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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sun Oct 22, 2017, 11:22 AM Oct 2017

Abby Huntsman: "This is what's dangerous. It's dangerous. It's dangerous."

President Donald Trump on Sunday reused talking points from Fox & Friends after the conservative morning show blasted MSNBC host Rachel Maddow over a story about the killing of four U.S. service members in Niger.

The hosts of Fox & Friends began their 7 a.m. ET hour by lambasting Maddow for a theory linking the Trump administration’s travel ban to the lack of support for Sgt La David Johnson and three other troops killed in Niger. Maddow suggested that Chad had pulled a large contingent of forces out of Niger recently in response to Trump’s ban on travel from the nation.

“If you lean forward and you use your pen and you pause and you look thoughtful into the camera, then you must be saying something substantive,” co-host Pete Hegseth joked in a jab at Maddow. “Or maybe you’re widely [sic] spinning a conspiracy theory as the leader of the left.”

“This is what’s dangerous,” co-host Abby Huntsman opined. “It’s dangerous when the media starts having conversations about this and putting in their own theories that are completely unrelated to what actually happened. It’s dangerous, not only for us in terms of figuring out what did happen. But it’s dangerous to the families that lost loved ones over there because they’re the ones who should be the focus of this conversation and somehow we go down these roads oftentimes and it’s such a distraction and it’s such a disservice to this country and what our job is in the media.”



https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/trump-repeats-fox-news-attack-on-maddow-verbatim-after-fox-friends-slams-her-for-dangerous-niger-report/
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Laurian

(2,593 posts)
1. Abby was a pretty reasonable person when she was a regular on MSNBC.
Sun Oct 22, 2017, 11:44 AM
Oct 2017

Amazing how these people can so easily switch gears when they go to Fox.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
4. No... it's dangerous to not give some reasonable
Sun Oct 22, 2017, 11:52 AM
Oct 2017

explanation for the death of soldiers. It's dangerous to not "feel" the pain of tbe families of the bereaved. It's dangerous to lambast those who do understand such pain. It's dangerous to not take resposibility for your public mistakes and lies. It's dangerous to believe you are invincible as a leader.

Fox is playing to its ignorant base again. That is also dangerous.

irisblue

(32,950 posts)
6. Maddow is making lots of conservative commentators nervous
Sun Oct 22, 2017, 11:56 AM
Oct 2017

Could she be onto something? 🤔🤔 She does have a record of thoroughness & veracity.

kimbutgar

(21,103 posts)
8. Shes bitter she was fired from MSNBC and Rachel never had her on her show
Sun Oct 22, 2017, 01:26 PM
Oct 2017

Plus coming for the most lying untruthful network is ironic.

chowder66

(9,065 posts)
9. Project Much? Says the news station that spews batshit crazy theories minute by minute.
Sun Oct 22, 2017, 01:29 PM
Oct 2017

It’s dangerous when the media starts having conversations about this and putting in their own theories that are completely unrelated to what actually happened.

mulsh

(2,959 posts)
13. It's dangerous when desperate conservative shills trot out the telegenic but vapid
Sun Oct 22, 2017, 01:48 PM
Oct 2017

daughter of a current administration tool stationed in Moscow to scold the masses and people who are much more informed and intelligent than they can ever be.

That is what is dangerous, It's dangerous, it's dangerous.

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
15. abby my dear
Sun Oct 22, 2017, 03:21 PM
Oct 2017

even though your dad was the decaf version of GOP poison, he would have been as dangerous as Trump. Dangerous dangerous dangerous, because people like YOU support it!

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
16. Right now they are peddling incomprehensible and disproven "Uranium One" CT!
Sun Oct 22, 2017, 03:33 PM
Oct 2017

They are still promoting "Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi!" CT.

They are spinning out "Democratic Obstruction in Congress!" as reason why R's won't vote for their own legislation!

Nothing irritates me more than rightwing hypocrisy, which is just another thing that makes Fox Networks of Propaganda unwatchable.

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