FOX NEWS ATTEMPTS AN INTERVENTION
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
FOX NEWS ATTEMPTS AN INTERVENTION
I guess someone at Fox has been looking at the channel's own polling data:
I say this because there appears to be a sense of panic at Fox. Here's what's front and center on the homepage as I write this:
It looks as if people at Fox aretrying to do an intervention. They're begging Trump not to continue blowing this election.
The lead story quotes Karl Rove:
With less than two weeks left before the 2020 presidential election, former White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove said it would be more "effective" for the Trump campaign to focus on the economy as opposed to the Hunter Biden "scandal."...
Rove pointed to a Washington Post op-ed written by former White House chief speechwriter Marc Thiessen in which Thiessen argued that President Trump "needs to stop talking about Hunter Biden" and "start winning over reluctant voters."
"He argues the focus ought to be on the economy and the big contrast between the policy prescriptions of President Trump and those of Joe Biden and frankly I'm in agreement with him," Rove, a Fox News contributor, said.
There's also this story:
President Trump is making a "mistake" if he focuses on the Hunter Biden laptop story on the campaign trail and at the next presidential debate, Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee said on Wednesday.
"Yeah, it is a mistake because the average person doesn't understand it, it is too complicated, and, frankly, it doesn't matter to them," Huckabee said in response to "Fox & Friends" host Brian Kilmeade, who asked whether Trump should emphasize the story in the campaign's closing days.
"They care about their health care costs, they care about their taxes, they care about safety and their neighborhood on their block and in their yard. Focus on that and he wins the election by a landslide," Huckabee suggested.
Which is a follow-up to this from a couple of days ago:
During a preview segment for the final debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, scheduled for this Thursday, Steve Doocy [of Fox & Friends ] explicitly warned the president not to talk about Hunter.
"So you gotta figure the president's gonna try to bring up Hunter Biden in some manner," Doocy said....
"And the base loves to hear that stuff," Doocy continued. "But what the consultants are telling the president is, in the race to the final 15 days, do as much about the economy as you possibly can."
Spelling out the "best message" for the president, the Fox host added: "President Trump built a great economy, then COVID screwed things up, and President Trump is better at rebuilding than Joe Biden. That's the message they would like to see."
Hey, folks at Fox: Do you really want Trump to stop talking about Hunter Biden?
Then maybe you should talk to your prime-time stars and tell them to stop running segments like this:
And this:
And this:
Trump doesn't just watch these shows -- he injects them into his veins. So if cooler heads at Fox think Trump is about to blow the election and take Mitch McConnell down with him, they should have a talk with their own prime-time stars. Get them to stop talking about Hunter Biden, and maybe then they can persuade Trump. Posted by Steve M. at 6:58 PM
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The "cooler heads" in right wing media are advising Trump to tone down the Hunter Biden bs.
I give the odds Trump will lay low tomorrow night about Hunter Biden at about 2%.
He can't help himself, so he will screw it up and lose more ground.
I think that being able to cut Trump's mic is an advantage to Trump. Let Trump be Trump. Let America continue to see the rude, ignorant, buffoon that he is.
Agree! He didn't make any points whit the first debate when he kept talking out of turn, but, Biden made a lot. So I say let the idiot make a fool of himself and talk himself out of a win.
What Biden wants the people to know is covered in his rallies and interviews. This are the things people listen to the most anyway. All the debate is, is a one ring circus that Trump the fat Elephant makes a fool of himself in.