BRET ‘NEVERTRUMPER’ BAIER, ANOTHER FAUX ‘JOURNALIST’…

Let me start by saying that I can’t stand anti-Trumper Brett Baier, I haven’t been able to for quite some time now.  But that said, he’s only one of the reasons that I stopped watching Fox News, except for one or two exceptions.  And with that said, President Trump handled the ‘Chinese Virus’ situation the best way for America. Just think, back in March, there was already hysteria.  You couldn’t find toilet paper, hand sanitizer or Chlorox wipes. Can you possibly imagine what would have happened had President Trump sounded the alarm in hysteria?  He is our leader, and as far as I’m concerned he handled the situation professionally and did a great job!

But apparently there’s now more than just a few folks who seem to disagree with my assessment of things, a few over there at ‘Fox News,’ Bret Baier being one,.  You see it was during a recent interview with President Trump’s campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh, on Thursday, that Baier pushed back, and rather strenuously so, after Murtaugh made the argument that the president said “the same things” to the public about COVID-19 that he had said to ‘journalist’ Bob Woodward.  Apparently President Trump had told Woodward that for months he knowingly downplayed the threat COVID-19 posed during interviews for Woodward’s soon to be released new book.

Excerpts of these recordings, which the president must have consented to, from Woodward’s book “Rage” were obtained by CNN and published on Wednesday.  In the recordings, President Trump says that he “wanted to always play it down” and that he still likes “playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”  And it was these tapes that Baier brought up with Murtaugh noting that people are “coming hard after the president for what he said to Bob Woodward and what he said on the record.” Murtaugh responded by said, “the things that are contained in there are the same things that President Trump was saying publicly,” but Baier strenuously disagreed!

Baier screeched, “That’s not true, Tim.  That’s not true.”  But Murtaugh proceeded to double down on his statement that, yes, the President Trump had in fact said the very same things publicly that he told Woodward in the tapes.  But Baier continued to press, saying, “When he said that the virus would go from 15 to zero and then it was magically going to wash away, that is not the same thing he’s telling Bob Woodward, that it’s a deadly virus over the air and it’s really serious and I like to downplay it.”  But desperate in the attempt to make his rather idiotic point, Baier insisted, “He was not saying the same things privately to Bob Woodward.”

Murtaugh then said, “it was public knowledge at the time” and that “it was discussed in coronavirus briefings.” He said that “everyone knew … it was transmitted through things like coughing and sneezing.”  Baier responded saying, “OK, but you just said that what he was saying privately and publicly was the same. It’s not.”  Murtaugh then brought up Anthony Fauci, saying that he “said it is the same.”  Murtaugh began to say, “Dr. Fauci said there was no … difference with what the president was discussing privately versus… ”  Baier interrupted, “With Fauci, not with Bob Woodward,” again calling Murtaugh out before moving on with the interview.

So we have ‘The Three Stooges’ of Fox News, Wallace, Cavuto and Baier now appearing to do all that they can to sound as if they’re on CNN or MSDNC instead of the network that still boasts of being both “Fair and Balanced,” but these days appears to be neither.  More and more Foxers are jumping into the ‘Dump Trump’ camp.  ‘Commie Chris’ Wallace is nothing but Liberal in Conservative clothing hiding out at Fox and is an even bigger idiot than his old man was.  Cavuto has been a NeverTrumper from day one and then there’s Baier, who has no love loss for President Trump.  Fortunately, they got rid of that pillow-biter, Sheepherder Smith.

The Woodward tape took place on February 7.  On January 31, President Trump put a hold on travel from Communist China.  At the time Democrats, and numerous other fake news media types like Baier, were calling President Trump xenophobic.  Democrats and the ‘fake news’ media were saying the exact opposite of what Trump was saying. Then Democrats and the media made a dramatic turn in their narrative.  It seems no matter what President Trump says or does is going to be mispresented by those in the ‘fake news’ media.  Baier lost me as a long time ago. I don’t watch him anymore. I don’t watch any of primetime news because they push propaganda.

Baier was likely smarting after his recent go round with ‘Creepy Joe’ Biden’s communication guy during which he called Baier a ‘Trump supporter.’  So like any ‘real’ journalist Baier had to make clear to anyone who may be watching that isn’t a Trump supporter by then going out of his way to prove he isn’t, so he can think of himself as being “fair and balanced.”  And in so doing he made it all about him and not about getting true information before the public, but about perpetuating the lies of the left.  I once liked Baier but now that he seems to have gone to the dark side, not so much.  It seems that fair and balanced is a myth from this Fox mouthpiece.

And I could be wrong, I am, after all, getting older and the memory is the first thing to go, but I swear that I watched President Trump respond to the press who were saying that President Trump was in essence painting a rosy picture, and he said at the time (March) that he didn’t want the country to panic, and that he’s a ‘cheerleader’ for the country. How is Baier now saying that’s not true?  It’s on video!  And as I mentioned earlier this comes a day after ‘Creepy Joe’s spokesmoron refused to answer Baier’s question about whether Creepy Joe’ uses a teleprompter, and accusing the Trump campaign of using Baier to ask questions. And Baier just let it slide.

Fox News no longer serves as being a viable conservative alternative to the 99 percent of the remaining sources of so-called ‘news and information.’  Especially during their daytime and weekend lineups.  They seem to busy trying to please those on the left and it’s that effort that will, in the end, likely cost them more viewers.  They never should have covered the fake story published in ‘The Atlantic,’ the same story that the publications editor, Jeffery Goldberg, is now admitting was probably false.  But once again in their rush to tarnish this president as we head into the next election we have another supposed ‘news’ organization spreading nothing but lies.

