Former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farrah resigned on December 1. She says that Trump knew full well that he lost the election. He tried to bully state officials into reversing the outcome. He lied to the public and to his followers. The big lie was a hoax. She said Trump should resign.
He fooled Ted Cruz. He fooled Josh Hawley. He fooled the majority of House Republicans. He put their lives at risk in service to his lie. They believed him and joined his effort to overturn the election even after it was validated by the Electoral College.
Of course, he won’t. He will continue the Big Lie and continue to raise millions from his followers and to incite violence as long as he is not in prison for his multitude of crimes.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Members of Congress, the press, and others warn Trump about his legacy . . . and he says: Don’t throw me in the briar patch.” But, stupidly, they keep on judging him by their own sense of honor and decency. “I think he learned a lesson.” BS. And so he just keeps rolling over “fools” with his toxic personality and “getting away with it.” CBK
Have these people learned nothing? Trump ALWAYS doubles down.
Are we supposed to see people like Farrah as some sort of whistleblower when she spent all her time before her resignation blowing smoke?
Exactly right. Too little, too late.
Blowing smoke
“Whistleblower” ‘s smoke
Is really just a joke
An alligator tear
To salvage their career
I don’t applaud Farrah but I think it is useful to have someone inside Trump’s inner circle admit publicly that he knew he lost but (and) he lied.
He lied to his gullible followers.
They still think he is truthful. He never was. He despises them and uses them.
exactly
Of course, Trump lied about winning the election just as he lied about severity of Covid-19. In my opinion Trump is more manipulative than unhinged. Little Donny, Prince Machiavelli, uses everybody and everything to suit his purpose. He lives to get attention, money and power. For the past five years he has manipulated the media, and they were more than willing to play as it boosted their ratings. Now the serial liar has gone a bridge too far, and I hope he pays a price for inciting a deadly attack on the Capitol.
Lies, damned lies and Twitter
We knew that Trump was lying
Cruz Twitter finger moved
And there is no denying
That Twitter has approved
Having just watched the BBC series on “Rise of the Nazis,” I recall that the elites in Germany thought they could use Hitler, but he used them.
Those who thought they could “use” Trump are now owned by him.
An important insight, Diane. Exactly the case. Alas, some Repugnicans are too stupid to have figured out that they, too, will be, are being, Penced by Trump.
Europe has learned the lesson. As the New Yorker writes
In other democracies, a leader who tried to overthrow an election result and incited a violent insurrection might well be cooling his heels in prison by now.
Our laws are tedious for modern times.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trump-cant-be-allowed-to-escape-justice-yet-again
Our laws serve those in power, so there is an unwillingness on the part of the two major parties to change them because they know it would eventually affect them.
Reluctance to change laws or even enforce existing laws.
He is manipulative AND unhinged. These are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they are linked in people who suffer from his pathology, Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
As Nancy Pelosi said Trump is “deranged [and] unhinged” and presumably “doorknobless” as well
Trump can not be swung
Unhinged, without a knob
He’s hopelessly unhung
A really crappy job
Ps I just hung 4 doors so I have doors on the brain.
I don’t believe Trump “fooled Ted Cruz. He fooled Josh Hawley. He fooled the majority of House Republicans.” Cruz, Hawley and most of the House GOP are smart enough to know that Trump lost the election but were supporting his effort to overturn the results for crass political self-interest — or what they thought was self- interest but now may have turned against them given all the corporations etc. which have pledged to stop the flow of donations to them — perhaps permanently.
Brianna Keilar on CNN just did another one of her stellar summations that fits perfectly here. Will share when it is posted.
Exactly.
Yes, I had the exact same thought. It sounds like Alyssa Farrah is trying to exonerate Republicans and excuse their malfeasance and complicity for her own benefit.
I agree. No Republican was fooled by Trump. When hard right Republican Governors like Kemp of Georgia and Ducey of Arizona agree that Trump lost their state, you can be sure that he lost their state.
The votes were counted and recounted. Trump lost. He lied, and those hoping to inherit his followers agreed with and parroted his lies.
Here it is:
One of the most disgusting things seems to be that these Republicans’ concerns were really about whether candidate Trump’s immorality would make him electable or not. They were still looking out for themselves only. And once it did make Trump electable, they jumped on the bandwagon.
