Another Fox News personality is pushing back against President Trump’s complaints about the network’s coverage.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1245653
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1245653
Donnie is isolating himself even from his allies and he will soon become “The Man Without a Country.” We can hope so, anyway…
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Aren’t these stories about Fox hosts ripping Trump really smokescreens? They criticize him, but almost all of the coverage parrots the White House line. (I admit that I am commenting based on what I hear–I don’t watch Fix Schmooze. Ever. Not ever.)
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Cannibalism has really gotten a bad rap.
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Fox is starting to sound like The Gorilla Fight Network. Who doesn’t love the sound of gorillas fighting in the morning?
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(Whistles to self cheerfully) 
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There are still some dozen or more islands off of Alaska that we could banish him to, some of them he can see Russia from if he squints.
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If they had any respect for the classics, they’d just exclaim, “I’ve created a monster!”
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When you’ve lost Neil “Bucket Head” Cavuto you’re in trouble. Lou Dobbs would be the death knell.
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This little dance between Fox and Trump is being choreographed nicely. I have to imagine numerous e-mails and phones calls are exchanged daily to keep everyone in step with each other.
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Call balls and strikes.
Time for a panel discussion of the well known phenomena of the variable strike zone. Chief Justice Roberts can be the moderator.
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Whistling past the graveyard??
I used to be with a financial advisor. Cavuto was probably the only guy he respected on FN. I like his diatribe against Trump. Clear, concise, didn’t mince words or dance around.
Calling balls and strikes. You betcha. Good job, Neil.
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Balls and Strikes. Fair and Balanced. 
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Everything he said had to be cleared with the White House. Don’t kid yourself otherwise. It’s all a ruse.
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I doubt it. I think the entire organization would be genuinely pissed that Trump would be saying, in his crude, stupid way, that they are and must be partisans for him. Their foundational myth is that they and they alone are the “fair and balanced ones,” as opposed to the hopelessly biased MSM. If Trump pulls the curtain back it exposes them as decades-long liars. Last thing they want. Trump’s a loose cannon is all and if you hang around long enough he’ll crush all the bones in your foot.
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So Trump attacks Fox News and the Fox folks are fighting back? Yet rhey were deafeingly silent when the attacks were brought against every other news netowr and reporter. Their current arguments are just hollow grandstanding.
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Fox News analysts reminded Trump on Twitter that he’s not their employer
Indeed. If anything it’s the other way around. That is, whenever the Quisling of Queens isn’t busy fulfilling Vlad the Inserter’s latest orders.
As an aside, I watched a delightful interview with John Cleese (please, folks, it’s pronounced “cleeze”) last night. When asked if there was anything he still wanted to do in life, Cleese thought for a moment and then, with a look of sheer joy on his face, replied: “Oh, yes! I want to strangle Rupert Murdoch with my bare hands.”
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And then there is this Cleese Classic on the nobility of Fox:
Ode to Sean Hannity
by John Cleese
Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity
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Will Hannity, Dobbs, Carlson, Pirro, and Ingraham all move to Sinclair or One America?
Trump’s true ‘fans,’ as he calls them, will watch whatever he tells them to watch. And if there’s deferred, or current, compensation in it for Trump, he’ll switch to a more reliably loyal outlet.
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