Posted on 06/29/2020 3:01:25 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
I finally had to give up watching The Five last week, because I just couldn’t take another day of Juan Williams uttering fabricated nonsense and having none of the other four hosts do a damn thing to correct the record. It’s obvious management at Fox has told the others that it is hands-off time on Juan in the new age of Black Lives Matter TV.
Just as obvious is that every host on the cable news channel is required to cite the hysterically inaccurate Fox New Polls as of they are the gospel handed down on stone tablets from atop the mountain. When the otherwise sensible Maria Bartiromo is parroting the latest findings at least twice every day on Mornings With Maria, you know the talking points and segments are being forced upon her.
Sunday, things got even worse. Fox Business Analyst Charlie Gasparino appeared on the channel and made a completely fabricated report contending that President Trump is thinking about pulling out of the campaign due to bad polling numbers. From a report at The Hill:
“It’s too early, but if the polls continue to worsen, you can see a scenario where he drops out,” a GOP operative who asked to remain anonymous told Fox News.
Gasparino also reported that one “major player” within the Republican Party described “Trump’s current psyche as ‘fragile.'”
Gasparino said he’s “not convinced yet” that Trump will bow out. He noted that Biden has been largely pushed off the campaign trail by the coronavirus.
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This is not only utterly and completely absurd and without any foundation whatsoever, it is patently irresponsible. Even worse, we saw this same sort of despicably false “reporting” from hacks on CNN and MSNBC about this time during the 2016 election cycle. It’s as if Fox News now has its hack “reporters” coordinating daily talking points and narratives with the Democrats and CNN.
Folks, President Trump is not only not going to withdraw from this race, he is going to win it, just as he has won every other difficult challenge during the course of his life. Furthermore, his polling is not all that bad right now. Anyone who looks into the internals in these polls knows that they are almost uniformly oversampling Democrat voters and under-sampling Republicans.
Here’s a great example: A Susquehanna poll released on Monday gives Biden a 5-point lead over Trump in Pennsylvania. Even if you accept that result, Trump could turn that number around in a week. But that number is completely fabricated, given that the pollster over-samples college-educated voters in the state by at least 20%.
Also on Monday, we had a Trafalgar Group poll of the key state of Wisconsin showing Trump with a one point lead in that state. Note that Trafalgar was one of only two pollsters in 2016 that correctly called the race for Trump instead of Clinton. Note also that Trafalgar released a poll of Michigan last week showing Trump ahead in that crucial state as well.
We can cherry pick polls all day long, but that is an exercise in futility given that, with a few notable exceptions, the sector as a whole is absolute gutter trash at this point, just like Fox and the rest of the national news media. There was a time when Fox News could at least be relied upon as a source of accurate factual content, but with hacks like Gasparino polluting its airwaves, and hosts being forced to pretend that its notoriously inaccurate polling represents a “news” story, that now has obviously gone by the wayside.
Call it the pernicious influence of Paul Ryan, call it whatever you want, but Fox News is not a “news” channel anymore, and that’s a shame.
That is all.
My wife watches The Five religiously, and she says this DB is fake news. She said Juan got reamed all last week by Greg and Jesse.
The episodes I saw confirm her stance.
Disgraceful sons plus Paul Ryan == CNN lite...
Ditched it in the mid-2000’s when Hannity and Sharpton became best buds.
Gave up on Fox and actually TV about 5 years ago. Don’t miss it . . .but I do appreciate the Freepers keeping me informed!
All the phony polls are designed to dishearten Trump voters and give Biden and dems a helping hand. It’s political malpractice.
So true. Gillibrand came on Cavuto and repeated lie after lie about the latest Russia hoax and Cavuto sat there like a dick head. Disgusting.
Juan Williams has a sweet deal at Fox News. He generally gets approximately 50% of the air time amongst all of his fellow guests, and he is allowed to spew the “Central Committee” (DNC) talking points without any counterpoint rebuttal in return. Juan doesn’t even need to do his own research, he gets his scripts directly from the Democrat powers to be.
Reflects a national problem. Democrats are flaming left wing psychopaths; republicans are feckless impotent eunuchs. So who is left to stand up for the American Way of Life? the President, who stands almost alone in the storm. If you want to blame someone, blame the weaselly Gop. Where the hell are they in all this mess? McConnell? McCarthy? Buehler? Ptooey.
Fox gives a semblance of reality when it includes Juan Williams in its discussions. Of course he comes up with excuses rather than arguments, and repeats talking points that are illogical, even contradictory. That is an honest reflection of the reality of today’s leftist Democrats.
Williams almost tailors his responses to mimic the daily drivel from the Dems. This is a service, one that the viewer should appreciate. If you only want to hear the echo of your own thoughts, you are in the wrong place.
I gave up completely on Faux news many years ago. It disturbed me that the Saudis bought a huge chunk of their stock many years ago. It also bothered me that many of their “news” people are dishonest and lack any semblance of integrity.
Fox is not your friend. Dump Fox for One America News OAN is what Fox used to pretend to be when it pretended to care what we thought of them. OAN when never have a racist scumbag on its air nor would you ever see quisling puke like Gasparino on OAN either. The Murdochs who hate America and Trump and us have killed Fox
Lobotomy Joe made minced meat of Publius Ryan back in 2012. Showed what a feckless, weak, blind mullet Publius Ryan is. Don’t get me started on globalist pig Murdochs
Actually, it’s not just FOX that shows Senile Joe ahead by a comfortable margin, I’m sorry to say.
If it weren’t for FOX News, CNN would literally have no viewers. Every time I turn Fox News on, they are showing something that was done on CNN. Got tired of that real quick. If I wanted to watch CNN I would have tuned to that channel.
Well, I must be doing the whole disparagement thing wrong, since I still plant to vote for Trump this November.
Gasparino is a long standing Never Trumper. Pay no attention to anything he says.
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