{"id":39495,"date":"2018-10-20T12:09:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T19:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39495"},"modified":"2018-10-20T12:12:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T19:12:04","slug":"gop-party-hacks-are-feeding-at-the-fox-news-trough-in-advance-of-2018-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39495","title":{"rendered":"GOP Party Hacks are Feeding at the Fox News Trough in Advance of 2018 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With only seventeen days left until the 2018 midterm election, Donald Trump is keeping his promise to campaign heavily for his Republican pals &#8211; almost. His <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38636\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">actual promise<\/a><\/strong> was to <em>&#8220;go six or seven days a week when we\u2019re sixty days out.&#8221;<\/em> It hasn&#8217;t been quite that much, but it&#8217;s been enough to make Fox News <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39418\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stop covering his cult rallies live<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-gop-pig-trump.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Republican, Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39496\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2384844054863709\" 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>Including his latest GOP Revival Meeting in Nevada, Trump has made fifteen of these trips in September and October, much of it being paid for by the very same clueless chumps who are cheering him on for his determination to cut government spending (like Social Security and Medicare). Which might be seen as somewhat hypocritical of Trump, who previously smacked President Obama for doing far less politicking:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I say we cannot continue to let Obama fly around on Air Force 1, at a cost of millions of dollars a day, for the purpose of politics &amp; play!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/492471584074895360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It hardly seems necessary for Trump to get out of bed for these junkets. After all, he is preaching exclusively to his most devoted disciples who are going to vote Republican anyway. And his message isn&#8217;t getting any further exposure due to the fact that none of the news networks are carrying it any more. The only reason he continues to do these tedious, repetitive stand up routines is for the ego boost he gets from the slobbering masses of Deplorables.<\/p>\n<p>However, that doesn&#8217;t mean that Trump isn&#8217;t getting significant public exposure prior to the election. Fox News (of course) is fulfilling its role as State TV by hosting Republican campaign operatives on a near constant basis. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/top-gop-officials-benefitting-handsomely-fox-news-fox-business-tv-exposure-1153149\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter notes<\/a><\/strong> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;For the Republican National Committee, top-rated Fox News Channel and sister network Fox Business Network have given massive exposure and a few million dollars in expected publicity to chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany at a time when the party is struggling to maintain control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;In the months of September and October, McDaniel has appeared across the networks 18 times, watched by an estimated audience of more than 18.4 million viewers. McEnany, a former CNN pro-Trump contributor and polished television personality, has been even more prolific &#8211; she&#8217;s appeared 34 times before an estimated audience of 29.9 million people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Combined, McDaniel and McEnany&#8217;s 52 appearances have an estimated publicity value of $2.62 million, according to media monitoring service Critical Mention.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, these are not the only GOP shills that are camped out at Fox News. There are numerous right-wing contributors spewing the party line. And even their hosts are brazenly campaigning on behalf of Republican candidates. Sean Hannity actually <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/18\/sean-hannity-told-fox-viewers-donate-gop-candidate-whose-campaign-then-turned-it-ad\/221734\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">solicits his audience<\/a><\/strong> to make donations to GOP hopefuls.<\/p>\n<p>This is what Democrats are up against. They have no equivalent media partners to offset this unethical marriage between Fox News and the GOP. Plus, Democrats are already facing unlawful efforts by Republican office holders to suppress the votes of minority citizens and to make voting more difficult, or impossible, in Democratic leaning districts. We aren&#8217;t just fighting against a conservative political machine that will tell any lie to retain their grip on power. We are also fighting a media assault that is frantically pushing the interests of the Republican Party and the Trump regime.<\/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>So if you value this nation&#8217;s small &#8220;d&#8221; democratic principles like freedom of speech, accountability to the law, compassion and equality for all, a sustainable environment, and fair elections, you cannot sit idly by. This year it is more important than ever that everyone who is concerned about having rational checks and balances on the criminal administration currently occupying the White House be diligent about getting to the polls, and getting all of their caring, progressive friends and family to do the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only seventeen days left until the 2018 midterm election, Donald Trump is keeping his promise to campaign heavily for his Republican pals &#8211; almost. His actual promise was to &#8220;go six or seven days a week when we\u2019re sixty days out.&#8221; It hasn&#8217;t been quite that much, but it&#8217;s been enough to make Fox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[152,1,684,1200,8],"tags":[554,1140,33,301,1277,129],"class_list":["post-39495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-fox-news","tag-republicans","tag-ronna-mcdaniel","tag-sean-hannity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-gop-pig-trump.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ah1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56993,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56993","url_meta":{"origin":39495,"position":0},"title":"DeSantis Issues a Fascist Fatwa on Fox News to &#8216;Destroy Leftism&#8217; &#8211; Meaning Millions of Americans","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/29\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The race to the bottom in the 2024 Republican presidential primary continues apace now that Ron DeSantis is officially a candidate. 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