Posted on 10/14/2019 10:55:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
A new report about the relationship between President Donald Trump and Fox News alleges that hosts Chris Wallace and Martha MacCallum criticized and mocked Trump during a closed-door meeting last month.
Fox News hosts Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, and Martha MacCallum attended an event in Manhattan to assure advertisers that “Trump doesn’t own” them, according to a piece published Sunday in the New York Times.
The Times report continues:
“‘Contrary to the opinion of some people, he’s not our boss,’ Ms. MacCallum said, marveling at Mr. Trump’s criticism of Fox News for airing interviews with Democratic presidential candidates. ‘It is kind of shocking to hear that he really — that’s the way he thinks about how we should cover the election.’
Mr. Wallace joked about the president’s tendency to compare him unfavorably to his father, the ’60 Minutes’ legend Mike Wallace, who died in 2012. ‘He often likes to say about me, ‘You know, I was covered by Mike Wallace, I liked him much more,’” Mr. Wallace told the advertisers. ‘To which my reaction is always: One of us has a daddy problem, and it’s not me.'”
This report comes as another rift has apparently taken place between Trump and the network.
The president reportedly has a good relationship with the weeknight opinion hosts such as Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, but he has repeatedly taken issue with some of the daytime news hosts for what he sees as unfair coverage or criticism.
A Fox News correspondent works before President Donald Trump’s arrival at a press conference on the sidelines of the United Nations General on September 25, 2019 in New York City. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Earlier in October, clashes between Trump and Fox ensued after the network released a poll that showed 51 percent of Americans want Trump impeached and removed from office.
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Trump responded by saying that Fox News pollsters “suck” and that Fox is “much different than it used to be in the good old days.”
The Trump 2020 campaign also said that the poll belonged in the “garbage” due to its alleged oversampling of Democrats.
So... if you’re an OBJECTIVE news organization... why are you letting advertisers dictate reporting policy?
Romney conceded this weekend that he's out that Trump is going to win re-election.
Maybe this is coming out today to counter O’Keefe’s undercover report on CNN.
OAN or NewsMax ............... Don’t need FOX......
The withping Cwith Wawith is a total buffoon. I agree that he doesn’t have a “daddy problem”, except without his last name, he wouldn’t have a job in journalism either. How anyone but himself could take him seriously as a journalist is beyond my understanding.
All this crap starts with John Roberts. The
Can’t say I watch any of these hosts. I tried to watch Martha a few times but every time I turn on her program she’s out on PTO.
They dance to the tune of them that pays them.
What we need to be asking here are WHO are these advertisers who hate Trump? And how fast can we ramp-up boycotts against them?
I saw her with Rudy last week. Nasty broad.
Question: Who will be the FNC Moderators for the Presidential debates?
Answer: Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, and Martha MacCallum.
Martha MacCallum’s the worst. She makes it pretty clear that she hates Trump.
Wallace TOTALLY misses the point.
President Trump is explaining that Mike Wallace was a real journalist. Opinioned, yes. Biased, yes. But Mike was actually trying to get the real story. Trump respected that.
Chris Wallace is just a shill who is out to push a Progressive viewpoint. He's not a journalist at all. He just plays one on TV.
Yes,what about THAT?
Yes,what about THAT?
“Trump mocks people, what’s sauce for the goose...”
TROLL ALERT
What man would use that phrase, weird.
I think the type of man who would use that phrase is probably a man with a daddy problem.
If it wasn’t for his daddy no one would know who he is.
What a disgusting bunch they've become.
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