{"id":49074,"date":"2021-04-15T11:46:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49074"},"modified":"2021-04-15T11:46:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T18:46:47","slug":"has-fox-news-blacklisted-the-sex-scandal-plagued-trump-toady-matt-gaetz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49074","title":{"rendered":"Has Fox News Blacklisted the Sex Scandal Plagued Trump Toady Matt Gaetz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The political prejudices of Fox News are getting tested by current events that put the right-wing <em>&#8220;news&#8221;<\/em> network in a decidedly uncomfortable position. It was revealed last month that Republican representative Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49017\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">under investigation by the Department of Justice<\/a><\/strong> for serious felonies including sex trafficking of a minor, prostitution, drug use, and financial corruption.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-gaetz.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Matt Gaetz\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49075\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a result of these charges, Fox News has had to adapt their ordinarily knee-jerk, pro-GOP editorial mission to keep from awkwardly aligning itself with the perversion and criminality for which Gaetz is accused. Never mind that Fox News didn&#8217;t have any trouble aligning itself with such criminality when it was committed by the serial sexual predator, Donald Trump. Gaetz isn&#8217;t Trump and doesn&#8217;t get the same measure of absolution from the Trump Ministry of Propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>On March 30, 2021, Gaetz was interviewed on Fox News by Tucker Carlson. The entire segment was provided as an opportunity for Gaetz to defend himself from the allegations against him. Fox&#8217;s participation in this self-serving dialogue is hardly unexpected considering the network&#8217;s affinity for Gaetz as one of Trump&#8217;s most zealous supporters among Republicans in Congress. But even at the conclusion of that interview, Carlson exclaimed that it was <em>&#8220;one of the weirdest interviews I&#8217;ve ever conducted.&#8221;<\/em> And it would be hard to disagree.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/emGePJeVfV\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1377058008874807300\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, that interview with Carlson was also the last time that Gaetz has appeared on Fox News, or even been the subject of any sympathetic stories. That was three weeks ago. This is the network that has shamelessly defended Derek Chauvin, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Capitol insurrectionists, the Confederate flag, QAnon, Alex Jones, and Vladimir Putin, to name a few. But they now appear to be reluctant to defend Gaetz. That says something about the depth of the muck that Gaetz is wallowing in.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz&#8217;s GOP colleagues in Congress are equally afraid to be associated with him. Only a couple of his closest friends in the House &#8211; Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Greene &#8211; have bothered to stick up for him. Even Trump offered tepid support. It remains to be seen if the Fox News blackout will continue for any length of time. But the fact that they have snubbed him in this, his hour of need, is a significant rejection that has to hurt. Especially when everyone else that would be considered an ally has been running for the hills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter recently suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/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 political prejudices of Fox News are getting tested by current events that put the right-wing &#8220;news&#8221; network in a decidedly uncomfortable position. It was revealed last month that Republican representative Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) is under investigation by the Department of Justice for serious felonies including sex trafficking of a minor, prostitution, drug use, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49075,"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":[1,684,1200,13],"tags":[33,1418,25],"class_list":["post-49074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-scandalous","tag-fox-news","tag-matt-gaetz","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-gaetz.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-cLw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50806,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50806","url_meta":{"origin":49074,"position":0},"title":"Matt Gaetz Embraces Tucker Carlson&#8217;s Vulgar and Racist &#8216;Great Replacement Theory&#8217; Rant","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/27\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida's QAnon supporting, alleged sex trafficking congressman, Matt Gaetz, seems more determined than ever to dig himself deeper into a pit of scandal with his every public utterance. 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