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During a Tuesday, January 28 broadcast on CNN, Jim Acosta announced that he was leaving the cable news network — where he had worked since 2007. Acosta and CNN were in disagreement over the timeslot for his show "CNN Newsroom," and the reporter opted to leave CNN after 18 years.
President Donald Trump was quick to attack Acosta after the announcement.
On his Truth Social platform, Trump posted, "Wow, really good news! Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, a major sleazebag, has been relegated by CNN Fake News to the Midnight hour, 'Death Valley,' because of extraordinarily LOW RATINGS (and no talent!)."
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Trump is angry with former Fox News host Neil Cavuto as well. But another ex-Fox News host, Bill O'Reilly, described Trump's attacks on Acosta and Cavuto as pointless on his podcast "No Spin News."
O'Reilly has been a frequent defender of Trump and critic of what he considers liberal bias in the mainstream media, but he argued that "dancing on the graves" of media figures serves no useful purpose.
The former Fox News host told listeners, "He's not a reporter, he's a commentator, Acosta. And if you hate somebody, then you shouldn't even mention them, right? Because you can't comment in a fair way on someone you hate. Does that make sense to everybody?"
O'Reilly continued, "That's the big problem here. If you hate them — and there are a few people that I despise, but I tell you up front that I do."
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The Daily Beast's Nandika Chatterjee notes, "Cavuto, who served as a Fox News anchor until his ouster in December of last year, is reported to have left out of his own volition despite being offered a new contract. Acosta, on the other hand, was seemingly already on his way out after CNN, where he served as an anchor, recently announced specific strategy shifts and changes to its weekday schedule. With unstable ground to stand on, he announced his departure from the network after tearing into Trump in his final on-air message."
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August 8, 2024, edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto
NEIL CAVUTO (HOST): So, you might have heard the former president referring to what's going on right now as "a hurtle towards a depression." Well, if that's the case, the markets have a funny way of showing it, at least today with the S&P 500 putting in its best single day performance we've seen in a couple years. The DOW tracking its biggest gain of the year, but again, there are volatile market conditions.
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Fox News' Neil Cavuto blames Donald Trump for the failure of border bill | Media Matters for America
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NEIL CAVUTO (HOST): You know, we look at prices right now and Jeff outlined a lot of those that are soaring and expected to continue soaring. Did you hear anything out of the President today that gives you a hint that might stop?
BRIAN BRENBERG (GUEST): Absolutely not. He's talking about more wind off the Gulf Coast and cooling centers and that's going to solve the problem that Jeff so rightly pointed out. This is a non-solution program by the President.And more and more it simply looks like they don't want a solution.
Pete Buttigieg made that pretty clear yesterday. His point is the worse this gets, the more likely the President's green agenda goes through. They want everybody in a electric car and if that means you have to boil this summer, I guess that's what you have to do. He's standing in front of an empty lot in this speech today, Neil.
I think most of America wishes the coal plant was still there because then we'd be able to bring down these electricity prices and more people could be in a cool environment and be safer. Europe is showing us the wrong path. And I'm sorry to say, Neil, it looks like we're following straight down that path right now.
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Brian Brenberg
FOX News Contributor
Brian Brenberg serves as a contributor on FOX News Channel (FNC) and FOX Business Network (FBN). He joined the network in 2020. Read More
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Biden's biggest economic liability is his credibility
Americans say the economy is broken and they don't think the president’s massive spending bill will fix it. But the deeper problem for the president—and his party—is that his mishandling of the economy is calling into question his competence and honesty.
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Brian Brenberg: New York City schools need to reopen, take it from a homeschooling parent
New York City's Blasio’s decision to close city schools again this week shows a shocking ignorance of the hardships he’s piling onto the families he was elected to serve.
Brian Brenberg: Record GDP number proves to voters that Trump is president of growth
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Thursday’s record GDP number comes at a critical moment in the 2020 election’s most critical states.
Brian Brenberg: Democrats are using coronavirus stimulus as opportunity to push their big-government agenda
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The pandemic presented a need for temporary government help, not an invitation to re-brand progressive economics as crisis relief.
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Economic empowerment is essential to tackling racial disparities. But economic opportunity requires the peace and security that effective law enforcement provides.
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Businesses need protection in order to reopen their doors, rehire employees and lead America into economic recovery.
