Mike Lindell and Fox News have a sado-masochistic, symbiotic relationship unlike any other. Lindell can’t live without Fox News. He knows that. He left them for a while and then had to go crawling back because “not everybody does direct marketing advertising.” True enough.
Fox News for their part loves Lindell’s money. But they don’t love it enough to let him dictate programming to them. Therein lies the crux of the greatest conflict between one warped individual and media since Citizen Kane. Think of Mike Lindell and Fox News as Citizen Kane on steroids and acid, and you’re getting in the ballpark.
Here is Mike Lindell being right, just as the broken clock is twice a day.
Lindell tonight: “Shame on Fox! They’ve done more damage to this country than all the bad media combined .. they’re criminals to our country. Period. Yes, I hope the Murdochs are watching.” pic.twitter.com/rNUU2luizS
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 22, 2022
Lindell is right. Fox News has done more damage than any media, good bad or indifferent has done in this country. And they are criminals. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Thank you, Mike. I didn’t think you and I would ever agree on anything much past the color of the sky, but we are as one on this subject. Absolutely. On this small issue, we are philosophical soulmates.
Now here’s another Lindell rant and I don’t feel sorry for the Graham cracker. He brought this on himself by being a coward.
Lindell tonight: “Lindsey Graham is the worst! He’s horrible. Terrible, terrible, terrible .. Lindsey, if your watching – you’re disgusting. We all remember what you said on J6. Disgusting.” pic.twitter.com/XuLVqIlvzV
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 22, 2022
Lindsey deserves this because this is what happens when you get in bed with Donald Trump — and I’m saying that figuratively, but who knows?
The cult hates him right now and I seriously doubt that he’s going to be on Fox News much and this is why.
“Enough is enough.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham says Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s recognition of Russian-backed separatist regions “should immediately be met with forceful sanctions to destroy the ruble and crush the Russian oil and gas sector." https://t.co/JcU2wLGob8 pic.twitter.com/XwUQrqa0Eg
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) February 21, 2022
Two thoughts: One, Graham said enough was enough on January 6 as well and then he climbed right back in Trump’s lap; and two, Fox News is now “officially” the voice of Vladimir Putin in this country. Listen to this.
As Putin invades, his spokesperson issued a statement: “Ukraine is not even a democracy .. Ukraine is a corrupt, Eastern European autocracy that has spent millions of dollars lobbying politicians in Washington and made the Biden family rich.” pic.twitter.com/SJzqvkqOEl
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 22, 2022
I think the die is pretty much cast. And just as an after thought, this b.s. from Tucker may cost the GOP a senate seat in Ohio. Politico:
Ohio has some 80,000 Ukrainians, both immigrants and their descendants, a community forged in part by waves of refugees who fled earlier crises in the Old Country: World War I, World War II, Nazi occupation, Soviet occupation. Fedynsky himself was born in a refugee camp in Austria in 1947; just outside his mom’s home village in Ukraine, Strilkivtsi, dozens of Jews had survived the Nazis by hiding in an underground network of caves.
For him, for many others here, Ukraine’s hard-earned sovereignty is not some abstraction irrelevant to daily life in Middle America. Their friends, their family members, their very ideals are under tangible threat — and they are watching closely to see how American officials and political candidates respond.
Ohio’s Ukrainians are well-organized and politically active — a Midwestern constituency with a strong working-class element that actually votes in part on foreign policy, and punches above well above its size in their state’s politics, according to many Ukrainian Americans I recently spoke to in Ohio. There aren’t specific polls on Ukrainian voting patterns in the state, but traditionally these voters made up a “Reagan Republican-like community,” says Andrew Futey, president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, a nonpartisan national nonprofit that advocates for Ukrainian-American interests. Futey, an Ohioan who is active in Republican politics, describes most Ukrainian voters here as strong on national defense, anti-socialism and pro-small government — in other words, a natural constituency for a certain kind of Republican, though Futey emphasizes that the state’s Ukrainian community has strong advocates on both sides of the aisle.
There’s an expression in Hollywood, you don’t shit where you eat, and the context it was taught to me in was regarding a woman sleeping with her boss at the studio. Not that that doesn’t happen all the time, but there are repercussions, usually financial and usually immediate. People get thrown by the wayside for misbehavior too close to where their paycheck is coming from — or in this case, misbehavior, disrespect, too close to where the votes for a critical senate seat are coming from.
Fox News’ misbehavior may get the Ukrainians of Ohio to vote Democratic. Fine by me. Maybe I’ll find myself on soulmate terms in the near future with Tucker Carlson as well. Yeah, mother Tucker, alienate the electorate of Ohio against the Republican party. I think that’s a swell idea. Keep the Senate in Democratic hands. Bravo. Maybe you and I want the same things in life after all. Whudda thot?