Harris ate the Fox
Last night, Bret Baier of Fox News unmasked himself completely during the worst hour of his career as a television broadcaster. Certainly, he lost all claim to calling himself a journalist, but the Washington, DC, clique of access-based transactional information brokers who celebrate their part in America’s decay at the White House Correspondents Association dinners each April will no doubt continue to honor him as one of their own. It makes sense because he is. He is part of a vast commercial enterprise that preys on fear, stokes division, stifles rational conversation and coddles extremism.
Fox News as a journalistic operation is premised entirely on the articulated stupidity of “we will inform you at 6 pm” and “delude you at 8pm.” That is what Fox News argues when it routinely goes to court and defends its lies, smears, slanders and misinformation by declaring itself “entertainment, not news.” Fox News doesn’t claim itself as news with a few exceptions: it has always been “BUT Chris Wallace,” “BUT Shep Smith,” “BUT Brit Hume,” “BUT Bret Baier.”
Baier is a preposterous figure. Recently, he purchased a $30 million dollar Palm Beach pied-à-terre down the road from Mar-a-Lago, the fruits of a propaganda career which climaxed when he was terrified of reporting the news that Biden had won to his gaslit and radicalized election night audience. Like Trump and Matt Gaetz, Baier has joined MAGA, at least in an aesthetic sense, with injections of filler and Botox that have disfigured him. He looks as different from the average red-blooded American white dude as the elites of Panem did from the wretches in the districts during “The Hunger Games.” Though his face is medically frozen, the heat from Kamala Harris’ answer to his abject and shameful dishonesty cracked it just a bit. What do you see?
I see shame, or perhaps embarrassment. It’s clear he knows he’s being castrated on live television, but seems as helpless as a steer at cutting time.
The moment itself was amazing, and it offers a tremendous example of the dishonesty that oozes out of Fox News 24/7.
Watch the moment Kamala Harris took control:
More of this please, Kamala.
The entire premise of Kamala Harris’ campaign is that we Americans share much more in common than we do in disagreement. This is very true.
Say what you will about Ronald Reagan, but I would like you to watch a speech he gave on July, 4 1986, celebrating the centennial of the Statue of Liberty. I was at the fireworks watching as a 15-year-old, and the words spoken that night are as true today as they were then. Please listen to his words:
Kamala Harris is the successor to Ronald Reagan’s American message. Donald Trump is the demagogue about whom the founders warned their descendants. His rise marks the moment they feared and foresaw.
Kamala Harris must finish this race fiercely. She must continue to go after the un-American movement Trump leads, and call it out non-stop.
This election is truly a fight for America. The softer side will lose.
Last night, Kamala Harris was the toughest customer in the room. Before this is over, she will have to finish Trump off as a political figure by making clear how pathetic and weak he is. It is the final obstacle blocking the summit.
Nineteen days to go.
Kamala not only manhandled Baier, but simultaneously disposed of the Fox support team that was shouting in his ear piece and gesturing on the sidelines.
She was like a football player running for a TD and neither the defensive linemen nor the players on the bench were able to run on the field to stop her.
Love the title. Loved the piece. Right up,to the point where you again invoked Reagan. You admitted that you were a 15 year old. I was an adult at that time, desperately trying to save talented, kind, caring human beings who were being cut down in the prime of their lives because the asshole actor hated gay men and would not lift a finger. He was NOT a president for all the people. Harris will be. Reagan was an actor and had a good script writer. But his actions did not fit with the words of that script. Just like trump, his words were intended to seduce his audience. Maybe you need to revisit your 15-year old’s baked in admiration of Ronald Reagan through the eyes of an adult. He was NOT good for our country.