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Conservative media reaps the whirlwind.
保守派媒體惡有惡報
By Jason Zengerle
文/杰森·曾格勒
On a Friday in late December, people who tuned in to "Lou Dobbs Tonight" on Fox Business encountered something they had most likely never seen before: a subdued, uncertain Lou Dobbs.
12月下旬的一個星期五，收看?？怂股虡I頻道《老杜今夜論衡》節目的人遇到了一件他們以前從未見過的事情：他們看到了一個低迷的、含糊的盧·道布斯。
"There are a lot of opinions about the integrity of the election, the irregularities of mail-in voting, of election voting machines and voting software," Dobbs said, his usual bombast strangely absent.
“關于選舉的公正性、郵寄投票的不規范性、選舉投票機和投票軟件的不規范性，人們有很多意見，”道布斯說道，他一貫的夸夸其談居然消失不見了。
"One of the companies," he continued, "is Smartmatic."
他接著說：“其中一家公司是Smartmatic?！?/p>
He introduced Eddie Perez, an election-security expert, to assess "recent claims about the company."
他介紹了選舉安全專家埃迪·佩雷斯來評估“最近有關該公司的一些言論”。
Then the show cut to a two-minute, prerecorded interview in which Perez vouched for Smartmatic's integrity — after which "Lou Dobbs Tonight" went straight to commercial.
然后，節目切換到事先錄制的兩分鐘采訪：佩雷斯證明了Smartmatic公司的公正性。之后，《老杜今夜論衡》就播了廣告。
This was a major departure from the norm.
這完全不合常規。
In the weeks after the November election, Dobbs had spent most of his prime-time hour on a farrago of conspiracy theories about how Donald Trump had actually defeated Joe Biden.
在11月大選后的幾周里，道布斯占用了大部分黃金時段來講陰謀論，關于唐納德·特朗普是如何擊敗喬·拜登的陰謀論。
Among his favorites was one involving Smartmatic, which — according to Dobbs and various guests — was founded by President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who died in 2013, and sat at the center of a plot to rig the election.
他最喜歡的是一個涉及Smartmatic的網站，據道布斯和其他嘉賓說，該網站是由2013年去世的委內瑞拉總統烏戈·查韋斯創建的，該網站涉嫌操縱選舉。
The interview with Perez lacked the usual Dobbs fervor.
道布斯對佩雷斯的采訪少了他一貫的熱情。
Perez calmly responded to questions from an unidentified interlocutor, all asked in the flat tone of an automatic voice generator.
佩雷斯平靜地回答了一位身份不明的對話者的問題，所有問題的聲音都是由自動語音生成器生成的平調。
Each answer laid waste to Dobbs's coverage of Smartmatic, and yet the segment was so grudging that it had the feel of the legal disclaimer at the end of a pharmaceutical commercial.
每一個答案都糟蹋了道布斯對Smartmatic的報道，然而這一部分帶著濃重的怨恨，就像醫藥廣告結尾的免責聲明一樣不情愿。
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