{"id":42865,"date":"2019-09-26T15:20:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T22:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42865"},"modified":"2019-09-26T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T22:51:43","slug":"fox-news-marches-lock-step-with-impeaching-trump-will-hurt-democrats-talking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42865","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Marches Lock-Step with &#8216;Impeaching Trump Will Hurt Democrats&#8217; Talking Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week just keeps getting worse for Donald Trump. First it was revealed that a whistleblower charged him with serious breaches of national security in a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Then he was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42850\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">forced to release the memo<\/a><\/strong> containing an account of that phone call that was disturbing and incriminating. And on Thursday the text of the whistleblower&#8217;s complaint was also released after the White House could no longer persist in suppressing it. Simultaneous to this, his Director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, was grilled about his conduct with regard to the whistleblower complaint in a pair of congressional hearings. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-alert-impeach-trump.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Impeach Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41878\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2987109674637141\" 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>In addition to that, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House or Representatives would be formally conducting an impeachment inquiry. Much of the work on that had already begun, but this made it official. Trump&#8217;s response to these events was to panic-tweet dozens of bootlicking testimonials by worshipful disciples in politics and the press. It was a barrage of sycophantic adoration and utterly dishonest rationalizations for his flagrantly unlawful acts. It was most assuredly not the behavior of an innocent man.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Fox News was prominently featured among these tributes to Trump&#8217;s treason. Their mission to shield Trump from any and all harm continues as the news gets ever more precarious for his dangling presidency. And what appears to be a coordinated offensive by Fox news is taking shape. Thursday&#8217;s messaging was strikingly aligned across many of its programs. What they are pitching is that, regardless of how terrible this all looks for Trump, it&#8217;s really much worse for Democrats. For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Karl Rove on Fox&#8217;s Daily Briefing told host Dana Perino that <em>&#8220;Impeachment is a losing issue for Democrats.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Rush Limbaugh warned Democrats that <em>&#8220;They\u2019re not thinking about blowback.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Newt Gingrich offered his stale analysis that <em>&#8220;When [Pelosi] starts an investigation the person who&#8217;s gonna get clobbered is Joe Biden.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tucker Carlson turned to frightening Democrats, saying that they <em>&#8220;have just become so obsessed with destroying Donald Trump, that they&#8217;re destroying themselves.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sarah Huckabee Sanders summed it all up by asserting that <em>&#8220;All this is doing is helping [Trump] get reelected.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WOW! That sounds pretty darn awful for Democrats. And by extension, it sounds like Trump and his Republican Nationalist Party should be celebrating. In fact, they ought to be thanking Democrats and promoting their efforts to impeach Trump at every opportunity. After all, it&#8217;s only going to help Trump get reelected and crush the Democrats&#8217; hopes for majorities in Congress. If Republicans really believe what they are saying, then all of this drama over impeachment should be putting them in good mood.<\/p>\n<p>However, for some reason that isn&#8217;t the case. Even after insisting that the Democrats are destroying themselves, and that Trump will be the beneficiary, they are still whining incessantly and demanding that all efforts to impeach Trump be halted. Trump himself is threatening legal action, which is not an option with regard to impeachment. And his Twitter feed is blowing up with more tweets and retweets than ever, almost all which are nasty reactions to his pending impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Trump and his minions are not really as happy about him being impeached as they are trying to pretend. The reality is that his violations of law, ethics, and his oath of office, are more than sufficient to warrant impeachment and removal from office. And no one knows that better than Trump. He is aware of what he&#8217;s done and what the consequences are. And that is why he &#8211; and the Cult of Deplorables he leads &#8211; have been scared into incoherence. It&#8217;s almost pathetic enough to feel sorry for them. Nah, not really.<\/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>This week just keeps getting worse for Donald Trump. First it was revealed that a whistleblower charged him with serious breaches of national security in a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Then he was forced to release the memo containing an account of that phone call that was disturbing and incriminating. And on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41878,"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_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":[1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[554,33,45,130,568,71,1256,25],"class_list":["post-42865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-karl-rove","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-rush-limbaugh","tag-sarah-huckabee-sanders","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-b9n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43211,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43211","url_meta":{"origin":42865,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Bosses Told Hannity and Other Trump-Fluffers Not to Identify Whistleblower","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/6\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The right-wing media machine has been chomping at the bit to expose the identity of the intelligence community whistleblower. 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