Worse Than We Imagined

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THE BETRAYAL AT FOX NEWS IS EVEN WORSE THAN WE IMAGINED

The Matt Walsh Report | The Daily Signal | 6/16/23

For 120 straight weeks, Fox News was the most-watched cable news
network in primetime. Its main competitors, MSNBC and CNN, never came
close. In the key advertising demographic — people between the ages
of 25 and 54 — Fox News was the undisputed leader.

But last week, after nearly two months of declining ratings following
the ouster of Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ streak came to an abrupt and
very unceremonious end. Last Friday, Fox News recorded its worst
performance in primetime in the network's history. Just 109,000 people
between the ages of 25 to 54 tuned into Tucker Carlson's old 8:00p.m.
time slot, to watch the replacement show "Fox News Tonight."

How bad is that? To put it in context, "Fox News Tonight" was ranked
41st out of all cable news shows on Friday. This is the time slot that
used to routinely be ranked number one. Now YouTube streams of people
playing with Legos get more viewers. And keep in mind — Fox News
attracted those 109,000 viewers on a very busy news night, after the
announcement of Donald Trump’s indictment. Not many people cared
what Fox News anchors had to say about the indictment of a
presidential frontrunner.

Whatever you make of that, it’s clear that the implosion of Fox News
is well underway. And it’s showing no signs of stopping. This week,
as Tucker discussed on his Twitter show Thursday, Fox News executives
publicly condemned a veteran producer who wrote a banner criticizing
Joe Biden. Five years ago, the banner wouldn’t have attracted any
attention whatsoever. But under the current leadership at Fox News, it
led to the producer leaving the network within 48 hours. Here’s
Tucker: 

[Tucker Carlson tweet]
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That banner is the most interesting thing that’s happened in that
time slot for about two months, so of course Fox News cracks down on
it. What’s happening at Fox feels familiar. The network is on the
same trajectory we saw with Bud Light, then Target. FOX NEWS
EXECUTIVES, FOR SOME REASON, ARE DESTROYING THEIR OWN PRODUCT, and now
they've lost the trust of their customer base. They didn’t just fire
their top-performing host in the single most important hour in
television, without providing any justification for it. Now they’re
punishing producers too. They’ve also been relentlessly promoting
transgenderism across all their platforms. They’ve made Caitlyn
Jenner one of their top contributors. In every article about Dylan
Mulvaney, or any other trans activist, they diligently make sure to
respect their preferred pronouns.

Fox News’ parent company, Fox Corporation, is even sponsoring a
pride parade. All of this is driving Fox News’ viewers away. It’s
hard not to wonder what’s happening at Fox News, and whether
there’s any chance the company —– which was once trusted by
millions of people —– can ever recover.

We just obtained a series of internal documents from Fox News
employees that illustrate how deep the rot goes, and how unsalvageable
the whole organization truly is. These are documents that are produced
by Fox Corporation, and presented to Fox News employees when they
login to their employee portal. Any Fox News employee can access them.
I encourage you to read the entire thread on Twitter and get all the
facts on the story. I must warn you, though, what we found included
very sexually explicit content. I don’t have to tell you that I have
a lot to say about that.

The documents show that the leadership of Fox Corporation despises
their viewers, and everything they stand for. This is a company that
abhors not only traditional values, but also basic human decency, it
would seem. Am I overstating things? Let's see. In honor of Pride
Month, Fox Corporation is now encouraging employees of Fox News to
read literature about “glory holes.” You read that right. These
are literal holes in restroom walls where men anonymously receive oral
sex. Fox's executives want their employees to learn all about them.
Now if you went up to a co-worker and started talking in graphic
detail about “glory holes,” you’d get hit with a sexual
harassment lawsuit. But this is what Fox is telling its employees to
read. And that's not the only pornographic topic Fox is pushing on its
workers.

In addition to the porn, Fox is also encouraging everyone at the
company to donate to organizations that administer sterilizing
hormones to young people —– including homeless youth. This is
something that, on-air, Fox News occasionally pretends is a bad thing.
But internally, Fox Corp. is promoting it, with enthusiasm. Pull back
the curtain, and there's not much daylight between the Fox boardroom
and the faculty lounge at U.C. Berkeley.

Actually, in some respects, Fox is even worse than Berkeley. Fox has
gone high-tech with its DEI agenda. Just in case any employees at the
network stepped out of line, the documents we've obtained also show
that Fox leadership experimented with an artificial intelligence
program that pushes "diversity, equity and inclusion" in the
workplace. The AI, called Eskalera, advertises that it can track the
progress of organizations towards certain “DEI” goals. That’s
its main function.

Yesterday we uploaded the documents outlining all of this on my
Twitter feed. You can check them out there if you haven’t already.
Again, the materials come from Fox's employee portal. Here's a
screenshot of one of the documents:

[Matt Walsh tweet]
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You can see that Fox Corp encourages its employees to donate to a
variety of organizations, and says it will even help match funds to
these groups. Let's go through a couple of them.

