This morning, political guru Larry Sabato told CNN that the firing of Donald Trump’s campaign manager was “another disaster” for the “deeply troubled” Trump campaign. But, not surprisingly, to Fox’s Outnumbered show, it was all good news.
Although FoxNews.com called the segment, “What role did Trump’s children play in Lewandowski’s ouster?” there was no real attempt to answer the question. Maybe because they were too busy thinking of ways to spin it.
Cohost Sandra Smith set the tone in her introduction.
SMITH: Barry Bennett, Trump’s senior advisor, was on Fox News just a little bit ago. He suggested that campaigns grow, they go in a different direction, especially as they enter into a general election. Should we look too much into this or is it indicative of Donald Trump slipping in the polls?
Kennedy described the Trump campaign as being run by two super heros: Lewandowski as Iron Man and Paul Manafort as Captain American, each bringing two different, (super) strengths to the campaign.
KENNEDY: Captain America here prevailed. You know, Iron Man is a hot head, he’s the mercurial one and that strategy, to Corey Lewandowski’s credit, worked through the primary process. That’s very obvious. But it’s so different. …when you go into a general election and you don’t have those primary victories week after week to point to, you absolutely have to make a shift.
Cohost Meghan McCain said that she had made “a lot of suggestions” on her father’s campaign but that the “Ding dong the witch is dead!” tweet from Michael Caputo showed that there is internal strife. Actually, there was even more strife than that because within hours after that tweet, Caputo resigned and Lewandowski sniped at him on CNN (not necessarily in that order).
But, McCain quickly added, “This is not uncommon. There are whole HBO movies dedicated to campaign drama.”
Hmm, was she thinking of Game Change? If so, I think one of the points – if not the point – of the movie was that the drama helped doom the campaign. And even so, the McCain/Palin drama did not involve firing a campaign manager, much less one who had been charged with battering a reporter. Oh, and remember Fox's cheerleading about Trump’s great loyalty to Lewandowski after that? Forgotten now.
“Donald Trump has had a really rough few weeks,” McCain acknowledged. But she continued by noting that Trump’s recent steps of firing Lewandowski and hiring someone who had worked on two of her father’s campaigns “ease my concerns right now.”
Wait a minute. What happened to her #NeverTrump vow? Nobody asked.
“If Paul Manafort can make the case that this is how you win, this is the only way you win, then he [Trump] has no choice but to listen to him,” Kennedy said.
As if Trump is likely to be managed and handled by anybody.
Get the popcorn going and watch the hosts try to make Lewandowski lemonade below, from the June 20 Outnumbered. You can also watch Sabato give his unbiased take below, via Media Matters.
This FOX segment looks like 5 handlers frantically cleaning up the mess made by a circus elephant suffering from diarrhea.
Could FOX’s problem be the amazing lack of diversity on the panel? I guess their far-right audience has grown completely intolerant of even as much as a hint of centrism. Now we know how FOX birthed batsh-t crazy Trump.
Too bad both Iron Man (Lewandowski) and Captain America (Manafort) are both working for Dr. Doom (Drumpf) . . .
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He will say nice things about Trumpster as long as the checks are not cut off.
NOTE TO COREY LEWANDOWSKI
With the information you have on Trumpster you can write a tell-all book which would generate more money for you than Trumpster has given you now.