Posted on 12/15/2020 5:56:07 AM PST by rustyweiss74
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner scolded Marie Harf after the liberal pundit took a shot at the talk show Outnumbered for not hyping COVID death numbers to what she views as an acceptable level.
Harf began by running defense for Democrats engaged in stifling, Draconian, and unconstitutional lockdown orders as a means to combating the pandemic.
Justifying those edicts, in her view, is the death toll from the virus.
“Yeah, I mean, we are 43 minutes into the show and we haven’t mentioned the 3,000 Americans that died yesterday, more than on 9/11 and every day for a while we are going to have that many American deaths,” the Democratic strategist said.
Faulkner did not respond kindly to the notion that her show is not sympathetic enough in their coverage of the pandemic.
“Can I just quickly say because I feel like, Marie, you took a shot there and maybe you felt like it was necessary but if you don’t think that our hearts are big enough to mourn the people we have lost during this pandemic, what exactly are you trying to say?” Faulkner shot back.
“That is offensive and it is not true. It is not true!”
The Fox host urged Harf to “keep your judgment someplace where you know you can fact-check it because you can’t see my heart.”
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Can we just admit that 300,000 dead are a Democrat wedge for gaining political power?
That Harris Faulkner is a beautiful woman. Every time she bats her eyes, I fall into a hypnotic trance.
Fox who?
There must be bodies everywhere.
Correct spelling of her name is — Moron Barf ....
I just love a cat fight on a failing network!!!
Something to consider —
In a typical flu season, they “start the clock” around October, and they count the deaths (sort of) and they “stop the clock” around April. That’s your flu season, it results in a certain number of deaths.
The next year, they start over. From zero. In the end, they have a new total.
For COVID, it seems they use a continuous clock. One wave piled on top of the next wave, endlessly building to some massive number of deaths.
I think they take a lot of miscellaneous causes of death, label them COVID, and add them to the total. And the way they keep upping that total makes this seem different from the flu. But I think that is another way of misleading the public.
300k dead WITH Covid, not necessarily from Covid. If you have a widow maker and have tested positive for Covid recently, Covid did not block those arteries in the last few weeks
Harris better be careful, Harf is Paul Ryan’s squeeze.
Marie Harf offers nothing, I can’t imagine why they have her on TV.
Moron Harfwit
I dropped them off in a bag labeled "COVID Cases" on the front steps of the local hospital.
You forgot this, cut-and-paste blog pimp.
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The Fox host urged Harf to “keep your judgment someplace where you know you can fact-check it because you can’t see my heart.”
Two things here: One, the only reason Harf is enamored with the death rate of COVID is that in her mind it reflects poorly on President Trump. She can use it as a political talking point.
How do we know that? Well, number two, deaths aren’t quite the be all end all Harf would have you believe. If it were, she’d want the show to discuss the number of abortions on a daily basis. And we’re quite certain the liberal pundit isn’t objecting to that any time soon.
Fox News’ Harris Faulkner blows up at Marie Harf for noting that they went nearly the whole show without mentioning the record-setting covid death toll.
“That is offensive and it is not true… you can’t see my heart and trust me when I tell you it hurts all of us!” pic.twitter.com/hSS4YjEQwN
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) December 10, 2020
Harris Faulkner and Marie Harf Go At It Again
Harris Faulkner and Marie Harf have a bit of history, with the former usually getting the better of the exchanges.
In a dustup last month, Harf attempted to shame President Trump for not taking questions from the media.
“Why is Donald Trump not taking questions?” she asked without a hint of self-awareness. “He’s the one hiding in the basement now. He hasn’t taken reporter questions since the week of the election. Why isn’t he answering anyone’s questions?”
Faulkner, whose network couldn’t get President-elect Joe Biden to accept reasonable interview requests even with friendly hosts, and whose network was consistently shunned by the Obama administration, essentially told Harf to sit down and shut up.
“Our news team contacted Joe Biden’s office on a daily basis for the last couple of years!” Faulkner shot back. “Please take a seat — take several seats — on that!”
Harris Faulkner Tells Marie Harf To ‘Take A Seat’ During Exchange About Trump Refusing To Answer Questions https://t.co/nNWHc2OsgG
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 25, 2020
Trouble at Fox News
Faulkner has remained a bright spot for Fox, which has been under siege from conservatives for their election coverage and reporting on fraud complaints by the President and his supporters.
She did have a bit of a hiccup back in September, drawing fire after her show cut off Newt Gingrich while he tried to accurately address left-wing billionaire George Soros.
This is one of the weirdest exchanges I’ve ever seen on TV. @newtgingrich correctly points out that George Soros threw an unprecedented amount of money into DA races all over the country to elect radicals and Fox News basically told him to shut up. WTF? pic.twitter.com/IxwcLG2gOH
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) September 16, 2020
Faulkner later offered an apology of sorts along with an explanation.
“Do we debate with fire here? Yes! But we must also give each other the space to express ourselves,” Faulkner stated. “We don’t censor on this show.”
Day 2 of #Sorosgate @FoxNews #GeorgeSoros apology tour:@HARRISFAULKNER awkwardly says @OutnumberedFNC doesn’t censor & @newtgingrich was simply interrupted. Then fails to explain why @MelissaAFrancis protected #GeorgeSoros by stopping Newt’s comments that were critical of him! pic.twitter.com/iBIlcIAueW
— Jonathan T Gilliam (@JGilliam_SEAL) September 17, 2020
At least she showed some level of introspection. As opposed to this uppity political hack on the same network.
Chris Wallace repeatedly correcs HHS Secretary Alex Azar when he refers to Joe Biden as “vice president.”
“He’s the president-elect, sir. He’s the president-elect… First of all, it’s the President-Elect Joe Biden, Secretary Azar.” pic.twitter.com/lc5bOQ6zAl
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) December 6, 2020
Fox News has been cable news king for some time, but their behavior is creating cracks in their viewership, as evidenced by Newsmax TV scoring a historic, first-ever ratings victory over the network.
Read more at the Political Insider
Unlike CNN and MSNDC, FOX doesn’t have a banner showing Covid deaths. Nothin but a subtle way to bash Trump even more. They can GF themselves.
Harris Faulkner, one of Fox News’ anti-Trumpers.
meh.
This is staged. Nothing but theater.
Harris Faulkner speaks for George Soros.
"We're killing a lot of them, and we're going to keep killing more of them. ... But we cannot win this war by killing them. We need ... to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs ..."
With such wisdom, naturally Faux News snapped her up as a regular "contributor".
One of the truly GREAT things about leaving FOX in the trash heap is that I never have to watch or listen to this Harf pig unless it’s to watch a beatdown of her.
Hideous. Skanky
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