Posted on 06/14/2023 8:15:02 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Fox News has stated the network’s controversial chyron this week, referring to President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” which aired as part of its primetime broadcast on Tuesday, June 13.
“The chyron was taken down immediately and was addressed,” a spokesperson for Fox News said in a statement to CNN. The network has also reportedly “taken steps to address the situation internally,” according to the rep. No further details have been given.
On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump was arrested and pleaded not guilty to 37 felony counts related to the handling of classified documents. Fox News then aired Trump’s speech following his arraignment, while other networks (such as CNN and MSNBC) did not. The aforementioned chyron, which read in full, “Wannabe Dictator Speaks at the White House After Having His Political Rival Arrested,” appeared on the screen alongside a split of President Biden and Trump. This happened during Fox News Tonight (with guest host Brian Kilmeade), which now fills the 8/7c slot following Fox News firing Tucker Carlson in April.
The only comment from the White House thus far about the chyron came from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who said, “There are probably 787 million things I can say … about what we saw last night. But I don’t think I’m going to get into it.”
Biden and the White House have said that he is not involved in investigations by the Justice Department, which operates separately from the influence of the White House. A special counsel is working the case against Trump, with the Justice Department’s allegations including that Trump had classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.
In recent months, Fox News has lost advertisers, has been in the news for defamation trials with Dominion Voting Systems (that resulted in a settlement) and Smartmatic (which is ongoing), and is facing right-wing competition from other outlets like OAN and Newsmax.
FNC is Deep State’s.
One thing we can be sure of is that FOX Snooze is digging deeply to find a way to pin this on Trump or Tucker Carlson.
I normally would add a sarc tag, but I think I won’t this time.
FOX has a bad habit lately of blaming their own internal failures on others.
Well you see FOX has a terrible habit of disavowing the truth and their greatest assets.
Whatever is good and elevates their corporation is bad in the eyes of the Murdochs.
The goal is to be as sleazy as MSNBC and CNN. They are well on their way to that.
So true.
LOL Was he chosen to take Tucker’s time slot?
Personally, prefer to see Roseanne Roseannadanna.
Now SHE was might have had the experince to replace
any anchor on tee vee.
LOL Was he chosen to take Tucker’s time slot?
Personally, prefer to see Roseanne Roseannadanna.
Now SHE was might have had the experince to replace
any anchor on tee vee.
Gilda was a national treasure.
Thanks. Hasn’t that been around almost forever? Are we talking just the “caption”, or the crawl? Or all of it?
Well excuuuse me.
I’m very well read and eclectic. So yes, it shocks me if it’s so old I should’ve known. To me that says, “no one ever actually talks about this”.
BTW, Wiki doesn’t even use this as a title for their entry on this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_third
Just mentions it in the description as a NA thing.
FOX shows one bit of truth about the wannabe dictator and the heat is on.
Truth is a powerful sting to the left.
Well, he is one.
“ Fox is run by a bunch of worms‘
Paul Ryan.
He makes worms look like an advanced form of life.
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