By Nancy Thorner -
Has Fox News, looked to for "fair and balanced" reporting, taken a sharp turn to the Left? No longer run by Rupert Murdoch, Rupert eldest son, 47 year old Lahlan Murdock, is now said to be the controlling force at Fox News and Fox Business. Although Lachlan says his politics closely resemble his father’s, it is thought that Lachlan is likely to nudge the network away from its close marriage to Trump. According to a New York Times report, the youngest son of Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch has reportedly told people privately that he is embarrassed by some of the network’s coverage of issues like climate change.
Fox's new additions of former Speaker Paul Ryan and Formula One Group executive chairman Chase Carey to the powerful Fox Board also seem to point to the number one cable network becoming a more active part of the Left. Paul Ryan, during his time as Speaker of the House, fought President Trump at every turn. Obvious were Ryan's pro-amnesty and pro-open borders positions.
Hiring of Donna Brazile
Perhaps it was not just coincidence that over the past several weeks Fox News, having also joined up with Disney, has hired Donna Brazile as a contributor and suspended Judge Jeanine Pirro?
As to Donna Brazile, she is the former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. When former Fox host Megyn Kelly asked Brazile about passing debate questions to Hillary Clinton so she’d be one-up during debates against Donald Trump, Brazile blatantly lied to Kelly. Now she’s going to work for the very network she lied to.
Recently Donna Brazile appeared on one of Bret Baier’s Fox News panels; she certainly didn’t disappoint. Right off the bat, Brazile credited the upswing in the nation’s economy to Barack Obama. If Brazile's point had been that he had driven it so far into the ground that the only direction it could go was up her statement might have had some validity, but it wasn’t. Brazile traced the upsurge to Obama’s taking office in 2009. Nobody pointed out that her hero had claimed that a 2% rise in the GDP was the new norm.
It got even worse when Brazile, the former chair of the DNC, scolded Donald Trump for insulting the memory of John McCain, who despite being a war hero, betrayed his party by putting his name on legislation authored by Ted Kennedy and Russ Feingold and sinking Trump’s attempt to get rid of Obamacare. As said by Ms. Brazile: “My mama told me to never speak ill of the dead.” What might Brazile's mama have had to say about her own daughter's lying and cheating on behalf of Hillary Clinton?
A report of 3/27/2019 did relate that John McCain was neck deep in the coup to overthrow President Trump when hand-delivering a copy of the fake news dossier to disgraced former FBI Director James Comey. It was his chief aid, David Kramer, who went to London to personally receive a copy and then proceeded to show the dossier to over one dozen media outlets in hopes they would publish the hoax allegations that the Russians compromised Donald Trump. This conflicts with Lindsey Graham's efforts to downplay his close bond with McCain, when telling the news and Republican voters, that McCain had no idea his top aide conspired with the anti-Trump media on a coup against President Trump.
Suspension of Judge Pirro
A guaranteed removal from Fox seems to be telling the truth about Islam. How fair was it that Judge Pirro was censored by Fox News for simply questioning whether a disciple of Islam, an adherent of the Quran, could honestly uphold the US Constitution?
The Gateway Pundit exposed this story of how Hufsa Kamal, a Pakistani American born in England and raised in Tennessee with a long history of vicious attacks on conservatives and also a producer for Bret Baier on Fox News, took to Twitter with her vile tweets to excoriate Judge Jeanine for questioning Omar’s allegiance to the Constitution. Fox then found it necessary to condemn Pirro’s remarks, indicating that the matter had been addressed with Pirro, further exposing themselves to be politically correct toadies by stating: “We strongly condemn Judge Pirro’s comments about Rep. Ilhan Omar. They do not reflect those of Fox, and we have addressed the matter with her directly.” It is Rep. Omar they should be addressing, asking the congresswoman just exactly how she would resolve inevitable conflicts between our Constitution and Shariah law?
The recent outrage at Fox centered around Judge Jeanine Pirro’s remarks about the hijab worn by Omar. According to the Koran 33:59 women are instructed to cover so they won’t get molested. The hijab therefore symbolizes that a woman wearing the hijab is fully committed to Sharia Law, the politics of Islam as operated for over 1400 years. Its history of annihilation, death and suffering is antithetical to freedom. Accordingly, there was nothing wrong with Judge Jeanine’s question about the Islamic hijab worn by Omar.
Representative Omar was neither reprimanded nor censored for her deeply-ingrained bias. Having not been removed from any Congressional committees, the only consequence of her bigotry has been an innocuous resolution against hate speech.
Ilhan Omar’s district in Minnesota is where almost all of the 70,000 imported Somali immigrants were located by Obama. That district was recently identified by the FBI as America’s terrorist capital It is no wonder that Congresswoman Omar is calling for the dissolution of America’s Homeland Security. She also took her oath of office on the Koran.
Grassroots action
Leftist advocacy groups, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has been calling on all advertisers to drop Fox News until the network fires hosts Jeanine Pirro and Tucker Carlson due to comments by both hosts that CAIR called “Islamophobic.” This is Sharia and how Islam proposes to conquer and control nations.
Carlson began hemorrhaging sponsors after stating: “We have a moral obligation to admit the world’s poor, the Democrats tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer, dirtier and more divided.” But in spite of losing Just for Men, Ancestry.com, Jaguar, Bowflex, Novo Nordis, SmileDirectClub, Nerd Wallet, Minted, Indeed and Pacific Life, he doubled down, sticking by his words. So far Fox has stayed by Carlson.
Boycotts aren't always the best plan to action mainly because they mostly hurt innocent parties, the employees who don’t have a say in what the owners decide. It is appropriate, however, to slam craven sponsors who shake in their boots at the thought of displaying even a modicum of moral courage. Write also to management alerting them to the fact that not only aren’t you going to continue being a customer, but you are alerting your friends, neighbors and relatives, to stop patronizing them.
Most importantly, Fox News should know that its viewers are not pleased with its turn to the Left, nor its political correctness as in caving to radical Sharia Law demands.
