Bret Baier On Jimmy Kimmel: FNC’s News And Opinion Divisions ‘Two Different Businesses Entirely’

Fox News anchor Bret Baier visited ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live show last night where he made some interesting remarks about the split between the network’s news and opinion programs.

Baier was asked by Kimmel, “It seems that the president gets most of his information directly from Fox News, so when you say something, at least we know he’s going to hear it and he knows it’s not coming from an enemy source. Does the president watch your show?”

He knows Trump watches, Baier said, because Trump will suddenly tweet about a topic being discussed. “Obviously, I think he likes the opinion shows a little bit better than the news shows on Fox, but he definitely watches,” Baier added.

Kimmel asked if Fox’s news and opinion divisions should be split up given that Baier and other news anchors such as Chris Wallace and Shepard Smith seem “not crazy” about the opinion programming.

Baier did not endorse the opinion programming. He said, “Here’s the thing: We’re one team, we’re one company, we’re two different businesses entirely.”

“The biggest problem is that people who are the most critical of Fox are usually people who have not watched Fox News,” Baier continued.

Well, he certainly can’t say that about us!

Watch Baier’s interesting comments below, from the August 2, 2018 Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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commented 2018-08-04 22:56:00 -0400 · Flag

Another arrogant flunky like Wallace and Kurtz who thinks he can distance himself from the frontline haters and be thought of as some kind of respectable journalist. I see them as the Nazi-era bureaucrats who didn’t actually pack the cattle cars, make light-shades from skin and extract the gold from teeth, but sat back in the relative safety of Berlin making sure the trains ran to time and payments were made to IG Farben.

commented 2018-08-04 13:13:04 -0400 · Flag

FOX is now openly seditious.(Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontention (or resistance) to lawful authority. How much more evidence is needed of their treasonous activities? This is simply astonishing to me, how this goes on day after day, week after week, and NOTHING IS DONE. FOX is cancer to America, and it needs to be removed from the air. It is pure blatant propaganda.

commented 2018-08-04 12:39:57 -0400 · Flag

FNC is one company, one team one business. Baier and his news side is simply to legitimize the propoganda, prop it up.

commented 2018-08-04 07:05:41 -0400 · Flag

‘“The biggest problem is that people who are the most critical of Fox are usually people who have not watched Fox News,” Baier continued.’

Ah, no.

The “biggest problem” is I have watched a ton of Fox News – including “Special Report” – and it’s so biased it’s ridiculous… it’s propaganda.

Ask Bret why his “fair, balanced, and unafraid” panels are always top heavy, if not exclusively, conservatives. And other than Juan Williams name an actual liberal (and a minority at that) Bret will let join his (all white) club. I have. On Twitter. Net result? He blocked me.