As I posted yesterday, Chris Wallace insisted that President Trump answer his specific questions during Tuesday night’s debate, such as whether or not he paid any federal income tax in 2016 and 2017. However, Wallace gave Joe Biden a pass when it came to Biden’s refusal to answer specific questions, like whether or not he would pack the Supreme Court if elected president.
Another seemingly inexplicable thing Wallace did during Tuesday night’s debate was to refuse to challenge Joe Biden’s flagrant contradictions of confirmed facts, such as Biden’s downright refutation of his son Hunter’s fortuitous renumeration from foreign powers during the Obama/Biden Administration. Even more dumbfounding and disconcerting, however, was Wallace’s ignoring of Biden’s dismissal of Antifa as a mere philosophy. According to Joe, Antifa is a philosophy with no real followers. Far from spawning militant domestic terrorists, Antifa is nothing more than an unpersuasive ideology without any real practicing ideologues. Apparently, neither Wallace nor Biden are smart enough to figure out that no real philosophy can possibly exists apart from some real adherents.
Whereas Wallace allowed Biden to dismiss rather than denounce Antifa, he repeatedly demanded that Trump denounce white supremacy; and not just the philosophy itself, but white supremacists themselves. Yet, Trump’s clear and repeated denunciation of white supremacy did not suffice. Both Wallace and Biden claimed the president’s denunciations were obtuse rather than obvious, since Trump somehow failed to pacify the persnicketiness of this pooling pair with the particular phraseology they deem to be prerequisite to anyone’s proscribing of prejudice.
At a White House press conference Thursday morning, Fox News’ John Roberts picked up where Fox News’ Chris Wallace had left off Tuesday night. He too incessantly demanded repeated denunciations of white supremacy from the Trump White House. Yet, no matter how many times Kayleigh McEnany, the White House Press Secretary, denounced white supremacy, John Roberts remained insatiable. He persistently accused McEnamy, for some ambiguous reason he himself was completely unable to clearly articulate, of being ambiguous in her multiple denunciations.
For some reason, it appears Fox News has decided that the Trump White House is to be damned if it does or damned if it don’t over the question of white supremacy. No answer from the Trump White House, no matter how emphatically nor frequently stated, is enough to appease Fox News’ unappeasable Chris Wallace and John Roberts, who suddenly appear fixated on insinuating that the White House cloakroom secretly contains a secret cache of white robes and hoods.
To point the finger at Fox News even more pointedly, permit me to pick back up on a previous point. Remember, during last Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Chris Wallace never called on Joe Biden to denounce Antifa. Indeed, Wallace completely ignored Biden’s explanation of Antifia as nonexistent, as though it is nothing more than a mere idea existing only in the realm of human imagination. Now, to this inexplicability allow me to add another.
In a recent interview on Fox News, Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, was cutoff and called down for daring to mention the name of George Soros, the notorious billionaire who funds the rioting of Antifa anarchists in the streets of America. When Gingrich mentioned that Soros also funded the campaigns of many of our country’s current Democrat district attorneys, who are “left-wing, anti-police, and pro-criminal,” the former Speaker of the House was immediately reprimanded, prompting him to conclude that it is now "verboten" to mention George Soros on the Fox News channel.
What’s going on at Fox News? Why does it appear to be on a mission to paint the Trump White House up as white supremacists and to paint Antifa up as a figment of our imagination? While you may believe, as Fox News contends, that it’s “fair and balanced,” I’m afraid there’s a Fox in the henhouse of our mainstream media. In other words, I’m afraid Fox News is becoming just another fake news network, which, like all of the others, Americans can ill-afford to trust.