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The road through and beyond coronavirus is going to be long. The only way we can persevere as a nation is by honestly recognizing and wisely addressing the full set of challenges Americans are facing.
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Targeted relief to individuals and businesses most affected by coronavirus could help prevent a temporary economic slowdown from becoming something worse.
Brian Brenberg: Iran fears sanctions more than bullets -- Economic pain is our most potent weapons
OPINION January 11, 2020
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Economic sanctions remain the most effective tactic to bring Iran back to the negotiating table in a weakened position and advance a safer, denuclearized world.
Brian Brenberg: Trump needs trade deal success to take focus off impeachment
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Growing frustration with Washington's inability to focus on issues that affect voters’ lives is creating an opportunity for leadership.
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Fox News legal analyst recently voiced his concerns about the revelations that have come to light in wake of the latest House Select Committee hearings. According to Jonathan Turley, the revelations were both “breathtaking” and “disturbing.”
On Wednesday, July 12, Turley appeared on Fox News where he weighed in on the recent hearings as he explained to viewers why the revelations are so damning. "You're in the Oval Office and people seem to be actually chest pounding," Turley said. "So this is very disturbing. All of these details should disturb everyone."
Per Rolling Stone, the legal analyst also shed light on what he described as an "unhinged” meeting between former Preside Donald Trump, a number of his allies, and other White House officials as they mulled over "ways to salvage an election victory for the president."
The committee also highlighted a text message from former White House aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, who provided damning testimony last month as she painted a disturbing picture of an unhinged West Wing under Trump's leadership.
In addition to Turley's remarks, Fox News' Neil Cavuto also weighed in with a critical assessment of Trump describing him as 'unstable' before asking former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tom Dupree if the people close to Trump were engaging in 'illegal, criminal behavior' by pushing to keep him in office.
Dupree, in turn, said that “people giving him this advice were coming pretty darn close to that line, if not going over it.”
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Fox News host Neil Cavuto rushed to warn viewers on Monday that despite President Donald Trump’s new claim that he is taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent the infection by the coronavirus, the…
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And Charlie said he had memorized all the faces from this website of all the big donors there. And he happened to run into the guy in a stairwell and he pulls out his business card. And the guy was impressed with his pitch, whatever it was for those few seconds. And weeks later gives him $10,000.
And that was Foster Friess, one of the big donors. From that moment still though, Charlie Kirk gets on Fox News a couple of times. He was on “Fox News Live” from the convention floor with Neil Cavuto. But into the fall of 2012, that $10,000 does help them. But Charlie says in that eulogy by the winter, by December, they were broke again; and they didn’t have any direction, they didn’t have any events, they didn’t have any more ways to get on it.
So they decided: ‘Hey, let’s go to New York and corner Neil Cavuto again and get on TV again.’ So it was really a series of luck— but also Bill Montgomery constantly encouraging and pushing Charlie Kirk. But also, yes, when you don’t have a platform and you get platformed by Breitbart,Breitbart and Fox News, you’re constantly going to be invited back if you do well on them.
And he was invited back, I think he appeared on Fox news three or four times that year. It was really, can you make the most of the opportunities that you were given? And, and indeed that is, I guess the origin story of Charlie Kirk. He said it took off after that winter, December 2012. And it did. By 2015, which is obviously three years later, they’re a million dollar organization, which is a fast-moving train, if you know anything about nonprofits....
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Here’s why Trump slammed Fox News for being too ‘politically correct’
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Written by Matthew Rozsa / Salon March 6, 2020
President Donald Trump blasted Fox News while appearing on the right-leaning network, telling its highest-rated host Sean Hannity that the cable channel invites “inappropriate” guests who criticize him in a desire to be “politically correct.”
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“They put people on I think are inappropriate and say very, very false things, and people don’t challenge them. I think they’re trying to be very politically correct or ‘fair and balanced,’ right, is the term,” Trump told Hannity during a phone interview.
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After Hannity agreed with Trump’s opinion, the president added: “I think they hurt themselves, if you want to know the truth.”
Earlier in the interview, Trump complained to Hannity that “the media is all on [the Democrats] side” with the exception of “yourself” and other Fox personalities, including Fox News host Mark Levin and Fox Business host Lou Dobbs. Trump also mentioned Rush Limbaugh, a radio host who the president incorrectly identified as working for the Fox networks.
