Aug. 21, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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| I love dirt and so do you. | |
| Now picture this. | |
| Fox News, the network that calls itself and loves to call itself fair and balanced. | |
| It wasn't just reporting on politics during the 2020 election mess. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| It was inside the chaos. | |
| With its biggest stars playing kingmakers, gossip hounds, and infighting. | |
| Oh, it was great. | |
| Egos clawing and going crazy and people going nuts, going crazy and going after each other. | |
| He goes clawing behind the curtains, and thanks to the... | |
| At the heart of it none other than Janine Piro, the same judge Janine, who slurred away through Saturday nights on Fox with a glass of red wine always rumored to be off camera. | |
| Now suddenly a US attorney in Washington. | |
| Sitting in the halls of power, and these texts show her not as a not as a journalist, but as a gossipy operator, obsessed with loyalty, clout, and keeping herself relevant in Trump World Start with Sean Hannity. | |
| To the public, Hannity and Piro look like besties, the Bonnie and Clyde, the Sacco and Vanzetti, the Yin and Yang of Maga Media. | |
| But privately, Piro was ripping him apart. | |
| In one fiery october twenty twenty message, she describes him storming into the oval office like he owns the place, tossing papers on Trump's desk, strutting around, using the private bathroom like it was his personal powder room. | |
| Then she delivered the dagger. | |
| It's all about him, period. | |
| No one else matters, period. | |
| Smatters Brutal Brutal Behind closed doors, Pyrrha thought Hannity was an egomaniac. | |
| The two anchors were once finishing each other's sentences on air were completely sniping at each other jealous, jealous folks like high school frenemies. | |
| Oh, we kind of knew it was there, wasn't it? | |
| And by the way, Janine's doing a great job, but there was a one time where she put on the air hey, it happened. | |
| But Janine wasn't just gossiping about her colleagues, no, she was bragging about her loyalty, positioning herself as the Trump movement's ride or die. | |
| That's right. | |
| And text to RNCJ Chair Ronald McDaniel, Piro practically begged for recognition, writing quote, I work so hard for the party. | |
| I'm the number one watch show all weekend. | |
| I work so hard for the president and the party. | |
| Forget journalism. | |
| She was pitching herself as the GOP's crown jewel, the prime time infomercial for Trump World. | |
| And then came the pardon drama. | |
| Her ex husband, Albert Piro had done federal time for tax evasion and conspiracy. | |
| Trump was handing out pardons like candy in the final days, but Janine's ex kept getting skipped over. | |
| Behind the scenes she was fuming, lobbying, and using her connections to push for clemency. | |
| These court filings show her priorities laid bare, keep the readings hot, stay in Trump's good graces, and cash in on personal favors. | |
| Well, her behavior during election week was even messier. | |
| November seventh, twenty twenty, the day major outlets called the election for Joe Biden, Pyrrha was yanked off the air by Fox Brass. | |
| Why? | |
| Because she kept pushing fraud theories even after producers told her to pump the brakes. | |
| She went ballistic, texting Eric Trump directly that she was tired of it the censorship in caps. | |
| Meanwhile, Hannity, ever the competitor, mocked her tantrum with his own sny text, Fox promoting you every five seconds. | |
| It's hilarious. | |
| These weren't colleagues. | |
| They were sharks. | |
| Circling the same chum, slashing each other while pretending to be allies on screen. | |
| Oh, and the lawsuit also drags in the whole Fox AT, Maria Barteromo, texting Sydney Powell like a skitty skitty, a skitty girl school. | |
| A giddy schoolgirl. | |
| Quote, We must keep you out there. | |
| Bring the evidence. | |
| Lou Dobbs turning his show into a coup hotline. | |
| It's up to us, we few, to stop what is now a coup d'etat. | |
| And Jesse Waters, even for the ratings junkie daydreaming about how our ratings would be incredible if Fox went all in on stop this deal. | |
| This wasn't news. | |
| This was fan fiction being spitballed in real time with anchors and scriptwriters. | |
| There it is in black and white. | |
| But behind the curtain, oh boy. | |
| Bret Bear and others were privately texting that none of it was true. | |
| We need to fact check this crap Bear wrote. | |
| The split was obvious. | |
