{"id":7662,"date":"2012-07-24T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7662"},"modified":"2012-07-24T15:28:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T22:28:48","slug":"fox-and-friends-exploits-children-to-advance-their-gop-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7662","title":{"rendered":"Fox And Friends Exploits Children To Advance Their GOP Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on Fox And Friends, host Brian Kilmeade conducted an interview that demonstrated the lengths to which Fox will go to distort reality and pander to the ignorance of their audience. The segment featured two adorable girls, aged 7 and 4, who Kilmeade exploited in a most disturbing manner.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Caps\/foxnews-lemonade.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The subject of the interview was the sidewalk enterprise the girls had set up selling lemonade. But Kilmeade perverted that classic American endeavor into a political attack on President Obama. His creepy inquisition of the kids furthered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7632\" target=\"_blank\">the Fox-generated lie<\/a> that the President had insulted small business owners by recognizing correctly that they benefit from the collective contributions of society. And Kilmeade recruited these children to advance his dishonest political smear.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Kilmeade:<\/strong> These two girls built their lemonade business not only without government help, but without any help. [&#8230;] How do you feel about the president saying that you needed help to start this business?<br \/>\n<strong>Clara Sutton:<\/strong> I would say that&#8217;s rude because we worked very hard to build this business. But we did have help. Our help came from our investors, our dad and step-mom, along with other friends and family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When an alleged <em>&#8220;news&#8221;<\/em> network asks a 7 year old about the political implications of a presidential speech, you know they are either reaching in desperation for a new angle from which to attack a political foe, or they are conceding that their audience isn&#8217;t capable of understanding anything above the level of child.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, Clara&#8217;s answer affirmed that she required help to build her business, contradicting the premise of Kilmeade&#8217;s question. The only parties whom she credited were her family, but, as a 7 year old, she can be forgiven for having neglected to give credit to the government entities that provided the sidewalk where she located her business, the water she used in her product, the streets her customers used to drive to her stand, the safety provided by law enforcement, and the deduction she represented on her parents tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>Expecting a child to grasp the complexities of a political argument may be a little much to ask. That&#8217;s particularly true when the adult asking the question has deliberately lied in his presentation. No doubt the case being made by Fox was eagerly assimilated by their audience who probably can&#8217;t comprehend at a level much beyond that of young Clara, but the attempt to corral a child into a partisan debate is disgusting and exploitative. But what&#8217;s really sad is that it is not surprising that Fox News would sink to such despicable depths.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Added video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tWJMArk4D1c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on Fox And Friends, host Brian Kilmeade conducted an interview that demonstrated the lengths to which Fox will go to distort reality and pander to the ignorance of their audience. The segment featured two adorable girls, aged 7 and 4, who Kilmeade exploited in a most disturbing manner. The subject of the interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[870,33],"class_list":["post-7662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-brian-kilmeade","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1ZA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46699,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46699","url_meta":{"origin":7662,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Spins Ludicrous Comparison of 9\/11 to the Coronavirus","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/11\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"It's the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. 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