Apparently unable to defend Donald Trump’s offensive comparison of Heidi Cruz to his own wife, Fox Business’ Trumpkin anchor Stuart Varney came up with a conspiracy theory to deflect blame. “It may well have been a deliberate ploy on the part of the anti-Trump people to goad Trump into saying something outrageous.”
Varney clearly intended to use his discussion to defend Trump's tweet denigrating Heidi Cruz' appearance:
Varney began his first attempt to deflect blame by suggesting Ted Cruz is the bigger villain for "starting it" with an ad showing a nude Melania Trump and questioning her fitness as First Lady. Varney asked Republican Sarah Isgur Flores, “What do you make of, it’s the Ted Cruz super PAC that started this spousal dispute by putting out…”
Flores interrupted, saying, “No it wasn’t.” She was right. The ad was made by an independent, anti-Trump group called Make America Awesome.
Bur Varney insisted, “Yes it was.”
Flores corrected him again. “It was not a Ted Cruz super PAC. It was a super PAC run by Liz Mair, who is doing her own thing to try to beat Donald Trump. It was not related or supporting Ted Cruz.”
Varney either did no boning up on the subject or he deliberately misled again. “Did Ted Cruz know anything about it?” he asked.
“Absolutely not, he can’t," Flores replied. "Even if it was a Ted Cruz super PAC he wouldn’t have known anything about it. But it wasn’t a Ted Cruz super PAC. Ted Cruz didn’t start this.”
Now Flores took a shot a Trump: “I think it shows what an insecure and small man Donald Trump is to think that attacking Heidi Cruz’s looks makes any sense.”
Varney responded, “I personally don’t like to see this in an election. Candidates going after each others’ spouses, I think that’s kind of low end. I would be very sharply critical of the super PAC. It’s an anti-Trump super PAC, you’re quite right. I would be very critical of them for doing this in the first place.”
Flores agreed there was no excuse for the super PAC ad, did but she also noted Trump wrongly blamed Cruz and then, “decided that it is OK for him to attack Heidi Cruz, which is so just disgusting, frankly, and beneath the office of the President.”
So Varney came up with his conspiracy theory: “It may well have been a deliberate ploy on the part of the anti-Trump people to goad Trump into saying something outrageous which would then be portrayed as, ‘Oh it’s all Trump’s fault in the first place.’”
Flores said, “I think that actually this is Donald Trump actually hoping to do this because it’s captured the media cycle. Here we are again talking about Donald Trump and something he said. When Donald Trump feels shoved into a corner, he attacks women.”
Varney got in one last shot at Trump’s detractors: “Well, you better get those anti-Trump people to see reason, may I suggest,” he sneered.
Between Varney and Lou Dobbs, it makes you wonder if there are any plans to rebrand FBN as the Trump Business Network?
Watch Varney defend the indefensible below, from the March 24 Varney & Co.
I want somebody that will make a real difference, not politicians who owe their allegiance to special interests that want open borders. I think that is why unknown numbers in the population are crossing over to follow Trump. He doesn’t need money from any of the big corporations to excel in the race to be nominated. My wife and my mother in law are both moving their loyalty to Trump as they truly believe he will be beneficial to our country, purposely as nobody can buy him? All the others must rely on contributions and nobody does something for nothing? It’s interesting to note that politics are kept out of conversations, as it used to cause irritability in the family circle. She has said in recent days that why bother to vote at all, if the Republicans are going to rig the election against Trump and that we never really had much say in the matter anyway..
One of her good friends had died on his motorcycle in the early hours, when colliding with a driver of a BMW. She had informed me that he would drink cases of beer daily and injecting himself with heroine why they were on the band circuit, watching him withering away before her eyes. She had divorced her first husband owing to his addition to pain pills, and once watched him collapse face first into his breakfast cereal. Another episode of his drug overdoses, he fell off a ladder unconscious and later after going their separate ways, she had found little bags of white crystal hidden within the garage, where he worked on cars during his spare time. Of course that was deep in her past, she suffers from arthritis these days and her hands can no longer handle the guitar strings.
My wife has two children who grew up without a father, and it was later in life when she married me and now content with her life. After my service in the Viet-Nam war, I came back to civilization only bruised, but not tolerated by millions of Americans. My mother and father did not tolerate any drinking, smoking, and certainly not taking any drugs, including the psychological addicting marijuana in their home. My lady blames Mexico for all the deaths of her friends and a relative and the millions of young teen who have succumbed to drugs of any kind, seeing them become despondent with their lives. She blames Mexico and the US government for not placing any real wall in the way, when the authorities on the Mexican side could easily have used troops to stop the importation of drugs, and illegal immigrants coming to America and stealing jobs and welfare. Nobody has done anything substantial for decades, and enforcement in none existent in the Obama administration.
Der Furor could bludgeon a Boy Scout to death live on his show’s set and he’d shill it as a brilliant political move on Trump’s part. ;^)
More of that “personal responsibility” we’ve come to expect from rightwingnuts.
Between Varney and Lou Dobbs, it makes you wonder if there are any plans to rebrand FBN as the Trump Business Network?
If so, expect it to declare bankruptcy within two years . . .
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