| One camp saw it as an opportunity to juice ratings, the other feared a legal nightmare. | |
| Guess who won? | |
| That's right, the carnival barkers. | |
| And then there's Piro's deposition. | |
| An absolute plot twist. | |
| Under oath, she admitted she believed Biden won, admitted smart matic did nothing wrong. | |
| The same woman who shouted fraud to millions of viewers went quiet in the courtroom. | |
| It was like it was like catching the lead actress mouthing I'm acting while the cameras rolled. | |
| And now think about think about where she is today. | |
| Not at Fox, not in retirement, but as US attorney for DC. | |
| CC holding on one of the most powerful legal positions in the country. | |
| The irony is well interesting. | |
| A woman who turned TV into a partisan pep rally is now tasked with enforcing federal law in the capital. | |
| How delicious? | |
| So here's the gossip made deadly serious. | |
| Hannity was jealous. | |
| Piro was desperate for attention. | |
| Barteromo was what fangrowing over conspiracy theories? | |
| Dobbs was fantasizing about coups and Waters was thinking only of clicks and ratings. | |
| They weren't journalists. | |
| They were courtiers in the city. | |
| In Trump's orbit, that's right. | |
| They were they were Fox News zealots using Fox News as their personal audition tape. | |
| Oh yeah, let me say something. | |
| And the cherry on top? | |
| The cherry? | |
| Janine Piro, the loudest of them all, left behind a paper trail that reads more like mean girls than the Federalist papers. | |
| Ripping Hannity a new one as a diva, calling herself the party's hardest worker, throwing tantrums, then pulled off the air, begging for her ex husband's pardon, and then confessing on under oath, she didn't believe the very claim she screamed about to America's living rooms in the first place. | |
| Fox News always sold itself as a family, right? | |
| But these texts show the family was more like the Manson family or the Adams family. | |
| Well, the Adams family was okay. | |
| It wasn't a family at all, it was a knife fight. | |
| And the viewers, the millions of Americans who tuned in night after night were the ones caught in the middle. | |
| So when you ask the question, what was this about? | |
| Was this about truth, loyalty, or ratings? | |
| The answer is obvious. | |
| It was about ego. | |
| It was about who could get closest to Trump. | |
| Who could make the biggest splash? | |
| and who could secure the next job, the pardon, the headline, and the gossip, the pettiness, the personal digs. | |
| They weren't distractions, they were the main event. | |
| And we love it. | |
| Because in the end, my friends, in the event, in the end, what these finally show us in the world in America wasn't that we were just watching an election on Fox News, we were watching a reality show. | |
| And the stars of the show, Jeanine, Piro, Sean Hannity, Maria Barteroma, they weren't reporters, they were contestants, contestants clawing at each other for the spotlight, willing to burn truth to the ground if it meant staying on top. | |
| See America? | |
| It's the American way, one would argue. | |
| And the gossipy little kicker, Pyrrh won. | |
| She parlayed her loyalty act into power. | |
| From Fox host to federal prosecutor, Hannity stayed rich but diminished, Bartiromo and Dobbs are footnotes, and Fox itself is left bleeding, bleeding billions in lawsuits. | |
| Think about this. | |
| Exposed for what it really is. | |
| Not a news network, but a tabloid empire in prime time drag. | |
| That's the show. | |
| That's the way it is. | |
| And the curtain? | |
| It's not coming down anytime soon, my friend. | |
| You love this stuff. | |
| I love it, don't you? | |
| Say it. | |
| Say it. | |
| We're petty. | |
| We love to know what's going on, always behind the scenes. | |
| And it's not just Fox, it's MSDNC. | |
| It's the way Maddow threw what's his name, Oberman under the bus when Rather stabbed Walter Cronkite in the back. | |
| It's the way it is. | |
| Because these people all have one thing in common, they're pathetic. | |
| From stern to you name it. | |
| And we love it. | |
| Deep down inside. | |
| When all is said and done, we love it. | |
| We love it more than anything else. | |
| And what do you think, my friends? | |
| Do me a favor. | |
| Think about what I said. | |
| Pay very close attention. | |
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| And whatever you do, I beg, beseech, entreat, and import you to comment. |
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