Trump has a history of attacking Fox News after the network invites guests who are critical of the president or releases unfavorable poll numbers about him. During a rally in Colorado last month, Trump criticized Fox News and Fox Business Network host Neil Cavuto, saying “they had this woman on Neil Cavuto who doesn’t treat us good” and that Cavuto himself is “not too good.”
That comment referred to A. B. Stoddard, a RealClearPolitics associate editor who claimed that Trump performed poorly during the presidential debates in the 2016 cycle. Trump incorrectly claimed in a tweet that he “won every one of my debates,” even though respondents in post-debate polls picked Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as the winner of those contests.
The president also attacked Fox News in November for releasing a poll, which found that nearly half of Americans wanted him impeached and removed from office.
“You’re reading the wrong polls. I have the real polls,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “I have the real polls. The CNN polls are fake. The Fox polls have always been lousy. I tell them they ought to get themselves a real pollster. But the real polls — if you look at the polls that came out this morning — people don’t want anything to do with impeachment. It’s a phony scam. It’s a hoax.”
A spokesperson from Fox News pointed Salon to an earlier statement by the network saying “our polling unit has long been held in high regard for being a nonpartisan source of research.”
Trump criticized Fox personalities Andrew Napolitano, Shepard Smith (who left in October) and others one month earlier after Fox News released a poll showing an increase in support for his impeachment and removal from office.
“From the day I announced I was running for President, I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews Poll. Whoever their Pollster is, they suck. But @FoxNews is also much different than it used to be in the good old days,” Trump tweeted at the time.
The president then launched a series of personal attacks at Fox News personalities whose opinions he views as unfavorable, including Judge Andrew Napolitano.
“With people like Andrew Napolitano, who wanted to be a Supreme Court Justice & I turned him down (he’s been terrible ever since), Shep Smith, @donnabrazile (who gave Crooked Hillary the debate questions & got fired from @CNN), & others, @FoxNews doesn’t deliver for US anymore,” Trump added. “It is so different than it used to be. Oh well, I’m President!”
Fox News anchor Bret Baier,responding to a presidential attack in 2019 after the network released an unfavorable poll about Trump’s chances in the 2020 election, said that “we have a news side and an opinion side. The opinion folks express their opinions. We do polls. Our latest poll had the Democratic candidates head-to-head, several of them ahead of President Trump. And this poll tracks exactly what the Real Clear Politics average of polls — even a little the other way — and this poll matches what we are seeing out there.”
Fox News senior political analyst Brit Humeexpressed similar thoughts earlier that year when Trump attacked the network for hosting a town hall event with former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who at that time was running for president.
“Say this for Buttigieg. He’s willing to be questioned by Chris Wallace, something you’ve barely done since you’ve been president,” Hume wrote on Twitter.
He added, “Oh, and covering candidates of both parties is part of the job of a news channel.”
You can watch the full interview below via YouTube:
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Trump lashes out at a Fox News host who dared to talk to a critic of the president
Written by David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement February 21, 2020
President Donald Trump may or may not have had something to do with last year’s sudden resignation of Shepard Smith, a Fox News anchor he often targeted who had regularly criticized him, and it seems his starting another campaign targeting another Fox News anchor.
Neil Cavuto hosts several shows on Fox News and Fox Business and is senior vice president and managing editor at the business channel.
Cavuto, on rare occasions, criticizes the president or invites on guests who do. It’s far from an everyday occurrence, but a recent conservative pundit, A.B. Stoddard, caught Trump’s eye — and ire — and he’s gunning for a fight and a firing.
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So @TeamCavuto has very bad ratings on @foxnews with his Fake guests like A.B.Stoddard and others that still haven’t figured it all out. Will he get the same treatment as his friend Shepherd Smith, who also suffered from the ratings drought?
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Note how Trump makes clear he wants Cavuto gone, asking if he will “get the same treatment as his friend Shepherd Smith.”
Trump is using his usual formula, claiming someone’s ratings are bad, or a media outlet is “failing,” or losing money, regardless of facts.
In 2018 Cavuto all but decimated Trump:
Last night at his rally Trump spewed vitriol against Cavuto and Smith.