According to Fox, employees should donate to the Trevor Project,
because it's supposedly devoted to helping "LGBTQ young people ages
13-24." How exactly does the Trevor Project help these youths? As the
National Review reported recently, they run a chat room that allows
13-year-olds to connect with LGBTQ adults to talk about sexually
explicit topics. As the National Review put it, it's a "pandora's box
of depravity." Reportedly, there’s no age requirement or
verification whatsoever. In many cases, these adults tell children in
the chatroom how to obtain medications, and products like chest
binders, without alerting their parents.

One chat from an adult, which children could see, began with the adult
talking about his urge to masturbate — it goes on from there in
graphic detail. In another chat hosted by the Trevor Project, an adult
starts talking about "doggystyle," and a user under the age of 18
responds, saying he also wants to try it. None of this is new
information, by the way. It's been reported for months. Fox wants
their employees to support the Trevor Project anyway.

They're also telling employees to donate to the Ali Forney Center.
That's a group that says it takes care of homeless young people. On
their Twitter account, the Ali Forney Center boasts about injecting
these young people with cross-sex hormones — hormones that will
sterilize them. They say they provide "life-saving services like
hormone replacement therapy for our young people."

[Matt Walsh tweet]
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So they're taking at-risk youth, and they appear to admit that
they’re flooding their bodies with irreversible chemicals. This is
all right out in the open. And Fox supports it.

As if to erase any doubt about that, Fox also encourages donations to
the Los Angeles LGBT Center, which openly brags about giving hormones
to children. They even uploaded a video of a mother "surprising her
trans daughter with first dose of hormones."

[Matt Walsh tweet ]
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YouTube took down that video for terms of service violations, but a
screenshot is still on Twitter. By itself, all of this is alarming.
Again, Fox is matching employee donations to these far Left groups.
How much of your monthly cable bill is funding this barbarism? And why
exactly are Fox executives taking the position that their employees
should support the chemical sterilization of minors?

We obtained other documents from the Fox employee portal, and after
reviewing those documents, the answer is obvious — to me anyway —
Fox is run by a bunch of highly dedicated, godless perverts. There's
really no other way for me to describe this: They want to impose their
sexual fantasies on other people, whether it's children or their own
employees.

We know that because Fox's executives recommend several books for
their employees to read. 

[Matt Walsh tweet]
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One of the books is called "Fairest." It's by Meredith Talusan. Here's
a quote from the book, early on.

_"I'm sorry but what's a glory hole?” I asked. The chuckles in the
room aimed themselves at me. Gavin leaned forward so I could see him.
In the half-second before he spoke, I noticed that he was beautiful. A
glory hole is an opening drilled into the side of a restroom stall, he
said like we were reading out of a dictionary…” _

What follows is a graphic description of how a glory hole works. I
can’t even share with you what most of this book says — at least,
I won’t. This is a book that Fox executives tell their employees
will "expand [their] perspective." The author goes on to elaborate in
ways that I will not share, but again, it’s all on Twitter if
you’d like to read it for yourself.

[Matt Walsh tweet]
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In case you're tempted to think that Fox executives recommended this
book by mistake, you should know they also tell their employees to
read a novel called "Red, White and Royal Blue." It's about a
fictional gay relationship between the prince of Wales and the
president's son. It starts off with this dialogue, which can best be
described as barely literate.

_"Listen," Alex tells her, "royal weddings are trash, the princes who
have royal weddings are trash, the imperialism that allows princes to
exist at all is trash. It's trash turtles all the way down." "Is this
your Ted Talk?” June asks. "You do realize America is a genocidal
empire too right? “Yes June, but at least we have the decency to not
keep a monarchy around,” Alex says, throwing a pistachio at her." _

Why does Fox encourage its employees to read this horribly written
dialogue about how America is a genocidal empire? It's hard to say.
The book doesn't linger on that topic very long. Very quickly it also
devolves into gay erotica.

"Henry gets a grip on Alex's hips and pulls him close, so Alex is
properly straddling his lap, and he kisses hard now …” And it gets
much worse from there, but again not anything I want to share.

By the way, Fox also recommends a book for its employees read to their
children. It’s an illustrated book starring a unicorn, which is
clearly intended to be a symbol for being gay or trans or nonbinary,
et cetera.

[Matt Walsh tweet]
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Fox also tells employees to watch videos of activists, including a Ted
Talk in which a woman explains that undergoing a medically unnecessary
double mastectomy was a sign of strength. Watch:

[Matt Walsh tweet]
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What we're seeing is a top-down effort by Fox executives to ensure
that radical gender ideology, and all of its deranged excesses, is
dominant at every level in the company. But of course, not every Fox
employee wants to go along with this. That might be why, last year,
Fox experimented with a solution to whip those employees in line.
It’s an AI platform called Eskalera, which tracks employees’
commitment to the cult of DEI. Here's how VentureBeat describes
Eskalera.

[Matt Walsh tweet]
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"Eskalera creates AI-based Inclusion Index to measure a better
workplace. … Eskalera today unveiled the Inclusion Index, a new
system for organizing companies that encourages and quantifies
inclusive culture. Using organizational analytics, the Inclusion Index
is aimed at real-time measurement of a company’s diversity and
inclusion (D&I) efforts."