I don’t like Mitt Romney’s policies, but Romney really was a profile in courage during impeachment. It took more courage for him to vote to convict than for a democrat to do so. Susan Collins has always been a profile in cowardice — despite winning her re-election, she still wasn’t certain she is allowed to speak out against Trump.
And Cruz and Rubio are just truly sad sycophants.
I wonder if Susan Collins will die still waiting for Trump to learn his lesson. THAT really cured me of any naivete I had before about the presence of Congressional wisdom. CBK
I strongly disagree that all of those other men were fooled. They knew exactly what they were doing in supporting trump. They too knew that he lost the election, probably better than trump himself did. All of them have long made a habit of completely misrepresenting reality via meritless claims. Louie Gohmert in particular has been telling ‘trumpian’ lies for very many years now, but without trumps flamboyantly self assured facade.
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that they really were fooled. Would that make this sham of a travesty of a mockery any better?
I don’t think these bozos were fooled about the election results any more than Trump is. I think they were fooled that Trump would appreciate it, and that they would benefit by their perpetrating his Big Lie. CBK
Remember when Trump chose, on his return to the campaign trail, to hold his first rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, home of the horrific 1921 Greenwood race massacre in which whites burned down an affluent black neighborhood and killed its citizens? Well, after inciting insurrection at the Capitol, Trump heads on Tuesday to a Texas town called Alamo, named after the battle at the former Spanish mission in San Antonio where pro-slavery Texian insurrectionists against the then Mexican government fought against soldiers defending the territory from the rebels. Ofc, the history of that event is told, in our schools, by the beneficiaries of the insurrection.
Dog whistle much? This choice of locations reinforces Trump’s messaging of “patriotic” insurrection, of supposedly righteous rebellion, and of white supremacist views. The choice has the stamp of Stephen “Goebbels” Miller all over it. It’s to this spot that the insurrectionist Trump is going on Tuesday to praise himself (of course) for his white supremacist campaign against peaceful asylum seekers fleeing violence and starvation, one characterized by extreme brutality, including the the caging of children, the sexual abuse of detainees, and mass kidnapping of children from their parents, a crime against humanity for which Trump and Miller and Sessions and others should be tried before the International Court of Criminal Justice.
Racist Dog-whistle Donnie Does It Again
Trump’s messaging could not be clearer: My insurrection, the one I am currently leading, is a patriotic and white supremacist one, like the stand at the Alamo.
Some have questioned on this blog whether Trump should be impeached again. But make no mistake about this: Trump always doubles down. He isn’t finished with his insurrection. As he told the Capitol rioters in his last address to them, he is just beginning.
Remember the Ammo!
Remember the ammo
And also the pipes
Remember the cammo
And Q-anon types
Remember the banner
The Cross of the South
Remember the plan here:
A Capitol rout
After he is out of office, he needs to be exiled to elsewhere, maybe Antarctica. As long as he remains in this country and not in jail he will continue to stir the pot with lies and deception.
I suggest as a plea deal he be given ONE of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific but he may never set foot in any of the 50 states or US Territories.
Besides after January 21st, he won’t have a place to live any way, Deutsch Bank will begin taking everything from him.
How about a rocky atoll somewhere? Preferably one on which no one else resides. Maybe one that is due to be drowned by rising sea levels. Since Trump doesn’t believe in climate change, it should make an acceptable home for him.
Works for me.
Antarctic Treaty
The penguins don’t deserve it
To live with Donald Trump
We promised to preserve it
Not make their home a dump
I suggest giving him Bikini atoll that was contaminated with radiation from hydrogen bomb tests.
If you tell him there are bikinis there , he will go willingly.
He will be known as the ” Bikini a-hole on Bikini Atoll”
LOL, SomeDAM!
Bob I think we’ll be reflecting on the actions of BIG companies like Twitter, and all of those who are withdrawing funds from Trumpism, for a very long time.
In terms of an analysis of power, however, Trump is a de facto totalitarian; in totalitarianism all roads lead to the leaders who wish to have NO checks on their power.
In this case, however, we should note that, as hard as we are on business and capitalist principles on this blog, it looks like big business and capitalist principles are in the process of providing the check power . . . the power that Trump so desires.