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Trump slams Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and former anchor Shepard Smith
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Since his impeachment acquittal Trump was been on the warpath, firing administration officials who testified against him. Earlier Friday it was reported Trump rehired a fired administration official, his former body man, and promoted him to head the White House personnel office. Johnny McEntee’s first act was to target for purging all executive branch employees across all government agencies who are “Never-Trumpers.”
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48 hours illustrating how Trump’s abuse-of-power scandal has split Fox News
Hannity is pushing Clinton conspiracy theories while the network’s top judicial analyst talks about impeachment.
By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Oct 1, 2019, 12:30pm EDT
Sean Hannity at the Republican National Convention.
[pix Fox News personality Sean Hannity at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 18, 2016. Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images
What a difference a few hours makes.
Had you tuned in to Fox News for Monday’s edition of Sean Hannity’s show, you would’ve been treated to President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, pushing nonsensical conspiracy theories about prominent Democrats colluding with Ukraine after the 2016 presidential election to dig up dirt on Trump — claims that were met with zero pushback from Hannity.
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@atrupar
Giuliani begins his Hannity interview by pushing a conspiracy theory about Obama and Hillary Clinton colluding with Ukraine to dig up dirt on Trump in January 2017 -- which doesn't make much sense since the presidential election had come and gone by then
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But had you been watching Neil Cavuto’s late-afternoon show earlier that day, you would’ve seen Fox News senior legal analyst Andrew Napolitano making a case for Trump’s impeachment.
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@atrupar
Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano: "The president of the United States using foreign governments to influence domestic politics -- that was the fear of the framers when they put that impeachment clause in the Constitution."
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To be clear, none of the above is especially new. Hannity has been the staunchest of staunch Trump backers for years, while more establishment conservative figures like Napolitano and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace have established reputations as bastions of rationality amid the surrounding sea of MAGA on their network.
But the juxtaposition between Monday’s versions of Cavuto and Hannity illustrates the split that Trump’s abuse-of-power scandal and the growing support for Trump’s impeachment has wrought at Fox News.The network has spent years serving as something akin to an unofficial arm of the Trump campaign, but it reportedly has started thinking about life after Trump, at least behind the scenes.
The split between daytime and primetime burst into public view
While Fox News has a well-earned reputation for riding the Trump train, network personalities like Napolitano and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace haven’t been shy about occasionally criticizing Trump. But now, with a presidency seemingly on the line, the stakes are a bit higher.
Primetime hosts like Hannity and Tucker Carlson along with Fox & Friends are still doing everything possible to spin for the president — including, in Carlson’s case, devoting part of Monday’s show to pushing conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton — but any criticisms of Trump made elsewhere on the network are increasingly being interpreted as veiled shots at other Fox News personalities. For instance, Wallace went viral last Thursday for sounding off about the “astonishing” and “deeply misleading” talking points being used by Trump’s defenders in the wake of the whistleblower report that accused Trump of abusing his office during his dealings with Ukraine.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Here's Fox News' Chris Wallace saying that "the spinning that's been done by the president's defenders over the last 24 hours since this very damaging whistleblower complaint came out ... [is] not surprising but it is astonishing and I think deeply misleading." ??
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Trump — who has been slowly souring on Fox News for weeks now, in part because it won’t rig polls for him — indicated on Sunday that he’s especially sensitive to even the mildest criticism coming from network personalities. After chief national correspondent and occasional Fox & Friends host Ed Henry did an interview with right-wing pundit Mark Levin in which Henry gently pushed back on Levin’s pro-Trump talking points, Trump became so incensed that he started retweeting any and all anti-Henry tweets he could find, including one posted by a parody account that makes fun of him for disliking sharks.
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The President of the United States retweeted a parody account that makes fun of him for disliking sharks
Notably, however, Trump has had nothing to say about Wallace’s remarkably hard-hitting interview with White House adviser Stephen Miller on Fox News Sunday a few hours later — one in which Wallace demolished Miller’s talking points and wouldn’t let him get away with deflections that are standard fare on Hannity.
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"This is an exercise in obfuscation" -- Stephen Miller has no response when Chris Wallace presses him about why Trump went against his own Pentagon & State Department and withheld Ukrainian aid
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(Trump has posted many tweets over the years praising Wallace but attacked him for interviewing Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg in May, writing, “Fox is moving more and more to the losing (wrong) side in covering the Dems ... They forgot the people [who] got them there. Chris Wallace said, ‘I actually think, whether you like his opinions or not, that Mayor Pete has a lot of substance ... fascinating biography.’ Gee, he never speaks well of me — I like Mike Wallace better.)”
