Fox News Implodes on Air as Guests Backfire
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Why did Fox News's interview with Greg Kassar backfire?
State regime media known as Fox is spiraling. Things did not go as planned this weekend when Fox brought on to its morning show a Democratic Congress member, Greg Kassar. Now, Fox was sharpening its knives. They had their MAGA talking points ready to go, and they were gonna be aggressive with this Democratic Congress member, Kassar. But the Democratic Congress member was ready and humiliated Fox on live TV. Watch what went down when Fox was trying to spread disinfo and Greg Kassar said, let me explain actually what Musk and Trump are doing with social security and why they're destroying it. Play this clip.
You should be paying taxes to improve your life, not to make some billionaire buy their 10th jet.
To be fair, I don't think many of your Republican colleagues have any interest in touching Social Security, but I want to keep moving on here.
Your colleague wrote... But to be fair, though, but to be fair, President Trump and Elon Musk just announced that they are closing Social Security offices and... going to ask seniors and people with disabilities to go check in in person at social security offices that they've closed. And in rural areas or really suburban areas, that may be really hard to do. And then they'll call those social security recipients, quote, fraudsters. and cut off their benefits. That's what they've announced. And Commerce Secretary, who's a billionaire himself, just said on television, oh, if my grandma misses a Social Security check, I think he said my mother-in-law misses a Social Security check, she won't complain. Well, because he's the Commerce Secretary.
It's brilliant right there. And then Democratic Congress member Kassar knew that he had Fox on the ropes, so he kept on swinging. It was awesome. Watch this.
You cited a number that Elon Musk is making every day. That's not from his government salary, to be clear. I mean, that may be related to federal contracts. To be clear about that, do you condemn violence against Tesla owners and Tesla dealerships?
Of course, violence is dangerous and wrong, and those who commit it should be held accountable. And there are millions of Americans right now speaking out against their health care being taken away, speaking out against money being taken away from their taxpayer pockets and being handed out in federal contracts. We should be having the conversation about how is it that Elon Musk, who makes $8 million a day from federal contracts, as you just said, why is he looking for even more contracts? It was just reported he's trying to land a contract with the FAA so that he can get billions of dollars for Starlink out of that. He was trying to land a huge contract with the State Department until he got caught by the press. We should agree, whether you're a Democratic or a Republican president, you shouldn't be allowed to appoint a billionaire to the government and then for him to look for billions of dollars in contracts for himself.
That's corruption at its finest, and we need a Republican party and a Democratic party that's willing to speak out against that kind of corruption.
Well, clearly, President Trump thinks Elon Musk brings a whole lot to the table, being such a wildly successful businessman.
Well, I mean, he brought hundreds of millions of dollars to his campaign.
Congressman Greg Kassar of the great state of Texas, thank you very much for your time today.
Thanks so much, and I appreciate your viewers for listening.
I'm going to show you more of those clips in a bit. But contrast this when that same Fox weekend host brought on MAGA Republican Senator Joni Ernst. And she was asked about those. So she got the softballs. The Democratic Congress member got like the fast pitches or what Fox thought was fast pitches. And she whiffed at this. So MAGA Republican Senator Ernst, she's like, yeah, you know, mistakes are going to happen here and there. Things may fall through the cracks, but that's normal. No, it's not normal to do these things. Play this clip.
Concern that not enough planning has gone in in terms of cutting government waste. They're concerned about spending cuts. Sixty five percent. Yes. 34% no. Can you reassure our audience that it'll be done precisely to make sure that the best and brightest employees, for example, are not fired?
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