Wackjob MSNBC Guest Says Fox News Viewers Need “Deprogramming”

MSNBC’s host of The 11th Hour Stephanie Ruhle was not happy that Fox News reacted to President Biden’s State of the Union by calling him a liar and to help her in her quest against this narrative, she welcomed professional Fox News watcher Juliet Jeske to claim Fox viewers are in a “cult” For those who have a pressing need “deprogramming”

Ruhle had wondered why Jeske makes such creepy remarks, and those were the comments she received. “So, the work that you’re doing is, obviously, interesting to someone like me and my audience, but that Fox News audience. That right-wing audience, is that who you’re trying to get to?”

Jeske believes it isn’t Fox viewers that matter most, but:

Friends, families, coworkers, and colleagues of people who are already deeply entrenched in Fox. Number one, to prevent them from getting sucked in. To help them navigate dealing with someone who’s in that cult mentality because I would call it a cult and to help them figure out why their relatives and loved ones are saying these things and deprogramming someone or deradicalizing them is a very difficult and long situation to go through.

After going through the segments, you will be able to start earlier in the segment. Super Bowl White House-Fox Ruhle, who was a host of interview drama, opened the segment by portraying herself as the epitome for truthfulness. “Either way, it will not be on Fox News, which has spent the majority of its air time this week calling the president a liar. We like to say on the show that the truth matters, but only if you hear it. So, let’s set the record straight, despite what Fox viewers have heard all week long on that network, President Biden did not lie about some elected Republicans wanting to cut Medicare and Social Security.”

Ruhle who had never been averse to calling presidents liars previously welcomed Jeske who now hosts the podcast Fox News: How to decode it, and asked “Juliet, a lot happened in politics, specifically in the Fox world, State of the Union, what was your biggest take away this week?“

Jeske began by showing that much of modern fact-checking was really just opinion-checking. “Well, they completely rewrote history with the State of the Union. They said that Biden was a bumbling idiot and couldn’t get through his speech.”

Don’t ignore “frisizhnjubs” and all of Biden’s yelling, Jeske added “and he was, like you said, lying about more than one Republican lawmaker wanting to cut or alter Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare.”

Ruhle wanted the focus to be on this claim. “I mean for fact’s sake, yesterday, the president himself went down to Florida and word for word, read from Rick Scott’s plan. So, explain to me how they keep pushing these lies to their audience? A, did they not have a legal and standards department? And B, like, what gives? Their audience is just going to believe this?” 

Jeske claimed then that Fox has “absolutely no shame. They’ll say whatever they need to say to promote their agenda and mostly through lying by omission, like leaving out stories completely.”

Biden, Ruhle and Jeske lied by omission when they failed to acknowledge that Republicans leaders had said that cuts to these programs were not on the horizon.

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MSNBC The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle

2/10/2023

11:20 ET

STEPHANIE RUHLE: Either way, it will not be on Fox News, which has spent the majority of its air time this week calling the president a liar. We like to say on the show that the truth matters, but only if you hear it. So, let’s set the record straight, despite what Fox viewers have heard all week long on that network, President Biden did not lie about some elected Republicans wanting to cut Medicare and Social Security. I want to get right into it with Juliet Jeske, she’s founder and creator of Decoding Fox News Podcast and newsletter. She watches talks, so we do not have to. Juliet, a lot happened in politics, specifically in the Fox world, State of the Union, what was your biggest take away this week? 

JULIET JESKE: Well, they completely rewrote history with the State of the Union. They said that Biden was a bumbling idiot and couldn’t get through his speech and he was, like you said, lying about more than one Republican lawmaker wanting to cut or alter Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare. 

RUHLE: Like, let’s just stay on that because Fox continues to say that Biden’s comments about these Republicans wanting to cut Social Security, that’s been debunked. It hasn’t been proven. I mean for fact’s sake, yesterday, the president himself went down to Florida and word for word, read from Rick Scott’s plan. 

So, explain to me how they keep pushing these lies to their audience? A, did they not have a legal and standards department? And B, you know what? Their audience is just going to believe this? 

JESKE: Yeah, they have absolutely no shame. They’ll say whatever they need to say to promote their agenda and mostly through lying by omission, like leaving out stories completely, the best I got this week was, I believe it was Judge Jeanine said, one senator and she said it like that, like, one senator said he wanted to cut that, but he didn’t mean it. I’m paraphrasing. 

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RUHLE: So, the work that you’re doing is, obviously, interesting to someone like me and my audience, but that Fox News audience. That right-wing audience, is that who you’re trying to get to? 

JESKE: I’m trying to get to the friends, families, coworkers, and colleagues of people who are already deeply entrenched in Fox. Number one, to prevent them from getting sucked in. To help them navigate dealing with someone who’s in that cult mentality because I would call it a cult and to help them figure out why their relatives and loved ones are saying these things and deprogramming someone or deradicalizing them is a very difficult and long situation to go through. It’s slow. It’s very, very hard, but one way that you can do it is if you know that your friend is being completely manipulated and lied to, that is one step to breaking through to them. 

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