Again, Wallace conducting a tough interview with a Trump administration official is far from unprecedented. But the split between Fox News’ daytime and primetime burst into public view last week when afternoon host (and arguably the network’s most outspoken Trump critic) Shepard Smith feuded for two days with Tucker Carlson, a primetime host who, like Hannity, reliably defends the president. The conflict erupted after Smith’s show featured commentary from Napolitano last Tuesday in which he suggested Trump’s dealings with Ukraine amounted to crimes.
Carlson fired back that night by giving former prosecutor and frequent Fox News primetime guest Joseph diGenova a platform to bash Napolitano, calling him “a fool.” Smith responded the next day by characterizing diGenova as “a partisan guest” and criticizing Carlson for not defending his colleague. According to Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman, thefeud only came to an end after network brass admonished Smith to stop attacking Carlson or risk losing his show.
If Sherman’s reporting is correct about Carlson effectively winning that feud, he and diGenova weren’t able to savor it for long. In yet another stark illustration of how complicated the dynamic at Fox News has become, Wallace reported on the same edition of Fox News Sunday in which he interviewed Miller that diGenova has been “working off the books” with Giuliani to help Trump dig up dirt on Joe Biden — a revelation diGenova has since admitted to. And yet Wallace, while breaking that news, failed to mention that despite his secret work for Trump, diGenova and his wife, Victoria Toensing, have made over 90 Fox News appearances this year alone.
Fox News execs are reportedly tiring of Trump’s act — but you wouldn’t know it from watching the product yet
The split that erupted in front of cameras last week reportedly reflects behind-the-scenes tensions. In his Vanity Fair piece, Sherman reports that Lachlan Murdoch, eldest son of Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch, has recently “been holding strategy conversations with Fox executives and anchors about how Fox News should prepare for life after Trump.”
Those conversations have apparently been expedited by the whistleblower complaint and the broader abuse-of-power scandal, which Sherman reports that even Hannity is concerned about:
Sean Hannity told friends the whistle-blower’s allegations are “really bad,” a person briefed on Hannity’s conversations told me. (Hannity did not respond to a request for comment). And according to four sources, Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch is already thinking about how to position the network for a post-Trump future. A person close to Lachlan told me that Fox News has been the highest rated cable network for seventeen years, and “the success has never depended on any one administration.” (A Fox Corp spokesperson declined to comment.)
But whatever private concerns Hannity has, they haven’t yet manifested themselves on his show, which remains all Trump talking points all the time — even if he seems to be a little less enthusiastic about the act than he used to be.
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I gotta say, Hannity's heart doesn't really seem to be in this
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If Sherman is right about network brass siding with Carlson instead of Smith, that indicates that higher-ups aren’t dismounting the Trump train just yet. Ultimately, viewers will know that Fox News is really changing when primetime hosts either start criticizing the president or are replaced with hosts who will — and we aren’t anywhere near that point yet.
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...fox News’ evening opinion hosts — including Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity — have been relentless Trump cheerleaders, mindlessly echoing Trump’s talking point that the impeachment efforts of House Democrats are nothing more than a shameless partisan attack and are devoid of merit. But Napolitano and Wallace, although right-of-center politically, have delved into the actual facts surrounding Trump, impeachment and the Ukraine scandal — and Trump isn’t happy about it.
Sherman explains, “The network’s legal commentator, Judge Andrew Napolitano, declared Trump’s defiance of Congress ‘an impeachable offense’ — a position that directly contradicted the House Republicans’ handpicked witness, George Washington University law scholar Jonathan Turley.Trump has also been engaged in a running war with Fox News anchor Chris Wallace; after Trump tweeted last month that Wallace was ‘nasty,’ fellow Foxer Neil Cavuto rushed to Wallace’s defense.”
Trump, in response, has bashed Fox News on Twitter for being — as he sees it — an inconsistent part of his right-wing anti-impeachment defense team. Sherman notes that on December 8, Trump tweeted, “Don’t get why @FoxNews puts losers on like @RepSwalwell (who got ZERO as presidential candidate before quitting), Pramila Jayapal, David Cicilline and others who are Radical Left Haters? The Dems wouldn’t let @FoxNews get near their bad ratings debates, yet Fox panders. Pathetic!”...
