Fox News goes completely off the rails with Maria Bartiromo

| 3:10 pm EST January 19, 2021
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If Fox News is a dumpster fire of dishonest propagandist hosts, then Fox Business Channel is the toxic waste dump for hosts who are too ridiculous even for Fox News. If you’ve watched Maria Bartiromo lately, you know why she’s relegated to Fox Business Channel: she’s a lying Trump shill and far right conspiracy theorist who’s dangerously dishonest.

We were half expecting Fox would dump Maria Bartiromo entirely now that Trump is gone and his base is faltering. But in a reminder that ratings mean everything in television, Fox News has decided to try to fix its collapsing ratings by promoting Bartiromo to its Fox News primetime lineup.

This is a clear signal that heading into the post-Trump era, Fox News has as little interest in truth than ever. Maria Bartiromo is arguably even more of a deranged conspiracy theorist than Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson. In that sense, she’ll fit right in with Fox’s utterly embarrassing primetime lineup.