The Daily Beast went dumpster diving for salacious insider info from Fox Newsers on Kayleigh McEnany today and they got exactly what they wanted, with one insider calling her a mini-Goebbels. Anonymously, of course:
Fox News officially announced on Tuesday that it has hired former Trump spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany as a contributor.
“It is my distinct pleasure today to welcome Kayleigh Mcenany to the Fox family,” anchor Harris Faulkner said Tuesday morning after wrapping an on-air interview with the former Trump flack. “We will be seeing much more of her in the future.”
Fox News did not respond when asked for comment.
The addition of a known and frequent liar to the Fox News roster set off some alarms within a newsroom that has been “purged” in recent months in favor of right-wing opinion programming and content geared towards keeping a diehard MAGA audience satisfied.
“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.”
“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.”
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.”
A third Fox News employee further railed against the hiring, saying, “There is no objectivity in this business anymore. It’s a self-serving profiteering enterprise.” McEnany clearly appeals to Fox, this staffer said, because of “name recognition, notoriety, an obvious willingness to say anything her employer desires. The viewers are morons.”
This is typical MSM. Did you ever see any stories like this about insiders blasting Obama’s former press secretaries for taking jobs at news networks? Of course not. But when it comes to McEnany, who refused to let reporters off the hook for their partisan agenda, they want to get revenge on her for the way she wagged her finger at them for shirking their obligations to the truth.
Curtis Houck from Newsbusters had this to say about the piece:
The Daily Beast is made up of genuinely horrible people. The people inside Fox News that leaked this vile bile against @KayleighMcEnany are cowards, pure and simple. https://t.co/l6WCn9OsIo
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 2, 2021
As @TimJGraham just pointed out to me, there's next to zero chance that any of these clowns at The Daily Beast would dig up dirt on people at CNN and MSNBC. Notice how they don't have an obsession with digging up dirt to any kind of degree at the other channels.
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 2, 2021
Exactly. This is just par for the course for them. Remember how they went dumpster diving to destroy Sarah Palin? I’m not saying this is the same thing, but it is who they are.