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Trump has given yet another Fox News “personality” an important government job.
Trump has appointed Fox News host and former New York prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim US attorney for Washington DC. The announcement comes after Trump withdrew his first pick for the job after he lost key Republican support in the Senate, which votes on such positions.
After Trump’s 2020 loss to Joe Biden, Pirro made false statements about the election that were part of a lawsuit against Fox News by a company that makes voting machines. The case was settled for more than $787m (£594m). Trump called Pirro “a powerful crusader for victims of crime” in a social media post announcing his selection. Meanwhile, critics described her as unqualified.
Well sure but Trump doesn’t want qualified, he wants in the bag. He wants people who like what he’s selling.
In the Truth Social post on Thursday night, Trump noted that she previously served as a Republican district attorney in Westchester, New York, as well as a judge. He also touted her roles on various shows on Fox News, including on The Five, which he called “one of the Highest Rated Shows on Television”.
Yup that’s the important thing. TV fame is what matters.
Democrats were quick to criticise the appointment of Pirro, the second Fox News host with to receive a high-profile federal job after Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, raising questions about her credentials for the role and about her career outside of broadcasting.
“Which Fox News host will get the next federal appointment,” Jimmy Gomez, a Democrat representative from California, wrote on X.
The Democratic National Committee wrote in a statement: “Jeanine Pirro is yet another unqualified TV personality with a history of putting Trump and violent insurrectionists above the rule of law.”
Democrats are so boring that way, expecting government hires to be qualified and experienced and good at what they do. Pffffffff.
Actual* video of Judge Jeanine Pirro: Apologies to any foreigners unable to see this.
https://youtu.be/FJdDn006ldI?si=A2GNE3z5XueIar7C
*Close enough
Here in parts of the US it’s pronounced “furriners” and is mostly used in the derogatory (colloquially) by the ‘deplorables’ here. I’ve heard it used many times, usually preceded by “f**kin’.”
Not a criticism, I think we all know what you mean, but one person’s foreign is another’s familiar. I think I read myself out of thinking nationalism is such a good thing, but alas, it is a thing.
Of course we all know what he means. The word “foreigners” in the context of YouTube has nothing to do with trumpish xenophobia.
Let alone SNL on YouTube. It’s sarcasm all the way down.
In the context of YouTube, people are fed very localized results. I see very little of what’s out there unless it pertains to my region, my language (English, as it happens), and my watch history — unless we searh for results which are very specific indeed. We end up in a filter bubble that becomes increasingly difficult to escape. Then, when we think we’ve escaped to some extent, through whatever purge we’ve done, we in fact are still in a much larger and ever larger, and less obvious filter bubble (and so forth). It’s about marketing mostly, but results are generally tailored to location and assumed interests. It’s very easy to become subject to confirmation bias without extreme vigilance, particularly among the more ideological presentations. You can’t accept that there is randomness to what results anyone gets — the algorithms won’t allow it. It reeks of propagandistic manipulation. Something you’d expect from China or North Korea, but here on our “free” internet, it’s more covert and insidious. People are not being brought together or educated globally, they are being kept in their ‘lanes.’
Anyway, nothing against Bruce’s post, it just set me to thinking.
From Wikipedia:
“Dominion focused on allegations made between November 2020 and January 2021 by hosts Maria Bartiromo, Tucker Carlson, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, and Jeanine Pirro. Guests who often appeared with these hosts included Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, both of whom have also been sued individually by Dominion in federal court.[a] During pre-trial discovery, Fox News’ internal communications were released, indicating that prominent hosts and top executives were aware the network was reporting false statements but continued doing so to retain viewers for financial reasons.”
Jeanine Pirro, like Tucker, is a despicable liar, and she nearly lost her job at Fox, as little Tucker (what a name!) did, because of the lies she happily spread.