Hell just froze over: Fox News now openly mocking Donald Trump

[DonViejo]

Longtime Fox News anchor Chris Wallace didn’t mince words when asked to describe the current state of Donald Trump’s floundering presidential campaign, mocking campaign chair Paul Manafort’s claim that all is well despite plummeting poll numbers, reports Media Matters.

Appearing as a guest on America’s Newsroom, Wallace watched a clip of Manafort asserting, “The Republican Party is united. Do we agree on everything? No. Mr. Trump is an outsider, he hasn’t been a part of the political system, so his relationships with the leadership of the party are not as deep and long as traditionally would be with the Republican nominee. But that’s not to say he doesn’t have good relations.”

Asked by host Bill Hemmer if Manafort was correct in claiming the campaign would only continue to “improve,” Wallace gave Manafort a back-handed and sarcastic compliment on the job he has done so far.

“Well, I suppose it’s improving if you consider that he’s no longer in a fight with a Gold Star family, but no, these are bad numbers, and it isn’t early in the campaign,” Wallace said as he smirked before stating that the campaigns are about to go into a holding pattern while the public finds something more “sensible” to do with their spare time.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/hell-just-froze-over-fox-news-now-openly-mocking-donald-trump/

[RKP5637]

1. Trump and Manafort, are great examples of Idiocracy in the US! n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

3. That's an insult to these guys

[RKP5637]

7. ...

[sarae]

9. YESSS

[RKP5637]

10. Definitely!!! n/t

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

26. I've been reminded of this movie so much in recent years, but never so much as since the rise

of the giant Cheeto. Or, should I say, CHEAT-O?

[sarae]

27. Haha

The one on the left looks much more artificial.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. "the campaigns are about to go into a holding pattern"

Olympics? Bread and Circuses?

[Ilsa]

22. I'm thinking that a lot of people are already tired of his bullshit and

aren't going to bother listening to the Daily Outrage by him any more. I'm taking a couple of weeks off from politics to get my blood pressure back to normal and see if the polls continue in HRC's and Democratics' favor. Ill watch some Olympics, read, catch up on sewing, etc.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Hear hear!

[anamandujano]

28. I only check in to read thread topics and the occasional whole thread.

Breathe deeply and stay hydrated fellow Spurs fan. Did you see Manu in the Olympic parade? I did.

[Ilsa]

29. No, I "checked out" and read a book.

Is he playing for Argentina or the US?

[anamandujano]

30. Argentina

He was holding a little flag and doing his best to smile. I was watching for him with eagle eyes. Some other Argentinian basketball player who's also NBA was holding the big flag.

What's a book?

[Ilsa]

31. "What's a book?" LOL, you high-tech

Whippersnapper!

I like 'em both ways: paper and digital, but I picked up Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Target on Wednesday. It's the play, not a typical novel, so it was a quick read. Not a lot of set direction, I suppose because it was assumed any reader would have read all of 1-7 and would easily imagine sets.

[anamandujano]

32. I was joking. I love books.

I haven't been doing much reading lately, sad really.

[TlalocW]

4. I think repubilcans are really starting to panic about Trump

The more sane, knowledgeable about politics and what it takes to win elections - not the loony, we love him cuz he insults Mexicans and Muslims type. They're think maybe if we pile on, Trump will leave the race on his own volition, and we can nominate someone who has a chance.

Poor deluded fools.

TlalocW

[Orsino]

5. Ordinarily, Fox is what Murdoch uses to issue marching orders to the GOP.

Their deliberately goading Trump sure looks like the command for him to quit. Or calculated to panic him so he quits.

Either works.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Fake Noise will never

abandon Trump. This is Ailes and Murdoch's creation and they will gamble the house on this.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. But Ailes is gone

so they are winging it!

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Ailes is still on retainer for 18 months

as a adviser to Murdoch. That was reported by one of the wire services.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. He's lawyered up and will be very busy

trying to keep himself out of jail. I doubt he'll be contributing much.

[Wellstone ruled]

13. Fox Entertainment will pick up the tab.

Murdoch did the same with his London Stink fest.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. He'll still be tied up with discovery

He's damaged goods.

[Wellstone ruled]

16. Murdoch and Ailes are not nice people.

If you are following what is happening in Britain,you are seeing what one Guy with a Megaphone and unlimited money can do to a Country. Ailes is the real face of the Republican Party. Nixon's go to Guy and we know how that turned out.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Oh I have been following Murdoch

for > 20 years (and my mother used to follow that crowd as well since the late '80s- Murdoch, John Malone, Ralph Roberts, Ted Turner, etc, through watching many many CSPAN panels and we used to discuss them quite a bit).

It's not anything to do with a lack of money to defend Ailes, it's that at his age, Murdoch would probably prefer to cut him loose because there are certainly more propagandist ilk where Ailes came from. As it is, he's been shuffling his sons around the empire so this Ailes thing was probably the last thing he needed while trying to stabilize the unwieldy properties.

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Mentioned this before,Ailes is the

GOP,his brand has been the go to model since Nixon,and they won with that model. As long as the media is in bed with them,it is not going to change. When is comes to Murdoch,as you mentioned,been following this Guy when we first heard about him in Australia jacking the bejeebers out of their Political System. He is the master of Political nastiness. Great case study in what and how to control a political process.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Lee Atwater created the modern brand

and Ailes merely found an outlet to propagandize it after Raygun polished the turd and set the stage for a complete RW media takeover that allowed a Fox to exist and a Murdoch to buy into American media.

The one thing to note about the people in the media business is that nothing is sacred and people are "disposable". The 1976 movie "Network" was prophetic in that sense. I am feeling that they are going to "reinvent" Fox in order to reinvent the GOP because they are the laughing stock of the world right now. It's not going to happen overnight but they are going to have to claw back all their original policy positions that they automatically rejected over the past 8 years in an attempt to be "anti-Obama" (including pulling Reagan out from under the mac truck that they ran over him with), and try to bring those "traditional conservatives" who are fleeing, back into their fold.

I hate to say that Democrats went through similar hand-wringing after 3 Presidential election losses in a row, which gave birth to the much-derided DLC. IMHO, the GOP is probably going to pull back towards the center and kick their lunatic fringe over a cliff. They have a hard road to travel to do this but they are, as you noted, mean ruthless folks, and they will deal with their crazies in the only way they know.

[Wellstone ruled]

21. Agree with you on the Atwater creation.

Ailes and Rove took this to the next level and like you have said,we are seeing the train wreck happening in slow motion. The American public is so gullible and downright ignorant to how they are manipulated and used for agendas of various groups or persons.

And after the 1984 Stupid,we dems have suffered as a result of going to a center right. We are probably some where in the Center at this time. And many of our supporters are frustrated with the Party's lack of Progressive agenda. Appears there might be some change coming.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Agree!

I think a transformation is coming.

[Wellstone ruled]

25. It has taken five decades for this to happen.

Great study in Political Science.

[moonscape]

15. I followed a RW link that was making a ridiculous assertion,

and decided to read the comments to see what Trump devotees were saying.

Many were talking about Fox News had become unwatchable since Ailes left and were joining the liberal media.

(For entertainment, it was something posted in a non-political forum I frequent, saying Trump was actually trouncing Hillary in the polls - that the polls were a liberal conspiracy. I'd imagine that's now the only online rag Trump will get his talking points from)

[FSogol]

19. LOL. Trump is driving the GOP bus over a cliff and all the screaming passengers

are united!