The sycophants of Outnumbered held a poutrage session over the fact that not everybody in the media adored Donald Trump’s address to the U.N. General Assembly the way they did.
Yesterday, the no-liberals panel fawned all over Trump’s U.N. General Assembly speech.
Today, the show included one liberal, Marie Harf, but she had to fend off attacks on her views.
Cohost Sandra Smith got the whinefest going by suggesting some of the people criticizing Trump’s speech did not watch the whole thing.
Cohost Lisa Boothe declared media criticism as “discredited” because it’s too biased:
BOOTHE: The media has already demonstrated their bias, that’s just statically proven. [She cited a study by the conservative Media Research Center to prove her point]… When you watch some of that coverage and that hyperbole that we see from the media, they actually discredit themselves and hurt themselves. ‘Cause if everything is at an 11, what is actually an 11?
Guest Michael Waltz continued the meme by saying claiming that the media failed to cover Trump praising the African Union, talking about pet farms, malaria relief and a women’s entrepreneur fund.
Finally, we got to hear from Harf: “The problem is... he gives lip service sometimes to multilateral action but then he does things like pull out of the Paris Climate agreement that every other country except for two on the planet were a part of.”
Smith interrupted to snark, “Was that reason to stay in it?”
Harf continued, “The speech yesterday was not about multilateralism. It was about sovereignty.”
Boothe, obviously annoyed, interrupted. “What’s wrong with sovereignty?” she snapped. But before Harf could finish her original comment, Boothe interrupted again, with an obvious attempt to discredit her. Fortunately, Harf had a good response.
BOOTHE: Has President Trump said anything that you approve of? Has President Trump said or done anything that you approve of? ...Have you paid one compliment or is there anything President Trump has done that you approve of?
HARF: Let me talk. Every problem he talked about yesterday is not something the United States can solve by themselves ... and everything he said were things we need other countries to do. But his actions often end up alienating our allies when he criticizes South Korea publicly, when he criticizes NATO...
It’s ironic Boothe would ask Harf if she’s ever approved of anything Trump said considering that Boothe seems to only criticize liberals and praise Trump when she is on Fox News.
Remember when she called outgoing Senator Harry Reid “a lying liar?” We do. During that same appearance, she sneered, “I’ve got one thing to say to Harry Reid: See ya.” How about when she said, “I applaud the implosion of the Democratic Party?” We remember that too. Ditto for, “I think [Hillary Clinton] needs to spend more time in the woods because clearly she hasn’t moved past the election.”
For even more irony, Trump-defender but supposedly objective Fox anchor Harris Faulkner had the nerve to lecture about other journalists being biased.
FAULKNER: When you say that the media are biased - yes, absolutely. My problem is with the journalists being biased.
Watch the poutrage below, from the September 20, 2017 Outnumbered:
Baised FOX News Trump defender Harris Faulkner who is used as an 'impartial" news anchor ironically complains about biased journalists. pic.twitter.com/016fK5ClVb
— Richard W. (@IceManNYR) September 20, 2017
First, we have the desperate attempt by Fox News to attack anyone who dares to call out the Pence White House for its bigoted, mean-spirited and childish behavior. Or anyone who understands the outrageous comments of Donald Trump at the UN for what they are. So they put together a soundbite collection and try to play that off as biased attacks, including the mashup of regular news anchors with pundits. Which is interesting because the Fox News personalities are engaging in serious projection here. In reality, it’s Fox News where the anchors themselves regularly read Right Wing talking points converted to what might appear to be news bulletins. At other networks, the anchors read the facts. At Fox News, the facts may or may not be reported, depending on whether it furthers the agenda of the Right. If it doesn’t, they’ll find some “alternative facts” that will further that agenda.
Then we have a refreshing acknowledgment by Fox News and the Right Wing. Suddenly, they want everyone to watch the entire horrifying address by Donald Trump, because if you don’t listen to EVERY WORD, you probably don’t know what you’re talking about and you have no credibility. Now, this is a position I agree with, on general principle. But the Right Wing doesn’t. Because I don’t recall them listening to EVERY WORD when they quoted Nancy Pelosi’s comment “We have to pass the bill for you to find out what’s in it” – where the context might easily explain the remark. And I don’t recall the Right listening to EVERY WORD when they decided that a 10 minute address by Joe Biden in 1992 could be boiled down to a single statement so they could declare that a nonexistent “Biden Rule” changed major policy. And I don’t recall the Right listening to EVERY WORD when they cherry picked comments by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or anyone else they despised. I wonder if now they’ll acknowledge that an entire political career does not consist of a single soundbite pulled at random.
Finally, it’s blatantly obvious that the intent by the Right Wingers on this show was to disrupt anything that Marie Harf had to say, hoping they could hold her off until the show went to a commercial…