Posted on 04/06/2016 5:49:59 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Fields incident in particular has exposed some of the tensions at Fox, with the anti-Trump faction led by Kelly (who last January dedicated an entire show to National Reviews Against Trump issue) featuring sympathetic coverage of Fields battery allegation, while the more pro-Trump factions like Hannity and Van Susteren have expressed skepticism.
On his radio show, Hannity said the battery charges were insane and that peoples perceptions of the Fields-Lewandowski incident are based on who they support for the nomination.
Nicknaming the incident grab-gate, Van Susteren took issue with the fact that it was being classified as a crime. On her show last week, she said: Now, whatever happened in the scrum, and I dont think the video or eyewitness statement is convincing, this incident never should have ended up as a crime. It should have ended with an apology.
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace also weighed in on the issue. In an interview with the GOP frontrunner last week, Wallace agreed with Trumps assertion that Fields exaggerated the incident. I think she completely misrepresented it early on. I do, Wallace said.
On The Five, co-host Dana Perino, who along with Gutfeld form the shows anti-Trump faction, seemed to have a tense exchange with their pro-Trump co-host Eric Bolling when Gutfeld make a joke about Lewandowski grabbing someone and Bolling rejoined with, did she fall down? in reference to what he perceived as Fields exaggerated claim. Perino tersely replied, She never said she almost fell.
Perino might have had a similarly tense exchange behind-the-scenes with Hannity. Oliver Darcy from TheBlaze tweeted: Hannity says on-air that @DanaPerino erased the Twitter app from his phone: Shes mad because I unload.' Perino replied: As a friend said, it was a 21st century intervention. He wont miss it!
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They aren’t objective. Fox has been pretty horrible since September. Pro-Bush, then Pro-Rubio, now Pro-trump.
They alone have donated millions in free airtime.
Did you read the article ? It says Fox is split ...just because they aren’t all bashing Trump, doesn’t mean that FOX ,as a whole, is Pro-Trump ... it means they have a few objective folks still on there ...Hannity and Greta have been quite fair to Trump and Cruz
Yes - they seemed to indulge Cruz more than you’d expect of someone presumed to be pro-Trump!
Placemark.
They’re not conservative because they won’t worship the non conservative Trump?
Strange assertion you got there.
They’re not conservative because they’re open borders, globalist GOPe hacks and that’s just for starters.
Dana Perino’s problem is that she is a Bush-kee, bought and paid for by the Bush’s. She would have been in Yeb’s corner big time, but of course Yeb was TRUMPED. She can’t forgive Trump for sending here would be nominee to the trash heap and down a rabbit hole somewhere in Kansas.
Faux News has so many Rino’s and other leftist leaning establishment types on the payroll that it is no longer (assuming it ever was), fair and balanced. For Faux News ever to have a shot at being ‘fair and balanced’, Kelly has to go. Kraut and Will have to become ‘persona non grata’.
Lou Dobbs is good. Faux News needs more like him.
Suffer, Cruz-bot. And go comfort him for his Bronx-ecution. Maybe he can become a 21st Century Risen One. He needs to thump his Bible with more of that Jimmy Swaggart kind of meddle. Might influence some of those New Yorker’s he thinks are so evil. But he can’t say it like that now that he needs their votes...
OK you hit my gag reflex with Babs LOL.
Fields is a reasonably attractive girl but it’s obvouos that her brain hasn’t grown in yet. As long as she continues to see everyone else as responsible for her F-ups it never will.
The thing that bothers me is that a bunch of people were telling me that she was some sort of conservative powerhouse. I find the notion amusing nonsense.
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