In the heat of the moment on Jan. 6, Donald Trump’s closest supporters spoke frankly: Congress was under attack by Trump’s die-hard fans, and the President alone had the power to call them off. They texted Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in a frenzy, pleading with him to have Trump address the nation and dismiss the rioters.
If you don’t bar Fox from press conferences going forward, you’re enabling this shit. Cut them off and make them cry about it. If you leave this to public opinion to fight the battle, you’ll lose. Stop treating them like a news organization. They are seen that way because both sides treat them that way. You have to fight them. Otherwise you’re just lending them credibility.
From today going forward everyone on her show must press her why her preferred “Leader of the Free World” needs assistance from tv talking heads to run the ship of state during a crisis.
Imagine Walter Winchell calling the White House after Pearl Harbor to instruct FDR to “DO something!”! Insanity!
I desperately want to agree with you, I do… but, I am possessed of a fear that there were plenty of people who knew that it was not some “communist agitator” who started the Reichstag fire back in the day, and, still, Herr Hitler and his lovely crew ended up taking over Germany, and “saving” it from the Communists. (Alas, and alack, it was only temporary respite… eventual Stalin’s talks rolled right into Berlin.) I mean that the only people who are going to be “entertained” were already well aware that FAUX News is a foreign Psy-Op against the United States, and the folks who are unaware of that, will remain utterly unaware.
i’m hoping all this will reach the people who can think and reason–amenable to persuasion–but don’t pay much attention to politics. As Colin Powell always said, optimism is a force multiplier…