With Donald Trump throwing at them?
The news channel that used to carry the water for the President has begun to turn on itself internally…
In an unusual airing of intramural grievances, Fox News anchors and pundits have let loose at one another in full public view — lobbing attacks across time slots and offering a rare glimpse into tensions behind the scenes at the top-rated cable news network.
In one striking exchange, a guest on Tucker Carlson’s prime-time show on Tuesday dismissed Andrew Napolitano, the veteran Fox News legal analyst, as a “fool” for saying Mr. Trump’s urging of a favor from the Ukrainian prime minister constituted a crime.
Shepard Smith, the network’s chief news anchor, fired back the next afternoon, declaring it “repugnant” that a guest would insult a Fox News colleague — and adding, pointedly, that the remark had gone “unchallenged” by Mr. Carlson.
There’s a story going around that former House Speaker Paul Ryan ,who is now a member of the board of FoxNews parent company,and whose antipathy for Trump was well known, has been urging Lachlan Murdoch to curb the networks sycophancy for Trump.
President Donald Trump on Sunday morning went on a rapid-fire tirade on Twitter against Ed Henry of Fox News.
In a series of tweets and re-tweets — 23 in 23 minutes — Trump expressed his displeasure with Henry over his interview with conservative radio host Mark Levin on “Fox & Friends” that deal with Trump’s current Ukraine scandal. About an hour later, he added one more, a direct link to Levin’s appearance….
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