Tag: Fox and Friends

‘That’s called socialism!’ Fox & Friends host freaks out after learning raising taxes on rich people is popular

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“Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade went on an angry tirade on Wednesday after his co-hosts acknowledged that polls show it’s popular to raise taxes on wealthy Americans.

During a discussion on potentially raising income taxes and capital gains taxes on high-income earners, Kilmeade claimed that these plans would backfire because the majority of Americans don’t want their taxes to go up.

“No, no,” interjected co-host Steve Doocy. “They’re okay with raising taxes on the rich.” Continue reading.

GOP Group Scorches Trump On Fox News With Call To End His ‘American Carnage’

Republican Voters Against Trump is urging Americans to vote the president out of office in November.

A Republican group opposed to President Donald Trump is urging voters to end his “American carnage” by voting him out of office in November. And it’s using one of Trump’s favorite TV shows to spread the message.

Republican Voters Against Trump ― a campaign that launched last week to highlight the voices of disaffected party members ― is running an ad this week on “Fox & Friends” that uses the president’s own words against him. The spot is centered around a line from his inauguration: “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” which has taken on new meaning amid a deadly pandemic and nationwide civil unrest:

“As demonstrations and riots roil the country, he is only dividing us, rather than uniting us,” Sarah Longwell, the group’s spokesperson, said in a statement. “President Trump owns this American carnage. It’s time to stop the bleeding.” Continue reading.

How a ‘notoriously stupid’ Fox News host inadvertently let slip Trump’s corrupt plan: media reporter

AlterNet logoAlthough President Donald Trump has used Twitter incessantly to promote himself, he has been furious with the social media outlet this week for fact-checking two of his tweets — so furious that on Thursday, he issued an executive order targeting social media companies and claimed that he did so to “defend free speech.” Twitter hasn’t removed any of Trump’s tweets, but flagged or hidden them as inaccurate or violent. While legal scholars have been asserting that the order cannot withstand legal scrutiny, Media Matters’ Matt Gertz stresses that it serves a useful purpose for Trump nonetheless — and that purpose has been identified by the “notoriously stupid” Fox News host Steve Doocy.

“President Donald Trump capped off a multi-day tantrum at Twitter for appending a mild fact-check to one of his false tweets by retaliating with the power of the federal government,” Gertz explains. “The executive order he signed Thursday is slapdash and incoherent, rooted in a false premise, hypocritical and potentially unconstitutional, legally unenforceable yet dangerously authoritarian, with sections that read like a Fox News screed. But to analyze the executive order’s flaws is to miss the point entirely.”

That purpose, according to Gertz, is “raising the cost of defiance until his perceived enemies break” — and the executive order “forces Twitter to expend resources fighting it, but if the company bends to Trump and does what he wants, maybe it will just go away.” Continue reading.

Trump’s Fox and Friends COVID-19 interview just devolved into a mad rant. Here are the 6 craziest moments

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump called into “Fox & Friends” on Monday morning to discuss his administration’s work on handling the coronavirus pandemic — but it quickly devolved into an angry rant in which he attacked his political foes.

During the lengthy hour-long interview, the president frequently drifted off topic to make outlandish statements about the media, the Democratic Party, and even the history of American foreign policy, among other topics.

Below are the wildest moments from Trump’s “Fox & Friends” COVID-19 interview.

1.) Trump calls House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a “sick puppy.” Even though Pelosi was instrumental in getting the $2 trillion coronavirus economic relief bill passed quickly through the House of Representatives, the president spent a good chunk of his interview falsely accusing her of holding up its passage. Continue reading.

Fox News Personalities Who Promoted Bolton Now Scorn Him

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade offered up a novel and deeply ironic retort to The New York Times’ Sunday night bombshell that President Donald Trump told then-national security adviser John Bolton military aid to Ukraine was conditioned on officials there aiding “investigations into Democrats including the Bidens,” which the paper reported based on descriptions by multiple sources of an unpublished manuscript of a forthcoming Bolton book.

