ERIC ZUESSE -- How Fox ‘News’ insulted a guest who told the truth about Russia & Ukraine

 

How Fox ‘News’ insulted a guest who told the truth about Russia & Ukraine

 

Eric Zuesse, March 01, 2022

 

Here is the clip, on the 28 February 2022 Trey Gowdy Sunday Night show:

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6299099588001#sp=show-clips

 

The first four minutes are the guest, Col. Douglas Macgregor, explaining that America-NATO’s intention to place missiles on Ukraine’s border with Russia just five minutes flight-time away from nuking Moscow, is like the Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse (an enormous danger of producing a WW III); and that Putin is certainly rational to act now so as to prevent that possibility (which ever since February 2014 has been an ever-increasing likelihood to happen); and then the neocon Jennifer Griffin came on and pretended to ‘fact-check’ him by saying that Putin is simply a lying power-crazed dictator who mustn’t be ‘appeased’. Other U.S. ‘news’-media (all of which are likewise neocon or pro-U.S.-empire) bannered about that, hostilely against the anti-neocon guest, such headlines as “Jennifer Griffin Corrects MacGregor’s Praise of Putin on Fox,” “Fox News guest: Let Putin take Ukraine without any sanctions or aide for Ukrainians,” and, “Once Again, Fox Pentagon Correspondent Has To Fact Check” — though that ‘Fact Check” was actually ad-hominem lies, against the courageously truth-speaking guest and against Putin. The ‘Fact Check’ was the lies, and they were lies against the truth that Colonel Macgregor had just spoken, 100% accurately.

 

In America, truth-telling about international affairs is an unpardonable sin, sure to be widely condemned in their ‘news’-media (which might as well be owned by firms such as Lockheed Martin).