Looks like the higher-ups at Fox see the writing on the wall. Politics News Editor Chris Stirewalt fact-checked Bill Hemmer on-air about his bogus spin.
October 8, 2019

Ouch.

If you're gonna have management on the air with you, at least make sure you're on the same page. Bill Hemmer, anchor of Fox News' "America's Newsroom" was riffing about the phone calls Trump made to foreign leaders extorting them in order to extract damaging info about his political opponent. He tried to "both sides" everything (MY FAVORITE!) and actually said the words, "no record" when talking about the whistleblower's claims. Hemmer said, "It’s just lawmakers coming on the microphone and giving their spin, be it right or left."

Chris Stirewalt, a Fox News Political Editor, fact-checked him right there.

STIREWALT: There IS a record for those committees even as they meet without television cameras present....

We are early in this process, number one. Number two, the whistleblower doesn’t matter anymore. The whistleblower is substantially irrelevant. The President confessed on television — he said, ‘I did it,’ and then he added China to it, which sort of obviates the question about is there a whistleblower, isn’t there a whistleblower....Right now it looks pretty simple. There are enough Democrats to vote to impeach the president, I'm sure, and they're gonna impeach him on something that's pretty straightforward.

Yes, they are. And they aren't going to do it on terms dictated by Trump. Ouch.

Can you help us out?

For nearly 20 years we have been exposing Washington lies and untangling media deceit, but now Facebook is drowning us in an ocean of right wing lies. Please give a one-time or recurring donation, or buy a year's subscription for an ad-free experience. Thank you.

Discussion

We welcome relevant, respectful comments. Any comments that are sexist or in any other way deemed hateful by our staff will be deleted and constitute grounds for a ban from posting on the site. Please refer to our Terms of Service for information on our posting policy.
Mastodon