Trump's War Against... Fox News
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This slide up top, from a Fox News poll last week, indicates that just 41% of Americans think Trump should not be impeached. Half think he should be impeached and removed and another 4% think he should be impeached but not removed. So... 54% (to 41%) agree that the House should impeach him, which they will likely do on Wednesday. But it wasn't this poll that Señor Trumpanzee was screeching about over the weekend. Fox News in general was though.
Like Louis XIV, Trump actually believes he is the state and that the apparatus of the state belong to him and is there to serve his purposes. Trump isn't an educated man and has no idea what the constitution says and no interest in finding out. I'd say something like 40% of Americans agree with him-- either actively or passively and would embrace an authoritarian form of government. It speaks to what Fox News is that Trump also believes they are also there to serve his needs-- part of his team-- and act not as a legitimate news outlet, not even part of the time, but as a propaganda arm of his government. So... over the weekend he let loose with this tweet:
And then a few minutes later, obviously obsessed, this one:
Comey and Schiff were both Chris Wallace's guests on Fox News Sunday, where they gave Fox viewers the opportunity to get a glimpse of the real world outside the Trump propaganda bubble. Trump hates Wallace and calls him names and has tried to get him fired. Any glimmer of independence for a tyrant is intolerable. Wallace's speech to Newseum on Wednesday probably didn't soothe Trump's feathers. This is worth watching:
Wallace: "I believe that President Trump is engaged in the most direct, sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history... He has done everything he can to undercut the media, to try to de-legitimize us... I think his purpose is clear: to raise doubts when we report critically about him and his administration that we can be trusted. Back in 2017, he tweeted something that said far more about him than it did about us, quote: 'The fake news media is not my enemy. It is the enemy of the American people.'"
Labels: Chris Wallace, Fox News, propaganda, Robert DeNiro
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 5:00 AM
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An interesting possibility arises!
I don't know whether the typical MAGAt thinks well of Wallace, but let's say for the moment that they at least think about what he says. Wallace decides to actually be a newsman and not just pretend to be one on a network which brags about being "an entertainment channel" as labeled in 2007 by TV Guide, a magazine that was owned at the time by Rupert Murdoch. [Source]
Wallace takes inspiration from Edward R. Murrow and decides to reveal to the public the ugly truth about a major public figure with an eye toward ending his abuses. He succeeds. Trump is too damaged to run in 2020 no matter how the Democrats bungle the impeachment.
A nice dream, but time to awaken and face the ugly reality of day. It won't happen.
that's rich, coming from the likes of chris Wallace. if he were a journalist, he would NOT be working for Goebbels... I mean Murdoch.
Yeah wouldn't it be great if right wing assholes like Chris Wallace and John Bolton save democracy.
And yet, remember who went to Nixon and told him it was time to go? Republicans like Goldwater.
An ironic historical footnote, 9:40. Won't ever happen again.
Sadly, very true 11:55. In a cost-cutting move designed by McKinsey to increase profits, "silly little things" like integrity, honesty, intelligence and bravery were no longer installed when new models were constructed at the Stepford Republican factory. Such things tended to slow down the assembly line too often as they didn't fit. Not efficient, you know!
All this simply illustrates, for anyone near brain dead enough to not have already realized, that trump only cares that trump's sphincter is kissed. he loves those who enthusiastically smooch. He hates everyone who won't or stops and he is unhappy if the enthusiasm wanes.
nobody did more to get trump elected than Murdoch. nobody has done more to distract from his crimes, stoke support among his Nazi base and keep stoking to expand that base. nobody.
for whatever reason, a couple of their shitheads have had an attack of conscience... so now they are pivot men on trump's rotating shit list.
fickle whiny little bitch, ain't he?
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