It’s not over yet, as others here have said and as the talking heads are warning us.
However, the needed circularity and open-endedness of power is not only in the voting power of “the people,” but hidden as a political principle: in how we spend our money and, BTW, whether we have it. CBK
I think we should be reflecting even harder on the free market contribution to the creation of Jabba the Trump. His utter lack of decency and shattering of democratic and presidential and many other norms made for great clickbait.
Bob Certainly, it’s never a simple matter. CBK
The fact that the corporations like Fakebook, Twitter and Google are a check on Trump is not reason for optimism.
It shows how much power they yield — power that is outside the democratic process.
Sure, they finally “cut Trump off”, but they also acted as his Empowering MAGAphone for years.
In conjunction with the mainstream media. these corporations effectively control who is allowed to have power.
We the People only matter in the regard that we might take our business elsewhere. But when there is no elsewhere (as with monopolies) eventually that option is foreclosed.
Excellent points, SomeDAM.
Yup.
I am very very very very happy that Twitter cut DJT off permanently. I wish it had happened sooner, but I am thrilled that it happened at all.
He is still in search of a way to communicate with his base.
“He is still in search of a way to communicate with his base.”
For this reason, he needs to resign or be removed. Colin Powell
The most frightening part is all the information that these corporations hold on every member of the public.
And they also possess the technology (with voice printing, for example) to effectively fabricate things that you never even said.
If they decide they don’t like you for any reason whatsoever, they can destroy you and there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it.
If companies like Google, Fakebook, Twitter and others are not broken up, we can kiss any remnant of democracy goodbye because these companies WILL use their power eventually on all of us. It’s not a matter of if it when.
SomeDAM “And they also possess the technology (with voice printing, for example) to effectively fabricate things that you never even said. . . . If they decide they don’t like you for any reason whatsoever, they can destroy you and there is nothing you or anyone else can do about it.”
The above quote from your note is exactly why business should stay out of education, except to support PUBLIC education with their taxes . . . what a concept.
That said, I think it oddly interesting that business in our time has found a way to temper totalitarian tendencies. CBK
It might well already be too late because anyone who tries to break them up is going to face their full wrath and power.
I think it was John Updike who wrote a story or novel set in the future, and there was only one company, FedEx.
I used to live near Updike in Massachusetts. Ran into him once in downtown Rockport. There was a heavy snow, and he and his young, female companion–a relative, perhaps–were having a snowball fight from across the street from one another! LOL.
No doubt, private companies should never be big enough to influence politics. For now, all we can do is be happy when they are not working against us.
Mate I think you are right in this: “No doubt, private companies should never be big enough to influence politics. For now, all we can do is be happy when they are not working against us.”
Their clipping Trump’s wings only speaks to their “regular” corporate principles at present . . . though I think the ship is slowly turning where some are changing their tunes about their responsibilities. CBK
Big corporations wield too much power.
Sometimes they wield it for good because they don’t want to sully their image.
For example, when the Tea Party in North Carolina was set to enact HB2 (Hate Bill 2) to ban transgender people from entering the bathroom of their choice, the major corporations (under pressure from their own employees) warned that they would pull their headquarters and business out of the state. HB2 was not enacted.
The big corporations will not allow states to enact laws that restrict civil rights. It is counter to their corporate policies.
Now we have to convince the big corporations to support public schools, not charter schools, vouchers, and TFA.
TFA board is loaded with corporate leaders who don’t know or care that they are promoting the DeVos agenda.
Trump could have been listening to the network of religious organizations that spread the election fraud myth. Today, Jan. 11, 2021, the National Catholic Reporter posted, “….Mob Rule and Those Who Support It”. The author names organizations.
In one paragraph, the author states, “The Madison diocese refuses to state whether the Bishop has restricted Father Zuhlsdorf in any way. Father Z celebrates mass in St. Mary’s church in Pine Bluff, Wis. and has often been at Holy Family church in NYC”.
The author mentions the media conglomerate, EWTN. As a companion piece to the 1-11- 2021 article, there is the 7-18-2019 article , “Money Trail Tells the Tale of EWTN. We learn in the paragraph that begins, The Birch Society about the funding for the Alliance Defending Freedom.
Linda,
Did you read the excellent NYT Opinion piece today by Katherine Stewart: “The Roots of Josh Hawley’s Rage”?
