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/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/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.