{"id":40909,"date":"2019-03-19T14:49:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T21:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40909"},"modified":"2019-03-19T15:16:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T22:16:21","slug":"is-donald-trump-the-president-of-the-united-states-or-of-fox-news-marketing-and-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40909","title":{"rendered":"Is Donald Trump the President of the United States, or of Fox News Marketing and PR?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The torrid love affair between Donald Trump and Fox News has never been exactly secret. Fox has given him more free airtime than any other public figure. And he has granted them more interviews (40+) than all other news networks combined. And all of the exposure has been unceasingly adoring. Trump even had a weekly segment on Fox and Friends (Mornings with Trump<\/em>) long before his presidential aspirations.<\/p>\n

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The recent article in the New Yorker<\/a><\/strong> by Jane Mayer neatly sewed together much of the evidence proving that Fox News is not merely a conservative leaning network, but a blatantly biased propaganda mouthpiece for the President. And to demonstrate that it isn’t a relationship they are ashamed of, both Fox and Trump have escalated their fetishistic fondness for one another since the article was published. Trump, in particular, has unleashed a rash of promotions of Fox News and the shills who call it home. Just in the last four days Trump has posted ten videos from Fox:<\/p>\n

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  1. Lou Dobbs on Trump’s phony national emergency<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Lou Dobbs with cartoon pundits Diamond and Silk<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Outnumbered ranting about a “Witch Hunt”<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Jason Chaffetz exhibiting his undying Hillary Clinton fetish<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Fox and Friends pushing Trump’s idiotic vanity wall<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Maria Bartiromo obediently maligning the FBI<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Mark Levin spending seven minutes fluffing Trump with Bill Bennett<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Tucker Carlson doing the fake history of the Russia “hoax”<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Sean Hannity lying about a Democratic conspiracy against Trump<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Sean Hannity succumbing to his ludicrous “Deep State” dementia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Remember, this is the president who says that he doesn’t have time to watch TV<\/a><\/strong> because of all the documents that he has to read (as if he can read). But not only does he have plenty of time to watch TV, he even has time to feverishly post tweets of his viewing. And this doesn’t even count the numerous textual tweets that reference things he just saw on Fox News.<\/p>\n

    Last week Trump’s viewing was sufficiently disturbed that he plaintively pleaded with Fox News to return Jeanine Pirro<\/a><\/strong>, who Fox briefly suspended due to her flagrantly racist comments about Muslim representative Ilhan Omar. He also stood up for Tucker Carlson<\/a><\/strong> whose past bigotry, and boorish profanity, was revealed in recordings from his radio guest spots with Bubba, the Love Sponge.<\/p>\n

    These promos for Fox News are pure puffery on behalf of the President for his favorite bootlicking broadcaster. It is wholly unprecedented in American politics. And the marketing executives at Fox News must be thrilled. The question is whether Trump is volunteering this assistance to Fox, or if Fox is directing it.<\/p>\n

    \n

    How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
    \n    Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
    \nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The torrid love affair between Donald Trump and Fox News has never been exactly secret. Fox has given him more free airtime than any other public figure. And he has granted them more interviews (40+) than all other news networks combined. And all of the exposure has been unceasingly adoring. Trump even had a weekly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39978,"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":[1,684,8,16],"tags":[554,879,33,1361,1092,401,129,25],"class_list":["post-40909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-jane-mayer","tag-jeanine-pirro","tag-lou-dobbs","tag-sean-hannity","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-fake-news-channel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aDP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40770,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40770","url_meta":{"origin":40909,"position":0},"title":"FINALLY! 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