Fox News host Greg Gutfeld all but came out and admitted that Donald Trump is the candidate that Fox News created.
In a discussion today on Fox’s Outnumbered show, cohost (and Trump sycophant) Harris Faulkner was thwarted in her effort to give Trump credit for “some things that we’re talking about now.”
Gutfeld, the show’s #OneLucky Guy, disagreed.
“You don’t think that we’d be talking this much about illegal immigration if it weren’t for Donald Trump?” Faulkner continued admiringly.
GUTFELD: I think illegal immigration and terror and race and law and order has been the staple of Fox News for 10 years. All he did was watch Fox News.
Watch it below, from the August 15 Outnumbered.
(H/T Media Matters)
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Antoinette commented
2016-08-16 14:17:27 -0400
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Gutfield were have never said that if Nixon Trainee Ailes was still in charge. We hope that old clown spends time behind bars.
David Lindsay commented
2016-08-16 10:39:35 -0400
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Well of course he did. The right wing echo chamber is good at brainwashing a willing participant. There is such a thing as a left wing echo chamber, but it’s of the Will Rogers variety. Not very organized. And the right wing audience is readily corralled. We, on the other hand, are like herding cats.
Eyes On Fox commented
2016-08-16 08:14:41 -0400
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Bemused, until recently I’ve noticed the media try to normalize the election. So, despite Trump’s endless diaper filling he’s so abused by the media, they set extremely low expectations for him and would dig to find something to criticize Hillary to balance each and every Trump outrage they found fit to report. The lowest point was #RNCinCLE where even normally dependable PBS “NewsHour” would strain to make his insane convention merely mildly eccentric.
Trump’s mix of face-palm ignorance, hate, race-baiting bigotry, used car salesmen lies, and clownish behavior have reached a tipping point, imho, and The Donald’s reached such a point of ridiculousness the msm quit playing that game as much so now he’s had some very bad weeks. I think what’s helped is big name Republicans are publicly deserting him in such numbers the media isn’t afraid of losing mainstream right of center viewers by finally exposing The Donald for what he is.
The conventional wisdom is the Olympics are deflecting attention from the race and people don’t start paying attention until Labor Day anyway but I’m not buying it. The Donald has the ‘talent’ to say outrageous things to grab headlines despite Olympic competition. The latest WaPo poll here in swing state Virginia now has Trump down 14 points. What’s more incredible – if you know this state – the only place he leads Clinton is rural Southwest Virginia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/trump-unpopularity-fuels-wide-lead-for-clinton-in-new-virginia-poll/2016/08/15/ea0e1540-6307-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html
I agree Trump’s CNN surrogates like Kayleigh McEnany and Jeffrey Lord are completely disingenuous and put the best used car salesmen to shame. They get cornered so often and spin so hard to escaped the obvious I find them hard to watch I’m so embarrassed for them.
It’s only going to get worse for his surrogates this week. NPR reported this morning Trump is ratcheting up his anti-immigration policies to even more harsh measures. So the good news is that the dumbass simply doesn’t get it. Thank goodness the man’s a massive narcissist because his unstable emotional state has completely overwhelmed any intelligence.
Trump’s mix of face-palm ignorance, hate, race-baiting bigotry, used car salesmen lies, and clownish behavior have reached a tipping point, imho, and The Donald’s reached such a point of ridiculousness the msm quit playing that game as much so now he’s had some very bad weeks. I think what’s helped is big name Republicans are publicly deserting him in such numbers the media isn’t afraid of losing mainstream right of center viewers by finally exposing The Donald for what he is.
The conventional wisdom is the Olympics are deflecting attention from the race and people don’t start paying attention until Labor Day anyway but I’m not buying it. The Donald has the ‘talent’ to say outrageous things to grab headlines despite Olympic competition. The latest WaPo poll here in swing state Virginia now has Trump down 14 points. What’s more incredible – if you know this state – the only place he leads Clinton is rural Southwest Virginia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/trump-unpopularity-fuels-wide-lead-for-clinton-in-new-virginia-poll/2016/08/15/ea0e1540-6307-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html
I agree Trump’s CNN surrogates like Kayleigh McEnany and Jeffrey Lord are completely disingenuous and put the best used car salesmen to shame. They get cornered so often and spin so hard to escaped the obvious I find them hard to watch I’m so embarrassed for them.
It’s only going to get worse for his surrogates this week. NPR reported this morning Trump is ratcheting up his anti-immigration policies to even more harsh measures. So the good news is that the dumbass simply doesn’t get it. Thank goodness the man’s a massive narcissist because his unstable emotional state has completely overwhelmed any intelligence.
Bemused commented
2016-08-16 05:27:49 -0400
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I disagree with Gutfield: it would appear that most of Trump’s policies actually came from the current administration. At least that’s what all the pundits were saying on CNN.
