Reporter Beaten at Trump Rally on ‘Murphy Brown,’ Attacked by 'Sea of Red Hats'(SRSLY?)

newsbusters.org ^ | 11/29/2018 | Karen Townsend

[rktman]

It’s not every day that I hear an actor playing a journalist recite a line that compares covering presidential rallies to covering Libya but this is 2018 and it’s Trump’s America. In the November 29 episode of CBS’s Murphy Brown, reporter Frank Fontana is attacked at a Trump rally and the blame falls on President Trump saying the press delivers fake news and is the enemy of the people.

In “Beat the Press,” Murphy (Candice Bergen) closes her morning show with a shot at President Trump, which is nothing new. She promotes a piece she’ll be doing on the next day’s show and describes it as a look at the troubled relationship between President Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and French President Macron. She says it would be a great screwball comedy and could be called “Two Men and a Baby.” When her producer Miles calls her on her snark, she says it’s like she had Tourette’s Syndrome. Ugh.

That evening Frank (Joe Regalbuto) does some in the field reporting at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania. Murphy and her son Avery (Jake McDorman) watch the rally on television together. During the rally, President Trump mentions Murphy’s show and that he heard that Frank was in the press pool. He nicknames him “Fibbin’ Frank Fontana.” Trump even asks if maybe Frank needs a body slam.

[mass55th]

"Smurfs are blue so I'm thinkin' that fits candy bergens motif. "

Charlie McCarthy had more brains than Candice.

[AppyPappy]

Finally, we have proof that Trump people are violent and dangerous.

[rktman]

I have an odd story about Edgar's manager but am unable to tell it. 👹

[webheart]

There were only two good things about the original Murphy Brown series. One was the guy who was always painting her house. It was sort of a thing. The other thing was the way Candace Bergen’s veins in her neck would pop out whenever she was talking. That was funny.

[dead]

They would probably consider the actions of this crowd of actors admissible in court against actual Trump rally participants.

[mass55th]

Something I saw on a TV program not long ago said that Edgar preferred his puppets over his family. It also said Edgar left nothing to Candice when he died. When I did a search, I found this article from 2015:

Candice Bergen reveals how ventriloquist father who belittled her looks willed his DUMMY $10,000 when he died but didn't leave her a penny

[DoughtyOne]

LOL

[Joe Brower]

"They make up a horrible world in their imaginations, and then complain about this imaginary world as if it’s real."

That's because they're mentally ill.

Such lunacy is all the rage (pun intended) these days.

[DouglasKC]

The series has already been cancelled.

[Buckeye McFrog]

There were only two good things about the original Murphy Brown series. One was the guy who was always painting her house.

Played by Robert Pastorelli. He committed suicide in 2004.

[bert]

Avery Brown is a bastard

[Blue Collar Christian]

Hollywood inventing their own outrages again.

[PhineasSpear]

Now that the show’s been axed, I’m sure that racist leftist propagandist Dick Wolf, will be happy to take such propagandists ,for “Law & Order”,to rewrite every Black-on-non-Black assault / rape / murder, to rewrite them as Whites(?) assaulting,raping,murdering Blacks galore( Despite the Yearly Interracial Crime stats saying VERY different )

[LauraJean]

Oddly enough the only time I remember reporters being beaten up was at the Democrat convention in 1968. Which was in Chicago, a Democrat run city, in a Democrat run state.