In short
The episode alleges Fox News hosts secretly knew they were spreading false “Stop the Steal” claims about the 2020 election and were dishonest, citing leaked deposition/court documents from Fox’s lawsuits by voting-machine companies (including nearly $1 billion in damages). It also claims these texts show personal corruption and loyalty to Trump despite legal exposure.
Guests/backgrounds
The transcript does not name any podcast guests; it appears to be a two-host discussion (“you” and “she” are referenced), with one speaker quoting texts from Fox personalities.
Key claims
Fox promoted election conspiracies willfully; fact-checking was not done; on-air talent privately disparaged claims and colleagues; media figures are portrayed as beholden to Rupert Murdoch and Trump.
Notable examples
Janine Pirro texts about Albert Pirro’s pardon fight (“selfish bastard… Fuck him”); Pirro describing Sean Hannity’s Oval Office behavior; Brett Baier telling Fox president Wallace that Mariaroto/Bartiromo’s vote-dump claims were false and urging fact-checking; Jesse Watters criticizing Sidney Powell as “lost it”; Watters suggesting Fox go “all in” on Stop the Steal with Greg Gutfeld.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOFox News Lawsuits and Corruption
0:45 to 2:50
Discussion on Fox News being sued over false claims and internal corruption.
“And all of the depositions and the court documents have become public.”
Janine Pirro and Sean Hannity Exposed
2:50 to 4:50
Revelations about Janine Pirro's texts and Sean Hannity's behavior.
“Well, here's one of my favorites because I do not understand Sean Hannity, what the fascination is.”
Rupert Murdoch's Influence
4:50 to 6:10
How Rupert Murdoch's decisions affected Trump's presidency and Fox News's coverage.
“And he says, Wallace was made aware on November 5th, 2020 by Brett Baer via text that Bartiromo tweeted false claims about vote dumps in favor of Biden.”
Jesse Waters and Sidney Powell
6:10 to 8:05
Discussion on Jesse Waters' comments about Sidney Powell and Fox's handling of her.
“And so it's interesting that Rupert then ended up folding again.”
Public Accountability and Media Manipulation
8:05 to 9:40
Exploration of public responsibility in media consumption and accountability.
“If they get in a courtroom, they don't say the same thing because they know it won't hold up.”
Jesse Waters' Texts and Ratings Strategy
9:40 to 11:32
Analysis of Jesse Waters' text to Greg Gutfeld about maximizing ratings.
“You're responsible for what news you watch.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:04All right, everybody knows that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election by literally, I think it's like 8 million votes or something. It wasn't even close. Trump freaked out Kangol's McTaco tits, who now we're calling Kanks for expediency. So Kanks freaks out. He still melts down about it. He still talks about it all the time because all he does is whine, complain, because he's a titty baby. So Fox News gets sued because Fox News starts promoting Trump's conspiracy theories. And they get sued by the voting machine company. And they have to pay the voting machine company, almost$1 billion.
0:43And then there's another company named Smartmatic, right, Pumps? Correct. Smartmatic also sued Fox. And all of the depositions and the court documents have become public. And buried in these documents are statements and text messages from the on-air talent at Fox News as to what they really say behind the scenes and how much they know that they are willfully stupid, willfully dishonest, willfully corrupt, and that they just suck. Okay, so here's the first one. Pet up this guy's tweet. Okay, Janine Pirro. Y 'all know who this one is. She's the one that's always like drunk on wine, bag and trap and, you know, anyway.
1:25She's the U.S. Attorney for D.C. She's unfortunately, yeah, she is the U.S. Attorney for D.C. So Jeremy Barr tweets, Pirro was extremely angry after her ex-husband, Albert Pirro, was not initially on Trump's pardon list. She talked to Eric Trump about it. She texted the girlfriend of Bernard Carrick, who had been pardoned, to call him out. So she texts this girlfriend, and I don't know if she was liquored up or not. I'll leave that for you all to decide in the comments section. But she texts the girlfriend of this guy that was pardoned. You can tell your boyfriend he's a selfish bastard. I fought for his pardon.
2:06Do not call me. Fuck him. I don't care about him. That's the United States attorney for Trump fighting for her husband's pardon, which what did her husband do? Is everybody corrupt? Everybody's corrupt. And I ask myself all the time, how do you, especially as an attorney, like a Pam Bondi, you work for corruption on steroids and then you are defrauding everybody. You're going through, you're firing people that are meant to be ethics advisors and keep people going in the right direction. Well, now I know they're all corrupt and they're all fucking criminals or married to criminals. They're a-okay with criminals.
2:48They are. All right. Tell us what else you found in these juicy tidbits from the documents pumps. Okay. Well, here's one of my favorites because I do not understand Sean Hannity, what the fascination is. The only thing I look at Sean Hannity, I can say this because I'm on GLP ones. He needs to be on Ozempic. It's so past time. Anyway, she says, Sean Hannity is... Wait, Janine Pirro says this. Janine Pirro says, Sean Hannity is an egomaniac. I was in the Oval with Harini talking to POTUS. He storms in like he owns the place, throws his papers on the press desk and says, you don't mind if I use your private bathroom and walks into the bathroom within the Oval and uses it, looks at me and says, I got to talk to him.
3:37I eat, you go. It's all about him, period. No one else matters. How much do you love that Hannity treats Trump like he's a kid? I mean, he just fucking took charge of that. You know, in a way, Trump is so, this is the thing about MAGIT. In a way, like, none of them are really that free. Like, Trump's beholden to Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch could turn this whole thing right now. They could start doing headlines. Trump's cankles. He's on his deathbed. He's talking about he wants to get into heaven. They could fuck him so hard if they were brave and had the balls to do it. And then I think about all these billionaires' pumps.
