Posted on 06/03/2019 6:52:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
A Fox News town hall with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) went south on Sunday when the presidential hopeful started attacking the network over its abortion coverage.
Her rant against Fox began after a former pediatric nurse asked about her position on late-term abortions.
Instead of offering a response to the question, Gillibrand blamed Fox for talking about the “red herring” of infanticide, devoting more than six hours to covering the abortion debate.
"What we have created, unfortunately, is a false choice and a false narrative," she said. "And Chris, I want to talk about the role that Fox News plays in this because it's a problem. I can tell you before President Trump gave his State of the Union, Fox News talked about infanticide."
"Infanticide doesn't exist," she said, before host Chris Wallace interrupted.
"Senator, I just want to say, we've brought you here for an hour," he said. "We've treated you very fairly. I understand that maybe to make your credentials with the Democrats who are not appearing on Fox News you want to attack us. I'm not sure it's frankly very polite when we've invited you to be here."
I'll do it in a polite way," Gillibrand replied.
“Instead of talking about Fox News why don’t you answer Susan’s question,” Wallace said.
Kirsten Gillibrand is asked if she supports late-term abortion
She responds by blaming Fox News for talking about infanticide after Ralph Northam's remarks
Chris Wallace shuts down her attacks
Gillibrand is again asked about her position, she replies w/she supports Roe v. Wade pic.twitter.com/u0nKVTPrZC— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) June 3, 2019
Gillibrand, a fervent supporter of abortion rights, has previously vowed to only nominate federal court judges who support Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion across the nation. She repeated that position during Sunday night's event at the University of Dubuque.
Does that mean that you're okay with other presidents having their own litmus tests?" Wallace asked her. "Maybe a pro-life president might say 'I'll only appoint people who will overturn Roe v Wade.' Because the tradition in this country has been [the] independence of the judiciary and the idea that a judge, once appointed, will judge each case on its merits and not on the basis of a promise made, a political promise to get that position."
"I think it's changed. That's the way it used to be before President Trump," Gillibrand responded. "President Trump said he would only appoint judges that would overturn Roe v. Wade."
"He already did and he's doing it," she said. "The rules have changed." (FoxNews.com)
Gillibrand is only polling at 1 percent and hasn’t reached the 65,000 individual donor campaign contribution threshold to qualify for the primary debates in late June and July.
Chrissy suddenly grew a pair!
The only place I can see this stuff is on line since we cut the cable. But, faux ain’t what it once was anyway. Based on this report and mine about her “targeting” the NRA, I’d say she stepped in it.
Particularly a non-starter like Gillibrand. At least they gave her the rope to hang herself with.
“Chrissy suddenly grew a pair!”
Doubt it MUCHLY !
She is a fill-in-the-blank expletive.
Trump has politicize the Judiciary? Really?
What about her fellow Democrats back in the days of Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas? What about the recent example of Brett Kavanaugh being pilloried? All of that was done by good Democrats like her.
But let’s not let facts get in the way of her half-baked political statement.
"Play the game, Harding! Just play the game."
This silly woman is day dreaming. Without mincing words and dialogue, this gal, Democrat, Kristen Gillibrand is going nowhere...period. she is 100% burnt toast.
But, she has tons of like company...the twenty-three or twenty-four Democrat announced candidate for POTUS are all zeroes...period!!!
Fair and UN-Balanced..................
Fox News did not make up stories about infanticide.
3 orc legislature passed a bill too much cheering and applause, to allow abortion right up until the moment of birth.
And the governor of Virginia said the baby, once born, would be kept comfortable while they decide what to do with it.
I’m sure her attacks on Fox News will endear her to the Liberals. But the point is, Fox News did not improperly and maliciously introduce the subject of infanticide into the abortion debate. And maliciously introduced the subject of infanticide into the abortion debate. Her fellow Democrats are the ones who did it.
Gillibrand is another Stillborn candidate in the 2020 Democrat clown car....
It’s almost as if someone said “Hey Democrats, I don’t think you could possibly put up a worse lot than the GOP establishment did in 2016.”
And the DNC responded by saying “Oh Yeah? Well hold my beer and watch this!”
3 orc should be New York. The New York legislature passed that law.
No she didn’t (”step in it”): It was planned.
Watch the segment, paying attention to her body language, verbiage and eyes.
This was rehearsed, not a reaction. She planned it all along. Stupid is as stupid does (Fox)...
Saw it. He didn’t try too hard. She still bitched about Fox.
wallace is a limp wristed, pussy whipped receiver of a paycheck.
NO HE DIDN’T!
She immediately recovered and launched right back into it and he sat there ‘stunned’ and speechless.
WATCH IT.
I have to wonder if this was all set up by the lefty producers at Fox...
You wanna know why? Have you seen who’s sitting on the board of the new company? Who’s in the upper management?
Quite the collection of Bushbots, Never Trumpers, unipartiers.
FNC has gone over to the dark side.
It still has that 8 to 11 PM Eastern weeknights prob to deal with.
But it will.
I don’t know why Fox News wastes its time to show the Townhall meetings of the rats. I have better things to do than to watch and listen to them.
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when she pulled this, I switched channels faster than I do when juan williams or shemp smith come on air at Fox
He challenged her, but he didn’t exactly shut her down.
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