Posted on 11/05/2020 7:08:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
President Donald Trump and Fox News have a complicated relationship. Election Day did not help.
The cable news channel that kick-started Trump’s political career was suddenly in the position of signaling its potential end. The network’s early call of Arizona on Tuesday night for Joe Biden infuriated Trump and his aides, who reached out publicly and behind the scenes to Fox News executives about the call.
The network held firm - even as two of its biggest stars, Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pirro, attended Trump’s defiant early-morning speech in the East Room of the White House.
The election-night split screen underscored the fine line that Fox News anchors and opinion hosts have been walking. By Wednesday afternoon, Fox News was the closest of any major network to calling the presidential race for Biden - not the outcome that many fans of its pro-Trump programming may have wanted.
Fox News was also the only major cable network to carry a news conference Wednesday held by the president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who was making baseless claims of election fraud. But the channel promptly cut away to announce a major development: It projected a win in Michigan for Biden, placing him at the doorstep of the presidency, according to Fox’s projections.
And shortly after Bret Baier, the network’s chief political anchor, emphasized to viewers Wednesday that Trump’s threatened litigation could throw the race into doubt - even if Biden was projected to win 270 electoral votes - Fox News’ politics editor, Chris Stirewalt, threw cold water on some of the Trump campaign’s baseless claims.
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Those two are smiling because they think they’ve taking President Trump down.
A##holes.
Start a war with the media, this is what happens
Fox is now just another far left MSM outlet. Move to online news - OANN or Newsmax.
Martha and Brett aren’t exactly Trump supporters. Martha Is an anti-Trumper and Brett is a typical media liberal Democrat.
Nobody started this war but the media, Trump was just fighting back.
FNC died 5 years ago.
F Faux.
I tuned into Shawn Hannity’s radio show yesterday, specifically to hear what he might say about his network’s behavior during the election.
Did I miss something? or was there not a peep from him about it?
It’s not complicated. The Left loves to confuse and complicate things.
It’s very simple. If you’re for America, the Constitution, and freedom from government, then you’ll love Trump and Trump will love you.
Left-leaning Murdoch owns Fox which used to be at least a semi-pro-America Network. But with a couple of exceptions, Fox has now joined the America-Hating Leftist Media so of course Fox generally is against Trump and Trump is against Fox.
In Chris the Weasel Wallace, Fox has one of the most obnoxious newscasters around.
Understanding it is not complicated at all.
Nope ALL of FOX personalities are thick as thieves, protecting Chris Wallace' worst ever debate and now this smug tabulation guru guy who acts like a Biden supporter. Hannity is saying "the media" got the polls wrong, he needs to say OUR NETWORK was way off with our polls and we apologize.
Hannity has been solidly a GOP establishment toad for a few years now. He gave Graham millions in free campaign ads and never laid a finger on him. He got divorced and wrote a book for the first time in forever. He’s obviously mailing it in at this point, IMO.
Fox News died when Rupert thought it would be a good idea to let his snot nosed commie kids run the show.
Fox news is not pro trump. Their talk shows mostly are though.
More like Trump will rise again but Fox has fallen. Levin and Lou aside, I dont trust any of them anymore.
The never Trumper wins. ESAD!
POTUS has often hammered Fox directly for their terrible polls. Now we can see why they are so biased.
Fox News has been complicit and awful — their “Decision Desk” (Chris Stirewalt) is a joke. He can’t even lie with any credibility.
Fox will be the one to fall, unless they can count on the leftie radicals to become their base. We have never watched anything as absurd as they were election night, they were dancing around like morons. Stopped watching when Stirewalt (Humpty Dumpty) gave the most dishonest and lying excuse why they couldn’t call Florida.
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