I don’t watch the Fox Business Channel. My impression is that it’s actually worse that regular Fox News. I did not notice, however, that reality caught up with their special brand of bullshit this week.
The Fox Business anchor Trish Regan, whose on-air dismissal of the coronavirus as “another attempt to impeach the president” left her cable network facing a firestorm of criticism this week, has been removed from her prime-time slot for the foreseeable future, the network said on Friday.
Ms. Regan’s 8 p.m. program, “Trish Regan Primetime,” is “on hiatus until further notice,” Fox Business said in a statement…
…Ms. Regan’s remarks, delivered on her Monday show, caused many colleagues at Fox Business and its corporate cousin Fox News to cringe. In front of a graphic reading, “Coronavirus Impeachment Hoax,” she accused Democrats of creating “mass hysteria to encourage a market sell-off” and sowing fear about the virus “to demonize and destroy the president.”
That kind of rhetoric is standard for the Fox channels, so how was Ms. Regan to know she was crossing some invisible line? Suddenly giving people the rankest partisan misinformation is a problem? Maybe they should have told her about the policy change before giving her the third degree.
I’m not really joking here. It shouldn’t take a pandemic to make people realize that it’s dangerous to fucking lie 100 percent of the time while passing yourself off as a news network. People believe you and make bad decisions. Maybe they make bad investments and lose a bunch of money. Maybe they say something offensive and lose their job. Maybe they just act like an asshole to someone who doesn’t deserve it. Or maybe they wind up accidentally killing their elderly parents because they don’t take this coronavirus seriously since it’s supposed to be a big hoax.
She stated openly the policy followed by one of the major networks in the US, that everything is a hoax.
But more importantly…..they believe it. Over and over, they are showing they believe things that are not true. We are beyond ‘saving’ them. When they go down, they will take everything with them.
All roads lead to Putin, even this one.
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Trish Regan is probably like all other Newsreaders on TV — they read what is presented to them on the teleprompter (I have never seen her show, so this is just informed speculation on my part). Also, TV shows like this one involve producers and writers, who were ALL complicit in this fiasco. I doubt she showed up to work that day with a plan to peddle that nonsense. She probably learned about it in a pre-production meeting. Yet, Trish Regan is the one singled out. Here is why I think that is:
The Fox network wanted to see how far they could push the envelope on the false narrative that democrats had created a fake pandemic in order to tank Wall Street and thereby steal the November election. So, Fox selected Trish Regan to trumpet their latest lies, but lo and behold there was a firestorm of criticism.. Fox then gets to act like it cares (puts a concerned look on its corporate face), and sidelines the person who did what she was told to do. Fox is suspending the show, not because Fox cares one whit about what was said on its programming, but because Fox wants to be seen as an entity that “listens” to “concerns.”
my favorite part of this is that her tag/slogan is #TRISHINTEL. “intellegence”? LOL
Wake me when Hannity is suspended. Easy to take it out on the generic blond since Faux has a stable of ’em. Grandpa just loves those generic blonds.