2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumShepard Smith, Fox News, trashing Trump over birtherism
(Sometimes I like to check out the right wing to see what they're talking about)
Shepard Smith, Fox News, spent the first 30 minutes of his show today saying Trump is lying when he blames Clinton for starting birtherism:
She did not! Trump did. Trumps admission now that Obama was born in America is an attempt by Trump to reach out to the African American community, which is not working !
He went on-and-on attacking Trump, showed video clips of the Congressional Black Caucus attacking Trump, interviewed other Fox reporters ~ all on how Trump is lying, and numerous times saying and getting other Fox reporters to admit Trump has lied numerous times about many issues.
What the Hell?
Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)This was outrageous enough to get FOX up in arms.
Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)It was presented as a news event and press conference and it turned out to be a campaign rally/forced commercial for his hotel.
I would think any business that considers itself as a news network would be pissed over that stunt.
piechartking
(617 posts)...occasionally runs out of batteries, and before Fox gets the AAAs from CVS, he has some good moments.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)oasis
(49,407 posts)that his asshole boss, Roger, got the boot.
Delmette
(522 posts)+ 1 million.
Management can make a difference, even if it just in small steps to start with.
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)He just had the highest profile. I remember that crazy Russian dentist/lawyer who kept bringing the issue to court. I wonder what ever happened to her. She was totally nuts!
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Actually I am surprised she is not working for the Trump campaign. I think there was an eruption from her on the Cruz birther issue.
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)I've been trying to remember her name. I can hear her crazy voice very clearly and see her face, but the name eluded me.
Maybe she was too nuts even for Trump?
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)She was actually in the news today.
Taitz, a California-based dentist and lawyer who is sometimes called the birther queen, disagrees. But she said she still supports Trump, and does not think his comments were a blow to her years-long effort to expose what she believes is a cover-up of Obamas true origins.
People understand that we are just 53 days before the election ― were just eight weeks before the election, she said in an interview. So Donald Trump is doing what he needs to do. The most important thing is for him to win and to make this country great. This movement was never about Donald Trump, the movement was about Barack Obama.
It may be true that the birther movement was about Obama and not Trump. But Trump commandeered it for years by using his platform as a celebrity to raise questions about whether Obama was lying about his birthplace. Regardless of whether or not he said President Obama was born in the United States on Friday, he partially built his political career on boosting the ideas of people like Taitz.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-orly-taitz_us_57dc4a5ae4b08cb14095dd06
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Smith said, Trump went to Mexico and then came back and lied about what he said down there.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)He's the only reasonable sane one of the bunch. They've got to be blackmailing the guy or something. Or maybe he's blackmailing them.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Kornacki was interviewing has-been nobody former congresscritter jack Kingston, R-Ga, about today's announcement. He let JK push the "Hillary did it first" meme. Finally Kornacki told him to prove that Hillary said it even once. Kingston replied it was her surrogates, but Kornacki failed to reply that the people who tried to do it were fired from the campaign, and they were only volunteers.
lark
(23,155 posts)Wow
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)It was all over social media of course, but as I recall he was one of the first, if not THE first to expose the callous disregard of these people that were abandoned.
wryter2000
(46,081 posts)I'm fairly sure he's gone rogue a few other times, too.
wryter2000
(46,081 posts)He's allowed to get away with that?
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)Gloves off. Trump's no friend of the fair and balanced.