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#EndorseThis: Fox Host Cavuto Shaken By Trump’s Nuclear Tweeting

#EndorseThis: Fox Host Cavuto Shaken By Trump’s Nuclear Tweeting

At Fox Business Channel, the dominant attitude toward Donald Trump is bullish and often slavish –but the president-elect’s latest crazy tweet on the supposed need to “expand” the U.S. nuclear arsenal seems to frighten even the Fox gang — or at least Neal Cavuto.

“I’m thinking this out,” Cavuto told his fellow anchor Stuart Varney, one of the billionaire’s most obsequious fans. “Let’s say we get to Dow 20,000, so we’re all richer for it. But Donald Trump also promises more nukes, so we’re all blown up just as we’re counting our money.”

Although Cavuto looks worried he may have been joking, but his remarks certainly irritated Varney. “What? Have you become some kind of leftist all of a sudden?” In Varney’s mind, only leftists are apprehensive about a renewed nuclear arms race and the inherent danger of atomic holocaust.

Cavuto is no liberal, of course, let alone a “leftist.” His sudden expression of fear suggests that the enormity of electing a clueless clown like Trump to the presidency is beginning to dawn on him. Too late, Neal.

(h/t Raw Story)

#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Sifts Truth From Lies In Trump’s Carrier Rescue

#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Sifts Truth From Lies In Trump’s Carrier Rescue

Donald Trump’s approval rating shot up in the wake of the deal that he and Mike Pence made with Carrier Corp. to keep jobs from moving jobs at an Indianapolis furnace factory from moving to Mexico. Media coverage repeated Trump’s claim that he and Pence, still governor of Indiana, had saved more than 1,000 jobs.

But when Seth Meyers took “a closer look” at the Carrier story — from the first commitment made by Trump on the campaign trail to the deal itself — he found the president-elect was “lying his ass off,” as a labor leader at the furnace plant put it.

Meyers also helpfully explores the hypocrisy of right-wing media figures, from Stuart Varney and Sean Hannity of Fox News to Rush Limbaugh, who shrieked about the dreaded “socialism” of President Obama’s auto bailout (which actually saved a million-plus jobs) – but praised Trump and Pence for their $7 million state payoff to Carrier. And he demonstrates what happens when Trump “lies his ass off,” which isn’t exactly unusual.

If you prefer truth, it’s still available on Late Night.

Endorse This: Fox Host Varney Says Plane Crash ‘Good Politically For Donald Trump’

Endorse This: Fox Host Varney Says Plane Crash ‘Good Politically For Donald Trump’

EgyptAir Flight 804 dropped out of the sky early Thursday morning somewhere over the Mediterranean Sea.

And you know what that means: A little later Thursday morning somewhere over Midtown, New York, Fox News personalities speculated about how the deaths of 66 people confirmed the grim worldview of a man their network has all but endorsed for the presidency.

“I also think this may be good, politically, for Donald Trump,” Stuart Varney guessed. “He’s already tweeted out saying ‘This is probably terrorism,’ I believe that’s the nature of his tweet.”

In fact, Donald Trump did tweet — before any official sources said anything about terrorism — that the plane was the victim of a terrorist attack.

“He’s the guy who’s saying ‘Hands off, keep Muslims out temporarily, whilst we figure out who comes in.’ An incident of this type is surely a plus for Donald Trump,” Varney said.

Hours after Fox & Friends was taped, it was still a wild assumption that the crash had anything to do with Islam.

Here’s a good example of how Fox News has learned to hide behind covering the “process” of this election, instead of the substance of it.

Donald “All-I-Know-Is-What-Is-On-The-Internet” Trump’s tweet is, obviously, ridiculous. He casually mentions that the plane crash “looks like” terrorism, despite any evidence from anyone, and then uses that claim to back up his fundamentally brutish worldview: The world is a terrifying place, and your only hope is to elect me.

But Stuart Varney — also without any evidence at the time — validated Trump’s baseless statement. By asserting that the crash proves Trump right, without offering any comment on how Trump was wildly and irresponsibly speculating about a world event he had no actual intelligence on, Varney lends his authority as a supposed newscaster to a statement that was otherwise not only not true (at the time), but also blatantly anti-factual in its lack of any evidence.

Could the crash have been terrorism? Maybe. We still don’t know.

But should evidence of terrorism become clear, the point stands: Varney’s use of a national platform to paraphrase Trump’s blatantly self-interested counter-factual is the opposite of journalism, it’s campaigning.


Photo and video: Media Matters/ Fox News. 

Endorse This: Fox Pundit Calls Obama ‘A Total P*ssy’ On Live TV

Endorse This: Fox Pundit Calls Obama ‘A Total P*ssy’ On Live TV

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So it turns out you actually can go overboard at bashing President Obama on a Fox News media outlet.

During an appearance Monday morning on the Fox Business Channel, military analyst Ralph Peters lambasted the president’s handling of ISIS by using an obscenity live on the air — calling the Commander-in-Chief a “pussy.”

We should point out that Fox Business has not posted this particular video segment to their site. Hmm — perhaps there’s a vulgar word for that kind of craven shame and cowardice?

But you can click above to watch!

“This guy is such a total pussy, it’s stunning,” Peters declared. “We the people — the American people — who he does not know in any intimate sort of manner — we want action. We want action against the Islamic state.”

Peters also made this remarkable statement: “This is a president who has done more harm to American police departments, than he has done to Islamic State.” Wait a second — has Obama assembled a multinational coalition to fly literally thousands of airstrikes against police departments — as he’s actually done with ISIS?

Anchorman Stuart Varney worked to extract an apology from Peters: “You used some very strong language there about the president of the United States. And I’m the anchor of Varney & Co. — and I have to ask you, either you should apologize for that or take it back.”

Peters indeed apologized, as asked of him — though not really.

“I am angry — I do apologize for giving in to my anger,” he answered. “But I’m — I feel like, you know, the American people understand where I’m coming from on this. My choice of words was incorrect — but my sentiment, I think, is shared by many.”

Video via YouHotNews.

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