Busted – Fox News and Martha MacCallum
Caught Presenting Koch Brothers Activist
as Fake GOP Voter in Wisconsin to Support
Ron DeSanti
Conservative Treehouse,
by
Sundance
Original Article
Posted By: Kitty Myers,
8/23/2023 7:52:49 AM
By now we are all too familiar with the schemes and plots of the corporate media as they participate in the political illusion of choice game. However, for Rupert Murdoch and Fox News debate moderator Martha MacCallum, this catch shreds the remaining little credibility they carried. Fox News is hosting the GOP debate in Wisconsin. During this build up segment, Martha MacCallum introduces the “random Republican voters” in Wisconsin who will watch the debate. Except, well… there’s a little problem. MacCallum introduces Chris Lawrence as a “Wisconsin GOP voter” who seemingly supports Ron DeSantis. However, MacCallum fails to mention that…
Reply 1 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 8/23/2023 8:07:39 AM (No. 1540577)
Not unexpected. Fox is not fooling anyone. McCallum and Beir two of a kind, can't trust them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Cindiana 8/23/2023 8:22:20 AM (No. 1540589)
FTA:
...Not only has Chris Lawrence worked for the Koch Network for the past 9 years, he is also the Senior Field Director for the Koch group Americans for Prosperity. In essence, Lawrence is a political operative planted in the group by Fox News to support Ron DeSantis and make it appear like he is an innocuous voter. Fox News and Martha MacCallum should be embarrassed, but they won’t be. WATCH
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Digger 8/23/2023 8:26:02 AM (No. 1540592)
The Conservative Trumphouse is today true to form, wildly criticizing anything that has any hint of non-support of Trump. I quit reading his stories long ago but i constantly see in the headlines the announcement of another of his tirades.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
dwa 8/23/2023 8:26:46 AM (No. 1540593)
Since the Murdoch son took over and since Paul Ryan's membership on the Board of Fox, Fox News has become just another CNN and MSNBC. It is no longer a credible news source.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
tisHimself 8/23/2023 8:49:13 AM (No. 1540607)
Fox, Koch bros and DeSAntis collude to present a little less than fair and balanced report, disclosing rooting interest for DeSAntis. Nothing to see here.
Sundance exposes the truth and he’s the problem. Got it.
Truth stinks. Go chicanery. But whatever you do, don’t reevaluate your opinions on the now fourth in the polls neverTrump supported candidate of the day.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 8/23/2023 8:51:18 AM (No. 1540609)
I read Sundance a bit differently than others.
Rather than seeing “non-support” for PDJT, I think Sundance’s research and analysis shed light on the putrid Swamp. AND, illuminate the inner workings of our political system, as currently bastardized.
To me, understanding the current RNC-DNC relationship explains the questions and incongruities of the last 30+ years. And as has been stated ad nauseum, this explains the vitriol directed toward PDJT and us, his “followers.” We, thanks to him, are onto the power brokers of the Uniparty.
Can’t have that now, can we.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
red1066 8/23/2023 9:00:58 AM (No. 1540619)
Only those with a special interest are allowed into these venues where debates take place. I suspect that there isn't a single person in that place that doesn't have some connection to a candidate's campaign. Even if there are, the odds of these people being picked to ask a question is slim to none, and slim left town. Faking like they just picked a random person from off the street to ask a question is the real Kabuki theater.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jebediah 8/23/2023 9:01:23 AM (No. 1540620)
I would blame a deficient staff of fact checkers, not McCallum....she relies on these people and they were shoddy and stupid.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/23/2023 9:45:18 AM (No. 1540655)
This smells of Paul Ryan shenanigans. The smell is putrid. Not surprised. Fox News stinks.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chillijilli 8/23/2023 9:52:52 AM (No. 1540668)
Whoever wrote the header should lose his job, and the CTH piece itself seems slightly reckless regarding the facts and represents quite a change in Sundance's usual logical and reasonable standards.
Being an activist does not make Lawrence a "fake GOP voter in Wisconsin." He can be an activist if he wants and a "GOP voter" as well.
Sundance seems to be implying that FNC and Lawrence intentionally set up a sinister scheme to attack Trump while Lawrence poses as a DeSantis activist on debate night. Claims like that require proof, yet I don't see any. To me this seems like a flimsy way of grasping at straws to connect some dots, which is certainly not Sundance's usual style.
Besides, so what if Lawrence could be a NeverTrumper? Lots of GOP voters are! Is CTH suggesting that everyone interviewed be required to disclose their personal candidate preferences in advance?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ARob101 8/23/2023 10:00:25 AM (No. 1540671)
Haven’t watched either McCallum and Beir since they proved money is more valuable than ethics. Ditto for Fox. Sheeple news network.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/23/2023 10:29:33 AM (No. 1540699)
Wow, the excuses for this blatant Fox News manipulation are mind-boggling. You wonder how we got his far? People willing to excuse bad or unethical behavior because it suits their agenda, that’s how.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2023 10:41:09 AM (No. 1540710)
A perfect example of why I just STOPPED entirely watching Fox about three years ago. I don't miss their propaganda masquerading as "fair and balanced".
