Posted on 11/09/2020 2:51:13 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Fox News’ Sandra Smith was caught on a hot mic expressing disbelief that a guest on “America’s Newsroom” was casting doubt on the network’s projection of a Joe Biden victory – and that the show’s host, Trace Gallagher, wasn’t pushing back.
In a clip that appears to come from a leaked raw feed of a Saturday airing of “America’s Newsroom,” according to Mediaite, Smith can be seen furrowing her eyebrows and making a face when the guest, conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell, says, “Just because CNN says or even Fox News says that someone is president, doesn’t make them president.”
“What? What is happening? Like, Trace, we’ve called it,” Smith can be heard saying, off-air, in the clip to Gallagher, who was interviewing Mitchell.
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A spokesperson for Fox News did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
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Message purity
Kathryn & James - think Meghan & Harry:
9 Nov: Daily Mail: James Murdoch’s wife Kathryn tweets ‘we did it!!!!’ and shares anti-Trump posts after Biden’s win - days after agreeing with CNN’s Jake Tapper that Fox News should disavow Trump’s election fraud claims
By LAUREN FRUEN and KEITH GRIFFITH
‘What we saw tonight is a president who believes that at the end of the day, when all the votes are counted, the election is not going to to go his way, so he’s trying to plan an alternate route to retain the White House,’ said Fox White House correspondent John Roberts.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8926433/James-Murdochs-wife-Kathryn-tweets-did-shares-anti-Trump-posts-Bidens-win.html
K&J: ooh...the lying NYT & Dowd love us now!
10 Oct: NYT: Making a break: Mr. Murdoch in Georgetown
James Murdoch, Rebellious Scion
Increasingly uncomfortable with News Corp’s politics and profit motives, Rupert’s younger son chose chickens and sheep over Fox, and insists he doesn’t watch ‘Succession.’
By Maureen Dowd
Mr. Murdoch, 47, resigned from the board of News Corp this summer...
In 2017, President Trump’s praise for white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., as “very fine people” spurred James Murdoch to give $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League. In an email to friends obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Murdoch rebuked Mr. Trump and wrote: “I can’t even believe I have to write this: standing up to Nazis is essential; there are no good Nazis. Or Klansmen, or terrorists.” The email stood in sharp relief, given Fox’s fetid racism-by-night routine...
In January, James and his wife, Kathryn, expressed “frustration” about News Corp’s peddling of climate change denialism in the face of apocalyptic Australian wildfires...
His evolution has been profoundly influenced by his wife, a former communications executive. He is, as one friend puts it, “living much more in his own skin, realizing his better angels and his better instincts.”...
He has set up offices for a new company, Lupa Systems, in downtown Manhattan and Mumbai...
So far, Mr. Murdoch has made investments in the Tribeca Film Festival, Art Basel, Vice Media and in a comic book company whose publisher once worked for Marvel...
He is particularly excited about investing in start-ups created to combat fake news and the spread of disinformation, having found the proliferation of deep fakes “terrifying” because they “undermine our ability to discern what’s true and what’s not” and it “is only at the beginning as far as I can tell.” He’s funding a research program to study digital manipulation of societies, hoping to curtail “the use of technology to promulgate totalitarianism’’ and undermine democracies...
Mr. Murdoch donated to Pete Buttigieg in the primary, and the couple has given ***$1.23 million to Joe Biden. So that’s who he’ll be voting for in November then? “Hell yes,” he said with a smile...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/10/style/james-murdoch-maureen-dowd.html
***James and Kathryn Murdoch gave $2 million to help elect Biden and Democrats, it was reported earlier this summer - 13 Oct 2020 Salon.com
The Intercept post-Greenwald! quoting CNN/Media Matters to make their case!
7 Nov: The Intercept: As Trump Is Defeated, the Murdochs Try to Dodge Backlash for Fox News
The Murdoch family, owners of Fox News, oversaw a pivot against President Trump as his defeat loomed.
by Peter Maass
Responding to CNN anchor Jake Tapper saying that it was time for Fox and the Murdochs to make clear that there was no credible evidence of election fraud, Kathryn Murdoch tweeted, “I agree with this.”...
Whichever direction the Murdochs take with Fox News in the coming hours and days, their effort to avoid history’s judgment, if not the judgment of courts too, is perhaps doomed even if their network reports the truth now that Trump’s defeat is official. This was noted by Angel Carusone, the chief executive of Media Matters for America...
https://theintercept.com/2020/11/06/fox-news-election-trump-murdoch/
TO DATE, THOUGH, FOX NEWS (IN PARTICULAR HANNITY WITH HIS INVESTIGATIVE TEAM - SOLOMON, CARTER, JARRETT) ARE THE ONLY MEDIA IN THE WORLD TO HAVE EXPOSED THE CLINTON/DNC/DEEPSTATE/FAKENEWSMSM RUSSIAGATE/COUPGATE).
and now Fox, plus the rest of the stinking FakeNewsMSM,have SUICIDED.
We just switched to OANN.
F Faux.
Not seeing how FNC survives its “pivot” to Trump-bashing. Their audience will leave in droves. Does it make sense for Tucker & a few of the other decent hosts to stay when their message is 180 degrees opposite of what viewers are hearing from much of the rest of the network?
Declaring war on your customers is never a good idea.
“Does it make sense for Tucker & a few of the other decent hosts to stay when their message is 180 degrees opposite of what viewers are hearing from much of the rest of the network?”
Nope; I could see him making a nice pivot to Newsmax.
Also Greg Gutfeld and (perhaps) Maria Bartoromo.
I made a comment here on FR that Sandra Smith was a Trump Hater. It was met with responses that such a thing could not be true. The media find it so easy to deceive the American people.
This is the biggest scam in world history. Bar none. In a supposed free society this is unimaginable and unconscionable. Sadly completely predicted in recent months and years. Big government, big tech and major media and conspired to take down a president.
I have said same about Shannon Bream to my hub...just my sense.
Agree!
This is how great nations fall...not with a bang but a whimper.
I thought Covid was (biggest scam)...but I think this is bigger.
img/>I thought to myself, "Why you arrogant b....! Who do you think you are?!"
They actually think that President Trump and his 71,000,000 voters should lay down just because they say so.
The abject hubris of these people at Fix News.
To quote Foghorn Leghorn, sandra smith is about as sharp as a bowling ball.
One of the great roosters of our time
The news division has been off the reservation for several years. The opinion programs were just a diversion.
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