Why Fox and Friends is the Most Dangerous US Media Enabler of Trump and Vladimir Putin in the World today and a National Security Threat, to America
Fox and Friends is no ordinary problem. It is the heart and soul of the Trump cult which is threatening America today. Let me introduce some of the worst of this cult enabling horror story. Here is the first degree of the threat Fox and Friends introduces to the American nation. Namely see this, i.e. the GOP HOUSE members are effectively under the control of the FOX and Friends network, even though they know Trump is unacceptable.
https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/cowards/23302/
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COWARDS
Bill Palmer | 10:00 pm EST November 30, 2019
In the weeks since the House impeachment process against Donald Trump began, we’ve seen a lot of focus on the relative handful of House Republicans who are actively and visibly leading his defense. The grotesque behavior of these individuals speaks for itself. But the reality is that there are a couple hundred other House Republicans who haven’t said too much since the process started, and they’re the real problem, because they could collectively take Trump down, in spite of any objections from his biggest House GOP cheerleaders.
Now it turns out plenty of those silent and quasi-silent House Republicans really would like to take Donald Trump down. We know this because former Republican Congressman Charlie Dent, who knows large chunks of the House GOP personally, just went on CNN and confirmed that a whole lot of these House Republicans are “disgusted and exhausted” by Trump and resent what he’s done to their party and their careers.
So what are they planning to do about Donald Trump? Nothing. Dent says they’re afraid that if they speak up, or vote in favor of impeachment, Trump’s base will target them and they’ll lose their careers. In other words, they’re cowards who are unwilling to take a risk in order to save the country from the freak show criminal who has taken the nation hostage.
If these silent House Republicans are going to be this cowardly about it, they should just resign now. Dozens of them have in fact announced they’re not going to seek reelection, but even they’ve been unwilling to speak out against him. It’s yet another reminder that the Republican Party in its current incarnation is absolutely worthless – and that the only good Republican politician is a defeated Republican politician.
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And whom is directing the TRUMP cult ? You guessed it, FOX and Friends, i.e. this is not a conspiracy theory.
Here are basic talking points of the Fox and Friends cult generation machine which have to go.
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The four big Republican conspiracy theories that must die
Robert Harrington | 4:30 pm EST November 30, 2019
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful,” writes Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “without insisting there are fairies at the bottom of it?” The same human impulse that drives such reality-ruining fantasies drives conspiracy theories. A conspiracy theory (or “an explanation of an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful actors, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable,” — Wikipedia) often begins with unwarranted speculation, is then fuelled by a desperate, bias-confirmation scouring for “suspicious” coincidences, and then becomes with the passage of time, solidified and intractable in the human imagination. It is the passage of time that is most deadly — the longer a conspiracy theory remains stuck in the throat of humanity, the more likely it is to be regarded as venerable and therefore true. The John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory is an example of this, even though there are (literally) thousands of them, and most of those are mutually exclusive.
It is against the passage of time that we must take care. Long after Donald Trump is gone from office, four conspiracy theories that have grown up and been given traction around his latest scandal could very easily take hold of and become indelible in the imaginations of many of us, if we let them. They must be loudly and repeatedly debunked with the illumination of fact and reason in order to prevent this from happening.
The first of these is the so-called Crowdstrike conspiracy theory. The theory goes that Crowdstrike is a Ukrainian company owned by a wealthy Ukrainian that stole or acquired (the theories differ, as they so often do with conspiracy theories) the DNC server in order to hack the 2016 election. A fairly good précis of what happened except a) Crowdstrike is a California company, b) A Russian (who moved to California when he was a teenager), not a Ukrainian, is a member of its board, and c) there is no DNC server and there never has been. The DNC used cloudware for its email, and the FBI asked Crowdstrike to make a copy of it in order to analyze it for them. And of course it was the Russians and not the Ukrainians who hacked the 2016 election. Every American agency from the NSA to the FBI to the CIA to Homeland Security acknowledges this. The only people who dispute this are certain Trump-crazed republicans and — you guessed it — Vladimir Putin. There is absolutely nothing else behind this so-called conspiracy, and it needs to go away forever.
