Chris Wallace Scolds Gillibrand For Calling Out Fox News 'Infanticide' Lies-Plays Into FOX News Plan

[TheBlackAdder]

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This is the reason why Democrats should stay away from FOX News. Nothing good happens from it.

After Sanders, Butigieg and Gildebrand go onto it, they have their words misrepresented or appearance skewed.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand went on Fox News to do a town hall, something Democrats should not be doing. She played right into their narratives while claiming to call them out for their "infanticide" abortion lies.

Gillibrand was asked by an audience member about her position on late-term abortion. Gillibrand didn’t fully answer the question but defended abortion broadly:
GILLIBRAND: My view on women’s reproductive freedom is that it should be a woman’s decision to make these most intimate life and death decisions for themselves. A woman should be able to decide when she’s having children, how many children she’s having and under what circumstances she’s having them. And what we have created, unfortunately, is a false choice and a false narrative.

Then, rather than point out that women who have late-term abortions often do so because of severe health risks to themselves or because they were unable to obtain an abortion earlier, Gillibrand moved on to call out Fox News’ dishonest coverage of the subject.
GILLIBRAND: And, Chris [Wallace], I want to talk about the role that Fox News plays in this because it’s a problem. I can tell you, before President Trump gave his State of the Union, Fox News talked about infanticide. It doesn’t exist.
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Also, while she seemed correct in her statistics about Fox’s pre-State of the Union “infanticide” disinformation, she did not point out that Fox’s propaganda has continued apace. If anything, it has become more vile. Prime time host Laura Ingraham has referred to Democrats as the “party of infanticide,” a sentiment echoed on Fox & Friends. Rep. Liz Cheney got a friendly Fox News platform to expand on her lie, that Democrats want to “turn maternity wards into killing fields.”
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Even Fox News highlighted it, giving it a separate video titled, “Chris Wallace calls out Kirsten Gillibrand for criticizing Fox News.”

More at the jump.

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/06/chris-wallace-scolds-gillibrand-calling

On top of that, it gives Fox News legitimacy to advertisers and the all important ad revenue.

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[LanternWaste]

1. There's both a cost and a benefit for a Dem to appear on Fox. But the cost seems much greater.

The benefit (alleged) is reaching a new constituency. And I've little doubt that tens of ones may be reached.

That said, I've seen no evidence offered that that particular benefit outweighs the cost of solidifying a base whose opinions are already antithetical to the justice and equality sought by the Democrats. That that benefit outweighs the post-editing, the scripting, the acting, and above all, the last word Fox news engages in to further solidify the right-wing.

My guess is that a Democrat appearing on Fox, even given a best-case scenario is a lose-lose scenario.