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If I were a billionaire . . .

If you've been watching Fox News since last November, you believe that:

  1. Democratic voter fraud was rampant in the 2020 presidential election, which Donald Trump probably won.
  2. The 1/6 insurrection was a false flag operation of some kind that was planned and carried out by liberals, the FBI, and other parts of the Deep State who then tried to blame it on Trump supporters.
  3. There is no reason to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
  4. Our nation's public schools have been taken over by left-wing teachers who tell white kids that they should all be ashamed of being white.

If I were a multi-billionaire, what would I do with my money? Unfortunately, the really big problems—climate change, national healthcare, racism, etc.—are too big even for a billionaire. Only national governments can really address them.

Instead I would dedicate my fortune to destroying Fox News. I would do it any way I could. Marketing. Lawsuits. Boycotts. Talent poaching. Cable access. Making Rupert Murdoch's life miserable. You name it. Nor would I have any qualms about playing fair. You have a plan for a space-based laser that interferes with Fox News broadcasts and makes them unwatchable? Great! Here's a hundred million to give it a go.

Fox News may have started out with narrower goals, but today it's explicitly aimed at undermining American politics and getting us to hate each other. Why? Because it adds to the fortune of an Australian plutocrat who thinks that plundering the American public is a great way of becoming ever richer. Ditto for the on-air "talent," which has become rich by figuring out ever bigger and better ways of scaring the poor schmoes who trust them.

American politics is unlikely to recover until Fox News is reduced to rubble. Anyone know a billionaire who agrees?

46 thoughts on “If I were a billionaire . . .

  1. bbleh

    ... it adds to the fortune of an Australian plutocrat who thinks that plundering the American public is a great way of becoming ever richer

    True, but even more importantly, it aids in the election of Republican politicians -- who use the confusion, race-baiting, class-warfare, and other "features" of Fox as a distraction while they pursue their political agenda -- and that agenda explicitly aids American corporations and plutocrats to "add to their fortune," remove constraints on their behavior, and exploit both people and resources for their own benefits.

    In other words, Fox is in many ways just an instrument. The real problem is the sociopathic American business and Republican political elite, who don't feel the slightest responsibility for the country as a whole.

    As long as they are not brought to heel, which really only the national government can do (although a few large states like CA can make some difference), the problem will persist, with or without Fox.

    All that said, I don't disagree that Fox should be destroyed, or at least very badly damaged, and it would be a great public service for some billionaire to work hard at that for a while. But in the end, it wouldn't solve the problem.

    1. gesvol

      This. Seems to me as long as there are opportunities to for "plundering the American public" and for on-air talent to get rich by "figuring out even bigger and better ways of scaring the poor schmoes", there will be people stepping up to that plate just to do that. Heck, looks like to me there is already at least 2 "news" networks just waiting for Fox News to falter. In other words, out of the rubble of Fox News would just rise a new conservative "news" network I'm afraid.

      1. J. Frank Parnell

        Trump's original 2016 plan was to lose the election, claim electoral fraud, and then open a news network supporting his claims and poaching viewers from FOX. Alas, like most things Trump does he screwed up and won.

  2. cephalopod

    Your plan to ruin Fox News using legal means (although I'm not sure about the legality of a space laser), is exactly why you'll never be a billionaire.

  3. golack

    Did they ever stop to wonder what would happen if they "won"?
    What would the dollar and their fortunes be worth then?
    Have they already built their lairs?

    1. Michael

      Yes! This is what I’m bothered by through all of this debacle. I can’t really give these guys enough credit for having a plan to survive the apocalypse they’re sowing, yet I wonder how they think this all works out.

  4. hollywood

    If you use a broken windows approach to this, you also have to take down the likes of Ben Stein, Victor Davis Hanson, Conrad Black, Roger L. Simon, Jonathan Turley, Andrew McCarthy, et al.

    1. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

      Like we aren't already seeing that with Twitter's refusal to verify Thomas Chatterton Williams.

      Why do liberals not believe in the first amendment?

  5. Gilgit

    "You have a plan for a space-based laser that interferes with Fox News broadcasts and makes them unwatchable?"

    I've heard from a very reliable source that the Jews already have one of those. Does anyone have their number? If not, try 1-800-illuminuti

  6. George Salt

    Perhaps one or more billionaires should engineer a hostile takeover of Sinclair Broadcasting Group. It's market cap is only $7B or so.

