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Fox News Staffers REVOLT Over Hiring Kayleigh McEnany: ‘The Mini-Goebbels’ is Insulting!

We outside of the White House Correspondents Association have difficulty appreciating the fact that despite being rivals in the press room and ratings, there is camaraderie and respect among the journalists covering the White House. There can even be friendships. Thus it is that even reporters from Fox News can be deeply offended seeing their colleagues brutalized at the hands of a rude and relentless press secretary, and all media resent the blatant lies to questions because they all report on those answers.

This dynamic may partially explain why the FOX Newsroom is in utter revolt over the announcement that Fox hired Kayleigh as a guest analyst. Oh, that and the fact that Fox fired so many of their better journalists, only to bring Kayleigh in.

According to a Fox insider who contacted the Daily Beast:

“It’s truly disgusting they fired hard-working journalists who did care about facts and news reporting only to turn around and hire a mini-Goebbels whose incessant lies from the White House helped incite an insurrection on our democracy that got five people killed, including a police officer,” a Fox News insider raged to The Daily Beast. “Post-Trump Fox is quickly becoming a very scary place and quite dangerous for our democracy. It’s not even conservative news anymore. They’ve plunged into an alternate reality where extremist propaganda is the only course on the menu.

That is one damned strong argument but it is also accurate. We must not forget that Fox did fire quite a few real journalists willing to call Trump out. Another employee said:

“It’s upsetting,” a current Fox News staffer lamented to The Daily Beast. “So many good people are out of a job now and I’m sure she’ll get a huge contract.” But the hiring makes sense, this employee said, because “Sarah Sanders just left to run for governor of Arkansas and our audience loves Kayleigh.”

Of course, their audience loves Kayleigh. They would watch Kayleigh with the sound off. It is even better when they get to hear exactly what they want to hear aggressively asserted right back to them.

Yet another:

Another newsroom staffer said of McEnany’s hiring: “It bothers me in that it is basically a slap in the face to the hardworking journalists that value real news and facts. But it also doesn’t surprise me because they have shown that they don’t give a damn about facts and real news.”

We are not sure how much they cared about facts in the first place but we do know that they all look like Walter Cronkite compared to Kayleigh McEnany. And yes, she is sure to get a dump truck of money, which will also cause a lot of resentment.

Despite the legitimate anger, no one is surprised.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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