{"id":36893,"date":"2018-01-29T18:44:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T02:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36893"},"modified":"2018-01-29T18:47:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T02:47:30","slug":"fox-news-host-whines-that-its-just-so-anti-american-to-criticize-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36893","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Host Whines That &#8216;It&#8217;s Just So Anti-American&#8217; to Criticize Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the news broke that Donald Trump had ordered his White House counsel, Don McGahn, to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. That attempted obstruction of justice was foiled when McGahn threatened Trump that he would quit if required to carry out the order. The incident occurred in June of 2017. Since then Trump and all of his surrogates have denied that he ever entertained the notion of firing Mueller. That, apparently, was a lie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-friends-trump.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Friends\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36370\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2021303577884427\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also last June, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36868\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Hannity was ranting<\/a><\/strong> on his program that Mueller was corrupt and should be terminated. He had only been appointed a month prior, so Hannity&#8217;s obsession was difficult to understand until we learned what we know now about Trump&#8217;s demand to McGahn. Hannity appears to have been doing Trump&#8217;s dirty work. And now Fox News thinks the reporting of this affair is part of a clandestine conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>In a segment of Trump&#8217;s favorite show, Fox and Friends, the <em>&#8220;Curvy Couch&#8221;<\/em> potatoes ventured down a delusional trail of speculation that the story was deliberately held for seven months so it could be dropped strategically following Trump&#8217;s allegedly triumphant visit to Davos, Switzerland. What a devious cabal of <em>&#8220;deep state&#8221;<\/em> villains. During an interview with former Trump press secretary Sean Spicer, the hosts engaged in this paranoid exchange:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Kilmeade:<\/strong> Isn\u2019t it amazing, the timing, something comes up about the Russia investigation, like for example, a story that could have broken in June comes out in January after the president goes to Davos and is treated like a rock star.<br \/>\n<strong>Spicer:<\/strong> Somebody will dig something up from when he was, like, 8 years old about how he didn\u2019t clean his tray and try to take away the momentum from another great speech.<br \/>\n<strong>Doocy:<\/strong> Well, that&#8217;s what they&#8217;ve done in the past. It&#8217;s a formula that worked.<br \/>\n<strong>Earhardt:<\/strong> It\u2019s just so anti-American. Where is the unity?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anti-American? Suddenly it&#8217;s no longer sufficient to merely attribute the diabolical left&#8217;s motives to partisan politics or libtardiness. Now it&#8217;s anti-American to offer any criticism of the President. There&#8217;s a reason Fox and Friends is Trump&#8217;s favorite show. The one that he watches religiously and tweets live almost every morning. They are the most driven, sycophantic Trump-fluffers on television. Where else could he be defended by flunkies who will describe factual news stories as anti-American? And you&#8217;ll notice that at no time during this segment did any of the Fox crew dispute the substance of the report.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintive cry for <em>&#8220;unity&#8221;<\/em> is also somewhat mind-boggling considering that it was these same Fox News cretins who sought to portray President Obama as a threat to America. When they weren&#8217;t questioning his birthright to even serve in the presidency, they were manufacturing <em>&#8220;scandals&#8221;<\/em> to get him thrown out of the White House and into prison. Which makes one want to ask <em>&#8220;Where was the unity?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6afsLrYYM9Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the news broke that Donald Trump had ordered his White House counsel, Don McGahn, to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. That attempted obstruction of justice was foiled when McGahn threatened Trump that he would quit if required to carry out the order. The incident occurred in June of 2017. Since then Trump and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,16],"tags":[1131,183,870,554,879,33,1247,129,1208,134],"class_list":["post-36893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-ainsley-earhardt","tag-barack-obama","tag-brian-kilmeade","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-robert-mueller","tag-sean-hannity","tag-sean-spicer","tag-steve-doocy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-friends-trump.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9B3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36868,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36868","url_meta":{"origin":36893,"position":0},"title":"Hannity Repeatedly Called for Mueller to Be Fired in June 2017 When Trump Tried to Fire Him (Video)","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/26\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Thursday night the New York Times released a disturbing story about Donald Trump's ongoing malfeasance in office. 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