Former Fox News Executive Torches Network For Their Loyalty To Trump

A former Fox News executive is speaking out against his former network for their loyalty and fealty to both Donald Trump and his big lie about the 2020 election. But the criticism didn't stop there. The former executive lamented the unnecessary deaths that the network may have caused by downplaying the pandemic, along with the constant misinformation that the network spews around the clock. Farron Cousins discusses this.

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A former executive at Fox news road, an op-ed this week for the daily beast, where he absolutely torched the network that he used to work for. Uh, the former executive man by the name of Preston Patton, who by the way, actually did leave the network more than 20 years ago. But he was with him in the early days, you know, when it was just a budding young network, all, all kinds of possibilities before them. And then of course they made the decision. What if we became this horrible right wing propaganda machine? And yes, it basically was that from the beginning, but patent wants everybody to think. No, it totally wasn't like that. We totally didn't try to give rush Limbaugh a show. So let me write this little op-ed to clear my conscience and to demonize the network, because I think they've gone too far now to try to, you know, distance myself from the thing I helped create. See, this is what me off when me media outlets allow these people to do things like this Fox news. And I'll get to his claims in a minute because his claims true. But I just have to point out the fact that Patton

In his early days at Fox news, this is what the

Network goal was. This is what they wanted to be. They wanted to be a national right wing network. And by God, they did it. And Patton was right there in the early days, every step of the way as an executive, making sure that happens. So, no, you don't get a free pass. Mr. Patton, you help create this patent. Now, by the way, as a lobbyist for Disney, here's some of the claims he makes. And again, I agree with all the claims he makes in the op-ed. I agree with 100% of it, but I'm not going to give him a free pass for what he helped create. Here's some players in recent years, things have gone badly off the tracks at Fox news. Fox news is no longer a truthful truthful center, right? News network of let's be honest, dude, you were never a truthful network. You were always a right-wing network, but truthful. No, that's not something that should ever be used to describe Fox news in the past present future.

He blame Fox news for causing unnecessary deaths during the coronavirus pandemic, as a result of its broadcasting segments, critical of lockdown measures and mask wearing. Okay, that's true too. 100% agree with you there. Fox news has, since the early days of this been pushing, you know, oh, this is tyranny. Oh, you shouldn't have to wear a all foul. She's an idiot. He doesn't know what he's doing. And recently they've been pushing the, maybe felt she's responsible for this through the lab leak theory, but then he went on to talk about you guessed it, Donald Trump. Oh, she went all the networks problems started when they started bowing down to Donald Trump. Of course, my God, Donald Trump is a bigger scapegoat for the Republicans than he is for the Democrats. This point, Republicans use Donald Trump to basically excuse their last 40

Years of horribleness. And they throw

Him up there and we're like, well, things were going fine until Donald Trump. Yeah. It's not like we started a bunch of illegal wars, uh, under Republican rule. It's not like we had a program start that basically put these massive surveillance programs of American citizens, uh, in place under Republicans continued under Democrats, but started under Republicans. He wrote that the network has also backed what he called. Trump's big lie that the election was stolen from him by providing a continuous platform for wild and false claims about the election claims refuted by more than 60 judges, Republican state election officials recounts a numerous states and Trump's own attorney general Fox news, Mr. Direct quote, Fox news has caused many millions of Americans. Most of them Republicans as my wife and I were for 50 years to believe things that simply are not true.