Fox & Friends host on Doug Jones winning in Alabama: "This was not a referendum on Trump. I feel like it was a referendum on Harvey Weinstein"
Background:
1. From Being Pro-Child Rape To Stealing A Conspiracy Site's Explanation For His Yearbook Signing... All Evidence Points To Roy Moore Being A Pedophile
3. Trump, Hannity, And The Pedophile Brigade
This post summarizes the Roy Moore episode.
ROY MOORE LOSES THE ALABAMA SENATE RACE TO SOMEONE NOT ACCUSED OF PEDOPHILIA 12/13/2017 Doug Jones becomes the first Democratic senator of Alabama in 25 years after beating out far-right Republican and accused child molester Roy Moore.
After Roy Moore loss the right wing media immediately started coming up with a weird variety of excuses for why they lost...
Here are the excuses (so far) right-wing media figures are using for Roy Moore’s loss
Related:
A pattern of defense so well used that The Opposition NAILED right wing defense tactics the day before they were implemented (this video is from before the Alabama elections results)...
After the election the jokes - based on reality - continue...
JUST BETWEEN US - WHO BROUGHT DOWN ROY MOORE? Desperate for answers, Jordan runs down his list of potential suspects responsible for Republican Roy Moore's defeat in the Alabama Senate election.
Jones, of course, lives in an alternate reality where Trump WASN'T supporting a pedophile for the Senate.
Alex Jones: People should react to journalists at CNN reporting on Trump like they do to a pedophile serial killer Jones: “We only want to sexualize children; we’re a bunch of pedophiles at CNN”
Back again to what is going on. Losers become scapegoats and winners become automatic dictators of the Republican party as per GOP tradition since Nixon ...
Fox News throws Steve Bannon to the wolves over Roy Moore’s defeat
Trump gets scapegoated!...
Breitbart editor-in-chief: We had to defend Roy Moore from child molestation accusations to protect Trump from his accusers Alex Marlow: Moore "was a terrible candidate," but Breitbart had "no option"
Hannity tries to distance himself from Roy Moore because he lost...
Following Roy Moore loss, Sean Hannity attempts to distance himself from Moore after defending him from sexual assault allegations Hannity: "When I interviewed him, I was shocked by his answers as I've told you"
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1. From Being Pro-Child Rape To Stealing A Conspiracy Site's Explanation For His Yearbook Signing... All Evidence Points To Roy Moore Being A Pedophile
3. Trump, Hannity, And The Pedophile Brigade
4. Height Of Hypocrisy 5: Roy Moore Hypocrisy & Deficit Hypocrisy Show GOP Stand For Nothing. Not Family Values. Not Fiscal Responsibility. Nothing. Except Maybe Pedophiles.
5. Trump Wants To Be A Dictator & The GOP Likes Dictators. They Couldn't Be A More Perfect Match for Each Other... Especially Now That They Are OFFICIALLY The Party Of The PedophileThis post summarizes the Roy Moore episode.
ROY MOORE LOSES THE ALABAMA SENATE RACE TO SOMEONE NOT ACCUSED OF PEDOPHILIA 12/13/2017 Doug Jones becomes the first Democratic senator of Alabama in 25 years after beating out far-right Republican and accused child molester Roy Moore.
After Roy Moore loss the right wing media immediately started coming up with a weird variety of excuses for why they lost...
Here are the excuses (so far) right-wing media figures are using for Roy Moore’s loss
On Tuesday, Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s special Senate election, becoming the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in the state in 25 years. Moore -- whose campaign was likely damaged by a litany of sexual misconduct allegations from multiple women, including a then-14-year-old girl -- had extensive support during the campaign from pro-Trump right-wing media. Following Moore’s defeat, some of these right-wing media figures reacted by giving an array of excuses for the loss, such as saying Fox News had a “vested interest” in the outcome, claiming supposed voter fraud, and attacking a GOP operative for allegedly leaking Moore’s sexual misconduct accusations to The Washington Post. Here’s a list of some of the excuses:
- Infowars host Alex Jones blamed Democratic voters "bused in those Democrat areas" to steal the election. And dead people.
- On his radio show, Sean Hannity blamed "the establishment pushing all this money into" Alabama, which made voters "sick and tired." Hannity was also critical of the "terrible campaign" the alleged child molester Roy Moore ran.
- Fox political analyst Brit Hume blamed Breitbart.com chairman Steve Bannon, who extensively campaigned for Moore, for the Republican’s loss, stating Bannon was “a man we’ve been given to believe was a master political strategist. ... Maybe not.”
