Did Fox mention the Bannon brouhaha last night?

[Orangeutan]

I turned over briefly (all I could stand) when both MSNBC and CNN were on station breaks, and the few times Fox was not also on a station break, Hannity and Ingraham were pounding the DACA story as if their lives depended on it. I didn't see the top of the hour, but I'm curious if the Bannon split ever came up at all.

Also, I did observe a discrepancy: in the banter between Rachel and Lawrence before the handoff, they seemed to confirm that in his meeting with Ryan, Rosenstein had NOT agreed to turn over documents from the investigation. However, a Hannity guest said that he HAD turned them over, or had agreed to do so by midnight. Anyone know which is right?

[Lil Missy]

1. My first instinct would be to assume Hannity lied.

[anneboleyn]

5. Hannity has been making insane claims about the fbi and Russia investigation for weeks. Actually his

statements are just very creepy for a guy who claims to love ‘Murica. He makes outrageous claims about how the fbi can’t be trusted at all and how the fbi and doj need to be purged by the republicans so they can go after the real problem — you know, Hillary’s emails. I wouldn’t trust anything he says. He’s full of shit, he says hysterical nonsense, and he doesn’t care if a Russian stooge is running the country. Hillary’s emails are so much more important! /s

[IluvPitties]

7. Hannity I, IMO,a Russian plant.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. Yup but

Iran protesters top story

Trumps response about bannon made him the hero

Fox not using "chief political adviser" instead calling bannon a former "staffer"

[marble falls]

3. That assumes nuance on Fox.

[anneboleyn]

4. Fox did cover the story. Called Bannon a staffer. Several guests said Trump was making mistakes

— in their opinion, big mistakes by cutting himself off from Bannon and others. They said that Bannon was definitely Trump’s connection to his base (they also said that Bannon is a hero to the base that supported Trump and Trump trying to humiliate him publicly while also not doing anything the base thought they were promised is a major problem for Trump who is unpopular as it is — they said that if the Bannon-loving base goes then Trump is totally cut off and will have zero support). They said that starting a public fight with Bannon, especially writing that ridiculous letter (one of the Fox “commentator” types said that a president sending out a letter directed at denigrating one person and saying that person had “lost his mind” is just extremely inappropriate — my thoughts: what a shocker that Trump does something grotesquely inappropriate...again!)

Of course I hope that Bannon decides to go after Trump and hard — criticize him on Breitbart, fight him tooth and nail during the 2018 elections. That can only help us.

[Orangeutan]

6. Thanks, good info!

So far, word is that Bannon has chosen not to respond, hoping that Trump will come around. Disappointing rumors for those of us hoping for an all-out shit storm.

[anneboleyn]

11. Come around? Bannon called the Donny Jr meeting treasonous and Trump said that Bannon had

lost his mind. I don’t think either of them is coming around to anything. Bannon will choose to fight most likely by choosing Bannon types to run against repub senators in the fall.

[uponit7771]

9. +1, main thread was Trump should rebuild the relationship because a split would hurt Trump & GOP ...

... more than Bannon

[uponit7771]

8. Tucker Carlson spent around 15 mins on Trump and Bannon then went on to some racist crap

[anneboleyn]

10. We have a relative who worships Tucker (the new Fox Tucker that is not cnn or msnbc Tucker)

And he thinks Tucker tells it like it is and isn’t afraid to say things nobody else will say (sound familiar?) — Tucker apparently discusses the “EVILS OF IMMIGRATION AND THE TERROR OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND THAT IMMIGRANTS POOP ON SIDEWALKS AND STUFF IN PUBLIC” almost every night. Yes, the story about the poop is real — we were informed by the relative that Romani living in a small town somewhere (it might have been in PA — I can’t remember) were possibly illegal and that they like other bad immigrants were pooping in public places. Seriously. Tucker apparently implied that they behaved like animals and used the poop story to emphasize this idea.

Tucker’s rhetoric is like something out of the “old days” with a constant emphasis on how immigrants are “stealing” jobs, etc from “real ‘Muricans” and how illegals are roaming the country and killing young attractive white women and how nobody will stop them and that we will all be speaking Spanish by 2025. Oh yeah and they are running in huge groups across our “open” (southern) border every day while carrying as many drugs as they can carry. Tucker doesn’t even pretend to care about the northern border; he never mentions any immigrants (illegal or legal) who are white. I wish I were exaggerating.

All of this from the guy who is an heir to a massive fortune (Swanson’s Frozen Food) and attended elite schools including boarding school and Dartmouth and whose family lives in La Jolla...

And who used to be a standard neocon type before discovering that he could get an audience on Fox by pretending to love Trump and hate (brown) immigrants. Ugh.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Tucker....rhymes with......

...well, you know.

[uponit7771]

13. WOW !!! Tucker is more of an overt racist than I gave him credit for

[Fred Sanders]

14. Foxxx and Carlson are vile and evil and both would be banned in Europe as hate speech.

Muslims being the subject of constant incitement to hatred by state media, state media speakers and even the head of state is apparently very legal in America.

As it was for another group in 1930's Germany.

I am not Muslim but I will not say nothing.

[OnDoutside]

15. Not saying it happened in that particular case but when I was a teenager in the early 80s

two Libyan Cattle dealers and their families moved into a house across the road. It was a curiosity to me as we rarely saw non-white people, in my city. Anyway, periodically some of their kids used drop their shorts etc, and take a dump on the storm drain, on the road. At least it wasn't on the sidewalk !!!

[Orangeutan]

16. The one I can't stand is that harpy Jeanine Pirro.

I used to think she was sexy 25 years ago when she appeared on "Geraldo" during the O.J. trial. Now I just think she's shrill and grotesque. Nails on a blackboard.