Fox News is Driving us Toward a Constitutional Crisis

[FM123]

Fox News and Sean Hannity have, through their own brand of propaganda, successfully manipulated the president of the United States into taking action that the FBI has “grave concerns” about and that his own Justice Department described as “extraordinarily reckless.”

The Nunes memo is a Hail Mary pass. A desperate, last-ditch effort by Trump and his Fox News enablers to stop the Mueller investigation before it goes any further and inflicts any more damage.

Most concerning of all, he is doing all of this at the behest of Hannity and Fox News.

I used to think that Fox was following Trump’s lead. Now, it appears as if Trump is following Fox and Hannity’s lead ― and in the process, effectively surrendering the powers of the presidency to his own propagandists.( Read more)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-bardella-fox-news_us_5a7498e9e4b0905433b3d0a7?section=us_opinion

[Iliyah]

1. I think fake news (Murdoch) is about to lose their

license.

[murielm99]

2. Why do you think that?

[tazkcmo]

7. It's on cable

No license involved.

[VOX]

10. Did you read this somewhere, or is it your hunch?

If it can be documented, I’d really be interested.

If it’s your hunch, no harm in that.

[unblock]

3. surrendering the powers of the presidency to his own propagandists?

but it's always been the reverse.

donnie, like palin before him, graduated magma cum loud from from foxnews university.
he's scarcely had a political thought that wasn't downloaded directly from foxnews.

he's always followed their lead, at least when he wasn't following putin's.

this is nothing new for donnie.

[Initech]

4. And this wouldn't be the first time!

Anyone remember Bush V. Gore? Fuck Fox News!!!!

[Corgigal]

5. It's not classified as news.

It's classified as entertainment. I can't help their viewers who don't know the difference. They can make up anything, have actor talking heads and pretend it's news.

When we control our govt, laws will have to be written to correct this. We're too stupid to understand the difference, so they are either news or a talk show. With a banner on the bottom that scrolling, entertainment.

[benld74]

6. Hannity was pushing memo call crap Monday nite

[Comatose Sphagetti]

8. Fox "News", Hannity, Limbaugh, et al...

Are not the problem. They are a symptom thereof. They would not exist if it were not for the people whose fear-based mindset is such that they believe and support them.

[VOX]

11. Respectfully half-agree and half-disagree.

What you say is correct, that the yahoos themselves are not critical thinkers, and their fear and anger is already there.

However, what Fox, Hannity, Limbaugh, et al do is “legitimize” and capitalize on that fear and anger by feeding it, and stoking it until they’ve whipped up a murderous rage for Obama, or Hillary, or Comey, or Mueller, or whoever is the Republican Party’s target-du-jour. They spread the talking points that then get spit back online, etc., in classic echo-chamber fashion. The latest example is the idiotic memo— with the feverish way the right-wing talking heads were selling it, you’d think the Magna Carta was about to be revealed.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

12. "Are not critical thinkers, and their fear and anger is already there."

Yep.

[VOX]

14. Yes. And the right-wing media gins them up with crap like BENGHAZI!!!

And that’s what Republican Trumpists are trying to do to the Muller DOJ investigation: create another BENGHAZI situation to get all their low-information muscle on board. They will continue to manufacture “shocking!” issues 24/7 that don’t really exist, but they will present them like they were written on stone tablets and shipped directly from Mt. Sinai.

We will continue to hear daily from Republicans and Hannity about this
“worst case in American history of corruption and partisan politics in our government institutions!” There are already rumblings of more memos, because this time, the GOP delivered major hype, but not a shred of meaningful content.

[OnDoutside]

9. Has Shep Smith commented on this yet ?

[Martin Eden]

13. Fox News inadvertently helping to take Trump down ....

... would be S W E E T

[GallopingGhost]

15. I think

Hannity's overdue for his rabies shot.