{"id":56465,"date":"2023-03-05T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56465"},"modified":"2023-03-05T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:23:29","slug":"trump-pitches-perverse-proposal-to-give-pulitzer-prizes-to-the-loud-boys-only-of-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56465","title":{"rendered":"Trump Pitches Perverse Proposal to Give Pulitzer Prizes to the Loud Boys (Only) of Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s speech at the <em>&#8220;Conference for the Party of Ass Clowns&#8221;<\/em> (CPAC) on Saturday was everything that a glassy-eyed Trump cult follower could have wanted. He touched on all of his greatest fits from his <em>&#8220;Big Lie&#8221;<\/em> that the 2024 election was <em>&#8220;stollen&#8221;<\/em> (his spelling) from him, to the unfinished vanity wall on the southern border, to the wind turbine bird holocaust.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump Pitches Perverse Proposal to Give Pulitzer Prizes to the Loud Boys (Only) of Fox News%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56465\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-news-channel.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Fox News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34118\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Along with his standard lies, self-exaltation, and infantile insults, Trump reiterated his nightmarish narrative of a dystopian future marked by world war, rampant crime and drug addiction, communist oppression, and invasions by <em>&#8220;thugs, Marxist radicals, and dangerous refugees,&#8221;<\/em> from <em>&#8220;shithole&#8221;<\/em> countries. It was reminiscent of his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=33644\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brutally bleak 2016 <em>\u201cAmerican Carnage\u201d<\/em> inaugural address<\/a><\/strong>, and his more recent <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55439\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">apocalyptic announcement for the 2024 GOP nomination for president<\/a><\/strong>. It was everything that Trump promised it would be in his preview prior to Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56444\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Teases His Uplifting CPAC Speech Celebrating \u2018The Fact That Our Country is Going to HELL\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among the most malodorous moments of his malevolent monologue was the part where he whined about the Pulitzer prizes awarded to the Washington Post and the New York Times for their accurate reporting on his unsavory associations with Russia. Trump raged that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to get the Pulitzer Prize taken away. They got Pulitzer prizes. We&#8217;re suing. You know what the prize says? &#8216;For its concise and accurate reporting on the Russia, Russia, Russia event&#8230;&#8217; And they have it actually totally wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Actually, Mark Levin should get a prize. And Gregg Jarrett should get a prize. And even it&#8217;s not his deal, Sean Hannity should get a prize. And frankly Jesse should get a prize. And you know who should get a prize? Tucker should get a prize.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump at CPAC whines that he&#39;s trying to get the Pulitzer Board to revoke awards they gave to the Washington Post and the New York Times, and give awards instead to Fox News hacks Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, Tucker Carlson, Mark Levin, and Gregg Jarrett.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iggjPGJWjj\">pic.twitter.com\/iggjPGJWjj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1632327029990522887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump has been <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53843\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yammering about this for almost a year<\/a><\/strong>. However, in December he did indeed file an utterly impotent and frivolous lawsuit against the Pulitzer board demanding that they revoke the awards they gave to WaPo and the Times. The Board responded with a statement that said essentially, <em>&#8220;No friggin&#8217; way!&#8221;<\/em> They noted that they had conducted an independent review after receiving Trump&#8217;s complaint and that the review found that <em>\u201cno passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55718\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Sues the Pulitzer Prize Board for Honoring Accurate Stories of His Russian Collusion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As if Trump&#8217;s comical commandment for revocation of the awards wasn&#8217;t sufficiently humiliating, his nominees for who should get the awards instead included Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, Tucker Carlson, Mark Levin, and Gregg Jarrett. Never mind that these hacks were just exposed as flagrant liars and promulgators of pure propaganda. Their rancid partisanship, ethical vacancy, and rank dishonesty was revealed in their own words in documents produced in the billion dollar defamation lawsuit against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56363\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In Dominion v Fox News, Network Cries \u2018We Can\u2019t Make People Think We\u2019ve Turned Against Trump\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also notable in Trump&#8217;s praise of his Fox News fluffers was that it included only the alleged men on the network. Apparently Trump doesn&#8217;t think that Laura Ingraham, Maria Bartiromo, or Jeanine Pirro, are deserving of Pulitzer prizes, despite their equally sycophantic subservience to Trump. That&#8217;s not especially noteworthy considering his long history of misogyny and abusive treatment of women.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Trump&#8217;s puerile perspective will not travel far. CPAC is suffering from <em>&#8220;Trump Fatigue Syndrome.&#8221;<\/em> Attendance is way down, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/cpac-starts-today-trump-kari-lake-desantis-missing-rcna72895\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">many conference regulars of the past are skipping the affair this year<\/a><\/strong>. Those that showed up are especially fringy and unabashedly Trumpian (i.e. Donald Trump Jr, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ronny Jackson, Jim Jordan, and the MyPillow Guy, Mike Lindell).<\/p>\n<p>For a taste of Trump&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Cult address, see <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1632143206392516609\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this Twitter thread<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/newsie.social\/@NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mastodon<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s speech at the &#8220;Conference for the Party of Ass Clowns&#8221; (CPAC) on Saturday was everything that a glassy-eyed Trump cult follower could have wanted. He touched on all of his greatest fits from his &#8220;Big Lie&#8221; that the 2024 election was &#8220;stollen&#8221; (his spelling) from him, to the unfinished vanity wall on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34118,"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":[1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[725,554,33,750,129,25],"class_list":["post-56465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-cpac","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-pulitzer","tag-sean-hannity","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-news-channel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-eGJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48641,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48641","url_meta":{"origin":56465,"position":0},"title":"Trump-Fluffing CPAC Cancels Fox News Despite Its &#8216;America Uncanceled&#8217; Theme","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/27\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is underway in Orlando, Florida with a familiar assembly of asininnies on parade. 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