FRIDAY: There is no discourse except faux discourse!

FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2025

When Cain met Peter Navarro: We tried, and we failed, in this week's reports, to do real justice to what we saw last Sunday morning on the Fox News Channel.

We refer to what we saw on that morning's Fox & Friends Weekend program. We mentioned the instant "Tampon Tim" play by co-host Rachel Campos Duffy. 

We mentioned Lisa Boothe's astonishing comments about who is, and who isn't, "pure evil."

We mentioned what happened late in the 6 o'clock hour when Campos-Duffy invited us to bow our heads and join her in a prayer from Hallow, an explicitly Catholic prayer app.

It was part of the continuing "Fox & Friends Prayer Series," we were told. Based on certain clues and hints, it may be that this highly unusual prayer series takes place during Lent each year. For access to a daily prayer at the Hallow app, it's $69.99 per year. 

Also this: 

Today, we tried to tell you about the way the friends kept returning to the political well—to the ongoing debate about transgender sports, a political "gift that just keeps giving" to the incumbent president. 

The friends chuckled about the political fruits of this amazing gift. In that assessment, the friends were completely right.

Looking back over our notes, we see that we failed to get to several other aspects of that day's first hour. We specifically think of the friends' ruminations on the (criminal) arson attacks on several Tesla dealerships.

Included was rank, unfounded speculation about who must be paying the arsonists to engage in these attacks, or just to stage protest events outside other Tesla dealerships.

Co-host Charlie Hurt ruminated about these imagined "Rent-a-Protestrors"—about the way they "contribute nothing," and are just a bunch of "wackos." This started at 6:07 a.m., even before the "Tampon Tim" jibe at 6:11 a.m.

After that, we were invited to join these employees in prayer.

This program is pure propaganda, all the way down. On a channel like the Fox News Channel, there's really no discourse except faux discourse. The group propaganda runs all day long, and then on into the night.

Especially at the current time, the agitprop is coming from a firehose. There is no possible way to keep up. For one example of this endless stream, consider the foolishness which went on the air yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock sharp.

Right through last November's election, Will Cain was one of the three co-hosts of the Fox & Friends Weekend show. Then, the Fox News Channel joined President Trump in breaking that gang of mine up:

Co-host Pete Hegseth was plucked from the cast—was airlifted off to his current assignment. Co-host  Cain was also removed. He now hosts the hourlong Will Cain Show at 4 p.m. Eastern each weekday afternoon

Cain has plenty of IQ points. Unlike Campos-Duffy and Hegseth, he isn't some sort of religionist.

Yesterday, there was Peter Navarro, booked as Cain's first guest. At 4:04 p.m., the chyron said this:

TRUMP ANNOUNCES 25% TARIFF ON CAR IMPORTS

That was the topic, and there stood Navarro, right on the White House lawn. 

Navarro had been booked to engage in car talk—and as the conversation started, Cain was basically playing it straight. Navarro's first statement was this:

CAIN (3/27/25): Peter, great to see you here today. Let's put you straight to some of those voters' concerns—some of those concerns of Americans—about the rising price of, potentially. of cars under these tariffs.

NAVARRO: Well, tariffs are tax cuts. And what's going to happen here is, we're going to raise over a hundred billion dollars in tariffing auto imports, including the parts...

Tariffs are tax cuts! Yes, that was the first thing he said!  Also, the tariffs are going to raise a hundred billion dollars, though he didn't say from whom.

From there, Navarro engaged in a lengthy oration about all the economic benefits which will accompany or flow from the president's tariffs.

You may have noticed what we said above—Cain has no shortage of IQ points. When Navarro stopped talking at 4:07, he made what you could almost call a half-way decent attempt:

CAIN: OK. Hold on real quick, Peter, because I want to make sure— You always lay it out well, and I mean that, not gratuitously, but I mean that sincerely. You lay it out well.

When you say tariffs, though, are a tax cut—not on their face, not in and of themselves. They are a tax. But what I hear you saying is, it's going to correspond with the tax cut for those that buy American cars...

You always lay it out well, Cain said. But the tariffs are a tax.

He went on a bit from there. We'd describe the overall effort this way—Cain was trying to correct or contradict Navarro without maybe seeming to do so.

Navarro then began talking again. He ended up back on "the tax cut thing," having made another jumbled and grossly misleading presentation.

At that point, Cain gave up. "Important to hear the big picture," he now said. In our assessment, he then continued to semi-contradict Navarro without quite seeming to do so. 

All in all, we'd limn it this way:

Cain knew what Navarro was supposed to say. When Navarro never quite managed to say it, Cain went ahead and praised him for letting us "hear the big picture."

In short, there is no discourse except faux discourse. This discourse comes from two major firehoses, only one of them down at the White House.

The firehoses are running all day. There is no way to keep up with the effort to flood the zone, and very few news orgs try.

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