“The one thing the president should take from this,” he said on Monday morning’s Fox & Friends, is that “he’s got to do a better job vetting his staff to find out if they actually want to work for him or not, or they actually want to leak out information about him.”

But if anyone could be said to have vetted Bolton for a top position in Trump’s administration, it was Fox. Continue reading.

‘Fox & Friends’ host ‘stunned’ as network poll shows majority of Americans want Trump impeached and removed

“Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade confessed Monday morning his surprise a brand new Fox News poll reveals a majority of Americans want President Donald Trump impeached. Kilmeade also incorrectly reported the numbers in the poll, downplaying just how bad they are for the president.

“A Fox poll came out and I was stunned by this,” Kilmeade told his co-hosts. “It says 50 percent of the country want the president impeached. I was stunned to see the number because I thought that things were trending away” from impeachment.

The Fox News poll reveals not 50% but actually 54% want Trump impeached. 50% want Trump impeached and removed from office, so Kilmeade delivered the information incorrectly, favoring Trump.

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Trump goes off the rails in Fox News interview spewing Obama conspiracy theory

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump went off-the-rails when he called in to “Fox & Friends” Friday morning. For 57 minutes straight with no commercials the fast-talking President spewed conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory, tossed around lies and personal attacks against top Democrats, including coming close to saying once again that President Barack Obama spied on him and his campaign.

“They thought I was going to win and said ‘how can we stop him?’” Trump said of Obama and his administration.

“You’re dealing at the highest levels of government. They were spying on my campaign. This is my opinion,” Trump said.

View the complete November 22 article by David Badash from The New Civil Rights Movement on the AlterNet website here.

Fox & Friends hosts visibly deflate after legal analyst drops the hammer on Trump: ‘The law is not on the president’s side’

AlterNet logoFox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano on Thursday delivered some sobering news to the hosts of “Fox & Friends,” who did their best to spin Wednesday’s impeachment hearings as a win for President Donald Trump.

During an interview, co-host Ainsley Earhardt argued that much of the testimony given by witnesses Bill Taylor and George Kent revolved around merely their opinions of the president’s actions in withholding aid from Ukraine.

“Everybody does have their own opinion,” he acknowledged. “But… there doesn’t seem to be any dispute that the president wanted dirt on Biden and the president was willing to hold up military aid in order to get it.”

View the complete November 14 article by Brad Reed from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.

Trump seeks cover from Fox News as criticism mounts

President quotes ‘Fox & Friends’ to criticize Obama on mass shootings after warning about political division

ANALYSIS | One day after he warned the country about political division and the “perils” of social media, President Donald Trump contradicted himself with a series of tweets criticizing his predecessor and a perceived big-tech nuisance. And he again turned to his favorite cable network for an assist.

The president addressed the country Monday morning in a speech meant to console the families of the victims of two deadly weekend mass murders in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Gunmen opened fire in a WalMart in the former and an entertainment district in the latter. The violence has prompted calls for Trump to call on Congress to interrupt its August recess to send him gun-control legislation.

But Trump did not call for any legislative action that would get a bill on his desk to make it harder for would-be mass shooters to buy firearms. He did, however, denounce white supremacy amid criticism about his rhetoric about an “invasion” of the U.S. by Central and South American migrants — something echoed in an online manifesto penned by the El Paso shooting suspect.

View the complete August 6 article by John T, Bennett on The Roll Call website here.

‘You’re out of your cotton-picking mind’: A Fox News guest explains hate speech to a black man

The following article by Avi Selk was posted on the Washington Post website June 25, 2018:

“Fox and Friends” organized a spirited discussion about left-wing language on Sunday that opened with a clip of an MSNBC personality comparing Trump voters to Nazis.

“THE LEFT’S RACIST RANTS CONTINUE,” read the caption that accompanied the clip, and Fox News host Ed Henry introduced the two debaters. Continue reading “‘You’re out of your cotton-picking mind’: A Fox News guest explains hate speech to a black man”