FOX NEWS PULLED THE PLUG ON TRUMP
Fox pulled the plug on Trump; the administration can now pull the guests
A network that sells itself to conservatives blacks out a Republican president
On Friday, President Trump banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, saying they report “fake news” and “shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES.”
Two days later, a Fox News executive shut off the president’s cameras.
Not CNN. Not a committee in New York. Bryan Boughton, Fox News Washington bureau chief, chairs the White House television pool.
On Sunday, he told subscribers that “effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President.”
Then the line that gives the game away: “All other TV pool coverage will continue as normal, including Congress, VIPs, and selected events in Washington and around the country.”
Read it twice. The cameras still roll for Congress. They still roll for VIPs. One man in America gets blacked out, and he — not Mr. Boughton — is the one the voters elected.
That is not standing on principle. That is shooting at a target.
Nor was Fox a bystander. When the White House pulled CNN from the rotation, the slot passed to the next network in line: Fox, with the crew, the truck and the bureau three blocks away. Mr. Boughton slammed the door: “There will be no replacement pool put in place.”
Then, in solidarity with the fake news, Fox News Media signed a joint statement with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN declaring that “no administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.”
Mr. Boughton did not make that stab-in-the-back call. It came from the top: CEO Suzanne Scott or higher.
News flash: A network that sells itself to conservatives has blacked out a Republican president and put out a press release about it, arm in arm with CNN. Fox is the more dangerous of the two, because it pretends to wear our colors.
Was the president right that CNN, MS NOW and Politico are fake news? Of course. They pimped the Russia hoax, ran the Hunter Biden laptop as “Russian disinformation” and facilitated Anthony Fauci’s COVID-19 lab origins cover-up.
These networks did not cover the impeachments; they staffed them.
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