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https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/longtime-fox-news-producer-i-cant-tell-you-how-unpopular-trump-is-here/
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Longtime Fox News producer: ‘I can’t tell you how unpopular Trump is here’
Written by Dana Kennedy / DC Report September 12, 2019
Does Fox News need President Donald Trump? Or does President Trump need Fox News? If former Fox News strongman and Trump supporter, the late Roger Ailes, were still running the network, those questions might never come up.
But as Trump himself tweeted in June after Fox reported that Trump was trailing five presidential candidates in the polls, “Something weird is going on at Fox News.”
True enough – and Trump seems unable to stop it. And it’s not just that his longtime ally Rupert Murdoch turned the leadership of Fox over to his son Lachlan last year. “I can’t tell you how unpopular Trump is here,” a longtime Fox News producer told DCReport, “and people are getting bolder about saying so.”
The soap opera within a soap opera at Fox News isn’t hurting ratings. Far from it. Even though Trump began criticizing Fox back in January, which in turn kicked up bitter in-fighting between Fox’s on-air talent and producers,FNC was the most-watched basic cable network in America for the 34th week in a row the week of Aug. 26, TVNewser reported.
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Compared with the same week one year ago, Fox was up 6% but MSNBC and CNN were down 24% and 21%, respectively.
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“Trump’s base has been with Fox News longer than they’ve been with Trump,” veteran TV critic Bruce Fretts (TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly), told DCReport.
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‘Loyal to Fox, Not Trump’
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“They’re still probably going to vote for Trump but their real loyalty is to Fox. Trump still needs Fox to speak to his base. So he’s got to either bite the bullet and say these are my guys—or totally shoot himself in the foot.”
But for now, Trump’s strategy is to increase the potshots at his once-favorite network.
“Sharpiegate,” the inane media storm over an actual hurricane that Trump furiously insisted all week could have hit Alabama, is the latest presidential debacle to further divide not just the country–but the once-faithful at Fox.
In recent months, longtime FNC anchors Shepard Smith and Neil Cavuto have broken rank spectacularly with what Smith calls “Trumplandia” while Fox’s pro-Trump (and prime-time) stalwarts, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, the network’s biggest moneymakers, along with Jeanine Pirro and Lou Dobbs, have defiantly backed him.
At the end of August, even Fox’s longtime political analyst and frequent Trump supporter Brit Hume fired back at Trump after Trump ripped the network for hiring left-wing panelists like former DNC chair Donna Brazile and Juan Williams.
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“The New Fox News is letting millions of GREAT people down!” Trump tweeted. “We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!”
Tweeted Hume in response, “Fox News isn’t supposed to work for you.”
Last week, Fox’s White House correspondent John Roberts got dragged into the middle when he was summoned to the Oval Office after his afternoon live shot. According to an internal Fox email from Roberts that was obtained by CNN, Trump wanted Roberts to acknowledge that the original forecasts for Hurricane Dorian “had Alabama in the warning cone.” CNN also quoted a White House aide privy to the meeting saying that Trump called Roberts in to “hit back at Shepard Smith.”
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Earlier that same day, a visibly disgusted Smith lit into Trump over both his refusal to admit he was wrong about Alabama being in the path of Dorian–and for whipping out a clearly doctored hurricane map during a White House briefing Tuesday.
“Why would the president of the United States do this?” Smith said. “He decries fake news that isn’t and disseminates fake news that is. Think China pays the tariffs. The wall is going up. Historic inauguration crowds. The Russia probe was a witch hunt. You need an ID to buy cereal. Noise from windmills causes cancer. It’s endless!”
Smith may not be Fox News’ highest-rated personality but he is among the most respected at the network and his relentless fact-checking of Trump carries considerable weight.
“There’s a real downside to being in the tank for Trump,” said Fretts. “Fox News went all-in on him at first. They thought hey, this guy we propped up got elected—and we can exploit this power. Then Ailes, Bill O’Reilly and Bill Shine were brought down but it was too late. They had created a monster. And now those with some integrity at the network, like Shep and Cavuto, are distancing themselves bigtime and calling Trump out.”