You would appreciate it very much.
“….Mr. Hawley’s idea of freedom is the freedom to conform to what he and his preferred religious authorities know to be right. Mr. Hawley is not shy about making the point explicit. In a 2017 speech to the American Renewal Project, he declared — paraphrasing the Dutch Reformed theologian and onetime prime minister Abraham Kuyper — “There is not one square inch of all creation over which Jesus Christ is not Lord.” Mr. Kuyper is perhaps best known for his claim that Christianity has sole legitimate authority over all aspects of human life.
“We are called to take that message into every sphere of life that we touch, including the political realm,” Mr. Hawley said. “That is our charge. To take the Lordship of Christ, that message, into the public realm, and to seek the obedience of the nations. Of our nation!”
(It goes on and gets even scarier)
Thank you for the post, NYC.
I want to think that Ms. Stewart and other influencers understand and will continue to expose the threat posed by the major American sects, both of which are conservative and actively politick for the GOP.
NYC public school parent and Linda Joe Scarborough, a Catholic, put it nicely this morning: (paraphrased) there is nothing in the words of Jesus that matches what these people (Hawley, Cruz, etc., the so-called Christians on the mall) are doing. They are involved in a perversion of Christianity, especially of what we find in the New Testament.
It’s really bonkers to me that these bozos can get through the most elite law schools in the country and still think the way they do.
Just as one example from the English translation New King James Version
First Corinthians 13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love I am only a resounding gong or clanging cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and can understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have faith, that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I give all I possess to the poor, and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked,
thinks no evil;
6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. . . .
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail;
whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Trump was listening to no one except Propaganda Minister Miller and Bannon and Ghouliani. He was spouting that the election was going to be fraudulent as soon as the polls showed him down–that is, from the beginning of the election cycle.
Every evil in the world doesn’t originate with religion, even though a lot do.
Of course Trump did not “fool” Hawley and Cruz. They know and knew as well as Trump did that the election wasn’t fraudulent. Like Trump, they are amoral, treasonous opportunists who thought they could advance their careers by signing onto what they knew to be a lie.
Rafe Cruz was just trying to make a name for himself planning on the 2024 election. But it has all backfired on him….lol
yup. The worst of the Repugnicans have been scrambling over one another to try to be the one who picks up Trump’s base base. Ambition at any cost.
I think Ted and Josh knew perfectly well that the Giant Yam lost the election. They just wanted to raise money from his deluded followers.
The Great Yam!!!! LOL. That’s perfect.
Cindy: All of the names & this is the first “Giant Yam” I’ve seen.
Brilliant! But such an insult to yams (which I love).
Also–serious & bad news–another death: a member of the Capitol
Police has committed suicide.
Reblogged this on dean ramser.
Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education.
They all knew he lost. They all should be kicked out. They were playing their minions to get more money
And their votes in 2024.
Brianna Keilar (CNN) gets it right and all those GOPers will be facing the music – maybe. But as I recall, these guys were at fault as the Republican Primaries were taking place in 2016. The party heads got together and tried to convince each one of them who were running on the primary ballot to agree on one person who will be strong enough to beat *rump and everyone else step out of the race to back that one person. Nobody wanted to give up the race. Nobody. Each one of them thought they would be strong enough to get on the final ballot. Each one of them lost because of greed. Look what greed got them. The greediest of all.
I am thinking that the GOP party will implode. A new party with a new name will be created. History repeats itself.
I think that if the GOP party splits, one of the factions should be the Christian Nationalist Party (or maybe the Power Worshipers Party, with a nod to Katherine Stewart). Hopefully there will be enough Republicans left over to form a center right party….
Karmageddon upon Trump and all his enablers.
Sam Sanders suggested on NPR that race lies at the base of the riot.
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/05/953772439/the-capitol-mobbed
His view is that we are as a people, generally racist, and this mob is a result of this deeply embeddd racism.
While I do not deny the persistent racism and xenophobia present in our society and, if you look at post-Syrian Civil War, Europe in general, I would suggest that this was less based on racism and more based on appeals to other economic fears.
Karmageddon (love that word) is coming to the Republican Party, indeed the nation, from the economic marginalization of the white middle class. The Republicans have not been shy about stoking fears of ethnic groups, which played to those making around $100,000 a year. Above and below that amount of income, most people responded to the Democrats. Why?
