Friday Fox Follies – The Donald Trump Non-Apology Tour

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Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:03 pm

As this week’s column is being compiled, Fox “News” is rushing to embrace Donald Trump’s non-apology as Powerful Proof of a Presidential Pivot (4P). Then Putin Manafort quit Telepromter Trump, but With Trump-Breitbart Alliance, The Right-Wing Media’s Civil War Just Got A Whole Lot Worse.

Those fractures first identified by Friday Fox Follies in Defending the Indefensible. LONG STORY SHORT: The Five‘s Dana Perino slapped Eric Bolling as an unrepentant Trumpeteer. Their respective fans immediately chose sides. What happened this week won’t mollify either camp:

Trump Supporter Eric Bolling Can’t Be Bothered
With Silly Things Like Your Accurate Polling Data

Dana Perino Shuts Down Poll-Truther
Fox News Host: You’re Lying To Them!

LATEST FAN FLASHPOINT:

It’s not the only laughable thing Bolling said this week:

Fox hosts battle each other over Trump’s tax
returns — ‘If it was Clinton, you’d demand them’

READING RAINBOW: FFF provides these links for your reading pleasure and to prove Fox News Lies. However, if reading’s not your thing, watch this cute video from Media Matters:

How Right-Wing Lies Become Mainstream News:

SHALLOW WATTERS: Leave it to Jesse Watters to say the most disgusting thing on Fox “News” this week.

Fox’s Jesse Watters Says Terrorist Attack
in October Would Be Good for Trump

Watch Watters engage in play acting as the smarmy little punk pretends he wasn’t trolling Juan Williams.

“If there’s one more terror attack, maybe in October, this is gonna make Trump’s plan look a lot more appealing,” Watters said.

Co-host Juan Williams retorted, “Oh my god, what wishful thinking. Anti-American! That’s unbelievable!”

“Why would you say that that’s what I’m thinking? How dare you?”

“Well, why? What did you say?”

“How dare you?” Watters repeated, claiming that he had been engaging in a bit of “political analysis.”

“Oh that’s what it was. I see,” Williams said. “I thought it was desperation.”

The O’Reilly wannabe won’t even stand behind the words he whined a second after he whined them.

HILARIOUS HANNITY HYPOCRISY: How much hypocrisy? Check out Hannity Praises Trump For Using A Teleprompter After Years Of Demonizing Obama For Using Them. Meanwhile, Hannity’s Shameless Trump Town Hall Includes Lies That Trump Opposed Iraq And Opposed Troop Withdrawal as The Continuing Conservative Media Civil War Zeroes In On Sean Hannity.

For good reason Sean Hannity has been a FFF target of late, while Sean Hannity’s Week From Hell got worse. He’s singled out in The True Enemies of Press Freedom Have Arrived, and Neither is Named ‘Obama’. Headlines like Hannity v. The World: Here Are The People Sean Hannity Has Attacked To Defend Trump (So Far) will stick.

How much worse can it get? CNN’s Brian Stelter Blasts Hannity For Being ‘Not Interested In The Truth’ About Hillary Clinton’s Health, which leads to Got Irony? Hannity Attacks CNN’s ‘Pipsqueak’ Stelter For ‘Literally’ Kissing Clinton’s And Obama’s ‘Ass Every Day’.

And, by the way, it’s not just Stelter and the so-called “liberal media” who think Hannity has jumped the shark with his unwavering devotion to Trump. As Media Matters reported, Hannity “is battling other conservative media figures over his unapologetic and unconditional defense of the candidate, with those media figures now calling his shilling for Trump ‘slavish’ and ‘disgraceful.’”

Then this happened:

Newsweek Columnist To Hannity: F*** You

By any standards it was a bad week for Hannity, who has no standards.

RACE RELATIONS: AKA White Privilege On Tee Vee:

Bill O’Reilly Lectures African
Americans For Not Voting Republican

Fox’s O’Reilly gets slapped down hard for
‘whitesplaining’ why blacks should vote for Trump

O’Reilly Complains African-Americans Won’t
Support Trump No Matter What He Does

Fox Panel Blames “Unmarried Women” And
Lack Of Fathers For Unrest In Milwaukee

FOX & FRIENDS’ FONE FRIEND: The relationship between the Curvy Couch and their Orange Crush goes back many years. It’s where he teased his Birther investigation. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that Fox’s Steve Doocy [says]: “So If The Election Were Held Today, According To The Zip App, Donald Trump Would Win” and why the All-white Fox panel [claims]: Speech to all-white Wisconsin crowd shows Trump is ‘not ignoring’ black voters:

On Tuesday, Trump traveled to West Bend, Wisconsin — which is 95 percent white — to ask “for the vote for every African-American citizen struggling in our society today who wants a different and much better future.”

Trump campaign adviser Rudy Giuliani joined three white Fox News hosts — Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade — on Wednesday to praise Trump’s African-American outreach.

“Consider how dangerous that was,” Giuliani opined. “Going into Milwaukee in the middle of the riots and talking about law and order. But also talking about what needs to be done to help minority communities, African-American communities, poor communities to come out of the situation that they’re in. No one has offered answers like that together.”

Teleprompter Trump: More dangerous than TNT.

IRONY ALERT: Bill O’Reilly Discusses Collapse of American Media, while not acknowledging he led the way as a biased, right wing, Cultural Warrior.

It’s no secret that Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly [is]: Trump’s very best enabler. That’s why O’Reilly [claims]: ‘The Anti-Trump Press’ Is Using Saul Alinsky Tactics to Take Him Down and the reason why O’Reilly Asks Dana Perino If She’s Showing Anti-Trump Bias Because She Believes in Polls.

The Falafel King also beclowned himself with:

Bill O’Reilly Likens George Soros To David Duke

Bill O’Reilly Hosts Segment On Polling Bias,
Learns Polls Wrongly Favored Romney In 2012

O’Reilly’s Proof That Voter Fraud Exists Was
Debunked On His Own Show Four Years Ago

INSIDE THE FOX BOARD ROOM: No surprise that In Nearly Six Weeks, Fox News Has Covered the Roger Ailes Developments… For 11 Minutes. In one way Fox News Turmoil Recalls News Corp. Phone Hacking Scandal, after we learned Secrecy of Settlements at Fox News Hid Bad Behavior.

Now serial abuser Roger Ailes Is Advising Donald Trump Ahead of Presidential Debates, repeating the role he played for Richard Nixon.

This comes after Fox News confronts (but just barely) a scandal in its own house. While Fox News Names 2 Insiders to Top Posts, others wonder how it helps when Fox News Promotes Executive Who Reportedly “Played An Integral Role” In Covering Up Sexual Harassments Claims. Even Vanity Fair’s Sarah Ellison [notes]: Fox Leaving In Charge “People Who Were Doing Exactly What It Was That Ailes Asked Them To Do”.

Subsequently, 2 More Fox News Execs Leave Network while Fox Ditches Ailes’ ‘Black Room’ Private Investigator Bo Dietl – And He’s Threatening To Sue Reporter Gabriel Sherman.

Let the legal games begin!

CREDIT WHERE CREDIT’S DUE: Every once in a while a blind squirrel finds a nut. This week’s ~~nut~~ ~~squirrel~~ truth-teller is Greg Gutfeld.

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