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**OCTOBER 29, 2020**

Meyerson on TAP

Id and Ego at Fox News

Today's

**Washington Post**ponders

one of life's cosmic mysteries: What happens to Fox News if Donald
Trump is defeated? The piece points out that Fox has done fine, thank
you very much, when it's been the voice of opposition to Democratic
administrations, and will therefore continue to rack up profits
throughout a Biden presidency through its skillful employment of its
usual calumnies, fabrications, and slanders.

But on whose behalf will all those calumnies be wielded: Trumpian
Republicans or Republicans generally? After all, the entire Republican
universe, such as it is, will unite in opposition to anything that Biden
and the Democrats propose, just as every Republican in Congress-in the
pre-Trump days-opposed every one of Barack Obama's initiatives. Will
Fox let Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio back in its tent? Or will it
continue to define itself as the media tip of the Trumpian spear?

One determinative factor may be whether Rupert Murdoch shells out enough
money to Trump that the then-ex-president gets his own nightly show.
("Enough" in this instance must mean at least enough to retire Trump's
mind-boggling debts.) If Trump goes Fox, that will settle this question,
and the likes of Romney, if such still exist, may have to content
themselves with appearances on some food networks.

As well, Fox now has a steady viewership of Trumpians, and it's not
likely to offend them by giving non-nativists and non-white
supremacists any significant airtime. It's become the Fabulist Voice
of the Bigoted Right, and made a nice living in the process. Id and ego
are united at Fox; why would Murdoch want to screw around with that?

~ HAROLD MEYERSON

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2020. BY DAVID DAYEN

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