Fox News host shuts down Stephen Miller's defense of Trump's hypocrisy and racism

[babylonsister]

Baby steps, but progress!!


Fox News host shuts down Stephen Miller’s defense of Trump’s hypocrisy and racism
Chris Wallace did not let Stephen Miller gaslight his viewers.
Josh Israel
Jul 21, 2019, 10:30 am


Stephen Miller, a top White House adviser said to be the architect of the administration’s cruel anti-immigrant policies, went on Fox News Sunday to defend President Donald Trump’s latest round of racist and hypocritical attacks on congresswomen of color. The interview went rather poorly for him.

Host Chris Wallace began the interview by asking Miller about Trump’s recent tweets attacking Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and demanding that they go back to their home countries (Omar was born in Somalia and came to the United States as a child, the other three are natural-born citizens). Miller responded that the president isn’t a racist because the jobless rate has been falling for racial minorities.

“I think the term ‘racist,’ Chris, has become a label that is too often deployed by left/Democrats in this country simply to try to silence and punish and suppress people they disagree with, speech that they don’t want to hear,” Miller began, asserting that Trump “has been a president for all Americans” because of “historically low black unemployment rates, historically low Hispanic unemployment rates,” and his crackdown on immigration “to protect safety, security, rising wages for all American citizens.”

Wallace responded that Trump’s claims that Mexican immigrants are mostly rapists and drug dealers and his proposed total ban on Muslims were “not protecting the American people” but “playing the race card.”

After Miller tried to change the subject to criminal gang members, Wallace shut him down, reminding him that Trump had pushed racist “birther” attacks on Barack Obama. Miller likened those efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the former president to questions that were once raised about John McCain. Wallace quickly fact-checked him, noting that concerns surrounding the late Arizona senator were not racial, but based on the 2008 nominee’s birth in the Panama Canal Zone.

Miller then argued that questioning people’s Americanism is okay as long as you don’t intend it to be racist.

Wallace also fact-checked Miller when he attempted to claim Trump had been “clear” that he disagreed with his supporters’ racist chant — repeating his own attacks on Omar and demanding she be sent back to Somalia.

“No, he was clear after the fact,” he responded. “He let it go on for 13 seconds and [it] was only when it diminished that he started talking again.” Wallace noted that Trump “said nothing there or in his tweet after that rally that indicated any concern about the chant.”

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https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-host-decimates-trump-aide-stephen-miller-racism-hypocricy-8a8b7b4b5db3/

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Good. Mr. Wallace shut down this POS and his convulted logic. Sickening. NT

[FakeNoose]

2. Real progress is when people like Stephen Miller aren't even allowed on their programs

Just saying'

[babylonsister]

4. True. Guess we all need to vote!

[VOX]

8. Precisely. No media oxygen for these far-right ideologues.

Dear Media: Stop enabling these fascists.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

14. My sentiment as well..but it's fox news--leader in racist, hate propaganda for decades...so

...would like "so called decent republicans on fox" resign in protest--they won't! Why? because imo they, (republicans-pundits, politicians, voters) share racist, bigotes beliefs of grand ole party.

[magicarpet]

3. Yes,... when the far right wing media tells the Fascists to go get fucked....

.... that will be an EXCEPTIONAL Moment.

[ck4829]

25. +1

[NewJeffCT]

5. Questions on McCain's birth

were NEVER nearly as loud or as widespread as the questions on Obama's birth certificate.

I think Congress - led by Democrats at the time - voted to say that McCain was a citizen and was eligible to run for president. Even though it was (I think) a non-binding resolution, it was a nice gesture.

A few years later, Republicans refused to do the same for Obama.

[hlthe2b]

7. Not to mention, as I recall, originated with REPUBLICANS

[hlthe2b]

6. Wallace doesn't do enough, but along with Shep Smith do make the attempt to call them on their lies.

Methinks his late father, Mike is speaking to him in his dreams...

[exboyfil]

10. Somebody buy the elder Wallace

some extra minutes on the spiritual phone because Chris has a long way to go.