The second conspiracy that needs to die a quick and painless death is the one that alleges dirty dealings of Joe and Hunter Biden in Ukraine. That theory goes that Joe Biden bribed the Ukrainians by withholding aid from them in order to discourage them from investigating a company, Burisma, of which his son was a board member. The exact opposite is the case. Biden, together with most of the Ukrainian Parliament and the combined will of the European Union and the United States government wanted the Ukrainian prosecutor out because he was corrupt. It had nothing to do with Biden’s son. But, in the world of the conspiracy theorist, there’s no such thing as a coincidence, and since Biden’s son was at one time a member of the board of Burisma, Republicans conveniently see something sinister here when, to repeat the words of Wikipedia, “other explanations are more probable.”
Then there’s the “Black Ledger conspiracy.” The idea behind it is the Ukrainians doctored some books to make Paul Manafort look crooked and thereby hurt Donald Trump by association. There is absolutely no credible evidence to support this, not a shred. If there were it very likely would have produced a reasonable doubt in the minds of at least some of the jurors who instead unanimously voted for Manafort’s guilt. That is why Paul Manafort is behind bars today and he has, at this writing, another seven years to serve.
Finally there is former DNC consultant Alexandra Chalupa. She is accused of working with Ukrainians to hurt Paul Manafort and, by extension, Trump. There’s a small timeline problem with this. Chalupa began her investigation of Manafort’s shady dealings before Donald Trump even announced his candidacy for president. Even after Trump announced his candidacy the DNC wasn’t interested in what she had to offer. So it is a complete conspiracy nonstarter.
This is typical of conspiracy theories. I have found time after time after time that a proponent of any conspiracy theory (in the Wikipedia definition of the term) is actively opposed to the idea of spending so much as five minutes with Google researching alternative explanations to their pet theory. They shun it the way a seventeenth century man might shun a plausible explanation of why a particular woman defendant just might not be a witch. This stripe of ignorance is still alive in a different form, and we must fight it with the heft and might of reason and science if we ever hope to defeat it.
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Who is behind these four Conspiracy theories? FOX and FRIENDS
It gets worse, i.e. Fox and Friends is a danger to national Security - i.e. see this idiotsy generating spew which damaged world security
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/26/politics/donald-trump-north-korea-fox-and-friends/index.html
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Trump on summit with Kim Jong Un: 'Maybe the meeting doesn't even take place'
By Maegan Vazquez and Allie Malloy, CNN
Updated 9:41 AM ET, Thu April 26, 2018
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Thursday morning suggested that some of the elements of his potential summit later this year with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un are up in the air.
"It could be that I walk out quickly, with respect, but it could be. It could be that maybe the meeting doesn't even take place. Who knows?" Trump told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" during a half-hour call-in appearance.
The President said in the past, North Korea-US relations were "very, very nasty you know with little Rocket Man and with the buttons." But now, he said, "they want to meet."
Trump added that there are three or four possible dates for the summit and confirmed CNN's reporting that five locations are currently under review for the meeting.
The agreement to a joint summit between the two world leaders came after CIA director and now secretary of state nominee Mike Pompeo paid a visit to Kim in North Korea.
Trump told "Fox and Friends" that he hopes to release photographs of Pompeo and Kim soon.
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On what grounds is FOX and Friends effectively acting as STATE TV to transmit the latest brain farts of our demented would be dictator ?This is the bottom line, similar to TASS of the USSR, Trump is using FOX and FRIENDS as his media of State TV control. This in its own way is an unacceptable danger to the nation, America, and humanity at large. It is time for the Murdoch empire which supports the plug on Fox and Friends, and if it does not to have Schiff and Nadler, in the US House investigations of Donald Trump to include investigating Fox and Friends as to what it is, a world class threat to the United States.
Andrew Beckwith, PhD