{"id":39844,"date":"2018-11-27T11:36:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T19:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39844"},"modified":"2018-11-27T11:45:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T19:45:45","slug":"state-tv-aka-fox-news-literally-scripts-and-rehearses-interviews-with-trump-associates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39844","title":{"rendered":"State TV (aka Fox News) Literally Scripts and Rehearses Interviews with Trump Associates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, okay. Everybody already knows that Fox News is a fake network that was created only to promote conservative politicians and policies. And more recently it has become the wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump’s White House. There is a revolving door between the network and the presidency, with personnel being shared by both and with a common purpose to advance the interests and propaganda of Trump. We know.<\/p>\n

\"Donald
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Nevertheless, new revelations that shock and disgust continue to come forward. The latest is a scoop by the Daily Beast<\/a><\/strong> who acquired some damning emails between Trump’s disgraced former Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, and producers for Trump’s favorite Fox News program, Fox and Friends. The Daily Beast reveals that:<\/p>\n

“In past interviews with President Trump\u2019s favorite cable-news show, the then-EPA chief\u2019s team chose the topics for interviews, and knew the questions in advance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“In one instance, according to emails revealed in a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the Sierra Club and reviewed by The Daily Beast, Pruitt\u2019s team even approved part of the show\u2019s script. […]<\/strong><\/p>\n

“In multiple interviews on Fox & Friends, Pruitt was essentially allowed to dictate the terms for the interview and avoid any difficult questions.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Daily Beast posts copies of the emails that explicitly reveal how Fox News bent over backwards for Trump’s surrogates. Even to the point of asking them to approve the setups used to introduce them. This, of course, is in addition to the regular Trump-fluffing that occurs on Fox News throughout the day. The network is, after all, tightly integrated with Trump’s White House. Trump’s former Director of Communications, Hope Hicks, is the current Fox News executive vice-president<\/a><\/strong> and chief communications officer. And Trump’s current Deputy Chief of Staff<\/a><\/strong> is the former president of Fox News and Hannity producer, Bill Shine, who was fired for covering up sexual misconduct by Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly. And it was recently discovered that Shine is still on the Fox payroll<\/a><\/strong>, so he’s being paid by both the White House (i.e. taxpayers) and Fox News simultaneously.<\/p>\n

\n

How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Daily Beast contacted Fox about the Pruitt matter and they issued a vague statement saying that “This is not standard practice whatsoever and the matter is being addressed internally with those involved.”<\/em> So you can rest assured that the proper disciplinary measures will be taken. After all, when Sean Hannity and other Fox News personalities were caught campaigning for Trump and other Republicans, they were slapped on the wrist and told to stop. And then Hannity and Jeanine Pirro showed up at a recent Trump cult rally<\/a><\/strong> anyway. This is business as usual for Fox News and it isn’t going to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, okay. Everybody already knows that Fox News is a fake network that was created only to promote conservative politicians and policies. And more recently it has become the wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump’s White House. There is a revolving door between the network and the presidency, with personnel being shared by both and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34118,"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":[1,684,1200,8],"tags":[532,554,879,33,1297,1306,129],"class_list":["post-39844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-bill-shine","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-hope-hicks","tag-scott-pruitt","tag-sean-hannity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-news-channel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-amE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45911,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=45911","url_meta":{"origin":39844,"position":0},"title":"Poor Crybaby Trump Whines that it’s ‘So Hard to Watch Fox News Anymore’","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/13\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"If there is one thing that Donald Trump reliably produces (other than flagrant lies, infantile insults, and delusional boasts), it's a constant cacophony of complaining. 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