John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream, and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”
I’ll admit it was somewhat shocking on election night to see Fox News flip from a patriotic, dissident network to just part of the MSM. And every night after that, apart from a few commentary shows like Sean Hannity’s and Tucker Carlson’s. I suddenly realized how citizens in Eastern Europe must have felt in 1948, when their Communist-rigged elections were reported by suddenly servile media.
I wondered if the Borg had assimilated Fox. And in a way it did. Not just Fox, but the New York Post, also owned by Rupert Murdoch’s organization. It went from reporting, almost alone, on the Hunter Biden laptop one week, to sneering at Trump’s questions about voter fraud the next. That told me that a fax must have gone out from somewhere in Australia, changing the Party Line as abruptly as in 1939 Stalin flipped the Communists of this planet from anti-Nazi to pro-Nazi. …