[Ernesto]

22. very true!

[kskiska]

9. Wallace used to be with ABC. He had aspirations to be an anchor,

but ABC wouldn't promote him. Fox offered him an anchor job and Wallace took it. He's not a right-winger but has had to toe the line to keep the job.

[nuxvomica]

11. About the "historically low black unemployment rates"

Yes the rate is historically low but it has been dropping more slowly than it did under Obama. The trend lines are very consistent during the entire period of the Continuing Obama Recovery.

[Hulk]

12. I don't think so...

Miller got his point across. He is the twin imp to kac....they talk soooo quickly and right over the top of their host, so that they get their propaganda points out, and the half dozen times Wallace called him on something or tried to shut him up for a moment we’re fruitless.

First of all, and trumpsters that might have been watching saw Miller vindicate the shitgibbon. Wallace was a speed bump...nothing more. If anyone thinks that Miller walked away thinking he didn’t get his message across, Ive got news for you: You’re dead wrong.

Thank God the rest of the media outlets don’t put this piece of shit on their programs, or he could persuade even some normal intelligent individuals that the Jabba the Hut did absolutely nothing wrong, and the four freshmen congresswomen really do hate Jews and their country. This prick is good at what he does. Don’t fool yourself!

[DeminPennswoods]

13. Sometimes the acorn doesn't fall very far from the tree

[certainot]

15. miller says one of the most important books in his life was written by limbaugh

mulvaney proudly admits to being a 'rush baby' - someone who grew up on limbaugh's lies racism and ignorance

how many other's besides trump follow the limbaugh script, with fox supplying the visual icing on the lie turd pie of talk radio?

who knows? the dems and media never poll for what would be the closest correlation between trump, his base, and what they say and do

when miller says:

“I think the term ‘racist,’ Chris, has become a label that is too often deployed by left/Democrats in this country simply to try to silence and punish and suppress people they disagree with, speech that they don’t want to hear,”

he's repeating what limbaugh and sons have been saying for 20 or 30 years since their took the term 'political correctness' mainstream so that racists who used the 'n' word could defend themselves when told they were racist

unfortunately the talk radio element is completely unfactored by the left, so dems don't have to pay attention to it, and neither does media, and a trump operative like sam nunberg can say "i listened to 1000s of hours of talk radio" in 2014 and trump was getting his reports, and that was the same year a russian troll said he "got a list of topics to write about" - and the media nor dems have no clue to ask nunberg about that.

and mueller is not going to be asked about it either even though it would jump start a media frenzy into how long the russians have been using talk radio and feeding team limbaugh.

[spanone]

27. trump has literally surrounded himself with the worse possible people...hands down

[Hulk]

16. And I read that worthless Cruz is trying to get antifa classified as a hate group..

??? Wtf! Saw it posted on yahoo this morning, and the claims are amazing. The violence and death and destruction caused by antifa are threatening to the country....bull shit. Not suggesting there isn’t violence and destruction at times, but death???

The threads are FULL of reich wing gopers reinforcing that bull shit myth. The article does point out the white supremacist groups actually cause more death and violence, but that is being put down as irrelevant or false by the thread trolls.

Propaganda is in full swing in this country. Can’t stop the trolls, but we need to continue and repeatedly get the truth out there. Statistics!....Facts!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. Nobody likes you Miller

You might as well go out back and eat worms.

[spike jones]

20. Gollum says that best

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[ck4829]

24. Ha

[Bob Loblaw]

18. Right now, Miller is probably back in his office

pulling the wings off of the pet flies that congregate around his bullshit.

[LittleGirl]

19. I can't believe Miller

Is 33. His old racist soul is much older.
Fuck em

[gordianot]

21. Chris Wallace is still an ass.

He was on CBS Sunday Morning promoting Mike in spite of his many Daddy issues.

[ck4829]

23. Kick

[John Fante]

26. These idiots love to bring up minority unemployment rate.

As if that somehow makes them less racist. We're expected to believe that these shitbags just swooped in and gave every person of color a job? 😂 They had nothing to do with it.