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Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Friday, September 13, 2024

Dana Milbank - The reviews were almost universally savage after Donald Trump's debate debacle, in which the former president ranted about migrants eating pets while getting his clock cleaned by an opponent he had insisted was "stupid." And then, in a universe all its own, was Fox News. "All the memorable lines were from Donald Trump," host Jesse Watters proclaimed after the debate ended. "He just had some great knockouts. And so this race just got tighter."

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Even the Wall Street Journal's right-wing editorialists thought that Vice President Kamala Harris "won the debate because she came in with a strategy to taunt and goad Mr. Trump into diving down rabbit holes of personal grievance and vanity," while Karl Rove added in a column that the night "was a train wreck for him, far worse than anything Team Trump could have imagined."

An ebullient Harris campaign immediately called for another debate. (Trump, who once called for debates "ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE," eventually refused the challenge after much hemming and hawing.) But Harris's gesture of confidence prompted Fox News's Laura Ingraham to argue: "They don't think she won. They don't think she's in a position to win this race."

Sean Hannity interviewed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who claimed Trump notched "a big win."

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Trump had "the best closing in presidential debate history."

Trump himself joined Hannity in the spin room. "I think it was my best debate ever," he said.

And that was just within the first 75 minutes after the debate. The next morning, Trump was back, on "Fox & Friends." "I won the debate by a lot," he said, and "every single poll last night had me winning like 90-10." The hosts did not contradict him.

On Thursday afternoon, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt announced on Fox that Trump "is in the process of winning the debate" because "a debate isn't over in a day" and "upon further review, the American public has decided that debate was rigged."

It was a case study in how the dominant "news" organ of the right cleans up Trump's messes.

It's simply hard to imagine any network before Fox News allowing its airwaves to become an unabashed propaganda outlet for a single political party to the point any semblance of simple objectivity almost completely disappears.

This is why defeating Donald Trump at the ballot box remains a daunting task because so many of his supporters simply are never exposed to anything close to the truth of the facts, circumstances, details and sometimes even the unedited news we outside their audience know as reality. On Fox, they hype fabulist tales that enrages Trump's base. Then the mainstream media looks at and discovers the facts, usually dismissing the created-hysteria, while Fox reinforces that the other side is ignoring the imminent danger that only exists as another vehicle to cement outrage inside their bubble.

Those outside Fox's bubble don't realize that they've been drawn into another racist cultural battle while those inside become lock and loaded, overdosing on gaslighted inventions meant only to unify outrage and stoke fear.

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-13 08:55 AM | Reply

--- Nooze does real damage to America.

My aunt and uncle are part of their brainwashed cult. When the vaccine came out, they were certain it would put a tracker chip in them, it would cause them to become magnetized, that COVID was "just a cold", that Vitamin C and Hyrdroxychloroquine and horse paste would cure them, and refused to wear masks because they thought they would suffocate.

When they caught COVID he had a stroke and it exacerbated his Parkinsons.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-13 09:47 AM | Reply

Combine 'memorable lines' and 'Jesse Waters' and you get a college student telling Waters to "Eat ----" on live television...

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2024-09-13 01:48 PM | Reply

Imagine the number of american families that have permanently split up due to the propaganda from putin's news network.

#4 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-13 01:59 PM | Reply

Memorable only because they were disqualifying.

This time next year his crazy cats and dogs rants will only be remembered by historians and comedians.

#5 | Posted by Tor at 2024-09-13 01:59 PM | Reply

It's okay, as long as they keep trying to re-indoctrinate the already
mentally captured drones. Those cultists are largely beyond help anyways.
The main battle will be for the small number of independents and undecideds...
as usual.

#6 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-09-13 02:06 PM | Reply

Anyone that takes Faux "News" seriously after they had to cough up a BILLION dollars after 1/6 needs their head examined.

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-13 05:56 PM | Reply

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