Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:02 pm
Friday Fox Follies believes we are witnessing in real time the slow motion destruction of Tee Vee Journalism™ as MSNBC Now Openly Bragging About Abandoning its Liberal Brand In New Ad. Maybe it was because Fox News Sets Another Record And Personal Milestone, that MSNBC decided to make a right turn. Clearly mendacious manure sells. However, according to Veteran Journalists: Trump Coverage “Devastating†For News Credibility, something that MSNBC should keep in mind.
BTW: I was never comfortable that MSNBC decided to take a left of center slant, preferring news without a point of view (‘ceptin’ when I write it, of course). Contrary to the beliefs of my detractors, I almost never watch it, especially now that Melissa Harris-Perry is no longer on the channel.
What will make Fox twice as insufferable is that State Dept Spox Personally Thanks Fox News For Uncovering Briefing Video Deletion, discovered by James Rosen, who has his own problems with the truth, as I have documented many times over the years.
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TRUMP U IS NOT AN EPITHET: Let me see if I can get this straight. This week Demagogue Donald called a Press Conference to trash the press for forcing him to have a Press Conference to announce how much money he raised for veterans’ groups, which he made a big deal of announcing months ago — and promoted with phony prop cheques on the campaign trail — but then said he wanted to keep it private, but the evil press wouldn’t let him. Naturally, of course, Donald Trump Calls ABC Reporter ‘A Sleaze’ In Bizarre Press Conference. Not only that, but he highlighted his symbiotic relationship with the Fox “News” Channel:
Fox News’ Carl Cameron, a favorite of Donald, tried to defend his brethren by explaining to Trump that he’s answering the questions now, that were asked then, “is a question an attack?
Trump replied, “I think the political press is among the most dishonest people that I’ve ever met, I have to tell you that. You’re excluded, Carl.”
Yet, “some people say” (Okay, it’s me. Satisfied?) that The Donald’s meltdown was simply an attempt to change the topic. Deceptive Donald was well aware that damaging documents in the lawsuit on his Trump University scam were being released later in the day. It worked. The attack on the press pushed Trump U right off the the news radar.
However, just in case that didn’t work, Fox “News” was there to make it all right. [Geddit?]
Flashback: How Fox News Let Trump
Lie When Trump U. Lawsuit Was Filed
Fox’s MacCallum Helps Eric Trump
Dismiss Trump U. Fraud Allegations
Fox Host Suggests Allegedly Fraudulent Trump
University Tactics Are Just “Good Marketing”
Fox’s Greta Van Susteren Polls Viewers On
Whether Defunct Trump U. Should Reopen
Martha MacCallum Helps Rehab
Disgraced Trump U: ‘So You Think
The Good Outweighs The Bad’
News Programs Air Trump U. Testimonials
Without Covering Connections To Trump
At Least Seven Fox Hosts Spin Donald
Trump’s Dishonesty Over Veteran Donations
Fox News Whitewashes Trump’s Anti-American
Attacks On The Press Over Veteran Donations
Now that Rupert Murdoch has been assimilated by the Trump Borg, The Wall Street Journal Staff Told to Be ‘Fair’ to Mendacious Demagogue Because ‘Serious People’ Support Him, which is why Fox’s Imaginary Unicorn Trump Win Map Includes California, while CNN asks the musical question Is Donald Trump using Bill O’Reilly’s playbook for dealing with media?
While reasonable people want A Look At What Political Press Could Face Under A Donald Trump Presidency, one Fox Contributor Lauds Trump For Attacking The Press. This as Trump Celebrates ‘An All Trump Night on Fox News’ on Memorial Day and Hannity Tops Off Fox’s Night Of Trump Promotions With A Trump-Loving Ventriloquist.
While Fox “News” genuflects, Conservatives Really Did Not Like Fox News’ ‘Meet The Trumps’ Special from last week, which included Greta Van Susteren’s Stunningly Sycophantic, Sophomoric Interview With Melania Trump, in which Melania Trump Accidentally Undermines Donald’s Campaign Slogan. In other words: Fox News’ Obscene And Ridiculous Trump Infomercial.
