{"id":42606,"date":"2019-08-30T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42606"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:43:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:43:53","slug":"the-love-affair-between-trump-and-fox-news-has-been-all-patched-up-thank-gawd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42606","title":{"rendered":"The Love Affair Between Trump and Fox News Has Been All Patched Up, Thank Gawd"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a brief disturbance in the force this week when Donald Trump became disenchanted with his own State TV network, Fox News. Trump’s ire appeared to have been triggered by Fox having the audacity to interview a representative of the Democratic Party. He seems to think that Fox News is forbidden to interview anyone that isn’t a card-carrying StormTrumper.<\/p>\n

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Trump unleashed a Twitter tantrum<\/a><\/strong> that included his declaration that “Fox isn\u2019t working for us anymore,”<\/em> and an order to his Deplorables that “We have to start looking for a new News Outlet.”<\/em> These missives might have startled some in the media business, but those who have seen this sort of whining on Trump’s part before weren’t surprised. While he has had several breakups with Fox, they were always short-lived and the two lovers managed to kiss and make up every time.<\/p>\n

The evidence that the latest rift in the Trump\/Fox Affair has been mended is Trump’s Twitter feed on Friday. It contained five videos from Fox News all on a single subject: The Justice Department’s Inspector General report on James Comey. Trump could have gotten this news from anywhere, but he chose to feature the Fox segments because – well, Fox is still his sweetheart.<\/p>\n

For the record, Trump and Fox News were both obsessed with the IG’s report and presented it as proof of Comey’s corruption and bias. Nevermind that the report explicitly stated that Comey broke no laws, which is why Trump’s corrupt Attorney General, William Barr, declined to prosecute. As for bias, Fox and Trump have never explained why Comey sabotaged Hillary Clinton’s campaign if he was supposedly supporting her.<\/p>\n

The videos Trump posted included one with a phony “Democrat”<\/em><\/a><\/strong> who frequently appears on Fox News to bark at Democrats. Then there was one that featured a former prosecutor and current Fox Democrat basher. And there were three videos featuring Republican congressmen whose predictable partisanship was flagrantly on display.<\/p>\n

Obviously Trump has gotten over his beef with Fox News. He always knew that Fox was his best friend and that their tiff would subside. Because where else can he go? He isn’t going to soil himself with the networks he calls “the enemy of the people.”<\/em> And other right-wing media outlets are pitifully small and ineffectual. He knows that only Fox News has the sort of worshipful sycophants who can go on the air and say with conviction that Donald Trump has never told a lie, which is what Stuart Varney just did<\/a><\/strong>. It takes a special brand of deranged cult devotion to satisfy Trump’s massive and fragile ego. And only Fox News can offer that.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a brief disturbance in the force this week when Donald Trump became disenchanted with his own State TV network, Fox News. Trump’s ire appeared to have been triggered by Fox having the audacity to interview a representative of the Democratic Party. 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