The relationship between Fox News and the Republican Party is an incestuous mess that repeatedly violates all standards of journalistic ethics. And now the revolving door between Fox and the defunct Donald Trump administration is spinning faster than a Hunter Biden laptop lie.
Fox News has just announced Trump’s former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has been hired as a contributor. According to the Hollywood Reporter…
“Pompeo, who will make his first appearance in his new role on the channel on Friday’s Fox & Friends, will appear across Fox News and Fox Business programming.
“In a statement Thursday, Pompeo said he intends ‘to give viewers a candid, no-nonsense look at geopolitics, international relations and the America First policies that helped chart the course for unprecedented American prosperity and security.'”
It is entirely fitting that Pompeo will debut as a talking head with the “Curvy Couch” potatoes on Trump’s favorite morning show, Fox and Friends. And his statement that Trump’s policies charted “a course for unprecedented American prosperity and security,” strikes just right tone of flagrant dishonesty to launch a budding career in nakedly biased media and propaganda. If Trump’s policies were so successful he wouldn’t have been evicted form the White House by an unprecedented majority of the American people.
However, nowhere in the announcement was it acknowledged that Pompeo is actively exploring a run for president in 2024. He has already made the requisite appearances in in the first primary state of Iowa. This hire is just another example of Fox News boosting Republican politicians. At the very least, Fox is proving to be the GOP’s jobs program for failed pols with nowhere else to go. He is joining Trump castoffs…
- Kayleigh McEnany, the former press secretary who is now a co-host of Fox’s Outnumbered.
- Larry Kudlow, the former economic advisor who has replaced Fox’s Lou Dobbs, who was fired in connection with the billion dollar lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems.
- Lara Trump, who, for the moment, is the wife of Eric Trump – her only qualification for the job.
Pompeo shares the distinction of being a prospective candidate with Lara Trump. She has been talking about running for the Senate in North Carolina for weeks. And another former Trump press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has already gone from Trump’s White House to Fox News to a candidacy for governor of Arkansas.
There is no bottom to the ethical breaches by Fox News and the Republican shills they support. It is a brazenly biased confederacy of shameless dishonesty operating as a mutual benefit society for personal and political gain. Look for it to continue with other Trump/GOP fortune seekers who have been unable to find jobs anywhere else.
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If these people, McEnany, Kudlow, Sanders and Pompeo were truly exceptional there would be better jobs in think tanks, law firms, teaching at a university, etc. Being hired by network whose only goal is to attempt to denigrate and lie about the Democratic Party is certainly some sort of low in their careers.
It’s fortunate for the incompetent unemployables formerly affiliated with the trump dump that Faux News is there as their welfare schtick.
Without Fox they’d have to sign up with a neo-Nazi stink tank.
Fox Propaganda Network (FPN) hires yet another of Trump’s Rumps ~ so many asses needing jobs & promotional airtime for their political aspirations.
We can see it for what it is, but millions of their loyal, ignorant viewers do not. They see, hear & believe every bit of bullshit they’re fed by that epitome of lies & fake news. That makes FPN dangerous! A danger to U.S. democracy & to our relative peace & freedom living here. It doesn’t take much false info to send the unhinged & armed into a frenzy. Easier to get a gun than to get mental health, it seems.
What can we do about FPN??