Fox News Is Literally Killing Its Viewers

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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“They are literally killing their viewers. I don’t think there’s any doubt about that,” says The New Abnormal co-host Andy Levy. “It was really interesting to see actual correlations between Trump voting counties and Fox News viewership and rates of death from COVID. It’s just amazing what they're doing." “Fox News has one job, right?” says Molly. “Get Republicans in power, keep them in power. So it's worth branching out into the idea that like Tucker Carlson is the kind of the spiritual leader of the GOP these days.” Andy says. Speaking of Fox hosts, The New Abnormal producer Jesse Cannon notices that in the midst of testing positive for COVID and then continuing to dine out in New York, Jesse Waters made sure to interview Sarah Palin from her hotel room, even though they’re in the city. Whatever the network says about COVID, its strict protocols for its own talent and building shows what they really think. Plus, Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent talks about how Glenn Youngkin managed to convince Virginians that school board members trying to follow the law were “power-mad bureaucrats who are trampling on the rights of virtuous parents,” and Stanford Prof. Michael Rosenfeld, the author of The Rainbow After the Storm: Marriage Equality and Social Change in the U.S , explains how America went from 11% support for marriage equality in 1988 to about 70% now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.6	Hi, I'm Molly John fast no relationship to Kim Jong Un. I'm a left wing pendant and a writer at the Atlantic info and I'm Andy Levy
0:41.6	former Fox News and CNN HLN guy and current cable news conscientious objective and I produce suggested cat
0:48.1	And I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails. We're here to have fun smart conversations with the wisest and
0:54.8	funniest people in science and media and politics that help make what's happening today clearer our world has been turned upside down
1:02.4	And on the new abnormal we'll talk about the people who got us into this mess and how we'll hopefully get ourselves out of it.
1:08.1	What a great show we have today. Greg Sargent of the Washington Post Plumline book will join us to talk about the latest in fuckery.
1:14.5	Then we're going to talk to the brilliant professor of sociology at Stanford University Michael Rosenfeld who recently
1:20.3	penned the book the rainbow after the storm marriage equality and social change in the United States.
1:25.2	But first let's have some fun Andy Levy Molly John fast so last night I was on Sean Hannity.
1:31.0	Oh good for you making the rounds promoting the newsletter.
1:35.7	That's right they love me on those Fox opinion shows.
1:38.9	Do you have a estranged elderly conservative relative you were trying to communicate with?
1:45.1	No I don't. I thought that was the only channel you could get to them through.
1:49.3	But I did have an opportunity to see that sort of flash of a picture of me on Fox News.
1:58.0	Like someone from media matters texted to me and I thought oh shit it's going to be the beginning of like a death threat.
2:05.8	Like a you know a sort of 4-chann death threat news cycle for me.
2:10.7	But luckily it turns out Sean Hannity's viewers are much less death-ready than Tucker Carlson or
2:19.7	Laura Ingraham's viewers so it was a delight.
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