"Even though he’s entitled to his opinions, he’s not entitled to his own set of facts"

“Even though he’s entitled to his opinions, he’s not entitled to his own set of facts”

During a broadcast of Donald Trump’s speech at a “Get Out the Vote” rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina on Friday evening, Fox News host Neil Cavuto cut into the footage to point out inaccuracies in what was being said by the former president and 2024 Republican frontrunner.

Taking issue with Trump claiming credit for the market going up while, in the same breath, blaming Biden for inflated gas prices and whatever else, Cavuto said, “We’ll continue monitoring the president’s remarks and I mean no offense to him or some of you who might want to continue to hear him, but I did have to say that even though the former president is entitled to his opinions, he’s not entitled to his own set of facts.”

  • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
    141·
    9 months ago

    Wow…absolutely blown away. I literally never thought I’d see journalistic integrity from anyone even loosely associated with FauxNews…

        • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          9 months ago

          They don’t care about his overall popularity, they only care about his popularity with their viewing demographic, and he’s as popular with that demo as he’s ever been. More so, honestly.

          Remember Trump won more votes in 2020 than 2016, and his popular vote percentage rose by 0.7%. The fact he still had that much after 4 years of his shit tells you everything you need to know about these voters.

        • dalekcaan
          8·
          9 months ago

          If only Jeffrey Combs would come take Trump to another quadrant of the galaxy.

      • squiblet@kbin.social
        72·
        9 months ago

        My understanding is they could play all the videos of Trump saying bullshit they want, just not assert it themselves. They could repeat it but be careful to say “Person x alleges this” rather than stating mistruths as fact.

      • TWeaKEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        I don’t know if this is so much them being scared, the vibe I’m getting here is that the anchor finally feels like he can get away with being a bit of a real journalist, when before he would be reprimanded by the network.

    • blargerer@kbin.social
      368·
      9 months ago

      Fox news’ reporters have always been reasonable, maybe on the low end of reasonable, but reasonable. The thing that makes Fox as a network awful is their opinion people, and how much they blur the line between their opinion people and their reporters.

    • coffinwood@feddit.de
      20·
      9 months ago

      Could be opportunism. Fox senses that Trump might go to prison or get barred from the election in another way, and so they either prepare endorsing a different candidate or are simply cautious.

      But it’s journalism by accident at best.

      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        9 months ago

        Fox never actually wanted Trump, but they radicalized their viewers too much. They tried to criticize him before while he was president, but each time they did their ratings went down and OAN’s went up.

    • Jaderick@lemmy.world
      14·
      9 months ago

      I wouldn’t necessarily call it integrity. I think Faux News has realized they created a monster that lost them a ton of viewers to even worse garbage at Newsmax. They’re trying to walk it all back now.

    • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 months ago

      They ought to know that since they were first to call Arizona for Biden, they will be first against the wall if he is re-elected