Friday Fox Follies - Curvy Couch Conspiracy

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Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:11 pm

I’ve long maintained Fox & Friends is the most DEPLORABLE show on the Fox “News” Network. Its Morning Zoo Happy Tee Vee Talk is used to promote hate, resentment, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Trumpism. Thursday we got another example, and — BONUS!!! — Donald Trump got almost a quarter hour of air time to lie again.

By now you’ve no doubt heard how Agent Orange verbally attacked the Flint pastor who had the temerity to interrupt him and gently remind him that the church was not the appropriate place for a political speech. So, he called into the Curvy Couch Thursday — his 2nd Foxy Friends Reach-A-Round this week — and alleged a conspiracy.

However, let’s first read what REALLY happened in the church from someone who was there and not named Donald in the article Trump Criticizes Flint Pastor — But Misstates Key Facts About Their Encounter. NPR’s Scott Detrow reports that unlike what Trump told those Foxy Friends:

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“The audience was saying, ‘Let him speak, let him speak,’ ” Trump told Fox and Friends.

That isn’t true. In fact, several audience members began to heckle Trump, asking pointed questions about whether he racially discriminated against black tenants as a landlord.

And that’s when Timmons — who Trump said Thursday had planned to ambush him — stepped in to defend Trump, saying the Republican nominee was “a guest of my church, and you will respect him.”

“Thank you. Thank you, Pastor,” Trump responded.

In other words, immediately after she shut him down Pastor Timmons defended Donald Trump from parishioners’ attacks. Did Trump refrain from attacking the pastor the next day when he had a chance? Not so much. And, while Trump’s crackpot conspiracy theory was extensively derided, most most mediate outlets blamed Trump.

However, it was a Fox and Friends set-up from the get-go. More than an hour before Trump’s phone call, I watched those Foxy Friends quote a Todd Starnes column alleging a conspiracy. Trump just validated it by adding a new ~~detail~~ lie, that the pastor was nervous.

Media Matters also caught it: Fox Helps Trump Spin An Interruption During His Church Speech In Flint, Michigan, As A “Set-Up”:

STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Todd Starnes was looking at her Facebook earlier in the day, and the Reverend Faith Green Timmons wrote this, “Today is our day. We have our chance to show Donald Trump that this nation is filled with intelligent, wise black citizens of integrity. Many of whom live right here in Flint, Michigan. What he will see is how we are braving a man-made catastrophe” — referring to the water — “He will not use us, we will educate him.” And so some have wondered whether or not it was a set-up ambush. Although, by saying we will educate him, maybe what she was writing was we’re going to tell him what happened.

HUNTSMAN: I do think there is something to that. When they’re on campaigns, the candidates do a lot of the attacking but it is important to listen to what the people have to say, to what the voters have to say. So I’m not sure they wrote that the best way they could have, but in terms of Donald Trump being out there, we know it’s half of the purpose, right. To hear one of the concerns they care about, things they want him to speak to. That’s an important part of it.

That’s how Fox & Friends injects venom into the body politic.

BONUS! This also proves something I’ve said before: Nothing that originates as a Todd Starnes’ Stain ever holds up to scrutiny.

You’ll find Trump parroting the lie about Pastor Timmons at 9:01, but the whole thing should be watched to see how many lies those Foxy Friends allow him to spew in 11 minutes, 41 seconds:

MAKING BOOK HE’LL SAY SOMETHING BONEHEADED: In the middle of a book tour Bill “Loofah” O’Reilly promised he’d keep his “big mouth shut” for once in his life. Too bad it was only that one time and only about his former boss because, as always, he said many DEPLORABLE things just this week:

As he credits Reverend Wright for the inspiration for his latest Killing Truth book, O’Reilly also pimped the book by attacking Colin Kaepernick’s Patriotism. He attacked athletes ‘taking the knee’ during the National Anthem, as he found new ways to defend Donald Trump based on nothing factual. He also lied about whether he ever defended Roger Ailes in the first place, yet showed more compassion for Ailes’s family than the victims of his sexual harassment.

Laughably he believes Fox “News” equally attacks Trump and Clinton. Consequently, the mendacious station is Fair and Balanced. And, to prove it, he cut to a Trump rally because Trump cooperates with him. He rarely points out the ugly things his milkshakin’ buddy says, but seizes on Hillary Clinton’s basket case remark. He demonstrates his White Privilege by claiming because every Black person he knows has I.D, voter disenfranchisement is a myth. As if he really knows any Black people.

But, most egreciously O’Reilly Whitewashes Scandals Swirling Around The Trump Foundation – “I Don’t Understand The Controversy”. Oh, c’mon, Bill, be honest. A 4-year old child could understand that report.

SEAN “HACK” HANNITY: There are many reasons he’s a hack. F’rinstance Former GE CEO Jack Welch Says Watching Hannity Gets You “One Full Hour Of Hating Hillary Clinton”. Need more proof?

Hannity and Rich Lowry’s MEGA-Twitter brawl turns into a 3 on 1 fight: ‘Omg you are tweeting my boss??’ • Sean Hannity Invites Doctors To Give Their “Best Guess” Of What Illnesses Hillary Clinton Might Have • Hannity Trots Out Two Discredited Authors To Help Swiftboat Hillary Clinton’s Health • Hannity Repeatedly Tried To Get Donald Trump To Smear Hillary Clinton About Her Health • Now Hannity Wants To Sue CNN For Slander (Over Something Brian Stelter Never Said About Him) • Sean Hannity: Pat Buchanan Is “One Of The O.G., Original Gangster ‘Deplorables'” • Fox’s Sean Hannity Pretends He Doesn’t Care “What Anybody Does In Their Bedroom,” Forgetting His Own Years Of Anti-LGBT Extremism

PASSAGES: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss:

Fox News Channel’s New Leaders Bill
Shine, Jack Abernethy Sign Multi-Year Deals

Meanwhile, FOX News Channel Launches New Political Analysis Show with Two Non-Trumpkins, Dana Perino And Chris Stirewalt, To Host New Fox News Show.

What could possibly go wrong?

STILL CLEANING UP AFTER THE AILES SCANDAL:

Fox News founder’s name ripped off Ohio U.
building right after president announces removal

Rudy Giuliani was ‘instrumental’ in Roger Ailes’ split from Fox

Roger Ailes Puts Two New York Homes on the Market

CREDIT WHERE CREDIT’S DUE: Or a stopped clock finds a nut every once in a while.

Fox’s Greg Gutfeld Calls Out Conservatives
Who Laud Julian Assange’s Release Of
Hacked Information For Political Reasons

Megyn Kelly is a special case under this rubric. Very occasionally she actually performs journalism . . .

Megyn Kelly schools Katrina Pierson: The
media didn’t ‘force’ Trump to be a birther