Last spring, Trump began threatening to look for “another network” and repeatedly cited One America News Network, a relatively tiny right-wing news network based out of San Diego possibly best-known for hiring a young Tomi Lahren to host a talk show right out of college.
OANN, launched in 2013, has been relentless in their favorable coverage of Trump.The Washington Post reported in 2017 that “On One America newscasts, the Trump administration is a juggernaut of progress, a shining success with a daily drumbeat of achievements.”
Oddly, Charles Herring, president of OANN, was less than effusive when discussing Trump in both a telephone conversation and email with DCReport.
“Since 2015, before Mr. Trump announced that he was running for President, the network has been aware that Mr. Trump is an avid viewer,” Herring said.
“Our mission has not changed since the inception of the network and has not been influenced by our Presidents since launch. One America News Network appreciates the support from all of our viewers.”
Editor’s Note: Dana Kennedy is a former Fox News anchor, as well as a former reporter for MSNBC, CNN and ABC News.
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http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/11/09/cavuto-failed-to-challenge-willeys-morgan-palla/141639
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3. Fox News Turned To Disgraced Former FEMA Director Michael Brown To Deny Climate Change, Baselessly Attack FEMA Policy As “Orwellian”
On the May 6 edition of Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto, Cavuto invited Michael Brown, the disgraced former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to attack FEMA for requiring that states applying for disaster preparedness funds produce plans that consider the impacts of climate change. Brown, whose claim to fame is botching the response to Hurricane Katrina, questioned the need for the policy by disputing that “man has much impact” on climate change, and echoed the misleading “climate is always changing”talking point by asserting: “[W]e’ve always had tornadoes, we’ve always had floods, we’ve always had hurricanes, and we’re always going to.” Brown also described the new FEMA policy is an “Orwellian” ploy meant to force the federal government’s “vision of climate change” on to states. Later, Brown admitted on Twitter that he is a “denier” when it comes to climate change.
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7. Ben Stein Attacks Global Climate Agreement: “Sav[ing] The Earth … Is A Ridiculous Goal”
On the Dec. 14 edition of Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto, Cavuto introduced guest Ben Stein by saying “there’s a lot” to the Paris Climate Agreement “that Ben Stein hates.” Stein responded by asking: “What if man-made climate change is a fraud?” He later called the idea of saving the Earth a “ridiculous goal” and a “specious idea.”
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morano 1/13 record cold http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/27/climate-skeptic-marc-morano-rips-claim-that-global-warming-causes-cold-weather/
"cimate change' the new buzz word; hundredth of a degree?
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Another Misleading Fox News Graphic: Temperature Edition
Blog››› March 25, 2013 5:33 PM EDT ››› JILL FITZSIMMONS
Fox News is suggesting that scientists were "wrong" about global warming by using misleading graphics to obscure the long-term global temperature rise.
On his Fox News show, Neil Cavuto suggested that the recent cold weather invalidates concerns about global warming, asking weather forecaster and climate misinformer Joe Bastardi, "How did we get this so wrong?" Cavuto aired a graphic which at first glance appears to show that temperatures are dramatically cooler now than they were last March. But the graphic compares apples to oranges: the map on the left shows whether temperatures were above or below average for the month of March, while the map on the right shows absolute minimum temperatures for last Wednesday, March 20.
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Neil Cavuto Mocks Climate Change Protesters, Says Weather During Rally Was 'Bad Optics' (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | By Jessica Leader Posted: 02/21/2013 10:59 am EST
February 17 was a sunny, clear day in Washington, D.C., although temperatures barely topped the freezing point. Despite the cold weather, an estimated 40,000 people gathered on the National Mall to participate in the Forward on Climate Rally, urging President Barack Obama to tackle climate change and deny a permit to the controversial the Keystone XL pipeline.
On Fox News, host Neil Cavuto ridiculed rally-goers for protesting "global warming" during an arctic blast. “I think they might call this a case of, I don’t know, bad optics,” he said, as Fox showed footage of protesters bundled in hats and scarves. Cavuto was then joined by Fox Business analyst Charles Payne, who mocked not only the temperature, but the message of the rally. “Maybe that was it, maybe it was the icicles on their lips,” said Payne, laughing. He then imitated protesters trying to say the word “fracking” through frozen lips, a gag he repeated later in the segment.
