Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. Okay, good people. Today is Friday, November the 14th, and we got a lot to get into.

Now, I have tried this thing on my show where on Fridays, I try to ease up on the news, right?

Because like every other show on the Urban View Network, Channel 126 on series XMs, where

talk empowers and becomes action, every other show on Friday tries to have like a light and airy sort of feel because we're going into the weekend and we want to relax and we want to have fun and be a little foolish and key key. Well, but as much as I try, the news be extra news and extra hard on Thursday. So then by the time I get here, I'm like, well, damn it, I only have two hours to do this show. Every other The show has got three hours. So this is me preparing you to realize that this is not going to be a lightning

podcast. I get here. I'm like, well, damn it, I only have two hours to do this show. Every other show has got three hours. So this is me preparing you to realize that this is not going to be a lightenary podcast episode. Sorry, I try for Fridays. I really, really do. But y'all, the news been newsin. And I want to get into some of these items today. Now, at the time of that I'm recording this. I have not yet done my serious XM show. So maybe I'll be able to squeeze some joy into the show itself.

We've got some great guests coming on for today. Now, at the time of that I'm recording this, I have not yet done my serious XM show, so maybe I'll be able to squeeze some joy into the show itself.

We've got some great guests coming on for today. So we'll see what we can do. But chances are they're going to be dealing with the same sort of disclaimer that I'm giving you all. So you're welcome. But earlier this week, we got a phone call from a caller by the name of Brent. and Brent was basically saying that, you know, we should not be

talking about the news media coming after Trump because Trump is now suing the BBC and the news

media likes to lie. And he was basically saying that the information I was quoting was inaccurate.

And I had to remind him, oh, are you talking about Fox News as your source of news because

you think that Fox News is accurate? And he was basically you talking about Fox News as your source of news because you think that

Fox News is accurate? And he was basically touting the Fox News talking points. And then I had to remind

him that Fox News has had to pay almost a billion dollars in damages, just for one lawsuit

related to the lies that they told about the Dominion voting machines. I had to remind him about

all of the right-wing players who consistently get caught lying in media that he and people like him tend to believe. But wouldn't you know it?

Well, it seems that this week was the time for Brent to make his appearance because we got confirmation

from an outlet known as the New Republic that Fox News has basically been exposed for faking

its coverage of Portland's

riots. You remember the riots. The riots that Donald Trump used as a basis as a pretext for

why he was going to send in members of the National Guard. Well, Portland, Oregon is basically

now considering whether or not they could sue Fox News for defamation, which is something I

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