Want to know How Conservative Media Enabled Trump’s Outrageous Lies? Then also read:
Outnumbered Panel Attacks Bill Kristol For Promoting A Third-Party Candidate • Fox Host Defends Trump’s Attack On NM Gov. By Suggesting She’s Prejudiced Against Him • Fox Attacks Obama For Dissing Donald Trump From Japan • Fox’s Pemmaraju Suggests It’s Jimmy Kimmel’s Fault Trump Agreed To Debate Sanders • Fox News Sheriff Calls For Violence Against Trump Protesters Again
While FFF wishes it didn’t have to cover Trump at all, at least “this humble correspondent” gets some satisfaction when Anti-Trump conservatives howl on Twitter over “Pravda-like†Fox News special “Meet the Trumpsâ€. Or when Bill O’Reilly Chewed Out By Colonel Hunt For Defending Trump Vets Grandstanding. Or smile as Former Telemundo President Scolds Fox & Friends Over Use Of Anti-immigrant Slur.
Special condemnation for Sean Hannity, who finally announced he’ll be voting for Donald Trump, to the surprise of no one. Still dodging questions over where the money went in his own Freedom Concerts that was supposed to raise money for veterans, Sean Hannity Defends Donald Trump From The Big, Bad Press despite these conflicts of interest: 1). Trump Gave Money To Organization With “Years-Long†Relationship With Fox Host Sean Hannity; 2). Trump Congratulates Hannity on ‘Tremendous’ Ratings Ahead of Their Latest Sitdown.
IRONY ALERT: First Trump Supporter Hannity Whines About San Diego Radio Affiliate Airing Clinton’s Foreign Policy Speech and then Sean Hannity Helps Donald Trump Lie His Head Off – And Complains ‘Journalism Is Dead’. You can’t make that Fox Fecesâ„¢ up.
CUCKOLD CORNER: You’d expect nothing less from his vanilla milkshaking buddy, but O’Reilly’s Dishonest Attempt To Shield Trump From Media Scrutiny Over Vague Veteran Donations is par for the course by this putts. However, he didn’t get away with it from everybody as you can WATCH: Colonel schools O’Reilly for claiming that Trump veteran donation scandal is the liberal media’s fault:
But, if you like funny videos starring The Falafel King [NSFW], this week he was slumming on The Five, so he could plug his latest book, which I think is called Killing Truth. Here he gets an earful from Fox’s Gutfeld: ‘The Press Loves Trump Because They See a Career in Him’. Watch and read along:
He said that while reporters may favor Trump, “there is an army of advocacy for Trump†in the commentator class, remarking, “He gets more free passes than a hot chick at a night club.â€
“And the press,†Gutfeld added, “loves Trump because they see a career in him! There are gonna be 100 books about Trump in one year!â€
O’Reilly objected to the idea that Trump gets soft treatment, saying a lot of these commentators are “cheap-shotting†Trump and anyone who says one bad word about Clinton is a sexist.
There was this devastating pull quote from Bill O’Reilly’s making this up: His latest racial bloviating is just plain fiction:
This is not the first time that Bill O’Reilly has trafficked in anti-black animus. Scaring the viewers of Fox News with tales of black thuggery and anti-white violence is central to his gimmick and shtick.
Of course, Bill O’Reilly’s claim that “Black Lives Matter†is “killing†“Americans†is fantastical and untrue. His “logic†is desperate and bizarre: he conflates black college students protesting a conservative propagandist with street violence by drug dealers and gang members. And based on his use of “statistics†about “black crime,†it is also apparent that Bill O’Reilly does not understand the difference between correlation and causation.
In all, O’Reilly most recent act of racist bloviating is a hodgepodge of white supremacist talking points and fictions pulled from the Right-wing “news†echo chamber. It is also proof of the harm that white racial paranoiac thinking can do to both a person’s understanding of empirical reality and personal ethics.
