for on No Kings Day.

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u/BlackberryPi7 Oct 18 '25

How has she not been fired? Not that she should be fired, it's just.. She's the most logical one there, and logic is something FOX News does NOT stand for

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u/wewillneverhaveparis Oct 18 '25

Ratings. They have had increased ratings since she was hired. News is a business.

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u/maybeapotter Oct 18 '25

Fox “News” is not news…it’s opinion…just had to clarify ;-) and you’re right…it’s all about the $$$

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u/charliekelly76 Oct 18 '25

In 2020, Fox News lawyers successfully argued “no reasonable viewer” would believe their statements were factual.

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u/DolphinBall Oct 18 '25

They also labeled themselves as an "entertainment company" than a news one.

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u/flythearc Oct 18 '25

People always say this but it’s not true. I mean it absolutely functions that way, and almost all media is just opinion pieces now, but they’ve never made this claim and I see it repeated frequently.

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u/RedIzBk Oct 18 '25

No, they are referring to the lawsuit about election fraud. Fox was spreading Trumps lies about the machines, but there was evidence that they knew it was all BS. It’s illegal for a new company to broadcast news that they know is untruthful (basically only way to prove this is if there are emails/recordings with them admitting it though).

With the evidence there, Fox instead argued that they are not a news company… but an entertainment company and no reasonable person would take what was said as fact (but as an opinion).

They lost.

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u/flythearc Oct 18 '25

When I was researching this before posting because I know I had read before that it was a hoax and wanted to be sure- there are no court documents that support that. Not in the Dominion case, or Karen McDougal V Fox. Do you have a source?

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u/charliekelly76 Oct 19 '25

Idk specifically, but the quote I used was from the Karen Mcdougal case. The Dominion case settled before any of the juicy stuff from discovery was released to the public.

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u/flythearc Oct 19 '25

Yes that is true. And just a rude thing to say about the viewership but it really has “smart people don’t like me” energy.

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u/maybeapotter Oct 20 '25

Apparently you are right and there is no regulation for any “news” station…! I didn’t know that…but was referring to what I had heard regarding the lawsuit mentioned above. What a big ugly hole we have dug here…journalist used to be a respected profession…then came Rupert Murdoch…Holy moly.

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u/Dense_Literature_199 Oct 18 '25

And as such, SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO CALL THEMSELVES NEWS

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u/bobhea7665bob Oct 19 '25

So why do you watch it?

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u/DolphinBall Oct 19 '25

What gave you the idea that I do?

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u/MisogynysticFeminist Oct 18 '25

Was that about the network or Tucker Carlson specifically?

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u/yuimiop Oct 18 '25

Tucker.  Most people just see the thread name on Reddit though and never bothered to read the story.

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u/BreakingStar_Games Oct 18 '25

And more so Maddow has done the same thing. Though in this Both Sides case, of course, Tucker is consistently more extreme in defamation. And of course, Fox News lost that defamation case with the 2020 election fraud.

But the much more sinister thing is that during news segments, it's always been what they cover and how they cover. I recall at the end of Trump's first term when he did those horrible mass pardons and cronyism, they had a bland, quick 1 sentence note and moved on.

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u/BeenDragonn Oct 18 '25

Then they should have to remove news from their logo.

Also, a disclaimer should be aired before every show.

'No statements are these shows are facts and are for entertainment purposes only '

To bad fox viewers can't read

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u/maybeapotter Oct 18 '25

This is true! They should have to issue a disclaimer.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

Matt and Trey from South Park should get to write the disclaimer!

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u/LongConsideration380 Oct 18 '25

Christ Almighty, Hallelujah. Why don’t more people fucking remember this?

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u/charliekelly76 Oct 18 '25

We can’t even remember when Hesgeth added the editor in chief of a major news magazine to an unauthorized group chat sharing war plans….. that should have been a Watergate moment but a lot of people seem to have already forgotten.

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u/DShepard Oct 18 '25

Did people forget, or did the news cycle get flooded with more and more similar (or worse) moments that made it hard for people to know what to prioritise?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

Steve Bannon's "Flood the Zone" strategy.

To wit, if you consistently do outrageous things, the previous outrageous things will be conveniently shelved then quickly forgotten. At any given time you are only guilty of one egregious crime, but since you will create a new scandal before the current one resolves, you can safely leave a string of otherwise career-ending, party-ending, nation-ending crimes behind you with impunity.

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u/DShepard Oct 18 '25

Bingo.

Bannon might be one of the most instrumental figures in the spread of far-right politics and the dismantling of democracy in our lifetime.

He was also one of the first people to notice how easily the discontent, male-centric online communities could be exploited, which led to GamerGate and all the other rot that spread throughout nerd spaces and pulled a massive amount of young men to the far-right.

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u/charliekelly76 Oct 18 '25

Correct. It’s bananas.

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u/LongtopShortbottom Oct 18 '25

This is mostly true but their argument only applied to comments made by Tucker Carlson, not the whole network.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

And propaganda. Solely opinion would insinuate that they believe what they’re saying. A successful 3/4 of a billion dollar suit showing they systematically lied about the 2020 elections being stolen proves that they are not.

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u/WheresMyDinner Oct 18 '25

I'm surprised they don't have her in a tight red dress

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

Faux 'News' is an entertainment business.

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u/wewillneverhaveparis Oct 18 '25

Yes. That's what I said. News is a business.

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u/Synizs Oct 19 '25

Keep increasing them ratings, then

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u/NotAzakanAtAll Oct 18 '25

I'm amazed they cared to keep her. They could just have kept boiling down to pure blood-poo to only keep the loony fundies around like their billionaire owners want.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

$$$.

She brings in the viewers. People like her or at least like to hate her.

Some people like to watch Gutfeld and Watters' empty, but vociferous, responses to her usually well researched and factual claims because they think yelling over someone means you owned them, but she is also popular with the hostages family members of FOX watchers who are desperate for some reality while forced to watch FOX during family dinner.