Fox pushed to correct guest who seemed to call Vindman a spy

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It takes a special kind of scum to host a show and allow a guest to do make these accusations and not correct the guest on the spot!
Why in tarnation's are these moronic low life scums of the earth allowed to host a show that basically is lies and enuendos and laughing at real verified facts as being bogus?
laura Ingraham needs to reigned in or 8i am afraid she might actually say something that will cause FOX embarrassment! The sad thing is - she damn well knows what her guests are going to say ahead of time!!


NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News has given no indication that it plans to address on the air a segment that ran on Laura Ingraham’s show where a guest appeared to question whether Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was a spy.


Vindman, who’s assigned to the National Security Council in the White House, testified Tuesday in the House impeachment inquiry. His lawyer, David Pressman, called on Fox to retract the segment and make no further defamatory statements against Vindman.


The segment aired Oc. 29. John Yoo, a law professor and former federal prosecutor, appeared on Ingraham’s prime-time show to address Vindman’s role in working at the White House on a U.S. aid package to Ukraine. Accusations that President Donald Trump held up the aid for his own political purposes are at the center of the impeachment case.


In the segment, Ingraham said, “Here we have a U.S. national security official who is advising Ukraine while working inside the White House, apparently against the president’s interests and usually they spoke in English. Isn’t that kind of an interesting angle on this story?


“I find that astounding, and some people might call that espionage,” Yoo replied.


Yoo, in a subsequent column written for USA Today and an appearance on CNN, said that he was really thinking about Ukrainians and not Vindman when he made that accusation. “I really regret the choice of words,” he said on CNN.


Yet Vindman’s lawyer wrote in a letter to Fox that “the very fact Mr. Yoo wrote an article entitled ‘No, I didn’t call Alexander Vindman a spy’ shows that he knew his statement was understood by reasonable viewers to have done just that.”
In a statement, Fox News pointed to what Yoo has said in other venues.


“As a guest on FOX News, John Yoo was responsible for his own sentiments and he has subsequently done interviews to clarify what he meant,” Fox said.


The network would not comment on whether Yoo’s comments should be addressed on the network that originally aired them, specifically on Ingraham’s show. “The Ingraham Angle’’ can reach as many as 3 million viewers a night.


Vindman testified Tuesday that he was offered a position as Ukrainian minister of defense, which he immediately dismissed and reported to his supervisors. That part of his testimony was highlighted by Ingraham and her Fox colleague Tucker Carlson and eventually tweeted out by Trump himself. It was an apparent attempt to question Vindman’s loyalty, Pressman said.


The resulting attention and threats he’s received have forced Vindman to consider moving with his family onto an Army base for protection, Pressman said.


“Fox News has a responsibility to help put out the fire it lit when it falsely accused a decorated soldier of disloyalty to his country,” Pressman wrote. “LTC Vindman, who has devoted his life to defending America out of the public eye, deserves better than to be falsely attacked when compelled by law and duty to speak the truth.”
 
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The better question Fox needs to ask, but never does and never will...
If this guy is a spy and the others with funny foreign names are also spies, then why does Donald Trump and Rudy have close involvement with these spies in the first place?
How is it that Donald Trump and Rudy would have so many associations with these so called spies and foreigners?
After all, Donald Trump started it all.
It was Donald Trump that went to Putin. And it was Donald Trump that went to Kin Jong. And it was Donald Trump that first went to all of those other communist dictators in seeking a friend.

Ok, ok.... Lets assume Fox is correct and this guy is a spy. Why then do they seem to migrate around Donald Trump?
Does it take a spy to know a spy? Is that it?
If this guy is indeed a spy then Donald Trump is the godfather of all spies.
That would explain why when it came to Donald Trump and the impeachment, most of the witnesses called had funny last names and could have been spies.
Fox needs to ask Donald Trump what is up with his spy loving?
And Fox needs to ask Donald Trump why he orders Rudy Giuliani to all of those "spy" foreign countries in the first place?

Ok Fox News.... do your duty. Why look under rocks and in dark corners for spies when you most likely have your spy right there on your show, right under your nose, on a daily basis, and that number one spy being Donald Trump.
 
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Pretty amazing to what lengths the right wing is willing to go to in order to preserve Trump's dictatorship of the nation.

This simply can't exist in a democracy whose freedoms have ironically allowed Trump to attempt his power grab via stomping on the Constitution and the Rule of Law.

If the Dems hadn't gotten control of the House who knows what other crimes Trump and his fellow Repubs would've been able to commit behind closed doors. Yet Trump and these Repubs insist on keeping things just the way they are via their stubborn attempts at derailing any effort to bring the Rule of Law back in its rightful place as an unshakable principle we all heve to live by, including the guy in the Oval Office who simply cannot be himself and operate the way he likes while living by and upholding this principle.

For his supporters who don't care that he must live by those rules as they must, well sad to say you're as complicit as he is for his believing that he is above any law that gets in his and your way.
 
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It takes a special kind of scum . . .
laura Ingraham needs to reigned in or 8i am afraid she might actually say something that will cause FOX embarrassment!

Fox / embarrassment? They long since crossed that Rubicon. :(
 
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