Opinion: Cutting Fox News off from Democratic debates will backfire
By Christine Emba Christine Emba Columnist focused on ideas and society. Email Bio Follow Columnist March 8 at 5:04 PM Election seasons are littered with unforced errors.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton’s offhand comments about the “deplorables” — irredeemably racist, sexist, xenophobic Donald Trump supporters — had much the same effect, except to an even greater extent. In Clinton’s case, the gaffe turned into one of the defining mistakes of her doomed campaign, energizing her opposition and delivering a ready-made rallying cry. Reflecting on her loss in 2017, Clinton even described her “deplorables” comments as a “political gift” to her opponent.
On Monday, the New Yorker published an 11,000-word article by writer Jane Mayer, reporting that Fox News had essentially devolved into a propaganda outlet for President Trump. Among other things, Mayer’s reporting alleged that Trump and Fox News’s most popular hosts are in constant conversation; that Fox News killed a deeply unflattering Trump story ahead of the 2016 election; and that the channel may have leaked questions to then-candidate Trump in advance of the presidential debates it hosted.
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