On Fox News, suddenly a very different tune about the coronavirus

[William769]

For weeks, some of Fox News’s most popular hosts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, characterizing it as a conspiracy by media organizations and Democrats to undermine President Trump.

Fox News personalities such as Sean Hannity and Laura In­graham accused the news media of whipping up “mass hysteria” and being “panic pushers.” Fox Business host Trish Regan called the alleged media-Democratic alliance “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”

But that was then.

With Trump’s declaration on Friday that the virus constitutes a national emergency, the tone on Fox News has quickly shifted.

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[DonaldsRump]

1. It is the "Trump Virus"

Call it that for all your written and oral communications. Trump owns this!

[SCantiGOP]

3. Have to call it Trump Virus to pin it on him

Swine flu is already taken.

(Stolen from America’s best Christian, Betty Bowers)

[brewens]

6. The MAGAdeath Flu. n/t

[lame54]

11. Or Covid-45

[drray23]

2. So now their new talking points are that Trump

Is doing a magnificent job coordinating the efforts to combat Covid-19. Not surprisingly, this is what the White House has started pushing too..

[empedocles]

5. . . . and NY Governor Cuomo was slow to get started [on the virus]' - heard that on fox

Rationalizing trump and blaming Dems

[uponit7771]

7. +1, ... and any facts counter to that get interrupted by a talking head. Watched for 2 hours, they

... still are trying to spin this as a positive for Red Don

[Beartracks]

9. That's amazing, since only 2 weeks ago it was just a hoax!!1!

obviously...

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[uponit7771]

4. K&R, the "fake news" channels were getting good ratings from CV19 so FAUK News had to join in

[diva77]

8. Of course -- now that the disaster profiteering has kicked in.

[left-of-center2012]

10. This ...

On his program on Friday, Hannity lauded the president’s handling of what the host is now, belatedly, referring to as a “crisis.”

“Tonight, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease control and prevention,” he said.

“A bold, new precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from America’s leadership. . . .
The federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together,
under the president’s leadership, to stem the tide of the coronavirus.”

After Trump announced a travel ban on people from the European Union, Laura In­graham had started calling the pandemic “this dangerous health crisis.” She characterized warnings issued by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Anthony S. Fauci about the potential spread of the disease as “sobering and scary to hear.”