- Big League Politics, a far-right media blog that is connected to far-right media, claimed that there was “evidence of voter fraud” in Alabama election.
- Fox News co-host Ainsley Earhardt said Moore’s loss was “a referendum on Harvey Weinstein, not on President Trump.”
- Fox host Sean Hannity in a tweet blamed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for Moore’s loss, writing, “McConnell deserves a lot of the blame for Alabama."
- On Breitbart News Daily, co-host Alex Marlow blamed Fox News, alleging they had a “vested interest” in Moore losing.
- Bannon implied a GOP operative, who he claimed leaked Moore’s sexual misconduct accusations to The Washington Post, was a reason Moore lost.
- Alex Jones also claimed that there was “massive evidence of election fraud” in Alabama while also falsely claiming that Moore lost by only half a percentage point.
- TruthFeed, a fake news website connected to white supremacists, pushed Fox contributor Sebastian Gorka’s tweet which highlighted a report claiming that former independent conservative presidential candidate Evan McMullin took money from an “anti-American Persian billionaire” to fund to ads attacking Moore. TruthFeed claimed it showed an “anti-American Arab bankrolled the Democrat win in Alabama.
Related:
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Trump’s fake election claims came from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, but media aren't reporting that
A pattern of defense so well used that The Opposition NAILED right wing defense tactics the day before they were implemented (this video is from before the Alabama elections results)...
We taped BEFORE the #AlabamaSenateElection was called, but that didn't stop us from being 100% RIGHT about the results! pic.twitter.com/ugaI3dZHke— The Opposition (@TheOpposition) December 13, 2017
After the election the jokes - based on reality - continue...
JUST BETWEEN US - WHO BROUGHT DOWN ROY MOORE? Desperate for answers, Jordan runs down his list of potential suspects responsible for Republican Roy Moore's defeat in the Alabama Senate election.
Jones, of course, lives in an alternate reality where Trump WASN'T supporting a pedophile for the Senate.
Alex Jones: People should react to journalists at CNN reporting on Trump like they do to a pedophile serial killer Jones: “We only want to sexualize children; we’re a bunch of pedophiles at CNN”
From the August 8 edition of Genesis Communications Network’s The Alex Jones Show:
Fox News throws Steve Bannon to the wolves over Roy Moore’s defeat
If you have tuned in to Fox News since the network called the Alabama Senate race for Democrat Doug Jones over Republican Roy Moore, you may have had the sublime pleasure of watching its commentators drive a bus over Breitbart honcho Steve Bannon, back the bus up, and drive it over him again. Bannon was perhaps the most vocal supporter of the confirmed racist and reported child predator, barnstorming the state on Moore’s behalf both during the primary run-off against Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) and during the general election, and wielding Breitbart’s resources in support of Moore’s campaign. And Fox isn’t letting its audience forget it, warning viewers that Bannon’s penchant for waging war against the Republican establishment could be hazardous to the party’s electoral position and President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Bannon is “a man we’ve been given to believe was a master political strategist,” senior political analyst Brit Hume sneered moments after Fox declared Jones the winner. “But he went down and he really did go all in for Roy Moore. And this is a state where it’s very hard for Republicans to lose and his man lost.” Politics editor Chris Stirewalt added later that night that the result shows Bannon “was wrong” about the race, and suggested that Bannon now may want to reconsider “this primary battle stuff” because it could cost Republicans more elections in 2018.
“To many Republicans, especially Steve Bannon, [Strange] represents the swamp, they wanted to drain the swamp. And so rather than support the GOP candidate, the establishment candidate, in Luther Strange, Steve Bannon went 100 percent behind this guy, Roy Moore,” Fox & Friends’ Steve Doocy said this morning. “This is what happens when Republicans don’t stick together,” his co-host Ainsley Earhardt responded.
Fox’s corporate cousins at the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal also chimed in this morning. “The Alabama result shows that Mr. Bannon cares less about conservative policy victories than he does personal king-making,” the editorial board wrote. “He wants to depose Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader even if it costs Republicans Senate control. GOP voters, take note: Mr. Bannon is for losers.”
Moore’s defeat exposes the weakness in Bannon’s dominance over Republican politics, and Fox has reacted by shifting from a soft alliance with Bannon to a repudiation of his strategy.
Fox is encouraging its viewers to place the blame for this humiliating loss of a Republican Senate seat in beet-red Alabama on Bannon, not on Trump, who vocally endorsed Moore even after women began coming forward to report that he sexually abused them. Its commentators have stressed that Strange, not Moore, was Trump’s first choice for the seat, and that the unique aspects of the race mean that it wasn’t about the merits of the “Trump agenda.”