The answer lies in history. Faced with a rising Tom Watson, a southern politician who threatened to unite poor black voters with poor white voters, southern politicians turned to suppression of the vote. Not only were black voters pushed out of the electorate, but poor white voters were pushed out too. This happened with their own tacit approval of the system. (see C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of opportunities Crow).
What we are seeing now is similar, except we now have renewed geographical segregation. Since reconstruction and Jim Crow, African-Americans have migrated to the cities for economic opportunity. There enclaves of job-desperate people live in competition for the various positions. Thus the rural-urban divide you see in America.
So race is part of the issue like it was in the days of Jim Crow. For a lot of the people who are part of the MAGA, it might be the most important part. But it is not the only part. Where race intersects with economics is the edge of the problem. It always is.
The simpleminds at NPR tend to oversimplify everything.
Domenic Montenaro just told us impeachment is effectively impossible, when the reality is that impeachment itself could be accomplished in very short order.
Trial and conviction in the Senate is a separate issue.
It’s really a shame about NOR because it started out with the admirable goal of providing in depth coverage of issues but over the decades has become just another repeater of popular nonsense.
Trump will definitely be impeached. Impeachment requires a vote of the majority of the House members, and that is assured.
Conviction requires 2/3 of the Senators present and voting. If 25 Republicans stayed away, Trump would be convicted.
Given the craven obeisance of Republican Senators to Trump, that probably won’t happen.
But Trump will have the distinction of being the first president in history to be impeached twice.
And like Fox News, NPR seems to hire the dregs of journalism.
The Strange Career of opportunities Crow. How does the computer insert the word “opportunities” for “Crow”? I guess by thinking job opps instead of Jim Crow.
I took the term “karmageddon” from the list of winners of a couple Washington Post word-play contests that Roy pointed me to. There were two contests. One was to come up with another meaning of an existing word, as in “Oyster. n. Someone who sprinkles his or her speech with Yiddish expressions.” Another was to change one letter of an existing word to create a new one, as in “Foreploy. n. Any misrepresentation about yourself meant to increase your chances of having sexual relations.” Here, my entries:
abridgement. n. The construction of a bridge across a river, as in “In order to get across, the general ordered an abridgement of the river.”
Exasserbate. v. To use therapy to make someone no longer an ass, as in “Is it possible to exasserbate Ted Cruz?”
OK. I recognize that I didn’t follow the rules for the second one.
This from Washington Post: Democracy Dies in Darkness
Talk-radio owner orders conservative hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric
Crowds gather on the Mall for a speech Wednesday by President Trump that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
By Paul Farhi/Jan. 11, 2021 at 3:00 a.m. PST
ALL QUOTED BELOW/CBK
After months of stoking anger about alleged election fraud, one of America’s largest talk-radio companies has decided on an abrupt change of direction.
Cumulus Media, which employs some of the most popular right-leaning talk-radio hosts in the United States, has told its on-air personalities to stop suggesting that the election was stolen from President Trump — or else face termination.
A Cumulus executive issued the directive on Wednesday, just as Congress met to certify Joe Biden’s election victory and an angry mob of Trump supporters marched on the Capitol, overwhelmed police and briefly occupied the building, terrorizing lawmakers and leading to the deaths of five people.
Conservative media shifts blame away from mob of Trump supporters
Right-wing media outlets spent significant time on Jan. 6 suggesting that the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol weren’t actually Trump supporters. (The Washington Post)
“We need to help induce national calm NOW,” Brian Philips, executive vice president of content for Cumulus, wrote in an internal memo, which was first reported by Inside Music Media. Cumulus and its program syndication arm, Westwood One, “will not tolerate any suggestion that the election has not ended. The election has been resolved and there are no alternate acceptable ‘paths.’ ”
The memo adds: “If you transgress this policy, you can expect to separate from the company immediately.”
A Cumulus representative did not respond to repeated requests for comment on Sunday.
