'He's Turned the White House into an Alternative Fox Show': Fox News Host Says the Network 'Radicalized' Trump
August 30, 2018 in Blogs
It is increasingly clear that President Donald Trump is marching to the drumbeat of Fox News. And people at the network know it.
In an interesting moment of candor, Fox News Host Greg Gutfeld laid out just what role his network has played in enabling and bolstering Trump's behavior.
“You know what it is? Trump was radicalized by something, okay?” said Gutfeld on “The Five” on Tuesday. “Because he was a Democrat for a long time, he was pro-choice, liberal in many things. He was radicalized. What was he radicalized by? Us. Fox News. When Fox News happened — he watches Fox, and the world starts to make sense to him, and then — so all he's doing, Juan, is what we do, which is, we bash the media!“
“So he's just doing — he's turned the White House into kind of, like, an alternative Fox show where he sits there and he rips the media,” Gutfeld continued, roaring with laughter. “It's kind of refreshing.”
Fox's Greg Gutfeld: “Trump was radicalized by something … what was he radicalized by? Us, Fox News. … All he's doing is what we do, which is we bash the media. He's turned the White House into an alternative Fox show where he sits there and he rips the media hahaha” pic.twitter.com/Jx55cG5pbs
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) August 30, 2018
Gutfeld, as a Fox commentator, may find that “refreshing,” but it is in fact deeply disturbing. Fox News has long operated as an echo chamber for right-wing ideologues who want to promote themselves free from fact-checking — at least one study has found Fox News viewers are less informed on politics than people who don't watch any news at all.
Trump, moreover, has gotten numerous toxic falsehoods from Fox, from the idea that South African farm attacks are a conspiracy to expropriate land from white people, to the idea that Google is censoring conservative search results. …read more
Source: ALTERNET
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