{"id":51037,"date":"2021-10-23T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T17:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51037"},"modified":"2021-10-23T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T17:36:33","slug":"chris-wallace-of-fox-news-praises-jen-psaki-slams-peter-doocy-and-snubs-trump-shills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51037","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wallace of Fox News Praises Jen Psaki, Slams Peter Doocy, and Snubs Trump Shills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and then, someone on Fox News does or says something that demands extra attention. Unfortunately it&#8217;s usually something stupid, insulting, dishonest, and\/or dangerous. After all, it is America&#8217;s most <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50197\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fervently pro-COVID <em>&#8220;news&#8221;<\/em> network<\/a><\/strong> with a roster of Trump-fluffing propagandists who exist to find fault with Democrats generally and President Biden in particular.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-psaki-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Jen Psaki\" width=\"550\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49003\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday evening, though, there was a noticeable crack in the wall of wingnuttery that protects Fox&#8217;s viewers from rational thought. Chris Wallace, the long time host of Fox News Sunday, appeared on the network&#8217;s <em>America Reports<\/em> and provided some unexpected commentary on the the White House press community. Wallace told his Fox News colleagues that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Peter Doocy is the Sam Donaldson of this White House press corps. And since I was working the press corps when Sam Donaldson was there, that&#8217;s a very grudging compliment on my part. And Jen Psaki is one of the best press secretaries ever.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chris Wallace: &quot;Jen Psaki is one of the best press secretaries ever&quot;<\/p>\n<p>TURN OFF FOX NEWS. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QJIqSvGYfY\">pic.twitter.com\/QJIqSvGYfY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACTBrigitte\/status\/1451622203703824385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That is about as direct a criticism of Doocy as will ever appear on Fox News. Wallace&#8217;s description of his <em>&#8220;compliment&#8221;<\/em> as <em>&#8220;very grudging&#8221;<\/em> is an acknowledgement that it isn&#8217;t really intended to be complimentary at all. And there is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?s=%22peter+doocy%22\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ample evidence of Doocy&#8217;s blatant bias and shameless incompetence<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the part of Wallace&#8217;s remarks that will reverberate around the rightosphere is his unqualified praise for Jen Psaki as <em>&#8220;one of the best press secretaries ever.&#8221;<\/em> It was, of course, a well deserved tribute to an intelligent, informative professional, who does her job with insight, compassion, and even humor. But it surely won&#8217;t go down well with Donald Trump&#8217;s cult followers who, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48037\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">along with Trump are already wary of Fox News<\/a><\/strong>, which they delusionally regard as part of the radical anti-Trump cabal.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, more to Wallace&#8217;s put down than meets the eye. By singling out Psaki for acclaim, he is giving the back of his hand to Trump&#8217;s press office cronies, some of whom are his comrades at Fox News. To begin with, for some reason, former Trump press secretary Sean Spicer retweeted Wallace&#8217;s remarks. Spicer, who is now a hosting a program on Newsmax, distinguished himself by lying on his very first day as press secretary. And his lies were to placate Trump&#8217;s ego by falsely asserting that his inauguration crowds were the biggest ever (they weren&#8217;t even close).<\/p>\n<p>Spicer was followed to the podium by Sarah Sanders, who is now a Republican candidate for governor of Arkansas. Then came Stephanie Grisham, who now says she is <em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50860\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">terrified of [Trump] running for president in 2024<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em> She was succeeded by Kayleigh McEnany, who is now co-hosting <em>Outnumbered<\/em> on Fox News. And McEnany isn&#8217;t the only former GOP press secretary affiliated with Fox. Dana Perino is now a co-host of <em>The Five<\/em>. And the late Tony Snow preceded Wallace on Fox News Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>So by recognizing Psaki&#8217;s excellence, Wallace is simultaneously snubbing her GOP counterparts who have gone on to populate Fox&#8217;s schedule and pursue careers in Republican politics and press. For this Wallace will be maligned as a traitor, and a <em>&#8220;libtard,&#8221;<\/em> and a leftist plant who should be fired (i.e. <em>&#8220;canceled&#8221;<\/em>). But he deserves some respect for having the courage to tell the truth about Psaki, a distinguished public servant, and for doing it on Fox&#8217;s air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter 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>Every now and then, someone on Fox News does or says something that demands extra attention. Unfortunately it&#8217;s usually something stupid, insulting, dishonest, and\/or dangerous. After all, it is America&#8217;s most fervently pro-COVID &#8220;news&#8221; network with a roster of Trump-fluffing propagandists who exist to find fault with Democrats generally and President Biden in particular. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49003,"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],"tags":[116,554,33,1410,1075],"class_list":["post-51037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","tag-chris-wallace","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-jen-psaki","tag-peter-doocy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-psaki-logo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dhb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51507,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51507","url_meta":{"origin":51037,"position":0},"title":"Did Chris Wallace Ditch Fox News Because of Tucker Carlson and Other Extremist Dirtbags?","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/12\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"At the end of this week's episode of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace announced that this broadcast would be his last. 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