The new policy is a stunning corporate clampdown on the kind of provocative and even inflammatory talk that has long driven the business model for Cumulus and other talk show broadcasters. And it came as Apple, Google and Amazon cut off essential business services to Parler, the pro-Trump social media network where users have promoted falsehoods about election fraud and praised the mob that assaulted the Capitol. Apple and Google removed the Parler app from the offerings for its smartphones, while Amazon suspended it from its Web-hosting services. (Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
Since the election, Cumulus has remained silent while some of its most popular hosts — who include Mark Levin and Dan Bongino — have amplified Trump’s lies that the vote was “rigged” or in some way fraudulent.
On his program on Tuesday, the day before the march on the Capitol, for example, Levin fulminated about Congress’s certification of electoral votes for Biden, describing the normally routine vote as an act of “tyranny.”
“You think the framers of the Constitution . . . sat there and said, ‘Congress has no choice [but to accept the votes], even if there’s fraud, even if there’s some court order, even if some legislature has violated the Constitution?’ ” Levin said, his voice rising to a shout.
Radio host Mark Levin, shown here speaking to a National Rifle Association convention audience in 2014, is one of the Cumulus personalities who have promoted election-fraud claims.
Radio host Mark Levin, shown here speaking to a National Rifle Association convention audience in 2014, is one of the Cumulus personalities who have promoted election-fraud claims. (AJ Mast/AP)
Atlanta-based Cumulus owns 416 radio stations in 84 regions across the country. Many of its stations broadcast a talk format, a medium that has been dominated by a conservative point of view for decades. In addition to its national personalities, it employs local talk-radio hosts in many of its markets.
Cumulus’s biggest stations include WMAL in Washington, KABC in Los Angeles, WLS in Chicago and KGO in San Francisco, all of which air a news-talk format.
Rush Limbaugh, perhaps the biggest star of conservative talk, is syndicated by another company, Premiere Networks, though his program is heard on many Cumulus-owned stations. Limbaugh isn’t subject to Cumulus’s memo. Another of Cumulus’s talk stars, Ben Shapiro, has gone against the grain of conservative talk radio by telling listeners that Trump has been wrong in his claims that the election was rigged.
The memo appears to reflect the reality that voters, presidential electors, courts and now Congress have accepted or certified that Biden won the election and is the president-elect. It may also be an attempt to cool down emotions that led to Wednesday’s invasion of the Capitol, and to mollify advertisers’ concerns about being associated with programs that could be inciting listeners to violence.
But it also reveals some of the hidden corporate hand behind what is said and discussed on talk-radio programs. Rather than advocating a medium of freethinking individuals expressing passionately held beliefs, the memo reminds that hosts are subject to corporate mandates and control.
“It’s naive not to recognize that a corporate imperative goes into all media,” said Michael Harrison, the publisher of Talkers magazine, which covers talk radio. “Corporations have always called the tune ultimately. Everyone pays attention to the guys at the top and always has.”
Talk-radio hosts, Harrison said, “never expected” their critiques of the election “to get out of hand” in the manner seen Wednesday. Cumulus and other broadcast companies “recognize they’re in the hot seat right now because the national eye is on them,” he said.
Asked how hosts who have repeatedly promoted Trump’s claims of fraud can now credibly flip to acceptance, Harrison said: “I would hope they put their personal feelings aside and come clean with their listeners. I encourage them to pursue the truth and to tell their audience something that Trump may not like.”
However, there’s some question as to whether stars such as Levin will comply with the recent edict and whether Cumulus will discipline them if they don’t.
On his syndicated radio program on Thursday, a day after Cumulus sent its memo and Trump supporters breached the Capitol, Levin didn’t seem to be backing off. “It appears nothing has changed in 24 hours,” he said on the air. “Not a damn thing. The never-Trumpers, the RINOs, the media — same damn thing.”
He went on to add: “I’m not stirring up a damn thing. Everything I say is based on principle and mission. Everything is based on liberty, family, faith, the Constitution. . . . My enemies and my critics can’t say the same.”
10:45 a.m. This story has been updated to clarify that while Ben Shapiro is one of Cumulus’s most popular hosts, he is not among the voices who have promoted claims of a rigged election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/cumulus-radio-conservative-election-fraud/2021/01/11/e12ec46e-537c-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F2e62d51%2F5ffc7d769d2fda0efbaa3e99%2F597c3073ade4e26514d23e47%2F16%2F66%2F5ffc7d769d2fda0efbaa3e99