I grew up in a world where sororities and fraternities were elite, later on learned about Navy SEALS and other such groups, but there is a sect so exclusive that it only contains four individuals in the entire world — make that three, since Sarah Huckabee Sanders had to resign from the group when she announced her run for Arkansas governor. Yes, we speak of Trump’s four press secretaries, Sean Spicer, Sanders, Stephanie Grisham and Kayleigh McEnany, probably the four best known propagandists in the modern world. And Fox News might hire them all. Seriously. Washington Post:
The appeal of all four to a network like Fox News is that, more than any cluster of unprofessionals in former president Donald Trump’s orbit, his former press secretaries have the most experience in covering up, promoting and articulating lies. Fox News hired Sanders, for instance, just months after the Mueller report showed she lied about alleged support within the FBI for the May 2017 firing of then-FBI Director James B. Comey. McEnany carried forward the tradition of disinformation stemming from the Trump White House, most egregiously in the final two months of her tenure, as she pushed specious report after specious report in service of the lie that the election had been stolen from her boss.
Don’t forget, either, that McEnany auditioned for her press secretary position by propagandizing for Trump on Fox networks (after first making a splash in the TV world at CNN, where she worked as a contributor defending Trump in the 2016 presidential campaign). Much has been written about the merger between the Trump presidency and Fox News — how these two organizations traded personnel and talking points to the point that it became impossible to separate the two. Examples abound: Sanders moving from her perch to Fox News; Sean Hannity serving as White House “shadow chief of staff”; former Fox News vice president Bill Shine taking a job as White House communications director; and Trump, of course, tweeting and governing based on whatever Fox News was broadcasting on any given day. There’s a lot of depravity in that bundle, as Jane Mayer reported in the New Yorker.
There’s a good case, though, that McEnany did more to join the two groups’ messages than anyone. According to Laura Keiter, a spokeswoman for Media Matters for America, McEnany has appeared on Fox News weekday programming at least 325 times since August 2017, when she left CNN to become Republican National Committee spokeswoman. After the announcement of her selection as White House press secretary last April, she appeared on Fox News weekday programming at least 93 times. Another key figure: After the presidential election, she appeared on “Hannity” at least 23 times — during the very period that she was allegedly negotiating for a job at Fox News. Meanwhile, for the entire length of her time as press secretary, McEnany turned in zero weekday appearances on CNN and MSNBC, according to Media Matters. And she conducted just 41 formal press briefings, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project.
What a quartet. Maybe we could call them “The Fabulist Four” or “The Fakettes.”
Well…where the hell else can they go?
Where else can they go ? There are a few alternatives actually Bareshark. OANN, and Newsmax, which are jammed down many people’s cable or satellite service, and Sinclair Network would be available also.
While true, Leo, I suspect that these lying liars consider such operations either beneath them or, in the case of Sinclair, delivering the kind of heat such an employer can ill-afford.
Run for governor. Get the whole gang back together again!!!
On a non-related note, Senovio, may I just say it’s good to see the regulars posting without the troll brigade butting in?
i think it’s great. Still experimenting with Ursula’s Webmaster to see if the bloomin’ site is still mistaking ME for a troll!
Fox News: Lies, damn lies, evil lies, Fox Lies. Yeah, stole from Keith Olbermann.
Faux News. Fair (-ly) and (im-) Balanced.
One. Need for somebody to get that “News” taken away. Drag Hannity to Congress and ask him about some things. You a newscaster or an opinion person? Same for the entire Fox Corp board and executives.
Any truth in advertising fellas? The Fairness Doctrine might not fix things. But maybe it can get an immunity from lawsuits taken away. Facts and real facts folks. Big Tech needs to be regulated. They make money and are involved in Commerce? Gee, meet the Commerce clause of Constitution. The rest is just a matter of doing the right thing, the smart thing, and causing the least collateral damage.
They were sued, some years back, over their claims to be fair and balanced news, and got out of it by claiming they were entertainment, not news. That should get their news stuff labelled as “false advertising”.
The quote attributed to Trump in the heading picture has been debunked as fabricated.
He’s said so many dumb things, you shouldn’t have to resort to fake quotes.
It draws the focus from an otherwise excellent article.
Remember “Somebody PLEASE call Hannity?” I shudder at just how much influence Hannity, and for that matter Ingraham and Carlson had over U.S. policy both foreign and domestic. Hannity in particular who was in regular contact with Trump by phone. And let’s face it – Fox literally had a branch office set up in the WH communications suite of office space. Now Faux Nooz is out of the loop. Think of all the crap they made up when they were all the way on the inside! It’s frightening to think of how crazy they will get making up stuff now.
Um, they already HAD Sarah Hucksterbee Slanders and she stepped down to run for governor of Arkansas.
Yaaay! Posting again. And Bareshark, as usual, yeah. What you said.