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.
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Me too, but more than sometimes she has the thin skin of a puffed up, delicately handled debutante. Sometimes she has a short fuse under that lovely countenance.
But ........ no one is perfect, I suppose.
OAN !!!
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One of her thin-skinned prickly nights.
I think she was upset that the cake makeup they spread all over her forehead was allowing the four horizontal lines to still appear like lines on a music sheet.
Question: Who will be the FNC Moderators for the Presidential debates?
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Adam Schiff will be stepping in ......
I always thought MacCallum was a bitch. This proves it.
I want Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, and Kid Doocy.
Early menopause?
Fox reaches a huge number of people - ONN is great, but mostly preaching to the choir.
The trick with Fox is only watching Carlson, Gutfeld, Hannity and Dobbs, who are national treasures and they have huge audiences. (Ingraham would be great too - except she brings that Peewee Herman look-alike on her show all the time now).
Fox Business News is superior to Fox news almost every hour of the day and night.
Especially like the mornings-Maria Bartiromo, Stuart Varney, and then early evening- Lou Dobbs.
The only ones I got a problem with are Cavuto and Charlie Gasparino.
Imagine that. Mocking or imitating or making fun of the duly-elected President of the United States....just damn.
Time to call the secret police on this one.
Yes. I agree on those 2. I also, have issues with Trish, but not her analysis, just her voice —kinda like squeaky chalk.
Probably. Or could be a “No Longer-Trumper.”
Time to circle the wagons and alert the thought police. Maybe
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