Fox personalities are effectively presenting themselves to their audience as more loyal to Trump and the Republican Party than Bannon; the president himself has since echoed some of their sentiments.
This argument has the added advantage of sticking a shiv in a competitor. While Fox is still the dominant player in the right-wing media ecosystem, Breitbart is more powerful online. In late November, the website boasted that the only U.S. news sites it lagged behind in web traffic were CNN.com, NYTimes.com, and WashingtonPost.com, and that it is also “a powerhouse publisher on social media.” A true rival -- especially one like Bannon, who has reportedly considered starting his own television network and has a penchant for taking potshots at Fox whenever he perceived the network as insufficiently loyal to Trump -- would be dangerous for the network’s bottom line.
Fox has responded to that potential threat and Bannon’s powerful role in the Republican Party by trying to co-opt him, hiring Bannon favorite Laura Ingraham to take over its 10 p.m. hour and turning Fox prime time into Breitbart TV. Fox’s executives placed a bet on where the future of the GOP was going -- and thus what its audience would want from its coverage. But last night’s defeat suggests that they may have misjudged the situation.
If Fox personalities follow through with the effort to undermine Bannon, they will find themselves aligned with supporters of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), a leading Bannon target. McConnell’s allies savagedBannon last night, blaming his efforts for the defeat, and the argument from some personalities that internal primaries should be forestalled to preserve Republican seats echoes those from the majority leader. That may be a hard swallow for Fox personalities like Sean Hannity, who has repeatedly called for McConnell’s resignation. And indeed, last night Hannity wrote on Twitter that McConnell “deserves a lot of the blame.”
We’ve entered a new phase in the long-simmering Republican civil war. And like so many others, this one will be fought on Fox’s airwaves.
Trump gets scapegoated!...
Breitbart editor-in-chief: We had to defend Roy Moore from child molestation accusations to protect Trump from his accusers Alex Marlow: Moore "was a terrible candidate," but Breitbart had "no option"
From the December 15 edition of SiriusXM Patriot's Breitbart News Daily:
Previously:
Breitbart’s Joel Pollak argues Roy Moore’s reported sexual relationships with teenagers were “perfectly legitimate”
Roy Moore's email fundraising has heavily relied on Breitbart.com
Breitbart editor-in-chief: Reports that Roy Moore molested a teenage girl are "a politically coordinated attack"
Breitbart runs defense after women say Roy Moore made sexual advances while they were teenagers
Hannity tries to distance himself from Roy Moore because he lost...
Following Roy Moore loss, Sean Hannity attempts to distance himself from Moore after defending him from sexual assault allegations Hannity: "When I interviewed him, I was shocked by his answers as I've told you"
Previously:
Sean Hannity: "Nobody gave Roy Moore due process when he denied the allegations"
There's a reason Roy Moore chose Sean Hannity to interview him
Here's what Sean Hannity was "clear and unambiguous" about regarding Roy Moore
Roy Moore attempts to explain away sexual assault reports by writing open letter to Sean Hannity
Hannity defends Roy Moore against Wash. Post report he molested a child: "It's he said, she [said]"
Sean Hannity is very excited by Roy Moore demanding to have a handwriting expert review one accuser's yearbook
How adopting right-wing spin about Doug Jones' support for abortion access led media astray
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In reality, as Jones has explained, he supports upholding current Alabama law, which allows patients to seek an abortion up to 20 weeks of pregnancy with limited exceptions for “medical necessity” beyond that point. During a September 27 interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, Jones stated that he was “a firm believer that a woman should have the freedom to choose what happens to her own body.” Despite this, many outlets not only adopted right-wing media’s inaccurate spin that Jones’ stance was “extreme,” but also went on to claim that Jones’ support for abortion access would ultimately cost him the election.
From early in the campaign, right-wing media consistently pushed the talking point that Jones’ position on abortion access was “extreme.” For example, during the November 15 edition of Fox News’ The Five, co-host Jesse Watters described Alabama voters as having to decide between Moore, who “may have done inappropriate things with young girls 40 years ago,” and Jones, who he claimed supported so-called “‘partial-birth’ abortion” (a procedure that doesn’t exist but was invented by anti-abortion groups to shame those seeking abortions). In another example, Fox’s Marc Thiessen tried to equate Moore’s predatory behavior and Jones’ stance on abortion by calling them “two extremes.” Beyond this, Fox hosts and contributors alike leveraged a variety of inaccurate claims about Jones’ position on abortion --
