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Fox buried Trump's hush money story helping him win
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Rupert Murdoch asked President Trump to investigate if his wife Wendy was a Chinese spy.
The interview aired on MSNBC , so do your own research.
Rupert Murdoch asked Trump to have US intelligence investigate whether his ex-wife was a Chinese spy: report
According to reporter Gabe Sherman, former Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch asked President Donald Trump to use U.S. resources to investigate his former wife.
Sherman cited the recent expose on Fox News has become state-sponsored television. Speaking to MSNBC host Chris Hayes, Sherman knocked the network for attacking The New Yorker’s reporting on the story.
“Can we revel in the fact that a Fox News producer is saying a story doesn’t pass muster on a network that spews misinformation and lies every day,” Sherman said. “That shows you the lengths they went to cover up to help Donald Trump win. We knew in 2016 there was an alliance after Trump got the Republican nomination that Fox News was going to become what ultimately became state TV. That’s what the audience wants. They were beholden to the Trump base, which formed basically the entire Fox News audience. They had no power, even if they wanted to break with Donald Trump, that would be game over for their business.”
He went on to say that this had nothing to do with politics, but instead it was about a large business having a powerful relationship with the president of the United States.
“The Democratic Congress might want to find out what favors did the Murdoch family get because of this access,” Sherman said. “I’ve reported in the past that Trump asked Rupert Murdoch to submit names for the S.E.C. Chairman. In fact, Rupert Murdoch reached out to Donald Trump and asked if his ex-wife, Wendy Murdoch, was a Chinese spy. Trump talked to the intelligence agencies about her connections to the Chinese government.”
Watch the full conversation below:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/ru...vestigate-whether-ex-wife-chinese-spy-report/
The interview aired on MSNBC , so do your own research.
Rupert Murdoch asked Trump to have US intelligence investigate whether his ex-wife was a Chinese spy: report
According to reporter Gabe Sherman, former Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch asked President Donald Trump to use U.S. resources to investigate his former wife.
Sherman cited the recent expose on Fox News has become state-sponsored television. Speaking to MSNBC host Chris Hayes, Sherman knocked the network for attacking The New Yorker’s reporting on the story.
“Can we revel in the fact that a Fox News producer is saying a story doesn’t pass muster on a network that spews misinformation and lies every day,” Sherman said. “That shows you the lengths they went to cover up to help Donald Trump win. We knew in 2016 there was an alliance after Trump got the Republican nomination that Fox News was going to become what ultimately became state TV. That’s what the audience wants. They were beholden to the Trump base, which formed basically the entire Fox News audience. They had no power, even if they wanted to break with Donald Trump, that would be game over for their business.”
He went on to say that this had nothing to do with politics, but instead it was about a large business having a powerful relationship with the president of the United States.
“The Democratic Congress might want to find out what favors did the Murdoch family get because of this access,” Sherman said. “I’ve reported in the past that Trump asked Rupert Murdoch to submit names for the S.E.C. Chairman. In fact, Rupert Murdoch reached out to Donald Trump and asked if his ex-wife, Wendy Murdoch, was a Chinese spy. Trump talked to the intelligence agencies about her connections to the Chinese government.”
Watch the full conversation below:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/ru...vestigate-whether-ex-wife-chinese-spy-report/
Ex-Fox News contributor appalled by bombshell report on Fox and Trump: ‘This should make you shudder’
Julie Roginsky, a former contributor on Fox News, found herself appalled by new bombshell reporting detailing the symbiotic relationship between President Donald Trump and Fox News.
Reacting to Jane Mayer’s latest report on Fox, which claims that the network helped the president during the 2016 election by spiking a story about him paying hush money to former mistresses, Roginsky said Fox News viewers should feel betrayed that the network has gone out of its way to hide the truth from them.
“This story should make you shudder, especially if you’re a Fox News viewer with any modicum of critical thinking ability,” she wrote on Twitter.
Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky
This story should make you shudder, especially if you’re a Fox News viewer with any modicum of critical thinking ability. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house …
Roginsky has long been estranged from the network where she used to work as a contributor. In 2017, she filed a lawsuit against Fox alleging that the network offered her a major promotion that she would get only if she had sex with the late Fox News president Roger Ailes.
The lawsuit also alleged that then-Fox co-president Bill Shine, who now works in the Trump White House, “aided and abetted” Ailes’ harassment against her, and also retaliated against her by “refusing to give her the promised permanent hosting position” because she did not agree to Ailes’ demands. Additionally, the suit alleges that Shine also retaliated against her after she “refused to publicly disparage Gretchen Carlson when Carlson filed sexual harassment claims against Ailes” last year.
First of all, I'm not the one posting "faux news" or "fake news" every time someone posts an article going after someone on the left. That would be you, arguing regularly that "facts are ridiculous".
Second, I'm not saying what the New Yorker claims isn't true - just that it is rich that the New Yorker is calling some other media outlet "propaganda" and "partisan".
Hit pieces concocted by right wing "ethics watchdogs" and pushed by right wing tabloids are non-stories that will be dropped in the next two weeks.
So what? If I wanted to waste the time I could easily come up with the same amount of left wing hit pieces on Trump. Hell, that shit has been going on since Trump won the election. You folks are always on about hit pieces.
You keep thinking there's some holier than thou approach you can use on this stuff. Both sides of the fence are tainted, corrupt and propaganda. The only question is: when will you realize it?
And you keep bringing up false equivalencies. Here's a tip that may help you out, if the authorities are investigating it, it's likely legit, has legs, and will get picked up by reputable sources. If it's the next big story that gets dropped in 2 weeks, it's just smoke.
For example:
"The Clinton Foundation is a slush fund for the Clintons." Fake news
"The Trump Foundation is a slush fund for the Trumps that shuttered and is under investigation". Actual news
Ah, I see. So if you or those on the left think the source is "reputable" then it is, but if I or those on the right think it is "reputable", then it isn't. Kinda makes you not very reputable.
Ok, I hate to dignify this thread with a response, but if Murdoch thought his wife might be a chi-com spy, why is it outrageous for him to ask the administration to look into it? Wouldn't the fact that the Chinese inserted a spy into the biggest cable news network be of some concern?
Diane Feinstein employed a Chinese spy for 20 years on her staff. Maybe she should have asked someone to check him out too. Of course, that might have been a bit awkward since her husband was doing deal after deal in china with the government and his wife, a powerful senator, was one of their biggest boosters in DC.
Diane Feinstein employed a Chinese spy for 20 years on her staff. Maybe she should have asked someone to check him out too. Of course, that might have been a bit awkward since her husband was doing deal after deal in china with the government and his wife, a powerful senator, was one of their biggest boosters in DC.
Fox was so in the bag for Trump that they sent Megyn Kelly out to try to take him down in the first debate.