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/23/2023 11:11:36 AM (No. 1540743)
DeS is my governor, and in that capacity, I've never seen a better one. I'm aware of the machinations surrounding the GOPe and I'll be keeping my eyes and ears open.
Sundance is a valuable asset to me, but Trust, then Verify. I'm voting for DJT - but consider the worst happening.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Citoyen 8/23/2023 11:16:42 AM (No. 1540747)
God forbid that anyone deviate from the Trump pom pom squad but McCallam should not have highlighted anyone connected to the awful Koch political outfit. Finally! Sundance dispenses actual news. Well done.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 8/23/2023 11:23:58 AM (No. 1540753)
So Trump was right again? He's batting somewhere close to 1.000
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/23/2023 11:45:12 AM (No. 1540780)
If true, this is a very damning expose of a formerly good news organization gone bad. If McCallum knew about this, and it's likely that she did, she just lowered herself considerably. The DeSantis plant obviously had a practiced speech ready and is using Trump's unfortunate choice of Judas Pence to make his argument. Pence had all of us fooled with his pious but cowardly demeanor for a long time so questioning Trump's judgement is not fair. It matters not to us, the debate will be ignored and essentially meaningless.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rama41 8/23/2023 11:52:10 AM (No. 1540784)
"Proving yet again, that everything in the Ron DeSantis orbit is astroturf, phony, manufactured and made up." Sundance, again, is off the rails. There isn't a single policy or proposal Ron DeSantis has either enacted or put forward that is not conservative to the core, yet it seems every Trump supporter shouts, without evidence, that he's GOPe, managed by Rinos who apparently want, among other things, open borders, and the WEF. Again. no evidence, just accusations. Sundance followers need to be reminded that the only opponent deserving of such passionate rantings is Joe Biden.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Melanie 8/23/2023 12:16:15 PM (No. 1540804)
I thought Martha was made of better stuff...
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/23/2023 12:53:09 PM (No. 1540843)
They didn't check the backgrounds of these people they are trying to portend are just regular voters in Wisconsin?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
tisHimself 8/23/2023 12:55:23 PM (No. 1540847)
He is supported by AFP and the Koch brothers. True
Koch brothers have a rather curious view of democracy, American labor and the democratic process. Trye.
This activiist is masquerading as a randomly selected Wisconsin Voter. True
Koch brothers have vowed to spend as much as necessary to block Trump, defeat TRump, and by extension his supporters. True
Fox chose in its usual fair and balanced approach to reporting news to the conservative voters who still remember what it was, to mislead its viewership. True
Sundance called them out for being disingenous ( that means they deliberatedly tried to mislead people like yourself) True.
You continue to take your marching orders from Fox news and Paul Ryan. True
You cannot be a defender of the founding fathers intentions and a defender of those who would continue the republican country club status quo. You cannot simultaneously support the flag bearer for the Rockefeller Bush Romney Rove Ryan and the Goldwater Reagan Kemp Gingrich Palin Trump limited government wing of the party. Either country club or limited government WTP, but you cannot be birth.
But again, Sundance, for pointing out what you don't want pointed out, he's the problem
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
HotPatty 8/23/2023 12:58:05 PM (No. 1540849)
FOX has become another tentacle of the Marxist News Squid networks. They hide it less and less. 50% of the questions to-nite will be "anti-Trump. McCallum and Beir already have their questions .... as prepared by CNN/CBS?NBC. What a farce.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
rochow 8/23/2023 1:49:00 PM (No. 1540883)
McCullum has always been a phony and a lefty.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 8/23/2023 2:08:49 PM (No. 1540905)
So Martha is a Bushie, big state now? Gee, I learn something new every day. Unlike many here, I continue to watch Fox, and I have seen lots of criticism regarding DeSantis and praise for Vivek. I’m totally confused. Also, I wonder if Sundance ever sleeps. He’s awfully busy trashing anyone who might want to vote for someone other than Trump.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
ronniethek 8/23/2023 4:16:09 PM (No. 1540983)
Evil blonde weasel.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
5 handicap 8/24/2023 6:39:51 AM (No. 1541280)
FOXNews went over to the “Dark Side” when the put the treasonous Paul Ryan on their Board. Haven’t trusted anything they’ve said since…. Remember Bret Baier is the low-life who called Arizona for Biden well before the polls were closed! Mistake? Methinks not!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
broken01 8/24/2023 12:53:41 PM (No. 1541504)
This doesn't surprise me as Martha MacCallum is nothing but another FNC blonde RINO like Dana Perino. She and Brett "Howdy Doody" Bier are not worth my viewing time.
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