Fox News Reporter Calls Out Speaker Johnson for Blaming Shutdown on Dems: Doesn’t That Mean ‘You Don’t Have the Votes?’
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Fox's Chad Pergram was not buying Speaker Mike Johnson's preemptive blaming of Congressional Democrats if a CR spending bill fails to pass a House vote.

Summary

Fox News reporter Chad Pergram challenged Speaker Mike Johnson for blaming Democrats for a potential government shutdown over funding bill opposition.

After Johnson claimed Democrats would be “responsible for every troop who misses a paycheck” if they reject his “clean CR,” Pergram pointed out this implies Republicans lack sufficient votes.

Johnson insisted “we’ll have the votes” despite reports that House Republicans plan to vote against the bill, claiming Democrats should “do the responsible thing.”

    • @YarHarSuperstarEnglish
      18•14 hours ago

      Check this shit out, Fox posted this on fb when Bill Burr said that stuff about how we should treat “differently affluent” people (that’s my new euphemism, like it?)

      I thought it seemed weirdly anti-oligarchy for them and the comments were almost entirely pro-Burr. Interesting times we live in for sure

    • VindictiveJudgeEnglish
      11•16 hours ago

      Fox learned during his first term that if they push too hard their viewers just go to Newsmax instead.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•9 hours ago

        many of the young viewers abandoed it for oan/newsmax and right wing grifters. Its the milleneals and older that still is on fox.

      • @[email protected]English
        10•15 hours ago

        That’s what’s so scary about this beast Murdoch and co have created. They thought they could pump out fake news for decades and people would believe whatever they wanted, allowing them to control the narrative.

        It worked for a while, but then others realized how gullible the Fox News crowd was - and saw they could go even further into the crazy. Fox News now is basically in a spot where they have no choice but to push crazier shit than they actually want to. If they say the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, their viewers jump ship to someone who will tell them that it was.

    • @[email protected]
      4•16 hours ago

      I’d say Trump is about to learn what happens when you fuck with the money, but he’s literally incapable of learning.