Originally published at: Fox host Maria Bartiromo humiliated when GOP Congressman shuts down her lies (video) - Boing Boing
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This Republican Congressman is not correcting her. They’re both setting up the argument that the Biden Administration and FEMA have all they money they need, but they’re spending it on other things like the border and Lebanon instead of using it for disaster relief. That’s not true, of course, but that’s what’s going on here. The Congressman here is not embarrassing the host. They’re working together to spread disinformation.
ETA: the context is that Biden has asked Congress to come back to Washington early to authorize more disaster relief funding. Republicans don’t want to do it because they want to help Trump campaign on a message of the Biden Administration’s incompetence. It’s the same thing that happened with the border bill. This interview is not Bartiromo getting embarrassed by being wrong. This was a preplanned, scripted “interview” designed to spread the lie that Biden and Harris are “stealing” money from good Americans and spending it on migrants and terrorists.
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The party of “government is broken”. (We know it doesn’t work because we keep breaking it.)
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This sad woman has squandered any vestige of credibility. It is amazing to me how many public figures are willing to become tools of the T***p disaster and relegate themselves to the MAGA disinformation process. Either she knows better and is a willing liar, or she wouldn’t know truth if it stared her in the face. Either way, she’s despicable.
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So you’re saying you went beyond a baity sound byte contained in a tiny portion of a longer piece? Who does THAT anymore?
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Thank you for your service
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Has anyone ever done a study on the educational background of Fox News anchors? I can’t imagine they have journalism degrees. Marketing, perhaps?
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Nah. Only a receipt, from selling their souls to Satan. 
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Fox host Maria Bartiromo humiliated
Oh, I doubt that.
In order to be humiliated, she must be capable of shame; and in order to feel shame, she must have a conscience.
Never seen evidence of that from her.
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And Satan got ripped off in the exchange.
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Maria Bartiromo does, in fact, have a degree in journalism. From NYU. Having an education in a specific field doesn’t mean you can’t be a loathsome piece of shit. Hannity went to NYU but never graduated. Laura Ingraham majored in English Lit and Russian at Dartmouth and then graduated from UVA Law School. Greg Gutfeld has an English degree from Berkeley. Dana Perino has a bachelor’s degree in mass communication with minors in political science and Spanish. Jesse Watters has a history degree from Trinity College in Connecticut. Most of the FoxNews hosts are highly educated and smart. Do not attribute the things they do to ignorance or marketing. They know exactly what they’re doing. They’re fascists.
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Even so, sadly, despite all of her enterprises and opportunities, I am not sure she’s expressed an original thought of her own since… well, since anyone ever listened to her.
According to David Pakman, Maria used to be a good financial reporter for CNBC. I’ve seen him multiple times seem to lament the fact she went from competent to a whackadoodle.
I don’t know if she went to Fox because of her personal views, or if the ratings she got a Fox pushed her into this caricature of her former self.
I can’t tell with half of the Fox people. As you pointed out, many of them are educated people. That doesn’t mean you can’t still be a conservative, but so much of the right wing punditry is full of just out there BS rage baiting viewers to watch. I honestly don’t know how you can do that and sleep at night if you aren’t a true believer. 
. I am sure there is also a pipe line of “say a bunch of right wing shit for views” and “believing in the right wing shit you’ve been saying”.
In fact Pakman also recounts a time earlier in his career where someone wanted him to do a conservative radio show, as he was a good host, but this "liberal’ show wouldn’t make the same ratings
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