The accusations from the Axis media that Fox News deliberately avoided informing its audience about President Trump’s bitter and triumphant Truth Social post, “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!” are not quite accurate, but close enough for what passes as journalism on those platforms now.
The Fox News website and that of local affiliates published articles that explicitly included President Trump’s widely criticized outburst that was generally considered in the “too soon!” category, but the initial reports on the air ignored it. Fox News mentioned the death of the leader of the contrived “Russiagate” scandal at least six times on TV without ever quoting Trump’s remarks and the resulting backlash. The televised segments on Fox & Friends and elsewhere featured more traditional post-mortem tributes from figures like former President George W. Bush. I happened to see periodic commentator Brit Hume criticize Trump’s whack at Mueller as pointless ugliness that “doesn’t help,” but that was more than a day after the episode occurred.
Ethics Alarms 
Trump’s comment was unworthy of any president for any reason about any person. Period.
It’s also unworthy of any sane person in general, but Trump is such an incomplete, bitter, emotionally immature man that he cannot overlook even an insignificant slight. There was never any chance he could be even remotely civil about the death of a man who tried to destroy his first presidency.
Which brings me to the elephant in the room. Mueller did as much to damage the presidency as anyone in my memory, at least as much as Trump, alongside the dancing demons of the day calling themselves Democrats as well as the Leftmedia. I can’t blame Trump one bit for hating him and wanting to urinate on his grave. I expect him to do the same thing to any of his unethical Democratic castigators who happen to shuffle off this mortal coil before he does.
What I can blame him for is further debasing the office by saying so in public. And I do. It is unworthy of the office and unworthy of any male over 12 years old. It is, in my view, a statement of weakness and insecurity — the words of a junior high school bully.
As you can no doubt tell, I’m with you here all the way, in every respect. There was no need for him to say anything about Mueller. Nobody would have expected him to express sadness or condolences.
If I remember correctly, it was fully brought up on The Five, though that’s not exactly a “news” show, it has maybe more reach than other Fox offerings (actually their #1 show).
Aside from that, I agree with Glenn.
But it raises the question of how far avoiding tit-for-tat in real life politics will get you. Do you lie down in front of the tank of legacy MSM and hope for the best?
Jack wrote, “Dear Fox News: Stop Running Interference For the President.”
I completely agree!
FOX should do its job and REPORT relevant information whether they like it or not, you know, real journalism! But if for no other reason, the left is going to publicly smear FOX and everyone on the political right when FOX fails to report something significant about President Trump. Fox NEEDS to report things like Trump’s loose cannon unethical mouth and stop essentially whitewashing over the negative aspects of President Donald Trump. If Fox doesn’t properly report it will cause the left to loose their collective hive minds and spew hateful screeds like this one…
Trump Supporters Are Even More Stupid After Watching FOX News
Read that post all the way through if you can stand it, and then save it so you can use damn near all of it as a boilerplate to talk about the tactics used by MSNBS, MS NOW, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBS, The Nation, etc, etc. All you have to do on most of that boilerplate is replace Fox News with those other news sources I just mentioned.
I think that Gregory Humphrey likely didn’t watch FOX NEWS for three or four days straight to see how many times they mentioned that Mueller died without mentioning President Trumps statement, so that tells me that Humphrey has completely swallowed whatever statement that his hive minded narrative providers have sent his way and now he parrots them without checking the authenticity because he can use it to smear all the righties he hates.
I actually watch news from a variety of news sources and I intentionally compare what news sources report on what what they leave out of their reports. Fox needs to be aware that lack of reporting relevant news about President Trump and other Republicans is just as signature significant as the left’s lies, spinning, and brazen cherry picking; report the news straight!
Side Note: I’ve had to repeatedly subscribed to the Caffeinated Politics blog in the last week because Gregory Humphrey (the author) has intentionally gone out of his way to delete me as a subscriber. I use the same WordPress blogging system that Humphrey uses so I know exactly what has to be done to remove a subscriber. So, not only has Humphrey deleted every comment I made on his new blog, he doesn’t even want me being notified via email when he posts a new blog essay. This Humphrey fellow is a real piece of progressive indoctrination workmanship. I think Humphrey is a cowardly snowflake, that’s snowflaking really hard.