Loofah Lad Leftovers: Bill O’Reilly: Newt Gingrich Will Be Donald Trump’s Running Mate • Bill O’Reilly Corrected • Bill O’Reilly Pushes Border Wall, Says The New York Times Wants “Open Borders†• O’Reilly: “Cowardly” Authorities Won’t Pass Kate’s Law. Why?
MEGYN MANIA: Not a lot under this rubric this week.
However, to her credit: Megyn Kelly Hilariously Smacks Down Defender Of Trump’s Attacks On Trump University Judge.
H8 RELATIONS: Fox News has always fomented hate, but lately it seems much worse:
Fox News Harps On Black Father’s Rap
Sheet To Blame Him For Gorilla’s Death
Uncle Ruckus’s Praise Police
Boycott Of Beyoncé On Fox ‘News’
Megyn Kelly Hosts Mark Fuhrman
To Analyze Inner City Violence
Fox Smears Black Legislator Objecting
To Requiring Students To Recite
Declaration Of Independence
Watch Former Telemundo President
Confront Fox Hosts Over Anti-Immigrant Slur
Need I say more?
BEWARE!!! FOX & FRIENDS ON THE LOOSE: Clearly they’ve learned nothing at all after all those earlier painfully stupid Dooce On The Loose segments went off the rails.
Who thought that real estate huckster (Trump U Lite?) Clayton Morris would be any better? However, no one was prepared when Fox & Friends rejected by hot dog vendor on live TV: Times Square stand shuts down to avoid host. Watch:
That’s right. Rather than get tangled up with Fox & Friends tomfoolery, this man decided to forego his profit.
Now that the weather’s turned nice, expect more roving Man on the Street shenanigans.
SOURCES THAT SUCK: This is a brand new occasional rubric. It occurs to FFF that Wayne Simmons is not the only crazy charlatan Fox “News” tosses on the air to confirm its inherent bias. This week:
Fox & Friends Hosts Discredited Academic
To Push Faulty Anti-Immigrant Report
Fox News: Where An Indicted
Anti-Abortion Extremist
Can Go To Push Lies
CREDIT WHERE CREDIT’S DUE: Or, even a stopped clock blurts out the truth once in a while.
Fox’s Juan Williams Points Out
Media Hypocrisy After Trump
Failed To Debate Bernie Sanders
TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN: Regular readers know that CLINTON CONTEST and BLAMIN’ ‘BAMA are almost interchangeable rubrics. Here’s a quick rundown from this week:
Fox’s Doocy Falsely Claims
Clinton Used A Computer Without
A Password As Secretary Of State
Krauthammer: Hillary Is the ‘Worst Person’
Possible to Attack Trump on Foreign Policy
Fox Host: Obama Has Trouble Stumping for
Clinton Because ‘He Just Doesn’t Like Her’
O’Reilly: Obama’s ‘Obsessed’ with Fox
News, We Have No ‘Jihad’ Against Him
Charles Krauthammer Says Obama ‘Closed
the circle of that apology tour in Hiroshima’
Fox’s Guilfoyle On Obama’s Historic Visit To
Hiroshima: “To Me, It Felt Like An Apology”
Be sure to read: Obama Blows Up Fox News Lies and The GOP With Powerful Debunking In Indiana. Any further questions?
FOX BYTES: Fox’s Special Report Claims Scientific Consensus On Climate Change Is “Subject Of Vigorous Debate†• ‘Listen, Liberal’ Helps Explain Why Liberals Are So Terribly Ineffective On Fox News • In Tied Spelling Bee, Fox Panel Sees Moral Decline of America • Fox’s Monica Crowley: Democrats Want To ‘Lock As Many Illegal Immigrants Into Dependency’ As Possible • Fox News’s Bret Baier asked the Twitterverse for story ideas. Here’s what he got. • If You Come For Fox’s Julie Roginsky on Twitter, She Will Decimate You
Headly Westerfield, Head Writer at the Not Now Silly Newsroom, has been a working journalist for 40+ years. He recently published Writing News With A Union Label about his exploits in the highest rated tee vee newsroom in Toronto.
