Tucker Carlson and other Fox News personalities knew that Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election. They all knew, but they continued to spoon-feed their viewers dangerous lies about the election and hosted conspiracy theorists like the Kraken lady Sidney Powell, who one Fox star noted in a text that her evidence of voter fraud was "kooky."

Dominion Voting Systems is suing the network for a whopping $1.6 billion for defamation. So, why would the network continue to air such flagrant lies? Money. Ratings. And they did not respect their viewers.

Raj Shah, who had served as a senior aide in Trump's White House for two years before his hiring at Fox, said in a text about Rudy Giuliani's speech that featured the former New York City mayor with hair dye running down his face: "This sounds SO F------ CRAZY btw."

Via The Washington Post:

So when a Fox News reporter went live on air just after Giuliani's news conference concluded and declared that some of what the president's lawyer had said was "simply not true," Shah reacted with alarm.

"This is the kinda s--- that will kill us," he texted the deputy. "we cover it wall to wall and then we burn that down with all the skepticism."

But he knew that the election was fair. And Tucker Carlson's producer at the time, Alex Pfeiffer, thought Carlson's viewers were a bunch of dumb cousin fuckers.

Despite his behind-the-scenes lobbying, Shah counseled a middle course in dealing with her claims on air. On the day after Carlson publicly challenged Powell, Shah and a Carlson producer weighed whether Carlson should devote time in his next show to Powell's claim that she had an affidavit that would link Dominion to Venezuela.

"Might wanna address this, but this stuff is so f------ insane. Vote rigging to the tune of millions? C'mon," Shah wrote.

Carlson's producer, Alex Pfeiffer, responded: "It is so insane but our viewers believe it, so addressing against how her stupid Venezuela affidavit isn't proof might insult them."

Shah advised that Carlson should mention the affidavit noting it was "not new info, not proof" but then quickly "pivot to being deferential."
Pfeiffer, who has since left the network, answered that the delicate dance was "surreal."

"Like negotiating with terrorists," he added, "but especially dumb ones. Cousin f----- types not Saudi royalty."

He's not wrong, but he kept propagating the Big Lie because he knew Fox News' viewers were a bunch of dumb "cousin-fucking types" that would eat it up. And that's disgusting for a so-called news network.