I don’t watch Fox anymore since I’m not forced to be in airports, etc. but I think he gave it away at the end when he asked whether she would say the HHS and ICE unions were easier to deal with than the teachers’ unions. Sounds like Fox wants a sound bite to blame the school situation on teachers, instead of sub-par funding leaving them unable to implement the CDC remediation strategies.
Exactly! Please let us savor our cool drink of water after these years crawling through the desert before pointing out (and it’s true) that this is really what most western countries can expect, always. Maybe at least for another few weeks.
It is my dearest wish that some day, soon I hope that we all all sit around and in depth talk of nothing more than anything other than the shit show that is this time-line in our great Nation. Pizza/Booze/Weed, and of course what ever you’d like.
I deeply need to have that hope for my general sanity. It’s not said enough, you are all, every one good folks.
Indeed, it’s absolutely beautiful to see this. They’re expecting a pushover, and she just steamrolls them. It’s about time there was some pushback against mealy-mouthed, dog whistle-laden bullshit.
I think the idea is “shart out a torrent of irrelevant BS too fast for the victim to keep up.” That seems to be a common theme among wingnuts. Distract. Distort. Deflect. Disinform. Derail.
I thought a court declared their content “entertainment,” not news. Seems to me they should be explicitly and loudly kept out of press briefings on that basis.
“Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statement he makes.”
“One might argue that some of Fox News hosts’ statements about the coronavirus have been so patently politically-driven and irresponsible that viewers should take everything they say with a huge grain of salt. But the First Amendment protects this,” said Margaret Russell, a law professor at Santa Clara University.
