For the past week Donald Trump has been reaffirming his role as America’s Ambassador of International Embarrassment. On this brief junket he has managed to insult the Duchess of Sussex (Meghan Markle), feud with the Mayor of London, call for a boycott of an American company in order to punish CNN (an unconstitutional, impeachable offense), Breach diplomatic protocol by attacking Joe Biden from foreign soil, and send orders back home to a former staffer (and current Fox News executive) to unlawfully defy a congressional subpoena.
Despite all of this evidence of his foreign fiasco, the fact that Trump has once again proven to be an incompetent, self-absorbed, loudmouth who is allergic to telling the truth, hasn’t stalled the devotional bootlicking of Fox News. On Wednesday morning the “Curvy Couch” potatoes of Fox and Friends were primed to report on Trump’s “triumphant” mission to the United Kingdom. So in pursuit of that goal they invited their ultra-rightist media shill, Joe Concha, to opine on how Trump was maligned at the hands of the U.S. press corps. The premise that Fox tried vainly to peddle was that, while Trump was hammered here at home, he was beloved in the U.K. That phony propaganda resulted in this absurd exchange (video below):
Co-host Brian Kilmeade: “This state visit to the U.K. earning glowing reviews – get this – in Britain. But back here in the U.S. – or whatever planet we’re on – the American media is telling a whole different story.”
Concha: (on the British press): “They’re on the ground. They know how London works. They know the people. And they’re portraying this thing a lot more positively, as you just showed, than the U.S. media who’s concentrating almost solely on these protests. […] That’s the problem. We’re getting way too many opinions based solely on speculation and how people perceive things instead of what people see on their screens.”
Kilmeade’s assertion that the British press was unanimously “glowing” was based on a few headlines that he featured in a graphic. The only problem is that not one of them actually praise Trump. In fact, they were merely Trump paying tribute to the Queen:
- Donald Trump praises ‘eternal friendship’ at state banquet (BBC)
- Trump hails ‘common values’ uniting UK and US (Financial Times)
- Donald Trump state banquet speech: US President says Queen embodies ‘patriotism that beats proudly in every British heart’ (Evening Standard)
- ‘Treasured Friendship’ Trump in tribute to ‘great, great’ Queen who inspired UK to win WW2 (The Sun)
Meanwhile, those same news sources also ran with these headlines that Fox News ignored:
- Anti-Trump protesters mix humour with expletives {BBC)
- Trump sends mixed messages on US-UK trade deal (Financial Times)
- Protesters cry ‘Nazi’ as Donald Trump attends D-Day event (Evening Standard)
- Donald Trump sparks massive NHS row as he says health service must be on the table (The Sun)
So Fox News is blatantly disinforming their viewers about the coverage of Trump by the British media. It is, in fact, nearly identical to the coverage in the U.S. And if it’s negative, that’s only because he’s such a predictable screw-up.
But what’s truly bizarre is Concha’s complaint that there are “way too many opinions” in the U.S. press. And he’s saying that, unironically, on Fox News. What’s more, his criticism that coverage is “based solely on speculation and how people perceive things” is downright laughable considering he’s saying it to Kilmeade who, just the day before, told viewers that “boos” from the crowd when Ivanka Trump and John Bolton walked by were for Bolton. How Kilmeade divined that was unexplained.
This is the sort of feverishly pro-Trump hackery that is the hallmark of Fox News. They are so determined to exalt Dear Leader at every opportunity that they utterly abandon reason and reality. And above all, they continue to push the notion that the media would be so much better if only it slobbered over Trump the way they do. Yet somehow they they still believe that they should be taken seriously as a news network.
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But back here in the U.S. – or whatever planet we’re on ….
Oh, Brian KillMe, thank you — we all needed that! So, what planet ARE you on, and can we convince you to stay there with Your Beloved God, every f*cking Trump Worshiper, and the minions always at ready to lick Your Beloved God’s sphincter? And don’t EVER come back!!
You are SUCH a f*cking imbecile, Stupor Jeen-yus! Never stop proving it….
I wonder when exactly the Fox ‘News’ bunch decided that committing treason was a worthwhile career move? Are they all planning on being dead after November 2020? They act like this drunken tax dollar smorgasbord isn’t going to end in a few months.
Trump administration members are going to jail right and left WHILE Dumpy controls the DOJ. There will not be any cover in a few months and the only country Dumpo can still curry favor with is Russia.
These people can’t plan past lunch. They might want to chat with Paul Manafort.
When will Americans get to see these Host’s Birth Certificates and DNA results? Since they praise the White Nationalists, how many are really pure white? DNA can expose them for their ignorance, when it proves they are just like everyone they choose to hate. Possibly it means a “superior ignorance”? Less then two years, and subtracting daily!!!
What do you call a basement full of Leftists? A whine cellar.
What do you call a basement full of conservatives? You call a plumber, ‘cuz that crap won’t clean up itself…