    1. golack

      Great idea. A much more effective play with limited resources.
      But can it be done without enriching those backing it now? It's the new green mail.

    2. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

      The broadcasting company resulting would be known as American Independent Distribution Service.

      Proving once again George Soros is as bad as AIDS.

  7. tigersharktoo

    Why not just infect the entire extended Murdoch clan (Except maybe Jerry Hall) with the Delta variant?

    Should not be too tough for Agent 6-point-5 to accomplish.

    /s

      1. dilbert dogbert

        U'alls say'n I can dump my restaurant grease down the sewer??? You mean I can let my copper smelter blow arsenic out the smoke stack? I can use Benzine to formulate baby oils? My paper mill can dump mercury laden waste into a drinking water source?

          1. jakejjj

            So you're not only a mentally ill "progressive" (the majority of your kind), but lonely for some Latino stiffness? LOL

          2. cld

            It's just that it's so massively inspiring for you, and the time you take to get to know it better will be a better use of your time than anything else you might be doing.

            Ultimately though the issue is people can see when you're not helping, and if you're not helping they're not going to be interested.

  8. skeptonomist

    If Murdoch and Fox News were destroyed, others would take their place (some are trying now). The media landscape is just different from what it was pre-cable in the time of the Fairness Doctrine. Maybe a leftist billionaire could fund a media system that would appeal to swing voters - not just please liberals - but would get liberal messages across better than the current MSM, which are after all controlled by big money.

    1. Michael

      Not really going to work. The capacity to mind meld with Big Lies®️ is largely limited to right wing nutcases. We are progressives because we actually learned how to think.

      1. jakejjj

        Always good to hear from another arrogant, racist "progressive" maricon who thinks it's smarter and better. LOL

        Cordially,

        The Latinx

  9. mistermix

    One thing that would hurt Fox far more than boycotts is mandating that all cable systems be ala carte, meaning subscribers can choose not to have Fox included in their package. I assume the FCC could do this.

    1. cld

      Rather than full a la carte, something like a package where you select the channels but have to pick approximately the number you get in a package now, where you can avoid Fox and other real crap.

      1. jakejjj

        Only if I can avoid ABC, NBC, PBS, CBS, MSNBC, CNN and any other of your communist favorites. LOL.

        Cordially,

        The Latinx

  10. jakejjj

    You have CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, AP, Reuters, Bloomberg, Pravda (NYT), WaPo, and almost every metro legacy newspaper. The result: 21% of Americans trust the media. And Kev, a racist and idiot, wants more. LOL

    1. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

      The Sulzberger Advertiser is effectively El Jefe's publicity shop. I would argue Haberman, Baker, & the rest of the Unusual Gang of Idiots did a better job selling El Jefe than Kellyanne, Bannon, & Stepien.

  11. Justin

    Sure… let’s burn down Fox News. But ultimately I can’t have any impact on such a big corporation. What I can do is tell every Republican I know to go eff themselves. So that’s what I do. I don’t know many Republicans anymore. ????

  12. James B. Shearer

    Be careful what you wish for. Fox News has been losing viewers to channels to their right. You eliminate Fox news you probably won't like what replaces it.

    1. jakejjj

      Hey "progressive" racist, have you seen what's happened to the ratings at your fave communist channels? LOL

  13. ProgressOne

    "If I were a multi-billionaire, what would I do with my money?"

    Get with other billionaires and just buy Fox News, and then reform it. Immediately fire all of their top management and fire the propagandists (Hannity, Carlson, etc.).

  14. Jasper_in_Boston

    I continue to be puzzled at the seeming indifference on the part of many US elites toward the prospect of the arrival of authoritarianism in America. Elites have most to lose from death of rule of law and democratic protections than anyone. They have it pretty good, after all! Just ask Jack Ma.

  15. GrueBleen

    " the fortune of an Australian plutocrat No he isn't. Sure he was born in Australia, but he moved to America and took in American citizenship thus totally revoking any claim to being Australian.

    America granted him the right to do what he's doing, so kindly assign the credit where it's due. But just one small question: could he have achieved it without that real, patriotic American, Roger Ailes ?

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