Fox News Cuts Ties With Diamond & Silk, Unofficial Trump 'Advisers' Who Spread Bonkers Coronavirus
Source: daily beast
The MAGA superstars lost their Fox gig after pushing absolutely wild conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated Apr. 27, 2020 5:02PM ET / Published Apr. 27, 2020 4:53PM ET
Fox News has cut ties with MAGA vlogging superstars Diamond & Silk, who had contributed original content to the networks streaming service Fox Nation since shortly after its late 2018 launch.
The sudden split comes after the Trump-boosting siblings have come under fire for promoting conspiracy theories and disinformation about the coronavirus. After what theyve said and tweeted you wont be seeing them on Fox Nation or Fox News anytime soon, a source with knowledge of the matter told The Daily Beast.
After rising to prominence during the 2016 election, Lynette Diamond Hardaway and Rochelle Silk Richardson leveraged their newfound celebrity into regular sycophantic appearances on Fox News, resulting in President Donald Trump raving about their performances, featuring them at rallies, and treating them as senior advisers.
The social-media personalities were eventually tapped to provide weekly videos for Fox Nation after it launched as a subscription-based online video network. Their episodes, essentially 5-7 minute distillations of their freeform live-streams, appeared like clockwork on the streaming service until earlier this month.
No new episodes of their online program have been uploaded since April 7, as CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy first noted over the weekend. Prior to this month, the duo never missed a week posting episodes since December 2018.
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Silk, meanwhile, baselessly asserted that the disease was man-made and engineered, wondering aloud if there was a little deep-state action going on behind the scenes. She also questioned whether the World Health Organization had a switch to turn this virus on and off?..............................
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-cuts-ties-with-diamond-and-silk?via=twitter_page
I was never a fan of these two1
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Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)One bonkers doesn't like the other and kicks 'em out?
Sounds more like competition and infighting. Some bonkers is expendable when you want your bonkers to look better. Yup, nice big, shiny, Faux bonkers.
spudspud
(511 posts)Fox News is running from the incoming legal liability for all their COVID19 coverage shenanigans.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Trump's ready to discharge them from the payroll as long as the great unwashed aren't turning out for his sideshows.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)who watched out of pity.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)majdrfrtim
(318 posts)who's "promoting conspiracy theories and disinformation about the coronavirus," as well!
Grokenstein
(5,723 posts)(Also, at some point in his past, he was white.)
majdrfrtim
(318 posts)I forgot to factor in the "Trump Sarcasm Quotient"! Again!
I *hate* it when that happens.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)because "too crazy even for Fox News" is "mainstream for Trump remoras".
(and that's not something out of date - the Black Voices for Trump website has a new link to something they wrote today. I'm not giving that link, of course; don't worry, the link about just explains what a remora is)
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)turbinetree
(24,703 posts)LonePirate
(13,424 posts)I guess there is a home for them at OANN.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)djacq
(1,634 posts)Ever!
keithbvadu2
(36,821 posts)Yeehah
(4,587 posts)However, they would not be fired were they blondes.
chowder66
(9,073 posts)pouring in.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)they got ahead of themselves and now lost their patron.