4:16Yeah. who like you would think like, I'm the CEO of Apple. I've got a yacht. I have a bunch of G5s. I can do whatever the fuck I want. What is he doing? He's taking a participation trophy into the Oval Office, kissing Donald Trump's ass. And I just think this is all an advertisement. Everybody's fucking owned and beholden, but not iHip News. No, viewer, not the gals at iHip News. And then we've got news anchor Brett Baer texted Wallace, who I learned is the president of Fox News. And he says, Wallace was made aware on November 5th, 2020 by Brett Baer via text that Bartiromo tweeted false claims about vote dumps in favor of Biden.
5:04Baer told Wallace, none of this is true as far as we can tell. We need to fact check this crap. And guess what they didn't do, Jennifer? Fact check it. They didn't fact check it. So it cost them almost a billion dollars. But they knew. Of course they knew. But here's the thing you have to remember in 2020. Rupert was done with Trump. And Fox called Arizona on election night, which Trump had no path. No path to 270 with Arizona in it. And that sat in Trump's craw for a very long time because it was the Fox news desk that called it before NBC or any of the others. Fox called it first. And everybody knew if Arizona went to Trump, I mean, went to Biden, it was curtains for Trump because Rupert was done.
5:59He was done. He saw January 6th. He was ready to move on. He can still make billions of dollars by, you know, serving up capitalism and serving up some racism. He just doesn't want it to be this trashy with Trump. Rupert was done with him. And so it's interesting that Rupert then ended up folding again. Oh, yeah. Now they did. And they did. I mean, I remember a lot of people, like even your mother, who's a hardcore MAGA, when Trump, after January 6th, she was like, I'm done. He needs to admit that he lost. But then Fox started drumming up support for him again. And then they all went right back.
6:36She went right back home. Right back home. Yes. And she was like, and then Fox not only did that, they started calling it a death step. And then now they're talking about instead of Epstein, they're talking about Biden or transgender. It's just, they are despicable. Okay. And then here's one. Jesse Waters, he's one of my favorite people to browbeat. He wrote friends and colleagues about Sidney Powell. Now remember, she is released the crack in Sidney Powell. Crazier than a shithouse rat. Everybody knows it. Okay. Jesse Waters says what she is peddling is out there. She's lost it. Fox can't even touch that, which tells me something when he says Fox can't even touch that.
7:14She's radioactive now. She went full Soros at the press conference on November 19th. You never go full Soros. And the minute you drop Soros, the Clinton Foundation, and Venezuela in the same sentence, you lost even me and guess who kept appearing on fox news after november 19th i know it's going to shock you did she or did she appear on newsman no she was on fox she was she was on fox all the way up until uh the certification like in my favorite thing about her was when i guess she i don't know if she was sued or if it was she was tried for a crime i can't remember the details of it but her defense was yeah i said that but i knew that nobody would believe it right because it's unbelievable.
7:59Like what you, what you have is all of the people who say all this bullshit on Fox entertainment news. If they get in a courtroom, they don't say the same thing because they know it won't hold up. And this is one of the primary reasons why Trump is attacking law and order. And it is to confuse and disorient the, the, the public. And, you know, I think about this all the time. My oldest son just started law school. And my husband and I talk about it like, what are they teaching? I agree. I think about that all the time. And then if you think about, as an American, you think about if something's wrong, you think about taking it through the courts and shining a light to disinfect it.
8:41And it's not always perfect. Our judicial system has many flaws, but many advancements for our country have happened through the judicial system. And the fact that the Supreme Court is so beholden to going fascist and that the rule of law is deteriorating before our very eyes, this is one of the pieces to it right here, Pumps. They willfully lie. They're willfully stupid. And most importantly, the people who watch Fox News are willfully stupid. I'm not letting these people off the hook. They are choosing each day to hang on and clamor on to low-hanging fruit and to not be good people. Because for them, being angry and demeaning people is their salve.
9:31I guess that's what calms them. And it's willful on their part. This is a choice that they make every day. We're responsible for what we say here. They're responsible. You're responsible for what news you watch. You're responsible. They're responsible. Republican Party was all about personal accountability. And I'm going to take that from them. And I'm going to hold all of these people personally responsible. All the Latinos for Trump that were like, we didn't think you meant us. What did you fucking think when it said mass deportations now? What did you think? What did you think was going to happen?
10:06Because I read the sign and I thought, oh, they're going to deport a bunch of Hispanic people, whether they have criminal record or not. That's what I deduced from it. Well, yeah. And the Madison Square Garden thing, like it's not that hard. And then we have, and this is just one of my favorites because I hate Jesse Waters and Greg Gutfeld. He called you ugly, so I don't like him. On December 5th, 2020, Jesse Waters texted Greg Gutfeld and says, think about how incredible our ratings would be if Fox went all in on Stop the Steal. So, you know, I Googled the height of Greg Gutfeld after he melted down when I went off about multiculturalism, 5-5 on Google.
10:49No disrespect to any short men out there because not all short men are this way. But I have found that somebody like Greg Gutfeld, I'm like, why is he such a prick? And then I Google their height and then I immediately know, oh, Napoleon complex. It's like a little chihuahua sitting over there going, five, five, which means he's probably five, three, because everybody lies on Google. Yes. He's lying. The best way to support us, if you like our channel, is subscribe, like this video, order our book. It's a great read. It's called Life is a Lazy Susan of Shit Sandwiches. And Kylie has pinned it below in the show notes.
11:30Thank you.
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