PS: I may have to change my nickname for CNN (Fox-Lite). The hosts were a lot tougher on their guests yesterday. While the Hillary surrogates responded to the corrections with an explanation of what had changed, the Trump surrogates to a man limited themselves to repeating the dogma of the Trump campaign.
A typical example of the Trump propensity for rewriting history came up during the post-speech discussion on CNN. A surrogate repeated the claim that Trump has always been against the Iraq war. The host challenged him by quoting a statement in favour of the war that Trump had made in 2002, i.e. a year before the war was launched. She repeated this documented fact at least twice, but the Trump surrogate simply ignored her and repeated the same claim, several times and word-for-word.
PS: I may have to change my nickname for CNN (Fox-Lite). The hosts were a lot tougher on their guests yesterday. While the Hillary surrogates responded to the corrections with an explanation of what had changed, the Trump surrogates to a man limited themselves to repeating the dogma of the Trump campaign.
A typical example of the Trump propensity for rewriting history came up during the post-speech discussion on CNN. A surrogate repeated the claim that Trump has always been against the Iraq war. The host challenged him by quoting a statement in favour of the war that Trump had made in 2002, i.e. a year before the war was launched. She repeated this documented fact at least twice, but the Trump surrogate simply ignored her and repeated the same claim, several times and word-for-word.
Bemused commented
2016-08-16 05:08:22 -0400
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George. Don’t forget the people who go to such meetings as “tourists”. People watching can be as much fun as visiting a historic site, the monkey house at a zoo or a free-wrestling match. Seems that the media accounts are not showing even a fraction of what’s going on in Trump’s rallies. I was appalled by the NYT video, especially on hearing that they’d self-censored the really raunchy/violent stuff.
During the late Fifties/early Sixties, we enjoyed the occasional evening at one of the local "revival meetings. These were travelling shows, each one with a fire-and-brimestone preacher in a tent mounted in a remote pasture. Things’d get pretty noisy as participants whipped themselves up into a frenzy. On-lookers were well advised to keep a straight face in order to get out of there unscathed. After a couple of days with any given show, we’d start recognising faces and a quick peak of the licence plates in the parking area would confirm our suspicion that they were not locals. We’d wonder if they weren’t travelling with the show in order to “prime” the audience (like professional clappers in the theatre).
PS: By my thinking, Trump may actually be losing voters with each rally as more and more people realise that they don’t have much in common with the violence of the more vocal groupies.
During the late Fifties/early Sixties, we enjoyed the occasional evening at one of the local "revival meetings. These were travelling shows, each one with a fire-and-brimestone preacher in a tent mounted in a remote pasture. Things’d get pretty noisy as participants whipped themselves up into a frenzy. On-lookers were well advised to keep a straight face in order to get out of there unscathed. After a couple of days with any given show, we’d start recognising faces and a quick peak of the licence plates in the parking area would confirm our suspicion that they were not locals. We’d wonder if they weren’t travelling with the show in order to “prime” the audience (like professional clappers in the theatre).
PS: By my thinking, Trump may actually be losing voters with each rally as more and more people realise that they don’t have much in common with the violence of the more vocal groupies.
George Dimopoulos commented
2016-08-16 03:53:14 -0400
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Paul Merrifield….you are making your prediction on the crowds he gets at his speeches???? I’m tipping it’s the same rednecks that just travel around the country….like some sort of Trump groupies…so the polls mean nothing to you but how many people go his rallies do…wow man just wow!
John McKee commented
2016-08-16 00:56:01 -0400
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This would never have happened while Jabba was in charge. Is Gutfield trying out for a solo spot at NewFox?
Lakeview Greg commented
2016-08-15 20:09:30 -0400
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“I think illegal immigration and terror and race and law and order has been the staple of Fox News for 10 years. "
A very telling comment, imho.
A very telling comment, imho.
Eyes On Fox commented
2016-08-15 19:09:51 -0400
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No s—t, Sherlock. Greg, if you only read my comments how many times I have said Trump honed his right-wing talking points visiting “Fox & Friends” every Thursday for his weekly hand job?
Jan Hall commented
2016-08-15 18:58:09 -0400
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Paul, you misspelled your last name. It’s M-A-N-A-F-O-R-T.
Paul Merrifield commented
2016-08-15 18:41:06 -0400
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As long as Trump is filling stadiums and Hillary is half filling union halls…….. she’s going down like Monica.
mj - the same one commented
2016-08-15 18:07:19 -0400
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Fox Host: Donald Trump Got All His Policies From Fox News
If I appeared on Fox as often as Drumpf did, I’d get my policies there, too . . .
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If I appeared on Fox as often as Drumpf did, I’d get my policies there, too . . .
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