“Even though he’s entitled to his opinions, he’s not entitled to his own set of facts”
During a broadcast of Donald Trump’s speech at a “Get Out the Vote” rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina on Friday evening, Fox News host Neil Cavuto cut into the footage to point out inaccuracies in what was being said by the former president and 2024 Republican frontrunner.
Taking issue with Trump claiming credit for the market going up while, in the same breath, blaming Biden for inflated gas prices and whatever else, Cavuto said, “We’ll continue monitoring the president’s remarks and I mean no offense to him or some of you who might want to continue to hear him, but I did have to say that even though the former president is entitled to his opinions, he’s not entitled to his own set of facts.”
Wow…absolutely blown away. I literally never thought I’d see journalistic integrity from anyone even loosely associated with FauxNews…
They know trump isnt as popular as in 2016, and are erring on the side of caution as well
They don’t care about his overall popularity, they only care about his popularity with their viewing demographic, and he’s as popular with that demo as he’s ever been. More so, honestly.
Remember Trump won more votes in 2020 than 2016, and his popular vote percentage rose by 0.7%. The fact he still had that much after 4 years of his shit tells you everything you need to know about these voters.
Could be opportunism. Fox senses that Trump might go to prison or get barred from the election in another way, and so they either prepare endorsing a different candidate or are simply cautious.
But it’s journalism by accident at best.
I wouldn’t necessarily call it integrity. I think Faux News has realized they created a monster that lost them a ton of viewers to even worse garbage at Newsmax. They’re trying to walk it all back now.
Cavuto went on to shoot down his claim that gas prices are at $6 a gallon, sourcing the real price as being an average of $3.26 a gallon.
Good. I’m so sick of the wild bullshit like that this baboon makes up. Gas is around 2.80 where I live which seems quite cheap given that it was that price 20 years ago and everything else has gone up so much. Then, of course, there’s the fact a lot of people are super-confused about that presidents don’t set the price of gas.
Back in the day if you couldn’t nail the price of a gallon of milk you were an out of touch elite. Trump hasn’t bought gas himself in decades I’m sure. That’s the lesson people should take from this.
Finally I made it to the upper crust. I have no idea what a gallon of milk costs. Take that everyone making less than 40 a year.
He started out with, what was it, 10 million dollars? I don’t think he’s ever bought gas in person. If you look at his business dealings, you start to wonder if he’s ever paid for anything in any transaction at any point in his life.
EDIT: Wait! I forgot about Stormy Daniels.
He started out with, what was it, 10 million dollars?
Way more than that https://apnews.com/article/0452d29cd2564eaf97605ab90acc3a67
people are super-confused about that presidents don’t set the price of gas.
It seems to be mostly one side of aisle that can’t grasp it. Always the same line of “gas was so much cheaper under trump…”
and I always reply with “well you should have seen the gas prices under clinton, you would be a massive fan!”.
It usually goes as well as you’d expect it to.
But if gas prices go down under a Dem, they’re killing jorbs and that’s bad. /j
Lower gas prices means less profit for their nepotistic buddies who own the fuel companies.
These are the folks who donate to their reelection PACs to keep them marketable to the population with ads.
These lost politicians don’t want to bite the hand that feeds because at the end of the day the population won’t support them based on ideals, they have to spew propaganda around and that shit is expensive.
After all the maths for gallons to liters and euros to dollars and vice versa, gas where I live is about $8.50.
It’s not a coincidence that the strategic oil reserves are at a historic low.
WE NEEDED THIS IN 2015, It’s too late now
Yes there isn’t going to be much course correction with the crazy trump train but they absolutely can start doing it for all the nutcase politicians he paved the way for and it will maybe make a difference.
Has everyone forgot that Trump worked to raise gas prices and bragged about it?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2020/04/15/column-trumps-push-for-higher-gas-prices-is-misguided/
You think pointing out one specific contradiction will be a wake up call to anyone? It’s hard to find a single sentence this sack of shit says that there isn’t written or recorded evidence of him previously contradicting. He has spoken on both sides of literarly almost every topic he talks about at some point. He is the ultimate null, he cancels himself out and proves himself a worthless nothing over and over again.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Once you radicalize someone, it’s not always so easy to bring them back. They can just migrate to even more hardcore Russian propaganda outlets.
It’s true. Time and time again these fools are radicalizing their base, and then when it gets out of hand they can’t rein it in and it bites them.
Fox and a handful of right-wing politicians made radicalizing into a profitable business that’s not regulated and freely available to anyone with no scruples and an imagination.
The people that far gone started pissing on Fox News the day they said Biden won the election. Maybe even a little before that.
I get the distinct impression Fox thinks it can pivot to a different set of subscribers as its armchair-bound geriatric viewers die of Covid and old age.
As MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml pointed out, Tucker leaving Fox has done wonders for Fox, but ended up creating that more hardcore Russian propaganda outlet you are talking about. I mean, an interview with Putin, how much more Russian propaganda can it get?
They can just migrate to even more hardcore Russian propaganda outlets.
RT?
