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.
MArtha has turned into a NEVER TRUMPER!
“Fox News hosts Bret Baier, Chris Wallace, and Martha MacCallum”
Well I’m shocked, NOT.
The MSM doesn't need Biden to give them the questions that he wants. The MSM knows how to frame an issue to make a Dem look good and a Republican look bad.
Hissy Chrissy doesn’t surprise me but the other two do.
I have a lot of fun reading the comments to anything he posts on Facebook. Hilarious. I admit that I sometimes or always comment on his posts. They are ripe for disdain. He is/was such a failure. As a Texan, we occasionally elect idiots. I didn’t know Utah had the same problem.
Fox needs to make money. Fox’s opinion people are all in the tank for Trump. That’s OK. The news people are fair. Now that Shep is gone, it’s pretty watchable during the day.
Fox and Friends is literally, unwatchable. Their application of everything to the military is over the top. I am a patriot, but it is our ideas that make us great, not how some guy coming back from Korea surprised his daughter...or what NASCAR means to Marines.
I understand it’s entertainment. But I will take Maria B every other day of the week.
Shemp is gone?....................
Wallace is a chip off the old block , Known this for years But McCallum seemed to come out slowly and today I don’t believe her much at all , and I’m not surprised at all .
You mean you didn’t miss him? ;-)
‘I detect a NeverTrumper.’
no doubt; so what...? his/her prerogative, is it not...
I have a tough time with Martha, she has “the Hamptons” whine in her voice, like she is auditioning for party invites.
‘A very misleading headline.’
careful now...
re: “The Times report continues: ...”
I think that’s ALL you need to know ...
That’s interesting.
Thanks, IP.
That fox looks to be very dead.
I never watch it, but the President seems to like it.
Using that logic he could be a satanist or communist or antifa and it’s still his “prerogative.” We can’t judge can we?
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