January 5, 2017

Fake News: Straight Frum the Hoser’s Mouth

Today was a day of big announcements in the Cable Game, but what attracted The Cable Gamer’s attention was more the responses to those announcements. The big one was Tucker Carlson taking over Megyn Kelly’s time slot and it spawned this tweet from an MSM hero, Atlantic big-wig David Frum, who was not pleased:

Fox’s only Trump skeptic replaced by Trump enthusiast

Frum followed up by retweeting a fellow mainstreamer, Jonathan Chait:

Fox News is going to be state television, basically.

Just by coincidence a similar notion was put forward by the Washington Post:

“This takes away the one person who at times — not always, but at times — was skeptical” of the president-elect, said the executive, who asked not to be identified, so that he could offer a frank opinion. “Now it’ll just be state-run TV.”

Amazingly this executive (said to be from one of Fox’s competitors) echoed both the points in two tweets by two different writers. Could it be the exec was feeding these talking points not just to the Post but to other writers receptive to anti-Fox propaganda who like to tweet…like David Frum and Jonathan Chait? That might explain why these two are promoting fake news about FNC.

Is Megyn Kelly Fox’s “only Trump skeptic,” the “one person” at Fox News was “at times was skeptical” of the President-elect? No. That’s a lie. And easily shown to be so. A few examples:

Fox News Anchor Shepard Smith: Donald Trump ‘Trades in Racism’
“Spewing” Gregg Jarrett: No Trump Fan
Fox News Host SHUTS DOWN Lying Trump Spokesperson
Chris Wallace Grills Trump Over ‘Huge Conflict of Interest’ in Sunday Interview
Fox Anchor to Trump Spox: Can’t He Just Do the ‘Polite Thing’ and Apologize?
Fox’s Jenna Lee Smacks Down Trump Spox Attempts To Blame Birtherism On Hillary Clinton
‘You won’t TELL US anything about the Trump Foundation!’ – Fox News anchor GRILLS Trump spox
How Fox News’s Chris Wallace set a ‘bear trap’ for Donald Trump

And just today, as we were preparing this post:

Shep Smith scorches Trump for betraying US spies: ‘Is it a thank you to Russia for all their help?’

The above is just a small sample from FNC’s fair and balanced news anchors. Their roster of contributors and opinionizers includes a good number of Trump supporters, but is also rife with Trump critics, skeptics, and opponents. Just the first dozen who come to mind:

Juan Williams
Gillian Turner
Dana Perino
Richard Fowler
Charles Krauthammer
Bernard Goldberg
Joe Trippi
Eboni K. Williams
Julie Roginsky
Judge Andrew Napolitano
Leslie Marshall
Col Ralph Peters

And yet the respected David Frum would have you believe none of the above people exist, and when Megyn Kelly wasn’t on the air Trump was getting a complete pass on Fox News.

A fraudulent claim is fed to willing “journalists” by some exec at CNN or MSNBC. Frum and Chait uncritically parrot the flackery as if it’s gospel, knowing their followers will swallow it up. Clearly Frum didn’t know if it was true or not and in any case didn’t care enough to check (let alone triple-check). Which reminds The Cable Gamer how sometimes the people who hate Fox News most are the ones who never watch it.