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Scarborough's Odd Fantasy: Trump Brought Down by a Fox News 'Cronkite Moment'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/01/2019 9:19:29 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Joe Scarborough turns his lonely eyes... to Fox News??

Looks that way. On today's Morning Joe, Scarborough dreamed of a scenario in which Fox News would turn against President Trump, thus bringing down his presidency. Scarborough analogized it to a "Cronkite moment." That was the time in 1968 when CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite essentially declared the Vietnam War unwinnable. LBJ was reported to have said at the time, “if I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.”

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1 posted on 11/01/2019 9:19:29 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: miss marmelstein; patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; ...

Scarborough dreams of Fox News turning against President Trump.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 11/01/2019 9:20:26 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReep mail me to be added to my Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I actually don’t have much that Fox News would actually do this.

... there’s only one problem. Trump actually has to do something really impeachable.

This deep-state generated political hysterics is not real and you all need to get back on your meds.


3 posted on 11/01/2019 9:21:54 AM PDT by z3n
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Cronkite was famous by lying about the Tet offensive.


4 posted on 11/01/2019 9:21:55 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

US Citizens dream of a day MSNBC finally does real journalism instead of this daily regurgitation of Democrat Fascist Party propaganda.

For example. Here is what REAL journalism looks like.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/.../09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf

Copy of the transcript.

LT Col Clown boy, the Democrat “star witness” this week admitted in his testimony the transcript is complete and accurate.His boss just testified today there is nothing at all illegal or improper in the call.

In any sane world this kills the Democrat Fascist clown show in the US House dead. But the DC Swamp, and their mindless toadies in the Fake News, don’t live in a sane world anymore.

It now turns out this “impeachment” scam is all about the DC Swamp criminals trying to divert attention off the AG current criminal investigation. The “whistle blower” is one of the prime agents in the original “Russian collusion” fraud.
No wonder they were all panicked by the Ukrainian call, they knew the noose was being slipped over their heads.


5 posted on 11/01/2019 9:22:56 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Remember: This guy was once a Republican congressman from the South.


6 posted on 11/01/2019 9:23:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Dream on Joe. There will never be another “Cronkite moment”.


7 posted on 11/01/2019 9:24:14 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Democrat media keeps getting more desperate. Love it!


8 posted on 11/01/2019 9:24:41 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Except nobody give a flying s*** what any of the metropoloids at Fox think.

They don't even break any news anyway - just a bunch of jackasses giving their opinions what we've heard on the internet.

9 posted on 11/01/2019 9:29:10 AM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah, because 60 million people are just mind-numbed robots who only do what they think Fox News wants them do and only think what Fox News wants them to think.


10 posted on 11/01/2019 9:30:56 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: goldstategop

the fantasy here is that Fox News is the only thing propping up Trump. I don’t have cable, never watch any cable news or network news, yet I am with Trump all the way.


11 posted on 11/01/2019 9:31:42 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What a dork. People on the right don’t accept their political opinions from the doofi on their televisions. Leftists get all their opinions from talking head drones and late night comedians.


12 posted on 11/01/2019 9:32:22 AM PDT by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Cronkite was famous by lying about the Tet offensive.


Beat me to it.

We live in a post Dan Rather world now. None of them can single handedly do that. The internet keeps them at least relatively honest.


13 posted on 11/01/2019 9:33:23 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Walter Cronkite the old commie?


14 posted on 11/01/2019 9:34:50 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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Walter Cronkite the old commie?

Walter Cronkite the DEAD commie?


16 posted on 11/01/2019 9:37:01 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Scarborough analogized it to a "Cronkite moment." That was the time in 1968 when CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite essentially declared the Vietnam War unwinnable.

Which was fake news.

The US had just won the Battle of the Tet Offensive.

The Viet Cong would never again be a fighting force.

It was a great victory.

The commie Cronkite saw an opportunity for a propaganda coup.

Tet was an effort by the North to take the South in one huge offensive. It was a gamble that they lost in a huge way. But the sheer audacity of the attack was so unexpected that it allowed the press to make it appear as though the North had taken stolen the momentum of the war. While the truth was just the opposite.

17 posted on 11/01/2019 9:39:25 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Fox News IS turning against Trump, thanks to Murdoch’s liberal kids and Paul Ryan.

However, we quit listening to them some time ago.


18 posted on 11/01/2019 9:39:56 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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Link now says 403 access denied
you don't have permission

Deep state in action?

19 posted on 11/01/2019 9:41:53 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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No I must of screwed up posting the link.

Try this


20 posted on 11/01/2019 9:44:42 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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