Even on Fox, Trump's Helsinki Performance Was 'Ridiculous' and 'Surreal'

[TomCADem]

I guess what surprises me is why did Fox act outraged? Why didn't Fox just offer the usual pro-Trump/GOP spin? After all, if one watched Fox, as Trump does, wouldn't most folks come away with the idea that Russia got a raw deal? This must be confusing some of the Fox bots at home.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/trump-fox-news-putin/565346/

All par for the course from CNN. The big surprise was going on over at Fox News, where the consternation and outrage were only slightly more restrained.

The day started with Fox and Friends’ Brian Kilmeade taking issue with Trump’s pre-meeting tweet, which read: “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!”

“That’s by far the most ridiculous tweet of late,” Kilmeade said in response. “That is insulting to past administrations—he can’t be saying that going into the Russian summit.”

Then, after the press conference in Helsinki, the Fox gloves really started to come off on Twitter.

[Cha]

1. Donald The Traitor trump's Tweet's could

have been written by putin.

The Fucking Siberian Candidate. When life imitates art.. trump is killing America.

Link to tweet

Cavuto added. “I just found that Vladimir Putin appeared to run circles around the president and get him to buy … every single sneaky lie and misstatement he has made on this matter.”

Kim Un ran circles around the fucking idiot, too.

When you've lost foxsux except for slobbering idiotic doormat sean hannity.. Yeah, right.

[Iliyah]

2. Eff real fake news

[renate]

3. I'm honestly surprised and pleased to see that there is a limit even for Fox

I had assumed they were also in league with Russia. Maybe Hannity actually is, with the Cohen connection, and Tucker is just an irredeemable suckup, but it will be interesting to see what their spin is tomorrow.

[meadowlander]

5. Whoever's cutting the checks may have decided it's time to change horses.

[empedocles]

6. Whatever 'the motivation' is at fox, or anywhere else,

the USA needs all the help it can get, to get 'the word' out against trump.

[Garrett78]

4. Some of them, I suspect, will backtrack to some extent, but...

...I also think they see the writing on the wall and are trying to make sure there's still a viable Republican Party after Trump (plus, they can point to this as proof that Fox really is 'fair and balanced').

[OregonBlue]

7. Now is the time for everyone to go after Murdoch personally. He and his children are

very vulnerable to criticism. They need to be blamed and shunned 24/7 by every major news organization and every blog, tweet, etc.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's time they were stopped.