{"id":41695,"date":"2019-06-05T12:50:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T19:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41695"},"modified":"2019-06-05T13:07:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:07:35","slug":"state-tv-aka-fox-news-whines-that-us-media-isnt-doing-enough-trump-fluffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41695","title":{"rendered":"State TV (aka Fox News) Whines that US Media Isn’t Doing Enough Trump Fluffing"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past week Donald Trump has been reaffirming his role as America’s Ambassador of International Embarrassment. On this brief junket he has managed to insult the Duchess of Sussex<\/a><\/strong> (Meghan Markle), feud with the Mayor of London, call for a boycott<\/a><\/strong> of an American company in order to punish CNN (an unconstitutional, impeachable offense), Breach diplomatic protocol by attacking Joe Biden from foreign soil, and send orders back home to a former staffer (and current Fox News executive) to unlawfully defy a congressional subpoena<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Despite all of this evidence of his foreign fiasco, the fact that Trump has once again proven to be an incompetent, self-absorbed, loudmouth who is allergic to telling the truth, hasn’t stalled the devotional bootlicking of Fox News. On Wednesday morning the “Curvy Couch”<\/em> potatoes of Fox and Friends were primed to report on Trump’s “triumphant”<\/em> mission to the United Kingdom. So in pursuit of that goal they invited their ultra-rightist media shill, Joe Concha, to opine on how Trump was maligned at the hands of the U.S. press corps. The premise that Fox tried vainly to peddle was that, while Trump was hammered here at home, he was beloved in the U.K. That phony propaganda resulted in this absurd exchange (video below)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Co-host Brian Kilmeade:<\/strong> “This state visit to the U.K. earning glowing reviews – get this – in Britain. But back here in the U.S. – or whatever planet we’re on – the American media is telling a whole different story.”
\nConcha:<\/strong> (on the British press): “They’re on the ground. They know how London works. They know the people. And they’re portraying this thing a lot more positively, as you just showed, than the U.S. media who’s concentrating almost solely on these protests. […] That’s the problem. We’re getting way too many opinions based solely on speculation and how people perceive things instead of what people see on their screens.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kilmeade’s assertion that the British press was unanimously “glowing”<\/em> was based on a few headlines that he featured in a graphic. The only problem is that not one of them actually praise Trump. In fact, they were merely Trump paying tribute to the Queen:<\/p>\n