Posted on 07/20/2015 9:42:28 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
"If you listen the comments in total, he's not critical of John McCain the war hero, he's critical of his Senate record," co-host Steve Doocy said. Responding and agreeing was co-host Geraldo Rivera, who was not as enthusiastic as Doocy, but did say that Trump would need to at least clarify his remarks. Later in the show, co-host Brian Kilmeade interviewed former Ronald Reagan advisor, agreeing that the situation was "blown out of proportion." Kilmeade continued to defend Trump, saying that "he went on to say 4 more times that he was a war hero." This statement was looked into closely by Politifact, and they concluded that "Trump literally said McCain is a hero five times, but never without caveats," and rated the claim "Mostly False."
With Fox News hosting the first Republican presidential primary debate on August 6, having Trump on the stage is important. With Trump currently leading in the most recent national polls, it doesn't come as a surprise to see Fox News continuing to legitimacy his candidacy with a sure ratings grabber just two weeks away.
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So they’ve seen the weekend’s internal polling?
Wonder how Megyn Kelly will play it tonight???
Good for them.
FOX must be inundated with irate emails and phone calls.
For once the media is playing defense. So far, regardless of what anyone is saying, Trump is the only one who can make them do that. Hope he has good security!
Sounds like it. I was just about to go over and look out my window....for pigs flying...til I read your post ;-)
If she’s smart, she’ll talk about those cute new rabbit videos that are all the rage. Or mini-skirt trends.
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FOX must be inundated with irate emails and phone calls.
The calls/emails are working!
McCain is indefensible, when it comes to how much he’s *helped* our Veterans.
Re-open the POW/MIA case. Watch McCain go really nuts. Maybe Trump would do that for our hero senator.
Fox spent all day Sunday mostly trashing Trump for his remarks. I understand they received pretty substantial negative feedback via email. Maybe they’re walking some of it back because yesterday was an unbroken string, show-after-show of criticism of Trump and very little in his defense.
Wonder how Megyn Kelly will play it tonight???
I hope she ignores McCain and covers something important that Trump is addressing.
Fox turning on McCain?
Wonders never cease.
No, they probably want him in the debates.
More viewers and more hype!
Win win for FOX news.
Yeah, pretty much, but one’s veteran status doesn’t automatically make one a good national leader or a politician.
Fox sure spent all day Sunday trashing Trump. One could have logically concluded they were trying to knock him out of the debates.
Today is an about face if they are coverning the story objectively.
At least when Fox plays the Luntz-Trump sound bite, they play it 30 seconds longer than the other MSM outlets do — where Trump says that McCain IS a war hero.
Libs hate Fox because of the honesty there, generally.
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