If you were wondering when Fox would start exploiting the missing EgyptianAir plane, your wait is over. The tragedy is already being spun as “surely a plus for Donald Trump.”
On today’s Fox & Friends, Stuart Varney, a Fox Business Network host, opined that the missing plane “further destabilizes” Egypt and north Africa and will impel more refugees “to leave in their boats” and arrive in Europe. In Varney’s mind, more refugees is more of an opportunity for Trump to ratchet up Islamophobia.
VARNEY: It destabilizes the whole security position in Europe. This plane took off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. I don't know what it was before then, I think it was in Brussels before then and Casablanca. But the whole idea of a secure European airport is thrown into doubt by incidents of this kind. I also think that this may be good politically for Donald Trump.
AINSLEY EARHARDT: Why?
VARNEY: He's already tweeted out, saying this is probably terrorism, I believe that's the nature of his tweet. He's the guy who's saying, hands off, keep Muslims out, temporarily, whilst we figure out who comes in. An incident of this type is surely a plus for Donald Trump.
Nobody challenged Varney for relying on Trump's amateur tweet as some kind of definitive statement on the cause of the disaster. Instead, cohost Steve Doocy said, "Sure."
But don't forget, Fox News totally hates politicization of tragedy.
Watch it below, from the May 19 Fox & Friends, via Media Matters.
One day, the truth will come out about rotten Reagan’s underhand dealings with the mad mullahs, using those poor hostages as pawns. And we’ll learn just how bin Laden escaped from Tora Bora when the Yanks had him cornered far too early for the evil Cheney&Co’s purposes – hell, they needed him at large as one of their bullshit justifications for the atrocity that was invading Iraq.
Remember how bin Laden bizarrely endorsed John Kerry five days before the election in 2004? That, my friends, was payback extracted by the anti-American brutes who enabled the prick to escape the mountains in 2002.
I hate to say it, but I’d almost love to have some serious incident happen involving the airlines and airports dumping the TSA. I just wonder who the public would blame? (Oh, don’t worry—FoxNoise will blame Obama for the airports and airlines actions. I’m more curious about who NORMAL people will blame.)
Off topic: Blitzer’s programme was supposed to include a live interview of Hillary Clinton but they cut it off without warning at the end of the hour in order to go back to the Egyptair crash where nobody has anything new to report. CNN has once again earned my nickname for them: Fox Lite. I’d bet my bottom dollar that they would not have done that to Trump.
