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Date: October 17, 2024 at 10:37:42
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Fox News anchor Bret Baier admits Kamala Harris did damage to Trump |
URL: https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/10/fox-news-anchor-bret-baier-admits-kamala-harris-did-damage-to-trump-she-was-on-a-mission.html |
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Full Headline: Fox News anchor Bret Baier admits Kamala Harris did damage
to Trump: ‘She was on a mission’
Fox News anchor Bret Baier is taking criticism from all sides:
— Donald Trump supporters are screaming that that the anchor from the
Trump-friendly cable giant wasn’t tough enough in his hourlong interview
with Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday night;
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— Democratic supporters have called him rude for interrupting Harris many
times during her answers;
— Media critics are pointing out that Fox deceptively edited a clip of Trump
— and were fact-checked by Harris in real time;
— And many, in all circles, are claiming that Baier, in an attempted takedown
of Harris, was no match for her.
Even Baier seemed to acknowledge that Harris won the day.
“I think she had a mission that she wanted to do,” Baier said after the
interview. “Maybe she wanted to have a viral moment or pushback. She
came to Fox News and she wanted to have a go-after-Donald-Trump viral
moment that plays on a lot of other channels and on social media. She may
have gotten that.”
Harris received rave reviews from across the political world.
You can watch extensive clips from the interview here.
Former Republican Congressman and Jan. 6 Committee member Adam
Kinzinger: “She went into the lion’s den and took them on and stood tall. Fox
tried their bs gotchas in their rightwing reality, and she turned everything
deftly back to Trump and held him accountable in his own safe space. She
did not let them bait her at all - strong, confident, epic. She totally schooled
Bret Baier.”
Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson: “Kamala came to Fox to stack bodies.”
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin tweeted: “He got his ass kicked.”
Billionaire and “Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban, who is an economic adviser to
Harris’ campaign and a one-time Trump supporter who is warning against
the ex-president, gave Harris rave reviews:
“The beautiful thing about the Bret Baier interview is that Kamala Harris
understood and responded to each question,” Cuban tweeted. “She used
examples of policies. She gave real world context. When Bret went hard
after her, she didn’t call him names. She didn’t quit the interview. She didn’t
make things up. She never once complained the questions were tough. She
never played the victim card. She didn’t lose her temper.
“She didn’t take the bait to diminish or talk down to Trump supporters. She
stood up to him with force and never backed down.
“He has been the President and campaigning for 9 years. Kamala Harris has
caught up to him in just 100 days. That speaks volumes. It’s why people
want to vote for her. That’s why so many Republicans and Independents are
supporting her. She is everything her opponent is not and will never be.
Strong, Smart and Measured.”
In the most controversial part of the interview, Baier played a clip of Trump
insisting that liberals were the enemy because he has been investigated
“more than Al Capone.” When Baier asked for Harris’ reaction, she pounced:
“With all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the
‘enemy within’ that he has repeated when he’s speaking about the American
people,” Harris said. “That’s not what you just showed.”
Baier tried to interrupt, but Harris kept going.
“You didn’t show that,” she said. “You and I both know that he has talked
about turning the American military on the American people. He has talked
about locking people up because they disagree with him. This is a
democracy. The President of the United States should be willing to be able
to handle criticism without saying he’d lock people up for doing it.”
In the end, it turned out that Fox had intentionally edited the same clip to
remove Trump’s comments about “the enemy within,” and got caught in real
time by Harris.
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill: “If anyone is trying to figure out who is
stronger, Kamala is going on Fox News. And even the MAGA folks know he
would never ever ever be brave enough to do an interview on MSNBC.”
McCaskill also reacted to Baier’s frequent interruptions:”I figured Bret Baier
would be tough. I didn’t think he would be downright rude and disrespectful.
The VP did great. She is strong. He is scared.”
Jeff Greenfield, an author and 30-year political analyst, tweeted: “I was
expecting tough questions and persistent follow-ups. I was not expecting
Baier to become a combatant. In that role, he did Harris a real favor.”
Harris campaign adviser David Plouffe: “Kamala Harris (strong) handled an
ambush Fox interview light-years better than the hash Donald Trump
(unstable) made of the Fox pep rally disguised as a town hall.”
Even Fox News host Dana Perino admitted that Harris was “fairly effective”
when she was getting her points across about Trump. Fox colleague Brit
Hume said Harris was “combative and energetic and she certainly landed
some blows on Donald Trump.”
Author David Rothkopf: “Time after time after time Kamala Harris has been
tested and triumphed with flying colors. She is a much stronger candidate
today than when her campaign started.” He added: “Fox prepared a warm
bath for Trump and an ambush for the VP. She emerged stronger while both
Trump and Fox revealed their profound weakness.”
Many on Twitter/X, like James Fallow, wondered how Trump would fair in a
similar setting: “When watching Kamala Harris with Bret Baier on Fox just
now, imagine for a second Donald Trump trying to answer questions for half
an hour from Rachel Maddow or Lawrence O’Donnell.”
Former Obama staffer Tommy Vietor: “Kamala Harris did a great job on Fox
News and showed that she can take tough questions from anyone. Also Bret
Baier reminded us for the umpteenth time that he might go to all the DC
book parties, but when chips are down, he’s a Murdoch/GOP employee and
will do their bidding.”
Trump said on Truth Social that he would have preferred a more hard-hitting
journalist conduct the Harris interview, saying Baier “is often very soft on
those in the ‘cocktail circuit’ Left.”
After the interview, Baier said, “I think she had a mission that she wanted to
do. Maybe she wanted to have a viral moment or pushback. She came to
Fox News and she wanted to have a go-after-Donald-Trump viral moment
that plays on a lot of other channels and on social media. She may have
gotten that.”
Former New York Congressman Max Rose called it “a home run, because
she sent the one message that needs to be sent, which was, ‘I will go
anywhere at any time and show the courage necessary to speak to every
American,’ because that’s what a real president does. The primary critique
against her prior to this point was that she was not doing enough interviews.
No one thought that the Fox News interview was going to go swimmingly
every step of the way. Everyone knew it would be adversarial, but she
showed exactly what she needed to show, which was that she is a leader,
ready to be president on Day One.”
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Date: October 17, 2024 at 12:44:04
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Fox News anchor Bret Baier admits Kamala Harris did damage to... |
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This reminds of of something she said some weeks back
when she was newly nominated:
"Say it to my face"
I believe, that's what she was saying to Fox news.
She's not afraid.
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Date: October 17, 2024 at 18:33:18
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Fox News anchor Bret Baier admits Kamala Harris did damage to... |
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Yeah, good ol' Fox News for Trailer Trash.. it's funny, they get the highest
ratings because they really don't have competition, whereas the real news
outlets have to divide up sane people amongst them..
My thinking is there's a point where they look silly to people. And Kamala
went a ways toward creating that juxtaposition. Grown people swallowing
lies at some point have to outgrow them. And once they see the truth in
comparison.. well, I hope..
But what happens to them when Trump is forced to go away? They talk
about TikTok being addictive, I imagine being blinded by Trump's nonsenses
has a pretty addictive quality to it to those that are so predisposed..
I hope Fox isn't able to escape the fact that they hitched their wagon to the
moron.. they really are a disservice to society.
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Date: October 17, 2024 at 19:42:54
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Fox News anchor Bret Baier admits Kamala Harris did damage to... |
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as the judge said, it's fox "entertainment", not fox "news"...
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