'Fox & Friends' congratulates Trump for 'delivering on his promise to put Christ back in Christmas'
Fox & Friends congratulates Trump for delivering on his promise to put Christ back in Christmas
By Erik Wemple December 26 at 12:54 PM
Credit goes to the bookers and producers of Fox News morning program Fox & Friends. While people across the country were still engaging in their long winters naps, the most idiotic program on all of televised news was interviewing Paula White, President Trumps longtime spiritual adviser. Shes a fascinating individual and among the under-covered figures in Trumps orbit. ... And as it turns out, White does a great job of spewing pro-Trump spiritual talking points without any opposition from her interviewers.
The segment, broadcast on Christmas morning on Fox & Friends, sat at the crux of an obsession and a lie that both Fox News and President Trump hold dear: The idea that under President Barack Obama, Christmas was somehow under siege. And thus, that it somehow needed to be revived.
Todd Piro, one of the Fox & Friends hosts subbing for the first team on the holiday morning, teed up the segment with this claim: President Trump, delivering on his promise to put Christ back in Christmas.
In case the viewers didnt get the point, co-host Molly Line pretty much repeated the line moments later: President Trump delivering on another promise, proudly putting Christ back in Christmas, she said, before asking White just why this was just a priority for the White House.
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Erik Wemple writes the Erik Wemple blog, where he reports and opines on media organizations of all sorts. Follow @ErikWemple
LonePirate
(13,428 posts)There is nothing moral, religious, pious, Christ-like about him. He is the closest person to a heathen weve had as a president. Somehow the evangelicals and fundamentalists think he walks on water. They arguably comprise his most ardent supporters and none of it makes any sense to me. This war on Christmas bullshit is more proof of his propaganda and lies.
EarthFirst
(2,901 posts)My father being exactly one of these individuals.
In the last year; I have grown to exhibit a loathing for evangelicals and how shallow their supposed faith has become through their undying support for this administration.
Everything that the evangelical faith supposedly holds has now become questionable and suspect.
Its extremely unfortunate.
However; evangelicals are beginning to distance themselves from these types; knowing that the contempt of compassion that Trump represents flies directly in the face of their organizational belief system.
There are more divisions among so many groups in so many aspects of American society these days; its truly disheartening...
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)which is South Carolina, this is a function of how horribly racist the fundamentalists are.
Don't forget that the powerful Southern Baptist church, which is only a few inches less crazy and intolerant as the 'put your hands in the air' fundy megachurches, was formed in the 1850s because the national Baptists were beginning to formally proclaim the inherent immorality of slavery.
Many Southerners, who define themselves by their religion, also despise black/brown people and what tolerance and diversity has done to their status in society.
And I don't doubt that quite a few of those unexpected Trump votes by historically Democratic voters in MI, PA, OH, WI were also greatly influenced by a desire to rebalance society after 8 years of a black President who, at least in the eyes of FOX viewers, had a questionable allegiance to Christianity.
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)is a hypocrite & trump & the evangelicals are the biggest hypocrites of all.
They talk God & like Roy Moore, do the most horrendous things. That the moron talks religion is laughable