Failed human being and Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake spent thirty years as a TV broadcaster in Phoenix, so she knows her way around a camera, especially the ones with a soft focus. With all that experience, though, the network willing to give her a spot for “The Kari Lake Show” was America First Network, an online sewer two or three circles of Hell below Newsmax that hasn’t made it to your cable provider yet. Do a little happy dance.
AFN was founded by Joshua Feuerstein because God told him to. God didn’t tell him to help the sick or poor, but to start a streaming service that spews lies and dangerous nonsense that literally kills people. Feuerstein is the Arizona “pastor” who got his 15 minutes in 2015 when he went apeshit over Starbuck’s “Happy Holidays” coffee cups, which, he said, “removed CHRISTMAS because they hate Jesus.” He’s called Muhammad a pedophile, the LGBTQ community even worse, and as Covid peaked he told listeners not to get vaccinated or wear a mask because “you got Jesus.” Another AFN minister, Irvin Lee Baxter, Jr., also told viewers to ignore science because Jesus, then Covid found a workaround and killed him.
AFN personality Mike Crispi spread the lies of Larry Sinclair, a convicted criminal in three states who’s done time, and who boasted that he was President Obama’s gay lover. Crispi also said President Biden left a Medal of Honor ceremony early because he soiled his diapers. Hey jackass, the President left because he’d just learned Jill Biden contracted Covid. But I guess God told you to be a slime ball. Mission accomplished.
Feurerstein is running for the legislature in Texas, where he just might win since he checks all the requisite MAGA boxes: anti-immigration, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ, anti-science, and an election denier who welcomes violence: “In order to be peaceful, you must first be capable of extreme violence.” He seems nice.
So these are the swell folks who Kari Lake, the presumptive Republican candidate for the friggin’ US Senate in Arizona, decided to surround herself with. And yet she complains that others call her an extremist! Hey Kari, do you watch your own network? Here’s some of what you missed on Lake’s new show:
Surprise! Surprise! Election denialism is the main theme, mentioned 27 times in the first four episodes. Lake continues to sing this screechy tune even as the Arizona Republican Party advises her to STFU about stolen elections because voters are tired of her lame-ass whining and losing lawsuits. Lake’s lawyers have already been sanctioned, and this week news broke that they are facing possible disbarment and additional fines for filing a mountain of frivolous BS.
A committee that regulates attorneys in Arizona has found probable cause that three lawyers who represented former gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in election-related cases should face discipline.
Lake’s guest Roseanne Barr, once a popular comedian who evidently read “Victoria Jackson for Dummies,” said a multi-racial official in President Obama’s administration was the child of terrorists and the primates in Planet of the Apes. Not subtle. Lake told Barr it’s the media that paints her as an extremist, when her policies are really “common sense.”
Yes, the media forced Lake to heap praise on dictators like Viktor Orbán, then speak at his CPAC conference in Hungary with the Arizona congressmen Lake calls the GOAT: white supremacist and Nick Fuentes fanboy Paul Gosar. It’s the media that made her cheer Texas’s abortion law that could’ve killed Kate Cox (and probably will kill others). The media is to blame for Lake saying MAGA gun-huggers will reinstall Trump, using their penis proxies if necessary. And those nasty journalists and reporters twisted her arm so she’d tell moderate McCain Republicans to “get the hell out” of the party. Boy, our media is powerful!
During his interview on Lake’s show the Nixon-tattooed treasonous shithead Roger Stone told her that JFK Jr’s fatal plane crash was part of a plot orchestrated by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Lake responded that Junior’s father, President Kennedy, would be MAGA if he were alive. Yeah, sure, go camp out with the Q boobs in Dealey Plaza—otherwise known as your base.
Auditioning for a VP slot, Lake repeatedly praises Donald Trump and told son Eric (“one of my favorite Trumps”) that his father “will go down as one of the greatest leaders in all of human history.” He’ll go down all right, along with the other Jan. 6 insurrectionists Lake continues to defend. I’ll give you a moment to gargle away that upchuck in your throat while you ponder the greatness of Trump’s leadership, the rapist who did lead—thousands of duped MAGA nitwits to an early death.
AFN’s Chief Science Officer, cardiologist Peter McCullough, a regular fire hose of disinformation on Tucker Carlson and other rightwing shows, said vaccines have killed hundreds of thousands. To ward off Covid, the good doc counsels Americans to quaff ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. It so happens that Kari Lake’s principal sponsor is the Wellness Company, which, for a fee, will provide anti-vaxxers an exemption letter, and of course sell them ivermectin or whatever witches’ brew AFN’s on-air “scientists” are hocking.
All I can say is OMfuckingG, we’re so lucky Lake did not win Arizona’s governor’s race because she would’ve happily signed all the hateful, dangerous bills that the Republican goobers in the Legislature have sent to Governor Katie Hobbs, only to suffer an immediate veto (she set a record): book bans, transphobic bills, more abortion restrictions (read: total), guns on campus, immigrant bashing, and assaults on public education, healthcare, and the environment. In other words, Florida and Texas.
Lake’s trying to appear more moderate, hoping to win back the Republicans and Independents she alienated during her ugly, revolting 2022 race, which she and every other Trump-endorsed bootlicker in Arizona lost. I’m going out on a limb here and predicting her new show won’t help persuade moderates that she isn’t a lying, dangerous, egomaniacal danger to democracy.