When the President banned travel from Communist China in late January and from Europe in early February despite accusations of xenophobia, and set-up a COVID-19 task force, I knew the virus was serious, I didn't need the President to tell me that. Baier implied President Trump's efforts to downplay the virus were to deceive the American people, not keep them calm, despite the fact his comments to Woodward contradict that implication. Baier also failed to mention the number of deaths that occurred because of the overreaction to a virus with a 6% death rate, which is why the President chose not to jump up and down the way Democrats and the media did.

It seems that these days Baier is using pretty much the same interviewing technique as that used by ‘Commie Chris’ Wallace.  You know, where one saves his more aggressive and argumentative questioning for those who are either conservative or who support the president.  After all, Baier kept shutting down Murtaugh but allowed the jackass who is the communications guy for ‘Creepy Joe’ to walk all over him. Pretty pathetic.  Baier brings new meaning to the word ‘quibble’ as he tried to pull off a gotcha.  Baier seems to think that he’s actually a journalist when, in fact, he’s JUST a script reader provided by a corporate board influenced by advertisers.

BRET BAIER, ‘NEVERTRUMPER’ PART DEUX…

Am I the only one to have noticed how it is that after spending a certain number of years on television most of those who fondly refer to themselves as journalists eventually come to take themselves far too seriously.  It’s like they come to think of themselves as someone whose opinion really does matter and think, much like Hitlery thought she deserved to be president, they deserve to be taken seriously.  But when you consider they do little more than to read from a teleprompter you quickly realize that that’s just plain nutty.  Which again brings me to Fox News’ Bret Baier. 

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s not so “Special Report,” host, and obvious ‘NeverTrumper’, Bret Baier reacted to how the White House had blocked Kaitlan Collins, who happens to be the White House Correspondent for the Communist News Network (CNN), from an event on Wednesday by stating that Fox “stands firmly with CNN on this issue of access.”  After reading from CNN’s statement on the matter, where the network defended Collins, Baier said, “As a member of the White House press pool, Fox stands firmly with CNN on this issue of access.”

That Baier would be so quick to come to the defense of Ms. Collins would, at least, indicate to me his rather misplaced priorities.  It is not the place of those in the media to harangue the president, regardless of who he is.  And if you’re going to exhibit bad behavior, then you should be made to face some sort of consequences.  But apparently Baier doesn’t agree with that sentiment.  But it seems to me that not doing so would only serve to encourage the same bad behavior that should not be seen as being acceptable.  Am I wrong?  Apparently Baier thinks so.   

Now of course Baier’s comments should come as a surprise to no one who has spent any amount of time watching his program.  It’s far more often than not that he seems to go well out of his way in his effort to paint the president in a bad light regardless of the issue, from tariffs to immigration, from the economy to foreign policy. And I find myself wondering if he would have felt the same had it been Barry ‘O’ who saw fit to take the same sort of action, or if his selective outrage is reserved solely for President Trump.  Why is it seen as being ok for Trump to be disrespected?

Perhaps if CNN would, instead, have sent a respectful reporter to this event, he, or she, would have likely received access to it.  But we know that’s not going to happen since reporters of this type have become essentially nonexistent at the network that has garnered for itself quite the reputation for creating what is now commonly referred to as being ‘fake news’.  CNN ceased to be a ‘news’ network long before Trump came onto the scene, so I’m a bit puzzled why it is that Baier would now be rushing to their defense.  It simply is no longer worthy of being defended.

I think what’s happening over there at FOX News is that they are now in the midst of a transition, of sorts, trying to appear as more liberal and a little less ‘fair and balanced’ all in an effort to gain a larger audience.  Also, with Murdoch Sr. on the way out and his more liberal son taking over, the transition to liberal will be coming fast and furious.  At the same time, of course, FOX ‘news people’ have a vested interest in being able to throw their weight around at press conferences where they can insult President Trump pretty much at their convenience. 

Anyway, I long ago gave up trying to find a bona fide provider of accurate news and information on television.  Such programming simply no longer exists.  What I do watch on Fox these days is programming typically identified as “opinion programming’ and get my actual ‘news’ from various online sources.  But even there you have to be careful and willing to spend time verifying sources.  It’s become increasingly difficult to find the actual truth about anything, and I find that as being rather sad.  Just because something is said with some authority, doesn’t make it true.

Ever since Trump first made it official that he was a candidate, Baier has made it increasingly obvious that he is little more than a liberal disguised as a conservative.  It’s kinda funny really how it is that Trump brings them out of the closet.  Throughout the entire campaign you could always count on Baier and his ‘panel’ to point out all of the things that made it impossible not only for Trump to get elected, but even to win the nomination.  The look on his face on election night, sitting there next to Kelly, was absolutely priceless.  It was a look of total disbelief.

Those in the media have never demonstrated toward any other president the level of disrespect they show toward President Trump.  Reagan and both Bushs were the recipients of some but compared to Trump it was nothing.  Barry ‘O’ would never have put up with such disrespect and while conservatives reporters asked tough questions to him never showed utter contempt and disrespect for the office. The precedence being set here is you can’t openly show contempt and disrespect and sill expect to be treated in a professional manner.  You reap what you sow.

There is a total and complete lack of civility not only in the media today, but in general.  And it is those in the media to seem to think that the rules for civility simply don’t apply whenever dealing with President Trump, anyone on his staff and even those who support him.  And I’m guessing Baier has no problem with that, again, as long as it in any way deals with Trump.  The behavior of those in the media is now very much out of control.  And frankly I’m glad Trump gives it right back to them! Other presidents just took the abuse with no response, that’s no longer the case.