{"id":42291,"date":"2019-07-25T12:09:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42291"},"modified":"2019-07-26T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:42:31","slug":"trump-is-plunging-into-a-desperate-dependence-on-fox-news-thats-downright-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42291","title":{"rendered":"Trump is Plunging Into a Desperate Dependence on Fox News that’s Downright Creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony, Donald Trump has rushed to buttress the barricades of his propaganda crusade. In practical terms that means hyping the crap out of every Trump-fluffing shill he sees on Fox News. And he may have set a record for posting tweets that are flagrantly fawning by the bootlickers at his favorite cable “news”<\/em> network.<\/p>\n

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In the few hours since the Mueller hearings concluded, Trump posted sixteen (16!) tweets referencing – and even explicitly thanking – Fox News and their stable of pro-Trump PR toadies. They included disseminating White House talking points about the hearings being “a disaster.”<\/em> And there were the obligatory lies about “no obstruction, no collusion,”<\/em> even though Mueller said precisely the opposite<\/a><\/strong>. He posted eight videos of segments from Fox that were nothing more than drooling sycophancy, and quotes from the devoutly anti-intellectual “Curvy Couch”<\/em> potatoes on Fox and Friends.<\/p>\n

There were also a couple of prideful postings of a new Fox News poll<\/a><\/strong>. Trump celebrated that the poll gave him a 52 percent approval rating on the economy. Never mind that the economy has been in the midst of the longest bull market in history that began ten years ago during the Obama administration. And it performed better in the last two years of Obama’s term than in the first two years of Trump’s.<\/p>\n

More importantly, the same poll showed that Trump was severely underwater on almost everything else, including most of his signature issues. For instance, favorability (45 approve – 51 disapprove), border security (44-52), immigration (41-54), trade (40-49), Iran (39-46), North Korea (39-49), and health care (38-51). But Trump was never very good<\/a><\/strong> at figuring out stuff as complicated as polls. Our “stable genius”<\/em> in the White House can only comprehend surveys that are unflinchingly adoring<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The relationship between Trump and Fox News has always been an unethical convergence of media and politics. Fox News is the de facto State TV division of the Trump regime. At any given moment, Fox is either promoting Trump as the new Messiah, or attacking his critics as spawns of Satan. Although, Fox will sometimes complain that they are miscast as biased, and there are even some rare examples of independent thought<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But the biggest impediments to Fox News being perceived as “fair and balanced”<\/em> (a ludicrous slogan that they abandoned two years ago<\/a><\/strong>) are Fox News and Donald Trump. They will always manage to reinforce their conspicuous and disgraceful perversion of the free press. Either Trump will come along to prove that Fox is his personal PR agency with the sort of tweeting frenzy he just unleashed, or Fox will fill their schedule with what can only be described as pro-Trump campaign ads disguised as news programs.<\/p>\n

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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 Fox News\/Trump Nationalist Party is not only unprecedented, it’s dangerous. It produces a false narrative among the cultists who adhere it that embraces hostility and division, excuses lying, encourages ignorance and willful obliviousness to bona fide national security threats, and turns a sector of the electorate into, essentially, advocates for America’s enemies. And it’s led by a Reality TV game show host who said that he has no time for TV<\/a><\/strong>, despite having plenty of time to post tweets of what he is supposedly not viewing.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> It only took one day for Trump to figure out that the new Fox Poll was not good news for him. So of course, he lashed out on Twitter<\/a><\/strong> against Fox polls which he says “have always been terrible to me.”<\/em> But don’t worry, the Whiner-in-Chief will return to slobbering over Hannity and Company before you know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony, Donald Trump has rushed to buttress the barricades of his propaganda crusade. In practical terms that means hyping the crap out of every Trump-fluffing shill he sees on Fox News. 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