Opinion: Warren gives Fox News a debate it didn’t ask for
By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic May 14 at 4:38 PM Every four years, the suits at Fox News lobby officials with the Democratic National Committee to join forces in staging a presidential primary debate. Such an event provides revenue and ratings for the network, as well as precious assistance in promoting the Fox News brand as fair and balanced.
I love town halls. I’ve done more than 70 since January, and I’m glad to have a television audience be a part of them. Fox News has invited me to do a town hall, but I’m turning them down—here’s why... There’s a lot to comment on, too. On Monday, for instance, “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt on Monday morning spoke with Sen. David Perdue about Georgia’s restrictive “fetal heartbeat” abortion law. The two had a highly sympathetic conversation, epitomized by this thought from Earhardt: “I think it backfired on those Democrats when they all said you can have an abortion even after the baby is born or kill the baby after the baby is born.
Northam, a physician, never said he would sanction the execution of newborns. What he did say during a radio interview is that in rare, late-pregnancy cases when fetuses are nonviable, doctors deliver the baby, keep it comfortable, resuscitate it if the mother wishes, and then have a “discussion” with the mother.
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