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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(113,764 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 01:26 PM 17 hrs ago

Fox anchor tasked with interviewing Harris has a history of appeasing network's pro-Trump audience

Fox News anchor Bret Baier is all too keenly aware that Fox’s viewers want him to affirm what they already feel.

This week, he is under pressure as he prepares for a high-stakes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris – the Democratic nominee for president’s first-ever formal interview on the right-wing cable network.

Fox is effectively a television extension of Donald Trump’s campaign. Hour after hour, conservative talking heads pummel Harris and promote Trump with little regard for the facts. Analysts have described the vice president’s appearance on Fox as a surprising visit to “enemy territory.”

Baier has tried to position himself above that partisan fray as “fair, balanced and unafraid,” as he says in his sign-off every night.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-anchor-tasked-with-interviewing-harris-has-a-history-of-appeasing-network-s-pro-trump-audience/ar-AA1snatU

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Fox anchor tasked with interviewing Harris has a history of appeasing network's pro-Trump audience (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 17 hrs ago OP
betcha bucks Brett is NOT voting for trump.... samnsara 16 hrs ago #1
Baier is said to be one of the few journalists on FOX's air. Hope he's fair. Still a repubicna though... brush 16 hrs ago #2
He got his start as Darth RUMSFELD's toy UTUSN 16 hrs ago #3
I'm confident Mz Pip 15 hrs ago #4

samnsara

(18,181 posts)
1. betcha bucks Brett is NOT voting for trump....
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 01:29 PM
16 hrs ago

those people see his madness up close every day and they arent stupid

brush

(56,823 posts)
2. Baier is said to be one of the few journalists on FOX's air. Hope he's fair. Still a repubicna though...
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 02:02 PM
16 hrs ago

so we'll see.

Mz Pip

(27,803 posts)
4. I'm confident
Wed Oct 16, 2024, 02:41 PM
15 hrs ago

Harris can handle it.

She’s gone up against top corporate defense attorneys. She’ll do fine.

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