{"id":44968,"date":"2020-04-23T13:53:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44968"},"modified":"2020-04-23T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T21:16:09","slug":"reality-tv-host-trump-appoints-another-fox-news-regular-to-a-high-profile-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44968","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV Host Trump Appoints Another Fox News Regular to a High Profile Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gross negligence and incompetence of Donald Trump has been painfully evident in his tragic mishandling of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis. This intrusion of his ignorance and ego (observable at his daily Coronavirus Task Force briefings that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44922\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">make even his allies cringe<\/a><\/strong>) could not have resulted in anything but tragedy and loss.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-whitehouse-foxnews.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Fox News, White House\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41698\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3482997088381728\" 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>Just as responsible for his personal failings is his reliance on a coterie of imbeciles and bootlickers, many recruited from his State TV propaganda operation, aka Fox News. On Thursday morning it was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/04\/23\/fox-anthony-tata-pentagon-203536\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a><\/strong> that yet another Fox News talking head has been elevated to a critical post in the Trump administration. Former general Anthony Tata has been a Fox News contributor for several years. His appearances are predictably slathered in adulation of Trump and blind loyalty to Trumpism. That&#8217;s been a sure-fire method of attaining employment in the administration of our reality TV game show host <em>&#8220;president.&#8221;<\/em> Politico reports that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Anthony Tata, a retired Army brigadier general, novelist and Fox News regular, will be tapped as the next Pentagon policy chief, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If confirmed by the Senate, Tata would replace John Rood, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/02\/19\/pentagon-policy-chief-step-down-115951\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">forced out<\/a> in February as part of President Donald Trump\u2019s loyalty purge after two years in the job.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s embrace of Fox News is an unprecedented merger of media and government. He routinely seeks the advice of Fox anchors who are bursting with shallow opinions, but have no relevant skills. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44953\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Hannity is Trump&#8217;s virtual chief of staff<\/a><\/strong>, despite lacking either education or experience. And the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/19-people-who-have-worked-at-fox-news-trump-administration-2019-5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News\/White House revolving door<\/a><\/strong> has seen at least 21 people spinning through its portal. They include&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior advisor Hope Hicks<\/li>\n<li>Former Fox president Bill Shine<\/li>\n<li>State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert<\/li>\n<li>Former Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka<\/li>\n<li>Former National Security Advisor John Bolton<\/li>\n<li>White House director of strategic communications Mercedes Schlapp<\/li>\n<li>Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson<\/li>\n<li>Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell<\/li>\n<li>Deputy National Security Advisor K. T. McFarland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the sort of politicization of critical government roles that insures catastrophe. The White House utterly lacks any assembly of knowledge, experience, or historical memory. Consequently it suffers from a tunnel blind sameness of perspective that is wholly obedient to the Dear Leader responsible for doling out privilege and access to power.<\/p>\n<p>As a recent example of this abysmal absence of leadership and devotion to unflinching personal loyalty, the Trump administration <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2020\/04\/22\/842013672\/federal-doctor-says-he-was-removed-for-resisting-unproven-coronavirus-treatments\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">dismissed Dr. Richard Bright<\/a><\/strong>, the leading expert on viruses and vaccines at the Department of Health and Human Services. Bright subsequently spoke out about his <em>&#8220;demotion&#8221;<\/em> noting that, because he <em>&#8220;resisted efforts to fund potentially dangerous drugs (i.e. hydroxychloroquine) promoted by those with political connections,&#8221;<\/em> the administration retaliated against him with a punitive transfer. As it turns out, that drug, that was hyped repeatedly and recklessly by Trump and Fox News actually <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/a5077c7227b8eb8b0dc23423c0bbe2b2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">contributed to more deaths<\/a><\/strong> among a trial group of coronavirus patients, than those who did not receive it.<\/p>\n<p>These efforts by Trump to pack his White House with ultra-partisan right-wingers that he finds at Fox News can only only lead to ever more incidents of bad judgment and potentially deadly mistakes, whether by misguided intent or flagrant ignorance. This is particularly dangerous during a time when the nation is engulfed in a pandemic that requires leadership driven by science, not politics. Unfortunately, Trump is incapable of governing that way. So we can expect to see more turmoil, suffering, and disastrous blunders until he is booted out of office. November cannot come too soon.<\/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>The gross negligence and incompetence of Donald Trump has been painfully evident in his tragic mishandling of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis. This intrusion of his ignorance and ego (observable at his daily Coronavirus Task Force briefings that make even his allies cringe) could not have resulted in anything but tragedy and loss. Just as responsible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1,684,1200,8],"tags":[554,33],"class_list":["post-44968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-whitehouse-foxnews.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bHi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44856,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44856","url_meta":{"origin":44968,"position":0},"title":"COVID-1? 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