Fox News’ Howard Kurtz, who is no stranger to defending members of the Trump clan, took great issue with the cable networks that didn’t air President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign kickoff rally live in its entirety Tuesday night.
Kurtz particularly took aim at CNN and MSNBC for their “lack of class.”
“Fox News carried the whole thing live, but MSNBC didn’t deign to cover a minute of President Trump kicking off his reelection campaign and CNN took two or three minutes and dumped out of it,” Kurtz said.
Kurtz went on to say that the move to not air the entire rally, which rehashed many of the same themes as his 2016 campaign, is “playing into what [former White House Chief Strategist] Steve Bannon called acting like the opposition party.”
“It seems fundamentally unfair and raises questions how they’ll cover this entire campaign,” Kurtz said.
Watch Kurtz take aim at CNN and MSNBC below:
Fox News' Howard Kurtz takes aim at CNN and MSNBC for not airing Trump 2020 kickoff rally in its entirety. pic.twitter.com/6NfRUFlibk
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I love that they did to Trump what they did to HRC last time around: a small box, inset in the lower right corner of the screen, with him speaking silently. YAY!
Hint: if you want positive and complete coverage from CNN, you might try discouraging the “CNN sucks” chants.
“It seems fundamentally unfair and raises questions how they’ll cover this entire campaign,” Kurtz said.
I was just talking to some of my co-workers about Trump’s announcement. They told me that they hadn’t paid much attention to it except when CNN jumped out of the event after Trump encouraged the crowd to chant “CNN sucks.” I don’t know if what my co-workers told me is true or not, but they were happy that the media didn’t seem to want to enable the Trump show last night.
Maybe Kurtz is mad because CNN and MSNBC had big audiences of people who just couldn’t stand to watch another episode of the Trump show.
My co-workers are becoming a little frightened by Trump’s talk of a third term.
Why is it unfair? The fact that he officially launched his campaign may be newsworthy, but is the string of rehashed lies and threats actually newsworthy? He is aware that a huge majority of the viewers actually appreciated watching regular CNN and MSNBC content instead of a Trump rally, right?