Dinesh D'Souza criticizes Tucker Carlson's Jan 6. coverage and asserts that “Fox is not a fully reliable place”
D'Souza: “See the Murdochs don't care. Ultimately, their main goal is social respectability.”
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Citation From the March 10, 2023, edition of The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast, streamed on Rumble
DINESH D'SOUZA (HOST): There are two problems, I think, here. One is the fact that 40,000 hours of footage is just not something one can reasonably review, even if you've got a team doing it. But I think the second and bigger problem is that Fox is not a fully reliable place. And by that I mean, not Tucker, I don't have a problem with Tucker. I don't have a problem with a lot of hosts on Fox. But they are under the thumb of upper management and the Murdochs.
DEBBIE D'SOUZA (GUEST): If you can't report actual truth and news, then why do you call yourself a news organization?
DINESH D'SOUZA: Exactly. So look. So Tucker comes out early in the week and he puts out all this stuff on Monday, and it looked like he was going to go all week, more on Tuesday, more on Wednesday. And then suddenly he pivoted. Tuesday and Wednesday suddenly you start getting interviews with people, fiery rants. But I mean, the rants are recycled talking points. We're looking for new footage. You can't have 40,000 hours of footage and you've put out like three clips that add up to like two minutes—
DEBBIE D'SOUZA: So do you think that it's just that they're so overwhelmed that they should have maybe waited a little bit longer and had more footage, you know, come out?
DINESH D'SOUZA: I personally do not think so. And my reason is 2000 Mules. I think that what Fox decided — with 2000 Mules, quite honestly, we may have made the mistake — it's not a mistake because you normally do this — of showing them the film so that they can take a look at it, but they probably decided, let's stay away from this one. So we gave them a tip-off, because of the topic, but it could be. See the Murdochs don't care. Ultimately, their main goal is social respectability. They want Fox to be able to sell ads to Nissan. So they have all kinds of motives, including feuding with Trump. All kinds of motives for blocking the kind of coverage that occurs on that network. And I think that is the sad reality.