DSA candidate Oliver Larkin described President Donald Trump as a "pedophile president" during questioning by Fox anchor Trace Gallagher.
DSA candidate Oliver Larkin described President Donald Trump as a "pedophile president" during questioning by Fox anchor Trace Gallagher.
22 Comments
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 126 pts · 27d
The beauty of what Larkin said is, it's a perfect trap: either Trump doesn't respond and that's kind of an admission of guilt, or he files for defamation and that automatically triggers a discovery process he really, really doesn't want.
Boy, I'll get the popcorn! 🙂 🍿
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 60 pts · 27d
That's why I address him as "the pedophile" all the time... come at me bro! Hahaha
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 52 pts · 27d
Well, everybody and their dog calls Trump a pedophile, because if he's not a pedophile, I'm the King of England. But no public figures dares do that on TV - probably for fear of being sued. To my knowledge, this guy is the first. And he probably secured a whole lot of extra votes for it.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 10 pts · 27d
They could actually lose their broadcast rights via the cuorrupt FCC, but tbh that doesn't really matter to anybody but Fox News because most networks broadcast on satellite or online nowadays instead of archaic airwaves and cable.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 27d
doesn't the FCC only control the airwave spextrum, not cable at all?
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 6 pts · 27d
according to the FCC
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 27d
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 27d
Lordy, this was good. Thank you for sharing that.
cranakis@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 27d
The interview was worth suffering through for that ending. He mentioned Trump being a child rapist and my man wanted to cut to commercial. Fucking hypocrites.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 40 pts · 27d
Surprised this made the air
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 28 pts · 27d
Either it was live, or Faux News figured it would work up the MAGA dumdums, and as such had broadcast value.
Bixcut@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27d
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 27d
You would think after that superbowl incident, TV stations would learn to have appropriate buffers for things that happen spontaniously.
I guess people smart enough to think of that dont work for Fox.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 27d
You mean with Janet Jackson?
ragepaw@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 27d
He had so many easy layups that he fumbled. Instead of calling out disingenuous questions, he let himself be trapped.
Q: "You won't applaud ice for getting ride of violent criminals?"
A: Yes, for every criminal convicted. How many people were deported who had no criminal record, and have not been charged with a crime?
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 27d
I don't think wasting time arguing over a question's wording instead of just diving into the actual substance of the issue like Larkin did would have looked good, and looking at the rest of that exchange it seems like the Fox people sure didn't like how it went for them,
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 27d
You give the average Fox News viewer far too much credit. They don’t understand unless it’s zingers.
ragepaw@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 27d
Fair enough
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 27d
Nah, the answer to these questions is "that's not ice's job, and they're not doing that"
Investigating and arresting violent criminals is the job of the local police , FBI etc. Ice is Immigration and customs enforcement , they enforce immigration laws, not violent crime laws.
The guy was sort of getting at that by calling illegally crossing a misdemeanor but didn't drive home that that's all they're arresting people for and that all those examples the guy was giving of the horrible crimes of migrants were probably investigated and arrested by local police, not ICE.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 27d
The Democratic Socialist Party=The Golden Rule Party
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 27d
Why is this news worthy?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 27d
The news isn't so much that Trump is a pedophile, but that even FOX News is saying that Trump is a pedophile now.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 26d
Ah, OK. Thanks
quarkquasar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d