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Trump hits Fox News for 'wasting airtime' with coverage of Buttigieg
thehill.com ^ | 5/19/19 | BY RACHEL FRAZIN

Posted on 05/19/2019 4:06:34 PM PDT by ransomnote

President Trump on Sunday criticized Fox News, accusing the network of "wasting airtime" over its coverage of South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and other Democratic 2020 contenders. "Hard to believe that @FoxNews is wasting airtime on Mayor Pete, as Chris Wallace likes to call him," he wrote, referring to Buttigieg and the Fox News host. Fox News is scheduled to host a town hall with Buttigieg on Sunday night.

Trump: "They forgot the people who got them there. Chris Wallace said, 'I actually think, whether you like his opinions or not, that Mayor Pete has a lot of substance...fascinating biography.' Gee, he (Chris Wallace) never speaks well of me - I like Mike Wallace better... and Alfred E. Newman will never be President!" Trump added, doubling down on his comparison of the mayor to the character Alfred E. Neuman who appears on the cover of Mad Magazine.

Wallace last month praised the mayor as having "interesting, refreshing ideas" and more "substance" than former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), another White House hopeful. The Fox News anchor is the son of legendary "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace, who died in 2012.

The Democratic National Committee announced in March that it would not allow Fox News to host any of its presidential primary debates this cycle, pointing to an explosive New Yorker article detailing deep ties between the conservative network and Trump's White House.


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To: fieldmarshaldj

yep, I know tweets, emails, calls to media mean nothing to them but better than my yelling at TV. :-)


61 posted on 05/19/2019 7:34:40 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: fieldmarshaldj

yep, I know tweets, emails, calls to media mean nothing to them but better than my yelling at TV. :-)


62 posted on 05/19/2019 7:34:40 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: ransomnote




Weenie-weasel Wallace had the time of his life tossing softballs to Mayor Pete.
Pete Buttigieg said Trump’s ‘grotesque’ tweets and insults don’t bother him: ‘I don’t care.’
He also proclaimed that "abortion is a national right."

63 posted on 05/19/2019 7:38:19 PM PDT by onyx
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To: onyx

Why doesn’ t Wallace just get down and sniff the chair, and follow the trail to Buttgiggle’s sphincter?


64 posted on 05/19/2019 8:12:39 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Bonemaker

My approach as well. I pitch such a fit when the “fair and balanced” nooze airs some commie pinkocrat’s bilge that the missus finds another channel. Fair and balanced works for opposing opinions, but not with the truth. Anything opposing the truth is a lie. Why waste time processing false information?

Hey Faux Nooze, we have countless daily opportunities for exposure to the other side; so, stop wasting time on your shows airing Pravda West!!!


65 posted on 05/19/2019 8:16:04 PM PDT by caprock
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Do you know that he didn’t?


66 posted on 05/19/2019 9:07:42 PM PDT by onyx
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To: ransomnote

Trump is trolling the Democrats, acting scared of Butterfingers, so as to get a ‘rise’ out of the Democrats and make their primary contest more interesting, instead of allowing Biden to simply walk away with it.


67 posted on 05/19/2019 9:26:23 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: TonytheTiger7777

There was one old white man - overweight - who was suppose to represent ‘the deplorales’... he was the only person NOT clapping like a trained seal. That was one hand picked audience...

I’ll never watch Chris Wallace again either... if he’s jealous of CNN and MSNBC he should quit his job and join them. Why should Wallace ruin FOX - the top rated News network to make it more like the losers?

It doesn’t make sense.


68 posted on 05/19/2019 9:53:00 PM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC will NEVER do a town hall moderated by a conservative to sway THEIR liberal audience.)
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To: Bonemaker

Notre Dame is not located in South Bend; ND is 23 years older than South Bend (ND was chartered in 1842; SB was chartered in 1865). The only ND students that could technically vote in the municipal elections in SB were those living in the off-campus neighborhood south of Angela Boulevard/Edison Road.

Also, the Petester is not an ND alum, despite his father having been a professor there; he went to Harvard.

So don’t associate this pervert with Our Lady’s University.


69 posted on 05/19/2019 10:19:05 PM PDT by nd76
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To: onyx

Come to think of it there was a suspicious brown substance on Wallace’s nose


70 posted on 05/20/2019 2:54:15 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: ransomnote

Today at PA rally Trump asked what is going on with Fox hosting so many Democrats?


71 posted on 05/20/2019 5:50:41 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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