{"id":41884,"date":"2019-06-19T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41884"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T22:13:58","slug":"whut-fox-news-media-hack-says-its-unfair-if-networks-dont-cover-all-of-trumps-cult-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41884","title":{"rendered":"WHUT? Fox News Media Hack Says it&#8217;s &#8216;Unfair&#8217; if Networks Don&#8217;t Cover All of Trump&#8217;s Cult Rallies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is well known that Fox News has foraged an uncommonly close relationship between themselves and Donald Trump. In fact, Trump would not be president today but for Fox News. They shamelessly championed his campaign, while simultaneously maligning Hillary Clinton and slandering his critics. Subsequently, they have continued to serve as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41842\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">his private PR operation<\/a><\/strong> throughout his presidency.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-state-tv-trump-rally.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38256\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2794417623906348\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><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>During the 2016 presidential cycle, Fox News covered every single one of his cult rallies in full and uninterrupted. It amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free TV airtime. And that&#8217;s not even counting the dozens of interviews Fox did with adoring Trump-fluffers like Sean Hannity and the <em>&#8220;Curvy Couch&#8221;<\/em> potatoes of Fox and Friends. They never did anything similar for Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Fox&#8217;s primary media correspondent and host of MediaBuzz, Howard Kurtz, is weighing in on how Trump is being covered by the cable news networks. And he&#8217;s not a happy camper. In an interview with his colleague Bill Hemmer, Kurtz seemed to mimic Trump by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/video\/2019\/06\/19\/fox-news-media-analyst-says-other-networks-showed-lack-class-not-airing-trumps-campaign-rally\/223967\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">raging against CNN and MSNBC<\/a><\/strong> for not carrying all of his alleged campaign kickoff rally in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, the assertion that this was the kickoff of Trump&#8217;s campaign is a blatant lie. He actually filed for reelection on the same day he was inaugurated in January of 2017. And he&#8217;s held dozens of rallies since then. This was a charade that was was really just another one of his cookie-cutter cult rallies where he repeated exactly the same tedious themes that he has in all of his other ego-stroking affairs. Just because he calls it a kickoff, doesn&#8217;t mean that the media has to obediently buy into that lie.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, CNN covered the rally just long enough to observe that Trump wasn&#8217;t saying anything that he hasn&#8217;t said at every other rally. MSNBC monitored the event in case Trump said anything newsworthy. He didn&#8217;t, and therefore they didn&#8217;t bother interrupting their regular programming for some of Trump&#8217;s harshly partisan and hostile rhetoric. And this infuriated Kurtz who said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;What I have to say about this is it&#8217;s just a lack of class. Now, I&#8217;m not saying that the cable networks have to cover every Trump rally, and it did turn into a highly partisan speech in Orlando last night. But this really is sort of networks playing into what Steve Bannon used to call acting like the opposition party. To just simply say we&#8217;d rather have our own pundits talking while the president is talking, spending the whole next day analyzing and picking apart what he said, rather than letting our viewers hear from the president as he asks for a second term or begins that process, just seems fundamentally unfair and raises questions about how they&#8217;re going to cover this entire campaign.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <em>&#8220;lack of class&#8221;<\/em>? Kurtz never bothers to explain what was newsworthy about Trump&#8217;s speech. But he did associate it with the disgraced former Trump aide and aspiring neo-Nazi, Steve Bannon. Kurtz thinks that people can&#8217;t form their own opinions of what Trump said unless they heard it in this address, even though they&#8217;ve had the opportunity to hear it dozens of times in the recent past. And he thinks it&#8217;s <em>&#8220;fundamentally unfair&#8221;<\/em> for news networks not to force Trump down everyone&#8217;s throats for the umpteenth time.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note that Kurtz has never gone to bat like this for any Democrat. He has never whined that it&#8217;s unfair or lacks class that Fox News declined to air all of Clinton&#8217;s public speeches, or any of those by the current batch of Democratic candidates. No matter how many times they occur. It&#8217;s only Trump who is being treated unfairly if his drooling and repetitive rampages are not broadcast 24\/7 on every channel.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that Kurtz said that has some merit, at least with regard to Fox News, is in his closing when he said that this <em>&#8220;raises questions about how they&#8217;re going to cover this entire campaign.&#8221;<\/em> Although, anyone who has watched Fox for more than few minutes knows exactly how they&#8217;re going to cover the campaign &#8211; like the loyal StormTrumpers that they are and have always been.<\/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\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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>It is well known that Fox News has foraged an uncommonly close relationship between themselves and Donald Trump. In fact, Trump would not be president today but for Fox News. They shamelessly championed his campaign, while simultaneously maligning Hillary Clinton and slandering his critics. Subsequently, they have continued to serve as his private PR operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[42,554,1140,33,31,297,22,895],"class_list":["post-41884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-fox-news","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-howard-kurtz","tag-msnbc","tag-steve-bannon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aTy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54884,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54884","url_meta":{"origin":41884,"position":0},"title":"Fox News is AGHAST that Hillary Clinton Accurately Compared Trump&#8217;s Rallies to Nazi Rallies","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/24\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The similarities between the MAGA movement and the rise of fascism in 1930s Germany are too obvious to deny. 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