{"id":46377,"date":"2020-08-22T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46377"},"modified":"2020-08-22T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T21:48:10","slug":"wtf-bill-barr-told-rupert-murdoch-to-muzzle-a-fox-news-trump-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46377","title":{"rendered":"WTF? Bill Barr Told Rupert Murdoch to ‘Muzzle’ a Fox News Trump Critic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The creeping fascism of the Donald Trump regime continues to unfurl as the criminal accomplices in his cabinet carry out his nefarious agenda. Chief among them is Attorney Genuflect, Bill Barr, who doesn’t even bother anymore to disguise his desecration of the Justice Department into a pseudo-legal cabal that works solely as Trump’s personal defense team.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

A new book by CNN’s media correspondent, Brian Stelter, is set to be released next week, and excerpts are starting to make the rounds. “Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth<\/a><\/strong>“<\/em>, has already created quite a stir with revelations about how insiders at Fox News privately admit that they think Trump is “crazy,”<\/em><\/a><\/strong> even while they exalt him worshipfully on the air.<\/p>\n

The toxic, codependent relationship between Trump and Fox News has been the source of incalculable damage to American media and democracy. It is an unprecedented political\/press partnership that benefits both. Fox News gets an audience with cult-like devotion that they can brainwash with blatant scare tactics and the darkly unifying force of racism. While Trump gets an aggressive assault team to attack his critics and political opponents, and a constant defense for his unending stream of unsavory conduct and outright crimes. It’s a marriage whose foundation rests on lies and ignorance.<\/p>\n

Another excerpt from the book was just published by The Guardian<\/a><\/strong>. This one describes a meeting that took place last October between Barr and Fox News Overlord, Rupert Murdoch. News Corpse speculated<\/a><\/strong> at the time that the meeting resulted in the resignation of Fox host Shepard Smith, which was announced the next day. But Stelter’s book reports that there was another topic of discussion on their agenda:<\/p>\n

“The attorney general, William Barr, told Rupert Murdoch to ‘muzzle’ Andrew Napolitano, a prominent Fox News personality who became a critic of Donald Trump, according to a new book about the rightwing TV network. […] Trump ‘was so incensed by the judge\u2019s TV broadcasts that he had implored Barr to send Rupert a message in person … about \u2018muzzling the judge’. [Trump] wanted the nation\u2019s top law enforcement official to convey just how atrocious Napolitano\u2019s legal analysis had been.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just to be clear, intimidating and manipulating the media is not a part of the Attorney General’s job. In fact, it isn’t a part of any government official’s job. It is a totalitarian tactic to control speech and clampdown on the free press. And this sort of suppression of the constitutional rights of journalists is part and parcel of the Trump Doctrine that has designated the media in Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the people.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Napolitano, the Senior Legal Analyst at Fox News, has been known to criticize Trump. And for that heresy he was entirely excluded from Fox’s coverage of Trump’s impeachment<\/a><\/strong>. A few notable examples of his well-reasoned critiques include…<\/p>\n