Fox News Declares War on President Trump

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From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun totem, Bible-clinging, deplorable American. Todd Starnes.

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All right. Well, hello, everybody. Happy Monday to you. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show. So there's a big kerfuffle over the weekend, and I'm loving this. I love every single bit of it, ladies and gentlemen. President Trump on Friday finally said, you know what, enough is enough. And the president tired of the fake news and the propagandist. And, you know, it's really polite. I mean, the president's calling it fake news. But these people are liars. That's all they are. They're professional liars. And you can slather as much makeup as you want to on these people, these reporters and reporter rats, what we call the lady reporters. You can do all of that, but they're still at the end of the day liars. What is it that Sarah Palin said? You can put lipstick on it. Well, yeah, you know. So anyway, Trump said, I'm done. This is it. And the president ended up banning PMS Now, CNN and Politico. And so all you know what broke loose. And of course, all of these people on Fox News are jumping in, the Brit Humes, the Guy Bensons of the world, and they're raising, they're saying how inappropriate this is, harumph, harumph, harumph. And then just a little while ago, the other shoe dropped. Now, let me explain how this works. And I've got a lot to say about this because something has to be done with the broken news media.

Now, there is every day, there are a group of reporters that travel along with the president and they call themselves the pool. So basically, all the networks get together and everybody's given a schedule. And so like one day it will be CNN, the other day it will be Fox or whoever. So everybody volunteers a person and they call that the pool coverage. Well, today, all the networks banded together and they said, fine, we're going to teach Trump a lesson. So the five networks that make up the White House TV press pool have banded together and they're basically boycotting the pool coverage of President Trump.

A memorandum was sent to the pool subscribers by the chair, who happens to be, by the way, Fox News Washington Bureau Chief Brian Bowton. And Brian Bowton wrote, effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the president. This follows the White House's position, preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place.

So this is a basically a big blank you to President Trump.

And I'm just telling you right here and now, ladies and gentlemen, that President Trump ought to respond. And here's what the president needs to do. And I just want to address specifically Fox News channel for just a moment. Because even while I was there, the dirty secret was that the news side, not the opinion side, but the news side of Fox News was just as liberal as anything coming out of CNN or PMS Now. That was the dirty secret back then. I can only imagine what it's become now. And I say that because they hired a lot of the people that do the hiring and firing at Fox were actually hired from PMS Now.

And I've heard, I've heard it is a miserable place to work right now because so many liberals and people, you know, again, there was back when Roger Ailes was alive and you had folks like Bill Shine and John Moody running the show, people towed the line. But now, well, they don't. And I'm just telling you right now that the news division at Fox is liberal as anything you have seen. And this is a great example of it, and especially the Washington Bureau. And one of the things that just drives me insane is that this administration has been treating Fox News like they're somehow the official state TV network of the Trump administration. All the while, these people are seething because they hate Donald Trump and any opportunity they get to go after Donald Trump and to stick it to shiv the president of the United States, Fox News will do it. And that's exactly what's going on here with Brit Hume and Guy Benson, all these other folks over there. And this Brian Bowton guy didn't know him.

But by the way, and I will tell you the previous Bureau chief they had, I was one day I was I was working out of the Fox Bureau in DC. And again, I worked there for almost 15 years. So I know a lot of people and I've seen a lot of stuff.