{"id":39691,"date":"2018-11-08T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T23:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39691"},"modified":"2018-11-08T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T23:57:31","slug":"fox-news-accuses-rachel-maddow-of-pro-mueller-bias-ignored-hannity-campaigning-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39691","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Accuses Rachel Maddow of Pro-Mueller Bias, Ignored Hannity Campaigning with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hypocrites at Fox News are out in force following the midterm elections that returned Democrats to the majority in the House of Representatives. Which isn&#8217;t really any different than the way the Fox News hypocrites were behaving before the midterms. But it&#8217;s clear that they intend to continue distorting reality for their glassy-eyed and willfully ignorant viewers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/maddow-foxnews.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Maddow, Fox News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39692\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2417350251613089\" 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>In an article on the Fox News website Thursday, their media correspondent, Brian Flood, sought to criticize MSNBC&#8217;s Rachel Maddow for exhibiting a bias in favor of special counsel Robert Mueller. The piece was not addressing anything she did on her program, but rather a tweet she posted that reported the grassroots reaction to Donald Trump firing his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions. That dismissal, and the appointment of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/matthew-whitaker-trumps-new-ag-declared-there-was-no-collusion-between-trump-and-russia\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump flunky Matt Whitaker<\/a><\/strong> as Acting Attorney General, was the latest attempt by Trump to obstruct justice by undermining the Mueller probe. Maddow&#8217;s tweet simply reported that there were protests planned to advocate for members of Congress to protect Mueller from any interference by the Trump regime:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s happening. <\/p>\n<p>This is the &quot;Break Glass in Case of Emergency&quot; plan to protect the Mueller investigation.<\/p>\n<p>5pm (local time) protests tomorrow\/Thursday Nov 8.<\/p>\n<p>We knew this would happen at some point &#8212; the day has arrived. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pmv0aaxfYJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/pmv0aaxfYJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maddow\/status\/1060307327155363840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That tweet was the basis for the article by Flood who characterized it as pro-Mueller and implied that there was something untoward about Maddow posting such a comment. He <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/msnbc-election-night-anchor-rachel-maddow-promotes-pro-mueller-street-protests\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a><\/strong> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Maddow is a leftist activist but was recently paired with Brian Williams during MSNBC\u2019s Election Night coverage. News organizations typically use nonpartisan anchors for such assignments.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Setting aside the false assertion that Maddow is a leftist activist (to which Maddow had <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maddow\/status\/1060577097926828033\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a light-hearted reply<\/a><\/strong>), Flood is actually admitting that Fox is not a <em>&#8220;news organization&#8221;<\/em> because their election night programming used flagrantly partisan anchors &#8211; Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham &#8211; in their coverage. They were planning to use Sean Hannity as well, according to their pre-broadcast press release, but Hannity was an unexplained no-show. You have to wonder if that had anything to do with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39648\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hannity&#8217;s campaign stumping for Trump<\/a><\/strong> on stage with the President at his last cult rally of the election season.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting is that Flood found it necessary to publish a misleading article about Maddow&#8217;s alleged bias, but he never published anything about Hannity nuzzling up to Trump on stage, or the anchor chairs occupied by Carlson and Ingraham. It&#8217;s a good thing Fox News <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34907\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">abandoned<\/a><\/strong> their <em>&#8220;fair and balanced&#8221;<\/em> slogan last year. Because their own media correspondent can&#8217;t live up to it.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hypocrites at Fox News are out in force following the midterm elections that returned Democrats to the majority in the House of Representatives. Which isn&#8217;t really any different than the way the Fox News hypocrites were behaving before the midterms. But it&#8217;s clear that they intend to continue distorting reality for their glassy-eyed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39692,"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":[1,684,1200,16],"tags":[554,33,1202,120,1247,129],"class_list":["post-39691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-rachel-maddow","tag-robert-mueller","tag-sean-hannity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/maddow-foxnews.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-akb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36599,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36599","url_meta":{"origin":39691,"position":0},"title":"Rachel Maddow Dominates an Increasingly Hysterical Sean Hannity as 2017 Winds Down","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/29\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This has not been a particularly good year for Fox News. 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