If you check the Eskalera website, and do some reading on what
"services" this AI performs, it's truly creepy stuff. Eskalera
advertises that it pulls in data from a variety of sources, including
company email and payroll systems. It generated a “peer comfort
index” and a “diversity index,” based in part on how often
employees “practice micro-affirmations.” Those are apparently the
opposite of “microaggressions,” and it appears Fox is all about
them. 

[Matt Walsh tweet]
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Eskalera produces data that guides company leaders, telling them which
departments aren't inclusive enough. The system is supposed to guide
hiring, terminations, raises — everything.

What's the end result of all this? What happens to a news organization
when the executives promote radical gender ideology and perverted
reading materials? What happens when they bring in a woke AI to
monitor everyone?

You get the current state of Fox. It's a company where it seems that
many of the employees hate Fox News viewers. Here’s the Instagram
page of one influential Fox News employee, to give just one example.
He has pronouns in bio, of course — he goes by he/him.

[Matt Walsh tweet]
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In one post, this employee calls conservatives "hicks" for complaining
about drag queens who target kids.

[Matt Walsh tweet]
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In another post, he defends the anti-Catholic hate group "Sisters of
Perpetual Indulgence." “And Catholics wonder why we have an order of
Nuns to push back on this ridiculous garbage," he wrote. To be clear,
this Fox News employee is defending a group that openly mocks
Catholics, putting on perverted and blasphemous displays like this in
public.
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There are a bunch more posts that make it clear this employee has
contempt for Fox News viewers. It's not worth going through all of
them, but there's a clear connection between these posts and the
content that Fox News viewers see. Some of his posts are about his
work on the Fox News website. He says he was "so happy" Fox News got
to use the image he made after Joe Biden won the presidency, for
example.

THIS IS ALL VERY BAD, TO PUT IT MILDLY. AND NOW THE QUESTION IS, WHERE
DO WE GO FROM HERE? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? Well, in the few hours after we
first posted our investigation, several prominent conservatives, as
expected, stayed silent and refused to amplify it. These are people
who are terrified of losing the opportunity to appear on Fox for a
couple of minutes. Terrified of not being able to go on Fox and
promote their next book, or their podcast, or whatever. They’d
rather lose their integrity than lose that.

But several major figures did speak out, to their great credit. Utah
Senator Mike Lee, for example, wrote, “This kind of deliberate
alienation of its own audience might not end well for Fox News. But
for the fact that there is no other large cable news company in
America that is widely known as conservative (or even right of
center), this account could prove devastating.”

Scott Adams wrote simply, “My brain is exploding.”

James Lindsey observed that “ESG/CEI likely is behind both this and
Tucker's removal at FOX. Fox is now openly known to be part of the ESG
cartel.”

Blaze host Steve Deace said “Just read this thread. Complete and
total vile filth from Fox News.”

Other commentators — including people who stand to get disinvited
from Fox, permanently, for speaking out — spoke out as well. Jason
Whitlock, a frequent guest on Fox, publicly thanked us for the
investigation.

BENNY JOHNSON WROTE, “THIS IS INSANE. YOU NEED TO READ THIS. FOX
NEWS IS A 5TH COLUMN. A TROJAN HORSE IN THE CITY WALLS.”

Robby Starbuck, another regular on Fox, tweeted, “I will not appear
on a Fox News show until they drop their attacks on Tucker and fire
the person responsible for this vile memo.” And Chaya Raichik, the
founder of Libs of TikTok, wrote, “I visited Fox HQ a few times. On
one occasion I noticed a bunch of screensavers with the words "Fox
Pride" in rainbow colors. I remember thinking it was very strange. It
all makes sense now. Fox needs to get their act together.”

ALL OF THESE PEOPLE AND MORE, AT SOME SIGNIFICANT PERSONAL COST,
RESPONDED TO OUR INVESTIGATION. They were willing to call out a wrong
when they saw it, regardless of whether it impacted them
professionally. Credit to them for that, and now we need many more to
speak out. Every conservative is quick to criticize corporate wokeism
— and for good reason — but Fox must not be given a pass. Quite
the opposite.

SO THE QUESTION IS: what do Fox News executives think about all of
this? Do they object to their parent company recommending books about
pornographic topics to their employees? Fox News’ audience deserves
to know.

After I posted yesterday’s tweet thread on our investigation last
night, we reached out to Fox News executives about this. We still
haven’t heard back. SO FAR, FOX DOESN’T SEEM TO THINK ITS VIEWERS
DESERVE ANY KIND OF EXPLANATION WHATSOEVER. That may be more revealing
than what we uncovered, frankly.

WHY EXPLAIN THIS? As we said on Twitter, maybe it’s because Fox
doesn’t really care what its viewers think. Fox, like many big tech
platforms and major corporations, is primarily owned by enormous
institutional investors, PARTICULARLY BLACKROCK AND VANGUARD. These
massive funds consolidate the wealth of millions of Americans, and
then use their combined power to pursue a radical agenda most of those
Americans oppose. THEY ARE FOX’S REAL CUSTOMERS. And they’re
getting exactly what they want.

 

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