Fox & Friends Promotes MSNBC Pundit’s Criticism of Biden Campaign: ‘They Don’t Like Their Candidate!’
“Politics makes strange bedfellows.” — Charles Dudley Warner.
The hosts of Fox & Friends took a new tack in criticizing President Joe Biden Tuesday morning by amplifying criticism from a former Biden official and MSNBC contributor, Symone Sanders-Townsend.
Sanders-Townsend’s progressive bona fides are well established. She is an OG “Bernie Bro” working on Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2015-16. She served as Deputy Press Secretary for Vice President Kamala Harris and later hosted a weekend show on MSNBC that is no longer on air. She is now co-hosting the panel show The Weekend.
But her criticism of the Biden administration’s messaging struggles with Politico’s Eugene Daniels was unsparing. To wit:
“They talked a lot about acronyms in the beginning and not enough about the plain things. You ain’t even got to name the legislation. Just tell the people what has happened. And I think that there was maybe too much of a focus on trying to message it tightly up in a nice bow and not enough focus on just, well, how can we make it plain for the people that we want to understand it?
“They are not going to get ‘Bidenomics.’ Let it go. How about you just make sure they know what you’re going to do and what you did? … You can give folks all the numbers about GDP and all these other things, but the data doesn’t move people. Stories move people.”
Getting your comments read on live television is normally good for promoting one’s visibility and influence but as a former Biden administration official? But having your critique of your former boss read on the ardently anti-Biden Fox & Friends? One can suspect there are not a ton of high-fives at the Sanders-Townsend home.
Coming out of the pull quote read on air, Brian Kilmeade reference other criticism from highly visible Democratic operatives.
“What an insult!” he said. “People on your own team giving you advice. I’m talking about David Axelrod, the Obamas, Symone Sanders, and Jen Psaki, all telling him what to do because his staff and his team are not strong. They’re not [on the] offensive. They don’t like their candidate, but they have raised a ton of money, $117 million.”
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