Many climate deniers (and some Fox News pundits) have argued that low temperatures invalidate the science behind climate change. According to Media Matters, Rush Limbaugh noted in a January 11 show that it was "27 degrees outside San Diego right now, 27 degrees, and they're talking about global warming.” Stuart Varney cited Jerusalem’s snow storm and record-cold temperatures in China in an attempt to refute environmentalists lobbying for a carbon tax.
Yet the idea that climate change equals consistently hotter temperatures was dispelled long ago. “Global warming,” which refers to long-term warming of the planet, can be a somewhat misleading term when applied to climate science, since "climate change" encompasses both hot and cold temperature extremes. According to NASA, climate change “includes warming, cooling, and changes besides temperature.”
After an extreme winter storm in the Northeast earlier this month, the AP reported that warmer winters punctuated by strong blizzards are consistent with climate change. Warmer temperatures cause a buildup of moisture in the atmosphere, which leads to snowier days during the winter.
"Shorter snow season, less snow overall, but the occasional knockout punch," Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer told the AP. "That's the new world we live in."
Studies show that even precipitation-free cold temperatures may be a byproduct of climate change. Arctic Oscillations (AO), the pressure patterns in the atmosphere that regulate weather, switch between positive and negative states. During “negative” AO, air pressure is weakened around the polar vortex, allowing colder temperatures to break out of the Arctic Circle and collide with warm fronts in some regions. This collision creates extreme winter temperatures.
In his report on the Forward on Climate Rally, Cavuto suggested that environmental activists were merely changing their tune in the face of the cold weather. “It used to be that global warming was the cause, but, you know, if it's not warm outside then you had to change it to climate change to force that issue,” the host explained.
A recent analysis conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists, found that Fox News misled the public in 37 out of 40 climate change mentions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/21/neil-cavuto-fox-news-climate-change_n_2727525.html
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Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Program
Cavuto spoke at the 2007 ALEC Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, July 25 - 27, 2007.
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Fox Mocks Climate Protesters For Rallying In Winter
Blog››› February 19, 2013 2:49 PM EST ››› JILL FITZSIMMONS
Sunday's "Forward On Climate" rally drew an estimated 35,000 people to Washington, DC to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, making it the largest climate rally in U.S. history, according to organizers. Every major news outlet covered it, putting a national spotlight on the environmental risks associated with the project. But Fox News used the rally as an opportunity to mock the protesters and cast doubt on the science of climate change.
On his Fox News show, Neil Cavuto suggested that it was "bad optics" to "protest global warming in the middle of this Arctic blast." Fox Business' Charles Payne claimed that the protesters "probably have done very little research" and are relying on "anecdotal" evidence of climate change:
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It's important to watch FoxNews once in a while, to be reminded what kind of goofiness is being foisted on the public in the guise of news. Take, for example, Neil Cavuto's recent fit about someone slipping thoughtful messages into children's movies.
Cavuto and Fox movie reviewer Holly McClure are apoplectic because Happy Feet,the most popular movie in America for the last two weeks, takes aim at the issue of overfishing, which Cavuto calls a "far left message" that suggests "humans and big business are to blame." He concluded:
"My biggest thing was — you can make a political statement all you want — adult movie and all. I just think it’s a little tacky, and ... big-time objectionable when you start foisting it on kids who don’t know any better."
Read more: Fox News: "Happy Feet an Animated Inconvenient Truth"
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Fox News support
Fox News Channel took ownership of Tax Day Tea Parties around the nation by promoting them on-screen as "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties"
The Tea Party has also gotten substantial support in the form of promotion from Fox News Channel and its talk show hosts, including Glenn Beck. Karl Frisch of Media Matters wrote that Fox News "frequently aired segments imploring its audience to get involved with tea-party protests across the country." Fox has also provided organizing information for the events on air and online. [11]
Media Matters also noted that,
While discussing the April 15 protests on his April 6 program, Glenn Beck suggested that viewers could "[c]elebrate with Fox News" by either attending a protest or watching it on Fox News. Beck stated that in addition to himself, hosts Neil Cavuto, Greta Van Susteren, and Sean Hannity would be "live" at different protests. While Beck spoke, on-screen text labeled those protests as "FNC Tax Day Tea Parties." [12]
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