Among many aspects of Ukraine coverage by Fox News that have come under fire, the “wag the dog” theorizing that the threat of invasion was hyped up to distract from President Joe Biden‘s domestic woes has aged particularly poorly. And former Fox analyst Bernard Goldberg made a succinct and cutting point on that subject Thursday as the sound of explosions and gunfire have echoed across the world from Donbas and Kyiv.
“Are they trying to create all of this drama because we were getting this Durham information and we just saw 40 year highs on inflation?” she said.
Laura Ingraham said the same a month ago today. “Anyone paying attention to Biden’s presser last week heard the sounds of the war-drums beating [as] the media desperately wants to get off the raging crime, raging COVID, raging inflation story that’s driven Biden to another new low in the polls today,” she said.
“More evidence that opinion cable news is not about journalism, it’s about pandering to viewer biases,” Goldberg wrote.