The Swamp

Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 2:49 am Every time this thread is bumped my immediate reaction is "Yes! Fox News is dead!"

n a Friday last August, Sean Hannity flew his private helicopter to Trump National Golf Course in Colts Neck, New Jersey, to attend the wedding of Fox & Friends weekend host Pete Hegseth and Fox producer Jennifer Rauchet. Inside Fox, the wedding had been a topic of much discussion. Hegseth and Rauchet reportedly had an affair and a child together while still married to their respective spouses. But Hannity’s helicopter arrival, a Trumpian piece of theater, was what one former Fox executive remembered most about the event. “Hannity emerged from the chopper with [Fox & Friends host] Ainsley Earhardt, and they made this grand entrance together,” the former executive recalled. “People were like, Wow, okay.”

It was as if Hannity and Earhardt were the first couple of Fox News—which they are. Four current and former Fox News staffers told me that Hannity and Earhardt are dating—and have been for quite some time. Hannity and Earhardt aren’t acknowledging their relationship to colleagues, but two Hannity friends told me they have observed them together in social situations where they’ve acted like a couple. “I knew they were involved. I saw it when we were all together,” a Fox staffer told me. “It wasn’t even that hidden,” a Hannity friend said. According to the staffer, Earhardt has been hosting Fox & Friends during the coronavirus from a remote studio in the basement of Hannity’s Long Island mansion. Earhardt also uses Hannity’s lawyer as her television agent, two sources said.

Fox News’s decision to crop Trump out of an Epstein picture – and subsequent expression of regret – echoed a decision by Trump’s son Eric Trump to tweet a picture of Maxwell attending Chelsea Clinton’s wedding.

“Birds of a feather,” Eric Trump wrote, accompanying a picture of Maxwell watching former president Clinton walk his daughter up the aisle.

After many observers pointed to numerous pictures and videos of Eric Trump’s father with Epstein, the tweet was deleted.

Observers also shared a New Yorker profile of Donald Trump from 1997, which described Maxwell “bumming a ride” to Mar-a-Lago on Trump’s private plane, on which Eric Trump, then 13, was also a passenger.

“Eric Trump, who tweeted earlier about Bill Clinton and Ghislaine Maxwell, was literally himself on his dad’s private jet with her,” wrote the journalist Mehdi Hasan. “FFS. You cannot make this stuff up.”

Fox News said: “On Sunday, 5 July, a report on Ghislaine Maxwell during Fox News Channel’s America’s News HQ mistakenly eliminated President Donald Trump from a photo alongside then Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell.

“We regret the error.”

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:27 am She looks like someone else Ray Liotta fucked in "Goodfellas".

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 9:08 am “A WHORE LIVES IN YOUR BUILDING!!”

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 8:27 am She looks like someone else Ray Liotta fucked in "Goodfellas".

rass wrote: ↑Tue Nov 16, 2021 9:58 am Maybe I've reached the limits of my cynicism and think she's just that dumb.

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Nov 16, 2021 10:23 am The producers would have cut that off 45 seconds before the end of the clip.

rass wrote: ↑Tue Nov 16, 2021 9:45 am

sancarlos wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 6:26 pm Well done, Dave. You''ve got viral!

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 9:48 pm That's great.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:16 am The Dominion case is going to fuck with Fox for many many moons. Now you've got a Tucker Carlson producer with receipts, proving that they all knew they were lying about the machines being hacked.