October 23, 2024

Fox News - Don't call this dignified wonderful gentleman a fascist because it may provoke another assassination attempt, By Hal M. Brown, MSW



General Kelly warning about Trump praising Hitler and being a fascist was the top story on HuffPost:

If you missed the stories about what Trump's former chief of staff Gen. John Kelly said about Trump you haven't been paying attention to the news. 

I wondered how Fox News was covering the news (Google News link) about Gen. Kelly saying Trump was a fascist and his praising Hitler's generals. I checked and watched this segment from one of their shows.

This is the 8 minute segment from Fox News.

They called these headlines irresponsible:


They played clips of Democrats including Kamala Harris and Tim Walz calling Trump a fascist. 

The takeaway is from this in my title: Don't call this "dignified wonderful gentleman" a fascist because it may provoke another assassination attempt.

This panelist who said this was calling someone who just yesterday suggested to his rally crowd that Kamala Harris might drink or use drugs. Is it dignified to suggest your opponent is an alcoholic of drug addict? Read article and watch video here. "Does she drink, was she on drugs" he said referring to the Harris "60 Minutes" interview.

Of course they all denied Trump had a fascist bone in his body. The main point all of them made was that calling Trump a fascist would lead to another assassination attempt. One of the panelists said "don't literally put somebody in the crosshairs."

Their argument is that nobody should say anything about a political opponent wanting to destroy democracy because this may provoke some unhinged person to try to assassinate them. 

They noted that the Secret Service warned about another Butler happening as if this was relevant to the discussion about Democrats warning about Trump wanting to be a dictator. 

Of course there was no discussion about Trump's inflammatory rhetoric attacking Kamala Harris using language which, if you follow the Fox News argument, could lead to an attempt on her life (article in LA Times):

Excerpt:

 

Over the six weeks since Kamala Harris succeeded President Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, Donald Trump has charged relentlessly that she’s a radical whose views are out of step with voters.

“She’s a Marxist. She’s a fascist,” the former president declared last week, weirdly combining labels that normally contradict each other.

Trump claimed, without a shred of evidence, that Vice President Harris, whom he has dubbed “Comrade Kamala,” “wants this country to go communist.” 


They brought up Whoopee Goldberg, who needless to note is an actress and comedian, saying Trump was a bug and Biden making a squashing gesture as if Trump doesn't revel in being a crude insult master.

One of them brought up Louis Farrakhanhaving called Jews termites, as if very many Fox News viewers would even know who this now 91 year old leader of the Black Nationalist organization The Nation of Islam is. I wonder how many people watching him looked him up in Wikipedia.

The Fox News argument understandably doesn't address the reasons Gen. Kelly and others like former Joint Chiefs chair Gen. Mark Milley  who worked in the Trump adminstration are warning that Trump aspires to be a fascist dictator and is a danger to the country.

Trump has told us who he is, who he wants to be, and how he wants to run the county. Apparently the Fox News Trump worshippers haven't been listening. When it comes to Trump they are the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil monkeys.

Addendum:

Marjorie Taylor Greene is taking her cue from Fox News:



What does else does the Trump campaign have to say about this? They want to coin a new psychiatric diagnosis for anyone who says Trump is a